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The Hitherto Great
w hite Way
Continued from Page Three

saw that it was veritable forest OF
chair legs. But, Of course, that would
be stretching the actual fact quite
bit. However, there Were a great many
chair legs.
1t was sight to make one stop and
think, and then go home to bed. Which
was practically what we did. There
was nothing further that we could do
as an expedition, and We always took
the chance of running up against
building or something in the dark and
barking our shins, which would be- at
best. unpleasant. SO, after one more
look at the colored plates of the boil
weevil, we dispersed.
Night life in New York is all right
for those who like it, but a man has got
to have little excitement once in a
while.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-13

must submit himself to the elders with his hair
cut short. This is supposed by the Shadpall-
kins to guarantee a complete subsequent i'm
munity from poetry If Shadipallikin breaks
into poetry after these tribal precautions the
amusement and scorn are enormous. AS the
Shadipalikins never laugh except through their
teeth the male poet has been named after the
sound of such derisve laughter, tsee-tsee. 1t
is worth noting that our word for spring
poet, Sissy, is not so entirely different. These
pathological resemblances are often strained by
persons more anxious to prove a theorem than
TO observe the laws of evidence. Any one who
laughs through his teeth, however, or who
takes occasion to listen to a person given to
this practice, can scarcely fail to note the strik-
ing coincidence
This is where you hire William J. Burns
professor" put in; "but how about the Prob
LEM"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-13
The Democracy OF
Tomorrow
By Irwin Edman
,ifntary games.

lite WAS a mild, calm little man, pro-
fessor in my old university, and had
returned to him, as always, to let him
q the dry light of reason over my perpleXl-
& Up til now it had always been reasssur-
: to come from the clatter of many type
Il.ers and the babble Of opinion into his
me, aloof Office on the heights Of the city.
hoped it would be the same in wartime.
\ I'd yet doubted it, as armed with the ruf-
1 g headlines of four evening papers knocked
Tie door of his office. 1t was all right to
4 Il TO the old professor about life and destiny
general; he had specialized in things like
T a. But he probably would be neither illuml-
lahg nor consoling about the Hindenburg line,
he bad turn things had been taking in the
aSSan Revolution, and in all his vast learn
be had probably never come across cure
he Uboat peril. was sorry had come.
would probably have got more wisdom
ayng in the Office reading the ticker.
When ! walked in ] found him seated in his
'Tsl chair. reading Plato in the original
vel.
Timely reading, isn't it, professor?
ldnt help asking. had vague feeling
he ought TO have been reading an Officers
! YES, or Manual Of Food Control.
No. he said mildly. 81 don't suppose read
his will put an end TO the Hohenzollern
pne; IT wouldn't even make two potatoes
w where only one grew before"
txaetly what ! was about TO remark, pro-
ao'' Here I've come up TO get your opinion
Ne war. and, If you don't mind my saying
ne whole business doesn't seem TO have en-
no your head. | don't mind your reading
'sk on a sunny summer afternoon, after
we got League of Perpetual Peace, but'
NY s'r, at present, we've got more pressing
-ss to do. The Allies are starving, our
"a. crop is failing, the submarine losses are
,y'1ng And you can keep your mind on
80 One would have thought you had never
40 Of the war"
&c put his book down. smiled resignedly' ana
san:
!" course, this won't help building wooden
4 ~ and If any one wants 10 be an ofhcer
80 far less useful than Plattsburg. eV-
: ~s'es', / believe that in sitting here reading
O0ng my bit toward national defence. VI
we wish / were younger so that could
a. = 10 Uniform, the way a good many OF my
ssntS are going TO-"
-asVs quaint notion, professor, reading
M as contribution 10 national security;
ave 70 bring il TO the attention of the Ma
~ security League. / suppose we'll soon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-13

wv Won ever known a Sociologist?
II Have YOU ever known the kind of man
i who breakfasts on data, lunches on
10, averages and dimes on problems
"a who sees this poor old jungle of a
y - unimproved property which he thinks
u. into garden but which he'd really
.-,riae into 700?
=, friend Zeno Kerkham, Phi. D., is one of
,-.rd Of social pathologists. He is a
fired untidy person, with conscientious,
- wa,ery blue eye. Somewhere he has
# bumor. but mainly he is as little in
..-.5 in the comedy Of things as dog that
!. u, the scent If some one were to tell
that kindcrgartens in SaXony are lined
= Hsinfectant gauze he would instantly
4. place for it in his cosmos. zeno is an
a.-;,v on recreation and the function of
=, He GOT his Phi. D. for writing thesis
he migrations of pinochle, with charts
~, by his wife, Berea, showing the geo
.,b;c incidence Of pinochle as compared to
.1oue This is now treasured by many edu-
-, as contribution to the literature on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-13
Dry UNIVERSAL PSYCHO-A ANALYSIS

why, that's perfectly clear Psycho-anslysis
will disclose at once all the complex psychic
reasons why some men become spring poets and
why other men laugh at them. Now, people
have tried to ratonalze the problem as spring
fever and they seek to cure the younger vic
tins with sulphur and moasseS. But here We
have an instrument for getting at the root Of
all sorts of psychic ailments. We can put our
analysts into the next postoffce appropriation
bill. We can link them up with public school
work or the hygiene organizations. Why, in
relation TO the formation of public opinion it
self we have an invaluable means Of investga-
ton. If people are candidates for public Office,
for example, should we be compelled to specu-
late about them Why not just have them
psycho-analyzed? Can't you see the advan-
tages?"
you began, Zeno," l protested, with the
narrowing problem of the spring poet. Now
you propose to examine the soul of every hu-
man being in the United States. Is it pos
sible that you don't see any limits to your
control policy-marriage control and birth
control, and now soul-control?"
How very interesting you should remind
me of it," exclaimed Zeno. I'VE are just about
to go to the Rockefeller Foundation with
proposal for securing state initiative in the in
stitution of parturtion. You see, after the
war there will be great excess of females over
males, and we have decided
At this point left Zeno Kerkham, Phi. d.
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be having headlines, Hindenourg Line Pierced
by a Battalion of Patos Dialogues and Ger
mans Hurled Back from Fresnoy by Interest
ing Footnote in Thucydides' Or 'Studious APP
plication to Roman History May Feed Our
Allies If armies were bookworms, it would be
another matter"
Il thought it would strike you as funny" the
professor said. still mildly. But, I've been
thinking about it very seriously, and I've de-
cided the best way | can do my bit next year IS
TO stay right here at the university giving a
course. say in Plato's philosophy. | have an
old-fashioned notion that while countrys
army is at the front, defending the ideals by
which we live. those ideals should not be allowed
TO perish at home. OF course in wartime, bus-
ness cannot be the same as usual, and the first
luxury we can do away with is thinking about
things that haven't anything TO do with ma
tional defence and the prosecution OF sue
cessful war.
But it seems to me there ought to be some OF
nc left. those of us who, like myself, wouldn't
he Of much use in a trench, to carry on the
traditions which we think worth dying
for. Our universities are going to be
crippled and poverty stricken; our schools are
going TO be badly handicapped. And mean
while there is a whole generation growing up
who must be initiated into the enduring things
which only education can give them. 1t IS
different matter for grown-ups. For year or
TWO they can lay aside books and dreams and
plunge whole -heartedly into the strenuous bust
ness of war. Deep rooted ideals and ideas don't
disappear because people stop talking about
them for year or two to make them safe.
aft Is not the grown-ups who are worrying
me. il is the boys in the high school, and the
thousands of Youngsters who are going to be
freshmen in our colleges next year. To be
frank I'd rather not have them think only
about the war before they have had a chance
n know some of the facts of science and OF lie
which have lasted through all wars and VIII De
as important as ever once this war Is over by
the time peace is finally declared these boys
will be old enough to begin to take part III the
nations affairs, and can't help thinking they
wonld not be better fitted for leadership in the
nations intellectual life if they had spent the
next three years working on farm
az sunnose. then" / said, 'where it's case
-, s.o~vat;on or culture, you'd rather have
those bows you're talking of educated while all
of us starve.
"If II becomes absolutely necessary TO employ
overv high school boy on the farms IN order 10
save the nation from famine, III grant you' the
schools should be shut down. But in the mean
time we are not as desperately off as that and
,sking children out of the school is, to my mind
= desnerate measure. 1t will help increase the
crops, l have no doubt but it will help as II
has in England and France, to increase ehor-
mousv the amount of juvenile crime
"And what of the years after the war! "ha'
IF these children after they are grown up the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-13
THE ARMY IN THE DRY COLUMN
Continued from Page One

American temperament does not need
alcohol even in homeopathic doses. 1t
is a notorious fact that the American
cannot hold his liquor" even light
wines and beer.
With prohibition army in the field,
obviously the next step is prohibition
population behind it. If alcohol under
mines the health of the soldier and de-
creases his efficiency it is not good for
the man who is to keep him in the field.
Nationwide prohibition practically
was settled when relations with Ger
many were broken. The army can be
made prohibition by one stroke of the
Presidents pen. To make the nation
prohibition may require more compll-
Gated action, but, as | have shown, it can
be accelerated.
John Barleycorn will not only be dis
honorably discharged from the army,
but he will lose his American citizen
ship, and he will never be able to re-
gain it.
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10 confess that's rather different from reading
Greek. or browsing round with the philosophers
Wei need more doctors, but, heaven knows, we
can dispense with the philosophers for while
"AIaybe we can; I'm not arguing for the cu-
tiyatjon of philosophers, but do insist that we
keen on teaching the children and young men
who are too young to be Of actual military
value some of the ideas which we considered
it worth while to go to war to defend. These
bows ought to learn some of the things democ-
racy means, if they to understand why
their country went to war to make 1t safe and
if they are to be ready to give an equal measure
of sacrifice They ought to have chance to
have their imagination quickened TO some OF the
best things in our national life, if those things
are not to perish at home, while their older
brothers are off on the firing line defend
ing them.
The generation that has to bear the burden
of war must sacrifice some of the graces and
leisures and beauties of peace, but unless those
are forever to vanish, or be irreparably set
back they must be taught to those who Will be
the makers Of our reconstruction, and who VIII
help to reclaim the losses of a warning gen
Grafton. Cut down the educational machinery,
and YOU are mortgaging the future Of the coun-
try. whose future you are fighting to make
safe
And that may explain why | think II no
wild and wful extravaganza to teach the sew
eral thousand eighteen year-old freshmen VINO
will be at our universities next year the PHI
losophy, say, of Plato, whose two thousand
vear-old vision of perfect state has outllved
more wars than this, or Of men who long ago
began to wonder how all wars could be avoided
After the world has been made safe | want
these Young men 10 know the things in it that
were worth keeping. If this war is really to
straighten out the tangles of the world we
want these boys who are growing up not to
make the same blunders and be even more
stupid than the muddle headed world we have
known and lived in. That's why | want the
universities to keep right on teaching better
and more intensely the things they have been
irving to teach; that's why | want children to
remain at school, and be better taught, II any
thing. than in the easier days of peace 1t Will
he hard for us who teach them TO keep our
minds off the war that is all around us, but If
we can help to make them better equipped for
the problems of reconstruction ahead we will,
| think be doing almost as much as II we were
guarding the frontiers Of democracy in the
trenches to-day We will, in a sense, be doing
more for we will be nsuring the democracy
of tomorrow
went away with my four evening news
papers and their disquieting headlines, and left
nv mild little professor reading his original
Greek. thought Of the thousands Of boys at
school who might be the promise Of the democ-
racy of tomorrow. And, despite the recalci-
trant Hndenburg line, | was comforted and
treasured.
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have long wondered why some social or po-
litical expert didn't propose to survey or organ
ize the Binnenleben, the buried life of human
beings
How can it be done?" | inquired How
can you get this business of psycho-analysis or
ganzed?'
Perfectly simple" he answered with genu-
inc eagerness. THE arguments for compui-
sorry universal psycho-analysis have never been
properly presented in this country and as soon
as the work of the Compulsory Universal
Tooth Brush League is completed | hope to see
public opinion instructed as to this new, I'M
portant movement. 1t is properly matter for
Federal legislation, suppose, though it might
take some time to recruit the officials for 1t.
They ought to be under civil service, of
course"
He'd gone astray. How does this scheme
bear on your poet problem"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-13
Illustrations BY ALBERT LENERING

THE trouble is, there are
very few data. Outside the
field Of anthropology there Is
almost no research that con-
tributes directly to an under
standing of it. It is cOnven-
lent to allege that the reason
men grow facetious at the
mention of spring poetry is
self-consciousness. But what
is consciousness? What. in
deed, is self? A man whose
main interest is the civlliza-
ton of tomorrow, a man Of
tomorrow, cannot be expect
ed to wrap himself in any of
these comfortable but indo-
lent blanket words, to accept
any of these too simple, IN
analysed explanations. A man
Of to-morrow-and are W. not
all, who are not utter reac-
tionaries, men of tomorrow?
demands something better
than this easy, popular for
mula of shyness concerning
basic things. Our duty is to
probe the unconscious. We
must avail of Sigmund
Freud. If spring poets make
people laugh, those peo-
ple should be Immediately
psycho-analyzed."
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thousands upon thousands of them now IN the
schools and freshmen in our colleges? They
will be the teachers of the democracy we fought
to make safe, and what will they know? We
will not need fewer doctors because we have
been at war, and if we interrupt all the young
sters now on the road to studying medicine,
where shall we recruit them? Education isn't
an idle pastime, but the guarantee of our fut-
ure, and we can't hope to stop the machinery
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and get any results. Muniton works turn
out munitions, farms turn out food, but the
schools, colleges and professional training
schools turn out the people who are to keep the
wheels of the country moving round after the
war is over
"Of course see that" said, little I'M
patiently. Il don't want them TO cut down the
medical school, or the schools Of engineering,
or anything technical like that But you've got
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-13
BY FRANCIS HACKETT

Sometimes Zeno and ! split
a bottle of Bulgarzoom at
the City Club, and he pro
ceedS to unload his latest
problem. He regards me as
a Forward-Looker and con-
Siders that | am entitled to
come in on the ground floor
of any problem that is going
around.
There is a Problem" he
said TO me the other day,
drawing ont his long neck for
the purpose Of exhaustive eX-
position, (which has been on
my mind for a long time. It
is a difficult problem TO for
mulate, but it's been growing
in Importance for some years
and I think the time has come
to tackle it. In my opinion
it should have the benefit of
wide discussion, and perhaps
be the subject of organized
group action"
Nothing can keep you
from telling me-" l said.
"You may fire, Zeno, when
you're ready"
He looked at me withoutsee-
ing anything, after the fash
ion of deep thinkers. "Thisis
the problem. All over the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-13

world, it appears. the spring poet makes
people laugh. Why? 1t looks easy enough
to explain, but is it? | put the problem
to a prominent Columbia psychologist; and
he said: in my opinion, it is rather simple.
1t is not the fact that man is a poet
which occasions derision, but the fact that
he is an ordinary person made into poet
by the spring We all know how an abrupt
contrast of this character becomes cause of
laughter Then I asked him if he could &C
count for the phenomenon of the spring poet
itself. Amy accentuation Of the subversive
strength of the life force he said, may quite
readily produce a commotion in susceptible
nature and the result of this commotion may
conceivably be passionate utterance of poetic
character Then asked him: Don't you think
that if large numbers Of people have this ten
dency to write spring poetry and still larger
numbers have an irresistible tendency to mock
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-04

Pnbse notice IL hereby given to all
persons within the City OF Lennon not
70 lsernht domestic animals pf any kind.
lhflU3fHg chickens. to run at large
within the city limits said city. ANY
violation Of the city ordiDa noes relating
= - 1Irlais 4n21sS-
Al large. Wsi be followed nv sr,redv
prosecution af all offenders
l.. r.. GILMAN, Mayor
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-04

STATE % south Dakota. County ~ Per
kiHs,
In County eaust In and for Perkins
GGunfv. <~ssttii nakota
in the Aarter~of tie Estate of Louise.
Il. GrHndoa. DECEASED
To the Creditors af the saia Louise
r.. GfaHdnn~ decreased. and TO au persons
having claims against her said estate.
Aou are hereby ,,otified and required
- present vour claims agsinSt the ~ id
Louise r. Granf'on. der.a sed or her eS-
tate. with the necessary vouchers TO the
undersigned A. A. AxteiI. adnlinistra tor
~ said estate at his place CT residence
N the CITY ~ Lennon. Perkins County.
south Dakota. or At the Office or c. q.
Carreli in said city Of Lennon. South
ia kota within four months from and
after the first publication Of thts
notice.
Dated at lennon South Dakota. this
@ath day Of March A. ID. 1917 First
nuttl .at on ~ this notice. Aprn ish. A.
u. falT.
A. A. Axteli
Administrator Of said estate.
e. q. Carreii
Attorney for Administrator.
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-04

Stale ~ South Dakota. County Of Per-
kgHs.
In County Court aa ard for Perkins
County = ID.
Instae Matter NJ the Estate OF SANDY
Ba. .en. deceased.
~ TIE Creditors OF Saia sandy Mag
E4. Ase+ased. Ana 10 All persons having
claims against his said estate.
SDu ar@ hereby notified; and required
70 present YOUR claims againSt Saudv
isla zen, deceased. ar hls estate with
the necessary vouchers. To the under
> aIss+d aatnln4st rataf o, said estate at
aF- piaoe of business. 81 the First State
ftHH. 81 Lennon. In the CITY Of Lem.
@eHE, Perkins County. South Dakota
within four months from and after the
first r&iairHtsan of this notice
Dated al Lennon. South Dakota. this
snfh day ~ March A. H. 1917 rtrsf
uHtsli<.si on VI this not ice AprA sth. A,
n. 1877.
G.. A. Bennett
AaIainist rator OF said estate.
G.. Il. Garrett
Attorney far Administrator.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-13
Huge Buildings For Of
ficials at Washington

Washington, D. c. Nov. II, 1917.
One of the manifold problems
presented by the war is that of fur
nishing adequate office accommo-
dations for the thousands of addi-
tional officials, clerks, and other
Federal servants who are pouring
into Washington. The Government
is exercising it's prerogative in this
direction and has Communicated
conveniently located office build
ings and apartment houses with a
free hand. In addition, it is erect
ing huge temporary structures for
use as offices, and in the building of
these contractors are breaking time
records fer construction work. A
building to house the six hundred
officials and clerks of the Council of
National Defense. containing more
than 100000 square feet of floor
space, was erected and fully equip
ped in fifty-three days. Similar
buildings nearby are fer the use of
the forces Of the Food Administra-
ton. Fuel Administration, and Ar
my Ordinance. Work is well under
way on mammoth structure which
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-13
Fuel Administrator

The undersigned have been an
pointed as the Local Committee for
St. Mary Parish to cooperate with
the Federal Fuel Administrator for
Louisiana
Should there be shortage of coal
in any part Of the Parish of St.
Mary, this information should be
given to our committee.
The duties of the Local Committe
are as follows:
1. TO gather information regarding
the supply of fuel in their com COM
munity.
2. To ascertain the fuel needs of
the community, with special regard
to the points of immediate need.
8. To investigate carefully and
report at once on prices at which
each size and quality of coal is sold
in the community and to continue
to report weekly.
4. To ascertain at once and re-
port to the State Administrator the
gross margin of profit, which is be-
ing charged by each dealer in the
community, for every size and quail
ity of coal and whether such mar
gin IS excessive.
). To investigate the status Of
contracts between jobbers or oper-
ators and the industrial plants Of
the community.
The public can assist the Local
Committee very materially in the
discharge of its duties, and all help
will be appreciated.
r. H. HIMEL,
W. J. YOUNG,
MAURICE D. SHANNON,
Committee
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-13

will cover three city blocks to house
the overflow Of the War and Navy
Departments the contracts for
which calls for completion N four
months.
By these methods the Govern
ment keeps in advance of its actual
needs. At the present rate of in
crease the usual $4,000 Federal en-
ployees in Washington will be
more than doubled if the war con-
tinues another year Workers of
all kinds are being appointed, stem
ographers and typewriters and
craftsmen for the service generally,
and what are known as schedule
clerks, index and catalogue clerks,
clerks qualified in statistics or ac-
counting, and clerks qualified in
business administration for the Or
dinance Department of the Army,
being in great demand.
Representatives of the Federal
civil service commission at the post
offices in all cities are the official
recruiting agents for the great ci-
william army, an army of q half mil
lion behind the men behind the
guns.