DURAND STEEL LOCKERS ON THE FEAR OF DEATH FROM TWO PHYSICIANS I It is as natural to die as it is to be born. Some years ago my family physician went with me to the city to consult a specialist. After a thorough examination the specialist informed us that my case was hopeless. He gave me three-possibly six-months to live. I went to the North Woods to enjoy what time was left me, but up there met another invalid who induced me to go to Dr. Trudeau. In Dr. Trudeau I found a friend who understood men. He made certain I had at least hope to work on, and told me that if I would do exactly as he advised I had a chance to recover. For a time, however, it looked as though hope was vain. I failed until I was so low that the attending physician-one of the very best-gave me up with but "a few hours to live." Then I remembered what my family doctor had told me about death, and I knew he was right. I was at peace. Nothing in the universe mattered. Slowly coming back to life and health up there in the woods, sleeping under the SOME people are blocking stars, communing with nature where the prosperity by holding up orders in hope of a drop in prices. If we all did that, business would be at a standstill. Professor Irving Fisher of Yale says "We are on a permanently high price level. 99 Patriotic, far-sighted business men are going ahead. Business has got to be good to meet war taxes, to give jobs to returning soldiers, and to create prosperity. Buy wisely; but buy what you need. Write us of your particular needs regarding steel lockers, or steel racks. Catalogue of either on application. DURAND STEEL LOCKER CO. 1573 Ft. Dearborn Bk. Bldg. 973 Vanderbilt Bldg. Chicago New York hand of man has never defiled it, one does a lot of thinking, and gets near to God. With no sense of "religion" as meant in the old orthodox way, I determined that while I made my stay there I would make a place where those too far advanced to be admitted to the established sanatoriums might receive the nursing and professional care they need at the least possible cost to them. During four years of this experience I was in intimate contact with death. With the exception of a very few who had been trained to believe that certain church rites were essential to admission into the next world and the absence of those rites meant infinite disaster, I never met man or woman whose last hour prompted any special preparation, nor have I ever met a case of fear. W. C. S. HELP WANTED! apparently have no more fear of death Are you in need of a Mother's The rate is only ten cents per Department of Classified Advertising 381 Fourth Ave., New York than do professed Christians, and seems to fear that he may not have held up before his own people with sufficient vividness the horrors of hell. I am a physician and have sat beside a considerable number of death-beds; more than that, I myself have laid my hand upon the latch of death's portal and think that I know something of the feeling which animates men in their last moments. I have never seen any one about to accomplish the great change from this world to another exhibit any fear of the coming journey. I have never seen any agony or remorse upon the part of the ungodly, and I have never seen the saintly show any ecstasy of anticipation, and I have closed the eyes of both. The truth, as it seems to me, is that approaching death brings with it a merciful dulling of the emotions. While the intellect may not be clouded, the old loves, the old hates, and the old fears are stilled. The world which is fading has already become a world of the past; that which is opening claims the mind and the heart. The emotional and mental suffering of the death-bed is borne, not by the one who feels that that which he is approaching is infinitely better than that which he is leaving, but by those standing near to whom the merciful cup of oblivion has not been offered. Candor, New York. M. B. D. AMERICANIZATION OF One ounce of prevention is better than one hundred pounds of cure. The Government and private organizations are making great efforts to Americanize the immigrants. To comprehend fully that problem and the most effective manner of handling it one must know the sentiments of the foreign elements at the time of their arrival on our shores. The immigrant didn't leave the old country because he liked the conditions there too much or was too well off. He came to the United States in search of either better economic opportunities or of greater political or religious freedom. The newcomers, with a relatively few exceptions, don't feel enthusiasm for the land they left or its institutions or economic conditions, and are from the outset excellent Americanization material. All that is needed to Americanize the immigrants is prevention of organized and foreign subsidized anti-American propaganda. When the average immigrant lands on our shores, he is received by foreign-language immigration homes, nearly every one of which is subsidized by the government or semi-official organizations of its home country. These subsidized immigration homes are agencies of foreign interests. They hand the immigrant who has just passed through the immigration station a foreign-language newspaper, procure for him a position with a co-national, cause him to join one or more foreign-language societies, and, in cities, to settle in a foreign-language district. In other words, the immigrant is placed under the influence of his home country, which he disliked and left for one reason or other. By and by his sentiments undergo a change. He forgets what he had to endure in the old country, for memory glorifies the past. Day after day he is told by his neighbors and other members of the foreign-language organizations of which he is a member how fine things are "over there" and how rotten conditions are in this country. American institutions were adversely, often frivolously and insidiously criticised by nearly all the foreign-language newspapers at every opportunity before the entrance of the United States into the war, and will be attacked again in the same fashion after the repeal of the Trading with the Enemy and the Espionage Laws. This war has uncovered part of the malicious and unscrupulous German propaganda and its sinister influence upon the members of the German-American Alliance. The National German-American Alliance went out of existence, the German immigration homes suspended activities, although some Teutonic institutions of similar character are still in full swing. But the component parts of the defunct German-American Alliance continue to exist and to carry on the same old work in an underhand manner. It would be a fatal mistake to assume THE AMERICAN BOY "The Biggest, Brightest, Best Magazine YOUR boy wants "boy" reading; the kind of stories that thrill and absorb; articles that give him practical information and real pointers on boy activities. Because The American Boy has appreciated the boy viewpoint for years, it is the eagerly sought favorite of more than 500,000 splendid, normal American boys each month. The American Boy supplements home and school in starting HIM right. Give your boy this wholesome reading. 20c a copy on news-stands$2.00 a year by mail. The Sprague Pub. Co. 3 American Bldg. Detroit, Mich. Americanization of Immigrants (Continued) that only the German-American Alliance was un-American at heart. The Alliance shouted its loyalty to America from the housetops, just as other foreign-language organizations did and do. When the test came, the German-American Alliance proved most faithful to the Fatherland. The foreign-language organization is inherently loyal to the old country, and, to the same degree, disloyal to the United States. What stand would other hyphenated organizations and there are scores of them in New York City alone-irrespective of their language or nationality, take in case of a conflict of the United States with the country their members came from? It would be foolish to take their loyalty pledges unreservedly at their face value. Common language is the strongest bond of national unity. Every agency of foreign culture places foreign interests above American interests. The foreign immigration homes ought to be suppressed. The employment offices of the large immigration stations should be enlarged and their efficiency increased. The expenses would be negligible. There are only four American ports-New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimorethrough which more than ten thousand immigrants per annum passed during the prewar period of 1910-14. The annual average was: New York, 759,790; Boston, 52,474; Philadelphia, 48,547; Baltimore, 29,395 immigrants. An immigrant pays a head tax of eight dollars. Let us increase the annual appropriation for the immigration station of New York by $100,000, and for each of the immigration stations of Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore by $25,000, and do away with foreign immigration homes. The immigration service will nevertheless be a paying proposition, and the United States will save large sums that have to be spent in a nearly hopeless at tempt to Americanize immigrants. The foreign-language newspapers ought SONGS OF LIBERTY to pay a special license tax amounting to REAL Send 35c today for a postpaid "HOME COPY" THE BIGLOW & MAIN CO., 156 Fifth Ave., New York fifty per cent of their retail price. It is ridiculous to argue that other countries don't in any way interfere with foreignlanguage publications. These foreign-language newspapers serve either a conquered people or a negligible number of widely scattered foreigners who never will be in a position of influencing, or of attempting to influence, the policy of the country in which they live. In this country most of the millions of foreigners are colonized, they are political units as far as our foreign policy regarding their home country is concerned. They have not been conquered; they came out of their own free will; and America may justly impose on them the condition of ceasing to segregate themselves from the rest of the population. A high special license tax on foreign-language publications would do away with the political foreign-language daily, the first page of which is, to a large extent, filled with news from the old country and designed to create sympathy with the "homeland." If the foreign-subsidized immigration home and the political foreign-language daily shall disappear, the death knell will sound for foreign propaganda. For the foreign-language societies and colonies will disappear also. English is an easy language, and can be learned by the average immigrant within one year or two. This war has demonstrated the danger lurking behind foreign-subsidized institutions and means of propaganda. New York City. GUSTAVE MILLER. "We are advertised by our loving friends" Miss Cocroft is nationally recognized as authority on condi tioning women as training camps have conditioned our men MASSACHUSETTS Training for Authorship Dr. Esenwein How to write, what to write, and where to sell. Cultivate your mind. 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QUENTIN A letter has been received by a member of The Outlook staff from a woman friend who for more than two years has been the secretary in Lyons, France, of the War Relief Committee of the Needlework Guild of America. She tells of the suffering that exists in the devastated sections in France that she has recently visited, and graphically describes the conditions as she found them in St. Quentin. She says in her letter: "It is really almost too soon to make definite plans to organize a branch of the Guild there. The town is in a dreadful condition. There is not one of the houses that can be used in its actual condition. Many have been blown with mines; some have received shells; the walls are falling; all the plumbing pipes on the roofs have been taken away-the water has dripped all through the walls. It would not be safe to use those houses. The staircases are broken; the wooden railings were stolen. "We went to the churchyard. All the graves were opened; the family vaults were searched; the lead coffins stolen; the bones are there in heaps. All the stoves were taken from the houses into the streets-also in heaps-and sewing-machines, which for over two years were left to rust. In every house there are heaps of mud, of bricks. The question of cleaning the city and those ruins is one of the hardest problems. The water supply was cut-all the pipes taken; holes dug deep in the ground by shells; all the electric wires were taken. "Sheets, towels, underwear, or goods to make underwear and clothing, baby outfits, blankets or counterpanes, kitchen towels, are needed. You know that our people use heavier goods. Some unbleached muslin, if it is cheaper. Sheets can be made of two widths sewed together-34 to 3% yards long, 2% to 2 yards wide-as the bolster is always rolled in the sheet. That serves for a pillow." The writer of the letter states that hardly any sewing-machines are obtainable in France at the present time, and are greatly needed. She appeals for contributions of such articles as she has mentioned. Any one who is willing to help these poor people in St. Quentin to help themselves is asked to communicate with the War Relief Committee of the Needlework Guild of America, 160 Fifth Avenue, New York City, and any contributions sent to that address will be promptly forwarded to the Foreign Secretary of the Committee at Lyons. |