Willie: “Yes’m. They grow up and become golf players.”
—Boston Transcript.
THE INFORMATION DESK
Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, in a letter recently made public, declared his abhorrence of war, but at the same time his belief that there are some things more abhorrent than war. One of these things would be to be robbed of the birthright of freedom, justice, safety and character. “Against any attempt of any person or group of persons, or nation or nations, to undermine or destroy these fundamentals of normal human existence and development,” he adds, “I would not only fight to defeat it, but would try to prevail upon every red-blooded liberty and humanity loving man to resist to the last degree.”
President Kilpatrick, of the School Garden Association of America, in an address at Labor Temple in New York, deprecated the general disposition to educate all children to live in the city. “It is time,” he said, “we should educate them so that they will have an opportunity to make a choice if they wish to do so.” To this end he would encourage classes in rural and household economics, and give the advantages of country living a fair show.
The trade balance of the United States for the current year seems likely to exceed a billion dollars. This is due to unusually large exports of food stuffs at high prices, and to exports of war supplies and munitions.
This year’s crops in the United States give promise of unusual abundance. The estimate is for 950,000,000 bushels of wheat, 1,300,000,000 of oats, and about three billion bushels of corn. There will probably be some reduction in the cotton crop because of the substitution of food crops for cotton in most of the cotton states. A smaller cotton crop will naturally mean better prices for that staple. So on the whole the outlook for continued prosperity in the United States is good if this country remains at peace.