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EDITORIAL
"OLli GLORY"
"America For Americans"
AUSTRIAN AIMS AS DEFINED BY
A SOCIALIST DEPl'TY
lu the course of a recent debate
lu the Vienna Reichsrat the Czech
Socialist leader, .StraniJjy, viokntlj
• ticked Germany and sharply criti
cized Count Czernin's t>tMce pro
g- am Referring to Germany,
Strausky said it was the fatal de
rive ft r the predominance the
German*nationality iu Austria which
h. d brought oa war.
But for that the concessions of
fered by Serbia would have been
considered .sufficient. Europe
would stand a stroug Germany, but
not two strong German Empires
side bv- side, governed from Berlin.
Perhaps, after all, .Great Britain,
France, and America are not so
simple as to fight merely for .the
frfedom of the Poles, Bohemians,
and southern Slavs, but fight rath
er for political reasons, for bo
curin». the guaranty ot" an Austria
independent of Germany and not
ruled from. Berlin. It has been
asserted that the alliance with
Germany is indissoluble, but
nctbing on earth j3 indissoluble.
Eyren if the union is so firm, circum*
fctance? may arise to render its
continuance impossible, . because
thev affect not only the policy but
tho actual existence of the country.
Referring to Count Czernin, he
called the count's peace conditions
nothing but phrases. They were
no conditions at all, but only a
designation of the situation which
should prevail after peace. They
were no* even, as the count mod
estly claimed, his own ideas, but
were "made .in America"; that is.
they were President Wilson's ideas
put forth at a time when America
was at peace.
MENTALITY OF THE AUHlVIXG
IMMIGRANTS
"Mentality of the Arriving im- j
mjrirant" is the tit!© of a publiea- j
tlon to be issued by the Public
Health Service.
This publication deals -with a I
psychclogcal experiment ■which was
conducted by officers of the Public
Health Service at .Ellis Island, Xew !
Vork during 1914.
The experiment consisted in ex-!
•mining 296 literate and illiterate j
Immigrants, above the age of nine, j
by mean3 of questions, puzzles .and |
other psychiatric tests in order to j
fiat* out the mental status of the |
normal or average immigrant at
the time of landing. During the in
vestigation which continued over a
number of months, fully 13,000 test
were applied to theso Immigrants.
The volume shows how the vari
ous tests were executed by the
different alien groups and throws
light ot>on many points in connec
tion wi'h racial psychology. After
the 'Presentation of the data in
each test, a discussion of the test j
la entered into. The bulletin con- I
Ulna a fijuuber o*" u,ew tests new
Ideas in regard to seoring and tst
lng bud original findings in the
field ot experimental psychology.
■\Vhllp the bulletin was designed
primarily to Increase the efficiency
of the mental examination of arriv
ing al'ens, it is believed that it will
be of value to research workers
in other mental fields. The bulle
tin will be of service to examiners
of •mentally defective .persons. It
also contains material which will
be of interest to the teacher,
psychiatrist and public health of
ficer.
CARE OF THE REEL
A Few Word* of Expert Advice For the
Man Behind the Rod.
The life of any reel will be mighty
short If It Is not given care and atten
tion. The finest machine In the world
will not run without oil, yet many fel
lows will use a reel week after week
and not think of feeding It a little
soothing sirup until it begins to scrape
aud rattle like the 5:13. When this |
stage Is reached they will drop a little
oil In the cups, but the ilumuge la done
through overheated bearings and pin
ions, and the reel will never again run
with freedom from friction aud as
smoothly as before the rough grind was
handed it.
A reel should be cleaned and oiled
after each day's fishing. The ordinary
thin oil is nut sutlicient, as no thin oil
will last through the different tempera
tures to which a reel is subjected dur
ing a day's casting. Heated by the hot
sun and chilled by the night air, as well
as drenched with water during the day,
make a combination that would elimi
nate any thin oil. On the other hand,
the thick oils soon churn Into a creamy
paste and hamper and clog the reel so
that you thUik you are losing your speed
at the game when your casts slow up.
Tou make no misiake whin you Invest
In a bottle of "real" reel oil, and the
best comes from the jawbones aud blub
ber of the porpoise. ThV oil Is refined
up in the arctic circle and will stand
the piff of any temperature. ''After you
buy the oil. use »t. Don't stand It away
in the tackle cabinet and forget It.
Oiling the reel is not all that is neces
sary to ke»>p the little old pleasure pro
ducer in go- .1 shai*.'. I.ike the line, the
reel should be entirely dried after each
day's fishing. Although German silver
does not rust, it will corrode, and the
main cause for corroding Is dampuess.
Re fair to the reel and dry It thorough
ly in the open air or sunlight and drop
a little oil in each cup before yon tuck
it away for the night.
As a final tip on the reel, old man,
here's hoping you won't take It apart
every once in awhile to see what makes
It go. The smooth running qualities of
n.any a fine reel have been ruined by
the inquisitive euss with the itching
palm and a screwdriver. Of course you
would never think of taking your watch
apart and assembling it again. If any
thing goes bad with the reel, take It
down to a reel doctor and let him feel
its pulse. This will save you time and
money, and for practice at mechanics
you can have much fun tinkering
with an old alarm clock as a victim.—
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BEWARE: THE CLOSED MIND. !
Koep Always In ToU:h With ISUw Ideas
and New Methods.
Senator I.odge in an address deliver
ed at the Massachusetts Institute of '
Technology coined a remarkable phrase
In warning the students to "beware of
the Closed mind," a gentle reproof of
the cocksureness oi" the newly gradu- •
ated. Senator LoU^e said:
"Beware of the closed mind. This !
sounds like a paraOox when addressed '
to young men, yet it will. I think, bear j
examination. It is a truism to say that j
the danger of maturity, aud especially (
of age. Is the closing of tue mind to I
new Ideas. Habit, most powerful of
influences, hard experience, the very
passage of the years, all r.like tend to
stiffen the muscles and to harden the
arteries of-the mind as they do those of
the body. It Is a misfortune with I
whim advancing age must struggle, I
and the effort is severe and too often i
either neglected or fruitless.
"But the same peril besets youth, al
though not for the same reason. The
great mass of younr. men to forth from
our universities, our Institutes and
schools, prepared to learn aud eager
for the knowledge which experience
alone can bring. Ve{ the disease of the
closed mind lurks all about them aud,
curiously enough, is most likely to af- I
feet the cleverest, the ablest aud tho i
most ambitious. This comes from !
their very talents, from the high coutl
dence which youth ought always to
have, aud from the somewhat hasty
conclusion that because they have
thought for themselves nobody else has
performed the same feat ! efcre.
"It is well to remember that the very
greatest men died learning, like Bacon
and Pasteur. The greatest benefac
tions to humanity, the greatest ser 'ices
to human thought, have not all been
bestowed or rendered by men under
twenty-five or even under forty years
of age. a fact sometimes worthy of re
membrance. Do not. then, fall victims
to overconfldeuce and close your mind.
The injunction is as Important for
youth as for age—easy of attainment
for the former, difficult for the latter,
possible for both. The past aud the
present, youth and age. new aud old,
all have their place in the sun; all are
needed for the widest learning, for the
highest achievement, for the best de
velopment of mankind."
MISS FLORENCE J. WADE
Miss Florence J. Wade, younge-.t of
the federal reserve chairmen of the
woman's Liberty Loan committee,
achieved remarkable results In her
campaign in the St. Louis district, her
home.
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