The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-04-05

develops in the youth sense of all
around responsibility to his country not
only in time of war, but in time of
peace. He is much more apt to be
faithful, conscientious servant than if
he had not had military training. He
enters public service in time of peace
in more nearly the same spirit that he
would enter military service in time Of
war-namely, from sense of patriotic
duty and desire to serve his country
and his fellow men.
Government Ownership of Railroads.
In recent years we have been hearing
a great deal about government owner
ship of our railroads. We are told that
in Germany the railroads are owned by
the government and that their opera
ton is most successful. This is true,
but in Germany conditions are vastly
different.
The military training of the youth,
in fact, the entire trend of education in
Germany is to impress upon the young
men of that land that they owe service
to their country. When a man enters
the governments employ in the railroad
business he is as conscientious as he
would be were he entering the govern
ment's service in time of war.
If our railroads were to be taken
over and operated by our government
at this time how many of you think we
would duplicate Germany's success?
Government ownership of railroads
may be as desirable in this country as
it is in Germany, but we must first
have public servants who will at least
come somewhere near the standard OF
Germany's public servants in efficiency
and honesty.
Look at the spectacle we are present
ing to the world at this very moment IN
our pork barrel legislation! Could we
afford to have our railroads operated by
the same type of public servants?
If our government is to endure, II
we are to take our proper place among
+be nations of the world in the new civil
cation. the man of the future must live
MT for himself alone but for Others
Consideration for one another iS
a,,x Incoming a social, industrial
aud economic necessity
Capitalization is the order of the day.
The telegraph, the telephone, the auto
mobile and the airship are the causes.
THEW have wiped out not only old prec-
edents and customs. but State and ma
tional lines as well.
A man living in Boston who wishes
To talk to a man living in San Fran
cisco simply rings bell, puts little
instrument to his ear and proceeds to
talk. There is hardly a miracle in the
Bible more wonderful than this.
The doctrine of estate rights" is be-
ing rapidly demolished. The nation is
being obliged TO assume many of the
functions of government heretofore per-
formed by the State, and this tendency
is growing.
The State. viewed as an individual
with the right to do as it pleases within
itself, without regard for other States,
can no longer be tolerated.
Only the nation can act in matters
that affect interstate relations, and
with intercommunication and trans.
portation developed to their present
stage a considerable percentage of
States activities are, interstate in their
effects and consequences.
The World Is Drawing Together
We must therefore take on a new ma
tionalism. The world has been drawn
very closely together by the cable and
the transatlantic liner, but it is on the
verge of being drawn infinitely more
closely together by the wireless, the air
ship and the submarine telephone
When these are practical, everyday
instruments Of intercommunicatior and