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and file of the citizenship of the country. Every soldier who showed qualities of leadership had the opportunity to become an officer. Men were constantly being withdrawn from their units and sent to officers' training camps.

In a certain company which later at tained some slight distinction there was a private who signed his check for ten thou sand dollars without batting an eyelash, but he remained a private to the end of his military career. In the same company a red-haired Irishman without visible means of support was a corporal in ten days and a lieutenant two months later. The one was a business success; the other, a natural born fighter and leader of men.

There is more truth than poetry in the song recently popularized, "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now." Many a man who marched away to war returned several military notches above the presi Ident of the local bank to whom he had looked up as a business and social superior. All of which goes to show that the quali ties necessary for success in military and in civil life are not the same. General Grant failed in business, yet as a military leader he had few superiors. Napoleon was almost an outcast in his boyhood days, yet he nearly dominated the world by force of arms.

It may be well to remember that real officers are born and not made. There were thousands of soldiers in the United States Army who could not read and write their own names. Such men would hardly make good officers, though as individual fighting men they might be superb. On the other hand, many a man with a university degree might be entirely incapable of leadership. Such men sometimes won commissions, yet they were not real officers. A mere eagle on the shoulder can never transform a colonel out of a "nut."

Some officers were failures simply because they were out of their element. An infantry officer must be physically above the average, and must possess a personality which inspires his men to excel. A fat officer in the Quartermaster Corps might be a failure in the line and yet be a wonder in his own field. But a mistake in adjustment was irretrievable. It was easier to get a transfer to heaven than to another branch of the service. Again the doughboy paid the penalty for the weakness of his superiors, and grumbled accordingly.

It may, after all, be agreed that the officer was an average sort of a person, possessing human faults, some personal and some springing from the rigidity of the military procedure, for which he was not at all to blame. Some day we may fight a war with the army composed of all privates-the French tried that; or we may have an army of generals, according to the Mexican fashion. In either case we may look back with a more appreciative eye to the officers of to-day.

AND THEY WONDER WHY EDITORS SEE RED Having just received The Outlook dated September 1, and on reading the article by Luther Fry on page 18 ["And They Wonder Why We're Red"] I wish to express my indignation and disgust at The Outlook for publishing such propaganda favoring the 1. W. W. This article, as I verily believe, was composed from the

AND THEY WONDER WHY EDITORS

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whole cloth in the imagination of Fry. He never met such a man and no such conversation ever took place. However, it is flimsy stuff. Why would a man go out to a lumber camp and ask for a soft job? Lumbering is the hardest kind of work. A fellow who wants a loafing job, as the I. W. W. fellows generally do, always goes where they know such jobs cannot be had. Why should the company's doctor treat a man who comes to work for the company sick before he begins? If this fellow was in the Army and in France, as he states, the Government at Washington was the proper place for him to apply, since his wounds rendered him unable to work. Truly, I am surprised that The Outlook will print such stuff.

This article will do much good to incite I. W. W.'s to make trouble. The "intrepid lumberjack" does no harder work than the fireman in the depth of the steamship. Scrubwomen do as hard work as he does. The farmer works without limit of time and at all times at the hardest kind of work. One would think The Outlook sympathizes with Victor Berger and the five AssemblyImen in New York. I am truly puzzled at The Outlook. WILLIAM W. WELCH. Paterson, New Jersey.

THE SHOP HAND AND THE FARM HAND

In all the enlightening discussion that has gone on in the various publications, The Outlook included, it seems to the writer that some things have been quite forgotten or overlooked. Men who are frantically endeavoring to keep up with the amazing speed of the high cost of living seem to think that the higher the wages, the more easily can one keep his head above water, forgetting that there are other elements to be considered, and that conditions and environment count for much. First, let us look for a moment at the shop hand. His work is always under cover. He is protected from sun and storm. There are ventilation and fresh-air appliances. Sometimes cool waters run through his place of work. In winter the shop is kept warm. It is sanitary. Often he remains for many hours at the bench or machine, hardly changing his position, or he sits and watches his machine, carefully adjusting it, oiling it, caring for its production. He has his eye upon the clock. He rings in and rings out. There is much monotony, little sociability. Seldom is he in close contact with the "old man,' as he designates his employer. His foreman, too, is often more or less a stranger to him. He is never supposed to be invited to the home of his employer; never takes a meal with him, cares nothing for him; has no special interest in what is going on more than to get his wage. Nor is he always very eager to earn what is paid him. After le rings out at night he leaves all his pares, so far as his work is concerned, and goes home, quite frequently to his rented Biome. After his evening meal he goes out on the street with the boys, attends the novies or the card table, or strolls here nd there. If he has an auto (and now nost of the shop men have them), he goes or a drive. He spends little time at ome with his family. As a rule, he does ot read much. He is too weary or aborbed in other things. No matter how

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high his wages, he usually spends all he makes to the last dollar. These things are true, not only of the machinist, but of the bookkeeper, the clerk. Many of the latter are young people away from home. They rent a room, get their meals when and where they can, often living on two meals a day. They dress well, often better than their employers. They spend money freely for all they desire-tobacco, candy, soft drinks, the movies. The doctor finds his largest practice among these people. Many of them are buying homes on the installment plan, buying autos on the installment plan, buying their clothing and furniture on the installment plan.

The man in the shop is working forever with things-dead things, things controlled by mechanical laws. His machine is never responsive to his perplexities or his heartache. Some of these men attend night schools and are pushing on, with an eye to promotion and more money. Many, very many, are unmarried men.

With the farm hand, or the "hired man," all these things are very differ ent, widely different. He works by the month. He is supposed to rest or do lighter work about the barn or house when it rains. He loses no time. He is in the open, under the blue skies or clouded skies. He gets the fresh breeze. Of course sometimes it is very warm; at other times it is biting cold. Sometimes there is mud, at other times dust. He tramps over the soft earth. He handles various tools, never confined to one for any length of time. It is mower, or reaper, or plow, or fork, or rake, or potato digger. He is in close contact with life-growing, beautiful, and interesting life. The birds sing for him, the flowers bloom for him, the sunset and sunrise glories are for him. The freshest fruits and best vegetables are for him. He is acquainted with his "boss." He sleeps under the same roof and eats at the table with the farmer's family. He is one of that family, and often a very welcome one. He does not ring in in the morn ing and ring out at night. He does not watch the clock. He can but have some keen interest in what he is doing. He grows anxious about what he has helped to plant and cares for the ripened crops. He is on familiar terms with "Tom and Jerry," the team he drives, and with "Old Bess and Molly," the cows he milks. The sprightly pigs and the skipping lambs are a source of delight to him. He develops a real fondness for " Fido," the dog, and Brindle," the cat. He plays with the farmer's children, and finds in the farmer's wife a real motherly soul, interested in him. When night comes, he sits with the family and reads the paper or talks on agriculture and current events. It is not uncommon to find on the farmer's table the best of farm journals, best daily papers, and such peri odicals as The Outlook. These the hired

can enjoy freely. When Sunday morning comes, the hired man is invited ride to the little country church with the family, and may enjoy as good a sermon as he would or could in the city. This is not always true, but sometimes it is true. Last year the following circumstances came under the writer's observation. They are well worth pondering, for they have probably been repeated in many commu

There was a farmer who needed help. He had a good tenant house. He gave a man from the city the use of, that house,

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fine garden of half an acre, the use of one of the best cows, and a pen for a pig. That house in the city would rent for $25 per month. That cow was worth to that man's family $100 a That pig, when year. fattened, could have been sold for at least $60. The farmer paid the man and his son, a boy about eighteen years of age, each $60 a month, or $1,440 for the year, besides all the garden, cow, and pig, which latter the hired man kept at his own cost. The cow was fed by the farmer. At the end of the year that hired man had saved the first hundred dollars in all his life. He was not satisfied. About six months ago he left the farm, came to the city, rented a house at $30 per month. He had to pay for moving, has no garden, no cow, no pig. After six months he has spent the $100 and is now deeply in debt, and yet he and his son have each averaged not less than $5 a day since coming back to the city. Why is this? The trouble is not hard to find. While this man and his son have really earned more cash in the last six months than they did in the preceding twelve months, their expenses have gone far ahead of their earnings. Now they pay 65 cents for butter, $4 a bushel for potatoes, 14 cents a quart for milk. Their clothing is much more expensive; they go with the crowd to the movies. The doctor calls frequently at the rate of $3 per call in daylight and $5 a call at night. Meat for that family is no small item. There is often lost time. Yet the lure of the city has been so powerful and that rushing life so potent to draw that this family, like tens of thousands of others, are in the swim. The farmers are heroically struggling and offering really more in one form or another of compensation to workers, but their call is unheard or unheeded. Some time, in some way, the eyes of the masses will be opened. C. W. STEPHENSON.

Lansing, Michigan.

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I am by profession a music teacher, and have pupils of all nations and classes come to my studio. About a year ago a young woman came who happened to be a native of Tipperary, Ireland. She was a member of the peasant class of the most self-respecting kind.

She had been to the parochial school at home, and had a fair common-school education. In the course of conversation (without the least idea of quizzing on my part) I gradually found this person to be absolutely uninformed about some facts of political geography. Her ignorance to me seemed incomprehensible almost. To sum it up, I found she had no idea of the extent of the British Empire. She had not even heard of India, Australia, or New Zealand. She had no idea Scotland and England were under the same Government, and asked, "Where is Wales?" "I've met people," said she, "who said they were British and that they came from Wales, and I wondered where Wales might be."

Now to what extent does such ignorance exist among the mass of the Irish people? If such ignorance is general, one need not be surprised at many things. It has occurred to me that perhaps they never even heard of the German invasion of Belgium or the massacre of the Armenians. A. W.

White Plains, New York.

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