The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-05

rF reports are true, the First regl
 ment, Pennsylvania Natlona Guard, got a taste of the horrors ol war long before it came within strlK inp distance of the Mexican foe, poten tial or otherwise.
 When the regiment reached Kansas City on it's way to the border, Lieut. Col, Charles P. Hunt, in command
 made an appeal tt Get a Taste Mayor Edwards fol of Real War food, saying that hlE
 men had been prac- tically on half rations since leaving Pennsvlyania and had had little ol nothing to eat for several days. The colonePs plea, whose eloquence car readily be surmised, was granted 1T post haste. The patriotic mayor o1 Kansas City and others equally hu- mane and patriotic fed the famlsheo soldiers and provided them with enough lunch to last all the way to Fl Paso.
 But what must have been the feel inus of the mothers, wives and sweet hearts of those brave soldier boys when the wires carried back home the story of their privation? The chances are that most of those guardsmen had never before in their lives-since the day they were weaned-gone without a "souare meal' when their appetltes demanded it.
 However, Kansas City came gallant Iy to the rescue and once in El Pass the Pennsylvanians need fear the snecter of hunger no more. Happily their plight seems to have been an isolated one, as no other troops have annealed to the populace for 8 "hand out"
 1rEW YORK is like great summer IN school this week. The Natlona Education association, with an estl' mated attendance of 30,00O members has a programme that calls for 10. sessions, and the topics being dis, cussed by distinguished educators ane
 other persons in vari' Promoting the ous professions, are Greater Thrift broadly Illuminating
 Now and then rad ical reformer is found among the ls' of speakers, but most of the talks thus far have appealed to people o1 boise and clear thinking.
 One of the best addresses delivered on the opening day was by s. W Straus of Chicago, president of the American Society for Thrift. Hi' theme was "The Greater Thrift"
 To some old time teachers and busi ness men his ideas might have semed startling, leading, as they thought, to simple extravaganza in stead of thrift, for he preached strong lv in favor of people of means in dulging in the best the land offers.
 The man who paid $50,0O0 for { work of art was doing a good thing for he was thereby "placing a glori ous premium on genius and brains and was giving impetus to artisti progress, refinement and civilization. The world has no respect for penuriou men or penurious nations. The miser ly man is always "a dead weight il society,"" and is as much to be con demned as the spendthrift who buy without judgment and is merely throw ing away his money.
 But, according to MT. Straus, th' man who rides to his office in $10, 900 automobile, or dimes from costl. china, is a more useful citizen, if h' can afford these things, than if h' bought something less costly. Like wise, the woman who buys fine hat and gowns, when she might make ou with something cheaper, is contribut ing to the worthy skilled wage earn CT and "a designer whose work is art.
 The old standard textbooks on politi cal economy presented only cold fact and the authors deductions that wer, as severe as they were untouched b.