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The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
A Bit About Thought.

What is thought? Its source? Its "substance?" ?"
man concerns himself about a specific prob
lem. We say he concentrates.
Something happcns-presumably within his head.
1t is assumed that he somehow animates his mind
and directs its processes.
His mental objective is solution to the prob
lem which confronts him. ..- g.
A force mysterious and intangible as cleo
tricity is at work-thought
With unfathomed power he conducts an un-
charted crania cruise of exploration and discovery
There exists theory that all knowledge is in
the air. That the brain is a sieve through which
it filters. The amount and kind of knowledge
gained is determined by the mesh of the mind.
So the big ideas slip into wide-meshed brains,
but it is readily that the finer limits and
lessons a mans mental consequence.
Another hypothesis has it that knowledge to the
mind is like sound to the ear.
Your brain, if attuned and properly pitched, will
hguratively harmonic with a distinct scale of
knowledge.
just the tympanum of the registers only
certain sounds, the brain exclusively records
thought that vbrates its naturally adjusted, high
ly sensitive receiving surface.
1t is assumed that knowledge thus absorbed is
filed away for future reference.
At call, Memory the librarian of the Mind,
searches through its archives for the desired nfor-
nation.
The origin of thought is undeterminable The
brain transmits thought, but is not its source. Life
generates thought, but what is life?
What THOUGHT is we find equally vague.
That world without thought would be vegeta-
bic kingdom seems apparent
The of thought scarcely better under
stood than whence it emanates and what it is. Its
expressions daily multiply.
Thought itself is teaching men to think The
offspring of constructive mind is often instruc-
tive seldom destructive.
To the chaotic thinker the world is maelstrom
of contradiction. To the thoughtless, life is largely
a blank!
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
Civ Bows on Farms.

progress, was again proved of no practical value
when the Department of Labor authorized the or
ganization of the u. S. Boys Working Reserve.
Under the plan put into effect by the Labor De-
partment thousands of city boys have been trained
in agriculture and placed upon the farms of the
country. where they are today rendering valuable
aid in saving the crops.
In spite of the fact that past experience with
city men and city boys had made the farmer skep-
teal as to the value of this class Of labor there
those who believed that the American boy was
capable of development along any line of useful
activity. A little over year ago the U. S. Boys
Working Reserve was organized with the specific OBJ
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
BOOkDOM By LoUac

Ruiashe world ensmamay perhaps not Be guessed in this
generation; nevertheless the curiosity regard her will
seek for truths and prophecies wherever they be found Some
thing Of what Russia may eam from the Russian writers them
seves perhaps is outsiders foreigners with hearts and
vision. who will best interpret the Russia that is.
Miss Amenkanka unusual book, and especially unusual
for FIRST novel; Olive Ghreath tells story Of Russia
land and people that exotic and far away
fairy tale Miss Amekanka young and soodookins Ame
can girl who visiting China when the from the Belgian front
reyeberated the Monaghan plain She would not
give her planned journey Russia and of protests she
started of via the Siberian railway She had been put charge of
Russian general returning duty and board the another
Russian officer and nobeman. Novny who she found
send all that best in his Through Miss Amkankas eyes
the asuns monotony of endless Siberian the pctu-
stations and with her feel that gain little
their quet aast attitude toward life Perosrad
world explore and her friends there and Novnys family
opened social doors her. But the external
of things which held her. beautiful and haunting with the beauty
sangeness though they she sought get behind hem feel
the soul of the and the land And Novsky opened doors for her
asandoon of racialy and intellectually subtle understanding.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
The German Decide. to Hold the Wedge

: Obviously il is not Ludendorf or his staff ex-
perts who have determined that the German re-
treat from the Rheims-Soissons salient must be
stopped, and that this dangerous wedge must be
held at all costs. ..
2 The best allied military opinion is that word
came from Potsdam that reversed the enemy tao
setcs within the triangle. The Kaiser and his pot
cal advisers knew the effect that wholesale with
drawal from this hard-won territory would have
upon his people. Therefore, he overruled his army
chiefs and flashed the command that the territory
must be hed-at least that part of the sector which
still remains in Teuton hands.
1t remains to be whether the Kaiser's
sarmies make good his command-whether, in
rthe face of artillery fire that sweeps every
inch of the salient, bombing from airplanes that
elthreatens their supplies and their communications,
'4constantly increasing pressure all sides, the
: enemy remain this ground.
p Will Foch return to the attack with redoubled
fury or will he be content with letting the enemy
undergo the merciless rain of shell and bomb until
sthe position has been rendered 90 untenable that
the further retention of it would mean almost the
disruption of the forces penned within it? Doubt
less there will be lull for few days, far
infantry fighting is concerned. This delay in
evtably will be vastly in favor of the French,
American and British forces, if the German keeps
to his present intention of holding. Not only will
his whole position be bathed with shot and shell
broken in upon and more by the combined
artillery and air work of the allies. Furthermore,
il will not be of great to him to bring up his
. reserves, for the salient is and cramped
that there is hardly room for maneuvering any
more troops within it. Foch on the outside can
bring many re-enforcements he desires to the
But will he do so? The loss of the initiative
while American troops are flowing to France in
the present amazing numbers will not be disad-
vantage The counter offensive he is making has
demonstrated the ability of the allies to meet the
Boche his favorite ground-that of open-work
fighting. and of beating him on it. Until the allied
numerical superiority is overwhelming to
rant a major offensive which will have "over the
Rhine" its objective it is possible that Foch will
content himself with local operations, into which,
apparently, the present attack has dwindled.
But there is certainty that the German will
not recommence his retreat when he realizes how
hazardous and untenable his present position is
1t to be conceded that political motives have
dominated the change in the enemy plan. If this
be true, then the allied forces have true for
rejoicing-not only because they see that German
morale is so low that a single serious defeat may
cause it to collapse, but because the German in
ternal situation is so dangerous that strategy in
the field must be modified to meet it. The Junkers
control of the nation is not nearly absolute
the world has assumed.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
Kahn Writes on Prussianism.

Mr.. Otto H. Kahn, of New York City, has re-
Gently contributed an article to the Freie Zetung.
of Berne, Switzerland, in which he explains that
twenty-five years of close observation of the prog
ress of Prussiansm in Germany had given him a
horror Of the consequences upon the German peo-
pie, long before the European broke out Il
was convinced that this was not an ordinary war
question of national honor but conflict of funda-
mental axioms and conceptions; and the basis
of this conviction had to tell myself that natural
afinities of race and relationship could not be the
determining factor in the attitude of individuals
toward the matter but that each one, irrespective
of his origin, had to decide according to his own
best Judgment and the dictates of his conscience
on which side was right and which wrong, and
must take his stand accordingly, matter-what
pain and what wrench the decision might involve
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
Aimed at Judges.

Senator Owen has reintroduced the child labor
bill and added it section forbidding the ques-
tioning of the law by any court, forbdding the ap
pellate power of the Supreme Court, and forbid
ding any inferior judge from permitting the con-
stitutionality of the law be raised in his court
This prohibition does not make precedent,
since the United States Supreme Court has, in
several instances recognized the right of Congress
to forbid it to exercise appellate jurisdiction, in
certain cases. Nor do we see that it furnishes a
sure way by which the people get legislation
they want despite the Supreme Court. Suppose
that some inferior Judge" does permit the con-
stitutionality of this to be raised in his
court The matter would then have to 60 to the
United States Supreme Court wouldn't it?
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28

ing brings inspiration" he said. IL
doesn't! It not only does not bring
you any. but IL takes away that which
yoJ have! II you refrain from smok-
ing you will be able TO undertake a
normal evening Of writing-but IL you
take up your pipe for an hour, St the
end Of that time your now Of inspira-
tion will stop and can no more be
turned on than a faucet when your
water dues are unpaid" In The
Road That Led Home" Mr.. Ingerson
gives the romance OF a young school
master who found the road 10 hapri-
ness when he accepted an appoint
ment TO a little country school N the
Canadian wheat land.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
The Casualty List.

There's a big American story in the daily
casualty list, if you read behind the
What is an American? What's in a name?
In days list you find Hoskins, Kohlmeier,
Maciejewski, Nowanty, Perry, Sullivan, Verdoukas,
Bergman, Laughlin, Beckerle. Doering, Ganski,
Murphy, Sparks, Villoto, Szyperk, Cooper, Hutch
inson, Foohey, McCue, Schwartz, Stone, Patterson,
Thomas, Brown, Farrell, Maximovich, Moriarity,
Walton, Knutson, and so on.
Now read behind the names: Figure out where
the ancestors of those American boys came from.
We can't tell what countries contributed their
blood through the female line, but in the male line
there is evidence of Irish, German, Polish Russian
Greek, English, Scandinavian and Italian blood.
Yet everyone of these soldiers is American
fighting under the Stars and Stripes.
We have read about the Indian scouts with
Pershng's army. They come of the only original
American race. After Columbus came the Span
iards, the English the Dutch, the Irish, the Ger
mans, the French the Italian, the Poles, the Hun
garians, the Russians and others.
All contributed their blood. All went into the
. great melting pot to out as Americans-the
Americans of whom all of are so proud
Thought to prove to the world that what hap
pened in America, may just well happen in Eu-
rope-that if the arbitrary and artificial bounda-
ries made by foolish, greedy kings and kaisers and
blotted out there could be new Eu-
ropesn race of brothers who could dwell together
in comparative peace and harmony. =.
But first must help the people over there
all of them-to get rid of their autocrats so that
over there as well as over here there can be gov
ent of the people, by the people and for the peo-
pie
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
Hector-l1A B. c.
By EDMUND VANCE COOKE.
a cup Of ancient nectar

A cup of ancient nectar
x pledge to old pal Hector.
It's true Achilles beat him at the last
And dragged his corpse around the walls of Troy.
But who wins now? l call them from the past
And ask you, which example for your boys
Shall he be chvalrous and die like Hector
With vengeance wreaked upon his fallen trunk?
Or be the bold, strong bully of his sector
And with Achilles win-and prove skunk?
You find il not so easy to determine?
Then look ahead. He'sdead three thousand years
"Died like MANI" or "Triumphed like German?'
Which shall be said among his pals and peers?
A cup of ancient nectar
pledge TO old pal Hector
copyright 1s1al
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28

ing story. Like an Of Mr.. Weston's
work It is thoroughly original Those
who enjoyed reading "oh. Mary, Be
Careful last year. may be sure OF
an afternoons entertainment. and
those who have not met Mr.. Weston's
delightful heroines will certainly se
grateful for an Introduction TO the
latest Of them. Little Miss Moses
Is as much a product Of New Engiand
rocks and scenery as any OF Haw-
thorne's characters. yet she 10 q
world away from them. The solution
of Charlotte Martins three problems
will certainly give the reader new SEN
sation and pleasure.
The Apple Tree Girl, by George
Weston. ,. B. Lippincott Co. Price
S1.00.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
CoIorfuI Career of Arthur ID. How.
den Smith

Arthur D. Howden Smith. author
of The Real Colonel House" CDo-
ran) has written several books.
and is staff correspondent of the
New York Evening Post He has
had unusual experience OF war
abroad. has studied conditions at
home, has recently been engaged IN
interpreting for the people Of the
United States the building Of the
great army, in a series of articles
in which were presented the prob
lens that face the government at
the cantonments and pictured the
life of the boys in olivedrab.
Mr.. Smith saw service in the Bal
kan war when, answering the call
of adventure and a cause that ap-
pealed. he himself led tribesmen
who defied the oppressive Turk in
mountain Businesses. He wrote a
book. Fighting the Turk in the Bal
kans," which foreign diplomats said
played a part in moulding European
opinion. In 1907. representing the
Evening Post in Balkans, he investi-
gated the reports OF Turkish oppres-
sion and atrocities in Macedonia He
has been contributing editor to a
leading service journal. He has writ
ten two novels, THE westrer" and
THE Disloyal Adventures of Miles
McConaughy'' Ooran). several novels
for boys. many magazine articles and
short stories. For ten years he has
covered important news stories for
the Evening Post and has lately en-
joyed a rowing commission, preparing
feature and news articles on widely
varying subjects.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
LINE O. CHEER
EACH DAY o. THE YEAR.
By John kendrick Bangs.

THE PROOF.
The reason why / clearly see
The truth of immortality
Is that my faith is sure that I
Was born to live. and not to die:
And further proof I find in this:
That whether life be woe or bliss
'Twere utter wrong that man should
press
On through long years Of stir and
stress
To end In merest nothingness.
(copyrisht lslsl
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
On Dangerous Mission.

On Dangerous Mission.
Then one day Novinsky announced
that the days Of their companionshiI
were over-that he was on his way to
the front on a dangerous, secret mis-
sion, and suddenly there came to her
the realization of why she had felt
the great urge to understand his
people and their ways. During No
vinsky's absence she paid visit to
his mother and sister at their estate
stopping en- route at Moscow and jour-
ueying down TO Volga-
The picture of the Novinsky estate
and the patriarchal life as 1t still
existed there brings sadness to the
heart when one remembers that now
only few months later. II has prob
ably vanished forever with the pass
ing of the old order. Here Miss
Amerikanka Is taken into the heart
of the family, and waits, with his
mother and his sister, for news OF
Novinsky.
Then. after long waiting. she saw
Novinsky coming toward her through
the forest.
Knowing what lay still ahead Of his
land. he felt he had not the right to
cloud the happiness Of this girl from
a brighter world.
What Russia Of tomorrow will be
no one knows" he warned. I'VE are
on the brink OF change. Everything
one loves and everything one hates is
going into the melting pot, and what
will emerge no one can say. In time
we shall evolve into a great free ma
ton. In time-but what Is one mans
lifetime in the evolution of a race
For the next hundred years We art
going to be the most unhappy people
in the world" Miss Amerikanka
listened to the warning and then made
her decision.
1t is difficult to recall any novel by
an American writer which is so sue
cessful in entering into the spirit OF an
alien people. Passage after passage
Of Miss Amerikanka" Is like win
dow opening out into a landscape
clearcut in its outlines or equally sug-
gestive of the truth in their blurred
mistipess. Miss Gilbreath has begun
her career as a novelist with astonish-
ing gifts and promise.
Miss Amerikanka, Harper Brothers
publishers.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
Anne Morgan Describes Trials OF
Refugees.

Anne Morgan, author Of THE Amer
ican Girl" was one Of those who
helped to ease the sufferings Of the
refugees Of the Aisne, when the Ger
mans were in full cry at the end of
May. In a resent letter from France
Miss Morgan writes: The road was
moving mass of refugees, crowded
into every imaginable vehicle, with
cows, horses. sheep and pigs, togeth-
er with two steady lines OF military
conveys. one going up and the other
going down. The picture was unfor-
gettable, particularly when you real
ize that many Of these people were
being evacuated for the third time. "
In her book, The American Girl, -
published by Harper and Brothers.
Miss Morgan has given helpful sug-
gesuons to her country-women on
education, recreation. responsibilities
and future. The advice is founded on
careful thought and experience and
Is full Of warm sympathy.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
The Cadet Manual

The plan proposed by Maj. steeyer
for the training Of our youth Is based
upon military principles but Is NOT
militaristic. II aims to make q gooo
citizen of the boy and TO develop IN
him those qualities Of maniiness ana
self-control that are indispensable 70
success in life. First adopted IN
Wyoming Il caused widespread oppo-
sition. particularly on the part OF
labor, but the plan was so successfui
in improving the youth who received
this training. that It is now enthusiast
tically supported by the most bitter o.
its former opponents. The govern
ment has taken up the matter, IN
dorsing It and giving Il q nauonal
character. It Is being adopted In hign
schools throughout the country. IN
Chicago recently some thousands OF
high school boys gave an exhibition
which was a remarkable success. IL
Is a matter of patriotism that 10 IN
VOWED In the adoption Of this system.
and we feel sure that II only needs to
he known to be accepted everywhere.
This little volume gives all the neces-
sary data and instructions FOR carry
ing 1t out
The Cadet Manual. by Major z. z.
steever and ]. L. Frick. ]. B. LIP
pincott. Price. $50.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28

No wonder the German press charges British
cruelty treat captives. English society girls motor
Hun prisoners around London, provide them with
tennis rackes and otherwise torture the dears!
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28

Germany has soap shortage. From the ap-
pearance of the Hun captives see, that won't
inconvenience them much.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28

Taft says peace terms should be dictated on Ger
man soil. And that's where Williams head is
level. Talk peace business to the Kaiser on the
Kaiser's doorstep.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28

umes, consequently damages are asked
for the injury thus occasioned. as well
as injunctiye relief in the premises.
To permit the present publication to
pass unchallenged would be but TO
invite some Ouija board to spell out
Mark Twain joke book. which, OF
course, would be intolerable."
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28

A Berlin band loaded their horns with stolen
fruit at harvest concert. Their harmony was
probably as much physical STRAINS" musical
ones!
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
rAe Apple Tree Girl.

The Lippincott series OF one dollar
novels has received an important ad-
dition in this cheerful and entertain
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
The Yellow Dog to BE FILMED.

The Yellow Dog 70 BE Filmed
Henry Irving Dodge. in an inter-
view this week with Harper and Broth
ers. his publishers. said that the Uni
versal Film Company has contracted
to bring his latest book, The Yellow
Dog" as a motion picture. In this
book Mr.. Dodge tells a story that
shows up the tactics of the unpstriotic
American. and among several defini-
tons Of his character says: ANY
man who tells the government about
its faults and how to correct 'em
is its friend Any man who tells the
government its faults just to dis
courage it is q yellow dog"
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
Author Of @Praetic.I Flying

Flight Commander W. G. McMin-
nies. author of practical Flving'
lDoran), was formerly editor Of the
London publication Motor Cycling.
and was the winner in 1913 of the
cycle-car Grand rPrix on the famous
Picardy course, which has been the
scene of recent fighting.
The book is the first practical work
on actual training and instruction for
the flying services. The volume con-
tains an Introduction by Maj. Gen. w.
S. Brancker, r. A. F., and over 100
illustrations and diagrams, also by a
flying officer.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28

Others such as Whitney,
Chickering, Newton, H. P. Mel
son, Marshall & Wendell, Brew
rter, Etc.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28
Does Smoking KIN In.pIr.tIe,f

VIII N. IngersolI, talking with his
publishers. the Harpers, recently said
that he almost gave up smoking while
writing his novel THE Road That Led
Home. {" Don't you believe that smok
The Washington herald., 1918-07-28

The author Of Injurious Insects and
Useful Birds" a forthcoming issue in
the Lippincott Farm Manual Series,
is known as Bug Washburn, to dis
tinguish him from Milk Washburn,
who is the author Of Productive
Dairying," another Farm Manual. The
illustrations for the new manual are
remarkably fine. Prof. F. L. Wash
burn is an enthusiast in this field and
his work is sure to become standard.
He is professor Of entomology at the
University of Minnesota.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-25
GLASS FOR TREASURER.
Best Washington Guess for Va
cancy Created by McAdoo's
Retirement is Virginia
Representative.

Washington, Nov. 25.-Prcsident Will
sonIhas notbntimated whom he will appoint
to succeed Wilinm Gibbs McAdoo as
Secretary of the Treasury and Director
General Of the Railroads, but people in
Washington are busy picking men for
him. The favorite on the cards last night
for Secretary of the Treasury is Repre-
sentative Carter Glass of Virpinia, who
is on his way bnck to the United States
from France A late man in the running
is A. Mitchell Palmer, now Alien Property
Custodian, whom the President considered
for Cabinet position when he first went
to the White House. Friends Of Mr..
Palmer ella i'm that Mr.. Wilson actually
selected him for Secretary of War, but
being a Quaker Mr.. Palmer would not
accept.
The two persons most discussed here
for the Cabinet are Mr.. Glass and Ber-
nard Nj. Baruch II is thought that the
President would like to name MIR. Baruch
upon his record as Chairman Of the War
Industries Board, but there would be
opposition to him on the ground that he
had been a Wall street spectllator or trader.
II is feared sticsIers from the West and
South might resist his confirmation.