EDITORIALS

...They think the poor man, or the criminal, or the ignorant, or the weak, the architect of his own fortune...

...He is conversant with several of the languages of Europe and the Orient, including Russian and Persian, and to an unusual degree comprehends the Oriental mind—most difficult for a Westerner to grasp...

...it was within the city limits but it was up on a hill-top where the breezes blow soft and fresh...

...It is certainly our loss...

...As a matter of fact, family incomes go to the man and the man receives the same wages or salary tor a given amount of work whether he is married or not, whether his wife spends her time in going to the theater and "at the silent sacrament of bridge" or in carefully rearing children...

...Never until the evils growing out of social maladjustments are cured can the nation be quiet and content...

...By long years of travel, as foreign representative of the Crane Company, he has kept in close touch with conditions and tendencies in the Far East and in Russia...

...The New Minister to China BY appointing Charles R. Crane as minister to China, President Taft made an excellent choice...

...No one could prove that she had taken the dread disease from her father...

...The particular orchard of which we were speaking was in Boston but not of it...

...Not even in complete surrender of the strugglers for the weak to the might of the strong is there peace...

...They may not be religious men, but they fervently believe that the obscure and indigent should follow the text of the ritual which bids us to be content in that sphere to which Providence has called us, and they regard as a Divine recognition of an immutable condition the passage which said of Judea of old, "The poor ye have always with you...

...Such men and such statesmen do not exactly believe that whatever is, is right, but they believe fully in the game as it is played, in the huge percentage that gives to the "house," the system of chances that divides the wealth of the nation into two piles, one of which is the spoil of the very few who get it in immense lots, and the other the pittances of the very many who get it in pitifully small portions...

...They can thread the slum or inspect the tenement with a sincere belief that these people are so situated by reason of inevitable evils, or of their own fault or failure, and not because of misdirected social forces which are capable of correction by an aroused democracy...

...She was a poor, weak, wizened little creature, almost too tired to smile,-to say nothing of laughing as healthy children do...

...As for me and my house" says he, "we will serve the Lord...

...They regard the industrial situation in Amrica, as, on the whole, about what it should be...

...So believing, they cannot lay down their arms, no matter who takes the field against them...

...they could not "find the germs" as the saying is, but she was a burden to herself and a menace to Boston, for she was likely at any moment to fall a victim to tuberculosis...

...They believe in the changing of the rules of the game...

...That laugh alone was worth all it had cost but it was not the only fruit of the city's experiment for the camp grew into an open-air school that continued all winter, and now all over the country we are asking ourselves: Why wait for the little Francescas and Francescas and Marys and Johnnies to grow weak and wan...

...The mother receives no such income...

...He is horrified at the fact that we are paying $500,000 a day to foreign ship-owners...

...why not give them fresh-air schools at once...

...The selection of Mr...

...This reminds us incidentally of the title of one of Edward Carpenter's essays, "Civilization, its Cause and Cure...

...Wanted: A Better Social Budget HAS SOCIETY a budget in which it enters, in the order of their importance, the items for which it wishes to provide...

...The decadent people are always miserable, even after they have definitely accepted degradation as their all in all...

...Most fortunate of all, perhaps, is the fact that Mr...

...If we really believe this, we would better insist also that society speedily make a new budget in which the provision for this work shall be commensurate with the importance which is attached to it in ordinary conversation, in sociological literature, in song, in story and in art...

...To illustrate: One would expect to find in any well-ordered social budget the item, "Mother's Care for Children" well up toward the top, among the earliest entries, next in order perhaps to "Food for the Race" and "Shelter for the Race...

...There is another plane of thought into which some have entered...

...When we shall have succeeded in "curing" civilization we may find places for orchards even in the hearts of our big cities...

...Apple orchards do not tarry long in big cities...

...He could have searched the whole country over without finding a man better qualified to fill this important Oriental post...

...They believe that the game should be played "on the square" but that any other game than this prince-making, pauper-creating game of monopoly and exploitation is possible they do not for a moment believe...

...The children of Israel serving in Egypt surely had a subconscious pride which the outcasts and vassals bowing to Vespasian never could have possessed...

...Crane to fill this high governmental position comes as a most agreeable innovation to a people accustomed for years to seeing men of large business affairs given political preferment solely to gratify personal ambition or to better serve the Interests...

...We say last year advisedly because it is gone now, having given way to a hospital...

...His capacity and experience as a business man on a large scale, involving direct relations with foreign markets, fit him admirably to deal with the problems growing out of China's phenomenal commercial development and to advance the interests of the United States in the world-trade that will grow out of this awakening...

...Crane is not an experienced diplomat...

...Crane belongs to that rare type of big businessman that places good citizenship above dividends...

...The other side may be overwhelming in numbers and position, but to the man filled with this ideal, this makes no difference...

...to use during her life-time or to save and will away at her death...

...Fresh Air Schools IN BOSTON last year there was an apple-orchard...

...But there are some of us who cannot be friends with them...

...His fitness is of a different kind...

...If it has, the items are evidently badly arranged, and some of the most important ones seem to have been omitted altogether...

...The ships are our hired hands and we pay them for their work, that is all...

...Through personal observation and study he has become an authority on many of the great questions involved in the relations between the West and the East...

...It holds up a vision of a society redeemed by true democracy...

...And yet we insist that no professional service can equal the labor that is performed by wife and mother...

...As a matter of fact, however, the enormity vanishes when one considers the fact that while we may be paying out the $500,000 a day, we are getting half a million dollars a day for it in the way of services rendered...

...Every morning it took her with thirty or forty other children—incipient tuberculosis cases they were called on the records—up to the orchard on the hill...

...In short, these have the vision of a society redeemed by the institutional application of the principles of Jesus, of Jefferson, of Lincoln...

...And like all members of the gambling fraternity, they are apt to be fine, hearty, open-hearted, companionable good fellows...

...The Senator's attitude is one which would be justified if we were donating the money or being robbed of it...

...if she dies while her children are young, her husband is likely to give as a reason for marrying again the fact that he cannot afford to hire a housekeeper for them...

...perhaps that is the reason why hospitals come so thick and so fast...

...A nurse or a hired housekeeper receives for her labor a fixed sum of money which is hers to hoard or to spend...

...And after a few weeks when the food and the fresh air and the rest and the baths had done their good work, Francesca laughed, a good clear, ringing, childish laugh...

...And so . the city played the part of a good, kind, foster father...

...It is a pity that we cannot be friends with them...

...They look upon the huge accumulations of capital and huger accumulations of power which we call the trusts, as agencies of men who rule because, on the whole they are best fitted for the rulership...

...Believers in this may not be very religious, either, but they thrill to the divine democracy of the Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount...

...If she lives to bring up her children she dies penniless unless she has been so fortunate as to inherit property...

...for the people that have once caught the vision of a society redeemed, while they may fall to the depths devoted to lost and decadent peoples, can never feel the content of the slave, even, who is coming up through servitude from savagery...

...Below the hill in a dingy, dirty, crowded tenement was a little Italian girl, Francesca by name, whose father had just died of consumption...

...THE BASIS OF THE STRUGGLE IF we of America seem plunged into a period of unrest and I battle and strife, when we should all so much rather be at peace, enjoying fellowship with the many finely attuned natures now arrayed in some opposing camp, we may comfort ourselves with the thought that ours is the common lot, and that no people enjoys peace except at the expense of racial destruction...

...There it gave her good food to eat, fresh milk to drink, a hammock under the trees to lie in, a garden to dig in, and a shower bath to splash in...

...He has not had formal training in the requirements of a ministerial position...

...And here is the basis of the struggle in America: There are those, high in power and strong in intellect, many of them, who do not believe that the evils we suffer come from social maladjustments...

...For years he has been at the heart of many of the most important reform movements in this country, lending all his powerful influence to the cause of the common good, and helping to stamp out the evils and corruption that have developed with the advent of Big Business into the field of Politics...

...It believes in a time when monopoly shall be no more, and labor and capital, no longer at war, shall cooperate to the wiping out of involuntary and undeserved poverty in an era of industrial equality and social peace...

...Paying For Services Rendered SENATOR ELKINS is for the ship subsidy...

...Mr...

...They seek to eliminate the percentage that goes to the nonproductive "house" and to make production a sure thing for all, open to all hands on equal terms, wherein wealth shall go to the producers in proportions fixed by their individual contributions to production...