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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-03-25

pearlng at Speaker Champ Clark S
home and sending up his card to the
distinguished Missourian. By call
ing oftener on Senator Stone and
Speaker Clark, and procuring the
benefit OF their long experience in
pnblic life, he is not likely to do any,
thing that will draw criticism upon
him. There are no better Demo-
Gratis than Stone and Clark, nor are
there any two other men in public
life who are better posted than they.
Advertiser.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-03-25
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

j M Booker to Rose Smith lots
6, blk l Wyatt's ad Butler. .. l
H M Klumpp to Philip Shankland
pit blk Refs add Rich Hill -. 300
Dora M Harshaw to VIM Odneal
1850 sec 8 Deepwater ........ 1900
E H Mayer ct al to Wesley Rob-
insOn 80 sec 26 Rockville. 1860
W r Cummings to First National
Bank 40 sec 81 Deer Creek :. |
c E New to H E Surbrugg 197a
secs II, Is Grand River ....... $500
Amelia Damn to H NJ Wilson 80
sec IA Usage ................ Also
W D Howard to A N Copeland 80
sec l6 Mt Pleasant .......... 10000
Homer Reed to A E Payton lots
II, IL, 13 blk 26 Amoret. -. l
A W Beach to L Y Classify tract
sec Pleasant Gap ....... $500
G E Powers to S H Boutwell, lot
a blk 35 Rockville ... SIS
J W Graves to M j Butler tract
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Eva Thompson to w D Adams
5014 sec Howard 1850
J P Hart to Homer Duvall 24Oa
sec Sc Homer J.. d. .......... 5000
Lucy l. Dunn to Mary F Yancy
60 sec % Grand River 600
M 7 Catron to Ella Walker 39a
sec 9 Spruce .................. 1866
$ A Eddy to S c Eddy 80 sec "a
frairle ..................... 14nO
VIM A Terrell to David Dalton
80 sec is MtPleasant 1900
M W Dey to M N Teeter ~ a sec
IL Shawnee -. .......... 1900
M W Dey to o S Snow 40 a sec
IL Shawnee 1900
M W Dey to S Snow 80 sec II
Shawnee ...................... 234O
Harve Hinchman to r o Hill 100
sec rs. 26 Spruce .........., $3.50
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-03-25

Hog Oll lOc per gallon at Logan
Moore Lumber Co. 23-1t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01

this innovation Of having board OF inventors
and civilian experts assist the regular navy
authorities.
Such men as Colonel w. c. Church, the editor
of THE Army and Navy Journal" have looked
at the suggestion OF the formation OF this
board with little favor, for they believe that
the navy needs bolstering Up in other and more
important lines Others have seen in 1t an
invocation to the spirit, through turning
the attention Of some of Americas most con-
spicuous and able citizens to the manufacture
and invention of weapons Of destruction.
The Board of Invention will interfere with
no other line of naval development, and 1t is
the opinion of Edison himself that 1t Will
make more for peace and the inventions OF
peace than any other single movement.
As Mr.. Edisons personal representative it
was Mr. Hutchinson himself who arranged the
meeting between Secretary Daniels and the
great inventor. A very modest man is this
same Mr. Hutchinson. refusing to speak at all
of his own inventions his refusal to go on
the board himself, and even requesting that
the naked facts of who's Who" with its long
list Of honors. be omitted in commenting on
what he had to say.
"All over the country" said Mr.. Hutchinson.
men are working at inventions OF all kinds.
Necessarily, the main tendency OF this feverish
activity at present is to produce means of de-
fence for the country. The Board of Invention
will have to do simply with that division of
the body polite, and will in no way interfere
with the work or the plans of the navy.
"As understand the matter Of the proposed
Board Of Experts:
First When ideas are submitted by civil
ians or personnel of the navy, such oommun-
cations will be addressed to the Secretary OF
the Navy
Second. The Secretary will turn these sug-
eestions over to the Naval Board, consisting OF
an officer Of rank. having a staff OF experts
selected from the personnel OF the navy. This
officer in charge will in turn turn the sugges-
tons over to such OF his aids are competent
10 separate the chaff from the wheat, and who
will make such Recommendations to their chief
as they see fit and proper.
Third If the staff is impressed with an
idea as being logical and highly desirable. 1t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
THE FAILURE OF CAPITALISM IN GREAT WARS
Why the Soldiers i'm the Trenches
Jeered at Lord Northcliffe' Anti
Kitchener and the Rotten
Shells Campaign.

finance often with unrealities If stock broker
sells hundred shares in North Pole building
estate and buys instead two hundred shares in
the Venetian Irrigation Company, it would be
quite a mistake to expect from him any very
bright information either about gondolas or
polar bears. The Republic of st. Mark and
the northern axis of the earth might never
have existed for all that concerns his transac-
ton. But if an officer is told to send back
a hundred cavalry and call up two hundred
infantry instead, it is on the whole desirable
that he should know a horse when he sees it.
And horse being living thing, there are all
sorts of surprises IN a horse different from
those in an arbitrary list of prices, and
the more the soldier treats the horse as
an actual thing with four legs the better
soldier he will be. All the elements that make
for booms and slumps, prestige, advertisement,
gossip, fashion, boycott, have nothing to do
with war. You cannot boycott better gun
than your own, and it is quite useless to adver-
tise worse one. The modern commercial
newspapers, owned by big fnanciers, are quite
puzzled when they find that you cannot bull
the Germans or bear the Russians, or, indeed,
lnQuce elCHer OF INefl 10 Jake IHe ledSI HOIICe
of YOU The soldier is concerned with wars
and not with rumors of wars.
But the heaviest handicap of all for CAPT.
talst state when at war is that it causes
friction between the arts of war and the arts
of peace, and that by vital difference that
is covered by false comparison. The soldier
and the workman are commonly of the same
social class, and the rather snobbish people
who Judge mostly by such class atmospheres
fall into the habit of demanding from the work
man the impersonal obedience of the soldier.
The elementary difference is, of course, that
the soldier is not working for the profit of the
officer; if he were he would be quite justified
in declining to work for it. He is working
for the profit of the whole people; he is paid by
the whole people, and if he disobeys the officer
he is disloyal to the whole people. But the
workman in a capitalist state works for the
enrichment of certain individuals, and is quite
justified in doubling whether the enrichment
of those individuals is even good thing for
the country, in the sense in which armed self
defence is certainly good thing for the
country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
SPEAKING OF

Two practical examples from recent English
history will illustrate the point. A millionaire
who had succeeded chiefly by selling a sort of
journalistic sweet stuff, which has in our time
replaced the much more respectable output of
Penny Dreadfuls, suffered in his later years
from a deusion common in his small class
the idea that he had been called into the coun-
ellis of the state. He commanded all the
harassed Fleet Street clerks dependent upon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
This is Prophecy -s.That the Mobilization
of the Inventive Genius of Industrial
America Initiates Period of Aest
for Creating New Things That
i'm Vision Is An American
"Age of Pericles."

will so advise their chief He will then confer
with such of them as are best qualified for ex-
pert opinion, or will communicate with such
other officers OF the navy as may be qualified
TO advise the naval head OF the board
Fourth If it is the consensus OF opinion
that the idea presented is OF value, and It the
Naval Board desires advice from any OF the eX-
perts of the consulting board, such expert as is
best qualified to pass on the feasibility OF the
idea, or give expert opinion regarding 1t, is
communicated with by the head Of the Naval
Board.
Fifth. When this expert or these experts,
receive request from the head OF the Naval
Board for an opinion as to the feasibility OF the
idea and suggestions as TO whether or not, IN
their estimation, it would pay to investigate
the matter further experimentally, he or they
will so advise the head OF the board, without
entering into any long -winded discussion as to
the pros and cons. An affirmative answer from
such an expert will then justify the Naval Board
in turning the proposed invention over to the
laboratory head, who will in turn assign such
man or men as he may have on his corps OF
assistants 70 work the idea up with view OF
embodying it for use by the navy into a con-
crete, practical apparatus.
"As see it, the Board OF Experts will not be
a board at all, but simply number OF highly
qualified specialists in their particular lines
VINO by reason OF their intimate knowledge OF
the various arts and sciences, will give the gov
eminent the benefit of the experience and
knowledge gained by simply passing on and
suggesting lines of research concerning new
ideas presented / do net see that this will
entail very much work the part OF members
OF tire board of consulting engineers (Which
ever they may be called. Neither do think
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
OH

that trey should be called upon to spend
great deal Of time on each subject. They serve
IN the same capacity as a specialist IN stomach
troubles serves when called in for consultation.
Before an invention is turned down by the
Naval Board, unless it is foolish suggestion
and on the face Of it a waste OF time tor fut-
Their consideration, the Secretary OF the Navy
should he advised that same is being turned
down and the reasons briefly stated. tie VIII
then be able to consult with such experts as he
may deem qualified to give him personal
opinion. This to act as check on the Naval
Board.
Similarly, when the Naval Board approves
OF and desires to further investigate, by ex-
perirnentstion. after the civilian board OF eX-
perts has favorably passed on the proposition,
the matter should be submitted to the Secre-
tary, with the reasons briefly stated as 10 why
the matter is to be investigated further.
II therefore do not feel that the experts ap-
pointed by the engineering societies should be
detail men at all They should be men OF very
large calibre with great breadth OF vision and
keen insight, rather than OF accurate detail
knowledge Of and long actual working expert
ence on given subjects. Naturally. a man VINO
is fitted to 60 on such board must have had
long detailed experience with subject regard
ing which he is supposed to be an expert but
he should have arrived at the point where he is
no longer called upon to do detail work. but
because of knowledge gained by such long ex-
perience ard study he is qualified as an ad-
wiser.
The plan is to have the present adequate and
very able Naval Board look over every invention
and when in doubt simply refer to member OF
the consulting board.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01

Whether Mr. Horlick who makes the matted
milk is short or tall have no information, and
there is nothing about him for the fancy to
feed upon. Yet it is more and more plain in
our politics and even our religion that these
invisible millionaires make a pressure behind
multitudes of practical proposals, and are the
real rulers of the state. The politicians who
appear in the caricatures are merely comic
masks-the masks of the mysterious kings
whose faces no man may see
PERILS OF SECRECY.
1t is in this secrecy that we find the first
of those weaknesses which unfit a capitalistic
state for the waging of war; What is called
a military secret is not only different but al
most opposite to a commercial secret. 1t may
be de srable in some military matter that GER
tain things should be known only to certain
men. but those men are public men. Even
when it is secret matter it is not merely
private matter. Lord Kitchener may send
sealed communication to Sir John French, but
it is not too much to say that Sir John French
knows whom it comes from. 1t is only be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
I he
BY George Henry Payne

NECESSITY better kHo1c" as the mother of
V mvcntion, has called her sons as an aid
10 soothe the troubIed 1cOrid- mind.
The inrcptor arorks for peace-his greatest car
triumpls haze been Industrys greatest Pri'es
Americq 7rW fpd through her call to inuenho"
Nation Spirit. as France found 1t in Art, and
Germany has found il in KUItw. Peace and
progress oye bit HHe half-sisterS Of Inuention
Tiey come after Inreation, never before it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
THE FATALITY OF UNHEALTHY.

The second weakness of capitalism in war
is this: That war deals with realities and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01

nv UTCH," said the "Old Man" for
III so he is known through the an
Il II tonomastic habit of those who
work with him-"Hutch," and
inc hight OF assurance and prophecy came into
Edson's eyes, we're the biggest nation on
earth, and l tell you we oughtfo have the big
gest, damnedest navy in the world There's
no reason why we should be second to any
nation We don't want war, we want peace;
but we ought to be in a position to see that no
one interieres with our desire for peace"
And then the old Man" Hutch" tells me,
having uttered these sentiments, which to ten
Ger souls may seem very vigorous, turned
abruptly and went back to his twenty-hour-a-
Cay job OF enabling America to produce her
anlline dyes without regard to where war hap
pens to raise its hoary head-a very practical
kind of peace work.
Hutch in scientific and naval circles, in the
Patent Office. the technical magazines, the gov
e'hment reports and even to the Queen OF
England, who once gave him medal, is Miller
Reese Hutchison. chief engineer OF that city
Known as the Edison Manufacturing Plant
end Laboratories, and personal representative
Of Thomas A. Edison. To Hutch" this I'M
assuming and modest scientist who is even less
inclined TO talk that Edison himself, the old
Man had relegated the task Of setting forth
Ills views as to what the new Board of In
Vsntion and Development that has been called
10 the aid Of the Navy Department means
In the FIRST place. il is more or less essential
10 clear up certain misunderstanding about
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
Bv e.. X. CheSterton

HE government of men by men is very
close 10 their government by man.
In both cases the ruling element is
Il moro or less what we call human
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
Pitt is to Arlington
AS London is to Paddington."
FLATTERY AND POLITICS.

The ruling personalities of the past were
otter fattered, but only in the sense in which
Shakespeare speaks of the sun iattering
mountain. The mountain was gilded rather
than whitewashed 1t was set in its most
agreeable light, but it was not hidden away.
1t is said that Louis XIV was really short, but
that the courters really thought he was tall.
But in that case there must have been some
thing rather fine about Louis, as well as some
thing rather fanciful about the courtiers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01

cause the men are official that they are per-
mitted suciI' temporary conceament; their pri-
vacy exists because of their publicity. 1t is
not so with the hints, advices, scares and
scoops of the purely commercial world. Some
times the financier does not know where the
tip comes from; sometimes he would rather
not say. Personal responsibility, the plain GER
tainty about which man has earned medal
and which man bullet is the very soul of
war; and it is the very antithesis of finance. It
is impossible to take part in the work of
regiment without having a place and name
which are known, but the method Of taking part
in a business venture includes the possibility
of being anything from a sleeping partner
who still parades the name to the nameless
partner who is not sleeping but dangerously
wide awake. Only recently two men were i'm
prisoned as traitors under their own names,
when they had long traded under somebody
clse's.
THE FATALITY OF UNHEALTHY.
The second weakness of capitalism in war
is this: That war deals with realities and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01

HE government of men by men is very
N close TO their government by man.
In both cases the ruling element is
Il more or less what we call human
..,ure In all history there has been but one
eten from democracy to despOtism; and the
.ro were often found to be fighting for the
came thing. Such a position as that of the
Great Napoleon is greatly misrepresented by
those including the Emperor, who called it an
omnire 1t might much more truly be said
that France was one constituency and returned
one member. But an oligarchy, or government
bv one class. can be quite unrepresentative.
And of an arStocracy (that is, an oligarchy
with a code) it can still be said that it is not
national even though it is patriotic. 1t is
curious irony that perhaps the only example
left of the ancient European monarchy is the
modern American Republic. In the present
nerilous parey of the nations President Wilson
ran literally call himself America, in the sense
that Henry V called himself England or st.
Louis called himself France. The medieval
king was precisely what the American Presi-
dent is and is called in the American Consti-
tuition. He was the Executive, and the people
cute people-especially rich people.
ISOLATION.
Now this democratic element in monarchy
rests upon a very real though not invariable
fact of human nature. To crown man is to
Isolate him, and TO isolate him is, sometimes,
though not always, to make him think. That
is the genuine psychological truth behind the
old talk of Divine Right and of how the
sovereign was responsible only to God 1t must
be remembered that such responsibility was
decidedly alarming for people who (quaintly
enough happened to believe in God. The
idea was to disconnect the man from common
social influences.
1t was to set him, so to speak, on the top
Of a tower, where he could find no comfort un-
less he could find it in the stars 1t was TO
crush him with an almost cosmc load of care
to make him feel like Atlas. Thus it was hoped
that even a fool might become wise, out of
sheer terror at the omnipotence of his own
folly. And sometimes, nay, often, the idea
did work as it was meant to work. The best
record Of such good examples is probably to
be found in that elective monarchy which is
curously like the republic, and is the oldest
institution in Europe-the Papacy. The very
reiteration of the fact that Alexander VI and
one or two other Popes were bad is itself
proof that most Of them were good.
1t must be wildly realized that oligarchy
good or bad cannot possibly have this kind
Of advantage 1t is the essence of oligarchy
that it is sociable within certain limits. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
Absolute Monarchy and Absolute
Democracy. Says Englanea's Brill
liant Catholic Socialist, Alone
Can Meet Irrational Disasters.

aristocrat can never be the strongest man, the
man who stands most alone. He can never have
the kind of awful dignity and humility which
is made by mixing the strength of God with
the weakness of man. Those two are COM
pany but three is only society. The result is
this very practical difference: That the supe-
riority of king may stimulate conscience,
while the superiority of class must ull it.
The oligarchs comfort each other; they create
a climate for themselves which is both rare
and relaxing. A wronged or ruined servant
could often get mercy out of king, but who
ever heard of getting mercy out of a club?
This very real defect, the existence of rich
men comforting and condoning each other, is
present even in the really chivalrous and re-
sponsible oligarchies. And we in this pluto
cratic age are ruled by the most unchivalrous
and most irresponsible oligarchy that history
has ever known.
The power of the dead capitalists in our
time is quite unlike any power, despotic or
aristocratic, that has existed hitherto. The
first important difference is this: That while
its power is public, the wielders of that power
are private. There have been many incompe-
tent rulers, many homogeneous coalitions, many
jobs which put inadequate personalities into po-
sitions requiring strong ones. But such people
had to be inadequate in public Men may some
times have been ruled by something like an
aristocracy of fools. But we are ruled by
secret society of fools. A man like Arlington
wanted to be Prime Minister and had to be
a bad Prime Minister and hear all the boys
in the town saying:
Pitt is to Arlington
AS London is to Paddington."
Colleagues like Lord North and Charles Fox
were strange bedfellows, but they went to bed
in broad daylight. People could joke about
the generous and rather shameless Radical tied
almost to the corpse of the cynical and very
diplomatic Tory. But no one in considering
the coalition of Marshall and Snegrove has
ever been known to distinguish between the
generosity and shamelessness of Snelgrove and
the cynicism and diplomacy of Marshall. Yet
there are probably more Christian people d.
rectly doing what they are told by Marshall
and Snelgrove than ever did what they were
told by Charles Fox
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
SOCIALISM AND PEASANT PRoPRIEroRsHII

HYhere are two ways and only two ways in
which the man who works can nationally be
under the same discipline as the man who
fights. The first is that the worker, like the
soldier, should always be the direct servant
of the state and know that his leaders are
merely paid proper wage like himself. The
other is SC TO organize the economic state that
every ordinary man retains the whole profit
of any work he does, and is therefore literally
working for his home as we'll as his country.
The first of these proposals is called Socialism.
The second is generally called Peasant Pro-
prietorship, and is the foundation of all the
most fundamentally military nations from
France to Montenegro.