Slavs as a class. The traits of cold intellect are evident in the presence of spirituality and of material tendencies. The index of intellect is ever present, although its faculties may not be in action. The talents patent to the intellect alone are evident, and a mere touch by the magic wand vouchsafed by opportunity calls out such talents with ease. The blend of intellect is typical of tribal differences and a study of the four great subdivisions reveals the laws governing differences. Once we get the gist of it all we can easily read the difference of mental currents between the Wendish and the Dane, the English and Prussian, Scotch and Ukrainian, Swede and Swiss, Norwegian and Irish, German and Hindu, and so on.

SPONTANEOUS THOT WAVES

A record plays but one tune while fixed minds harp upon but one thing eternally.

A changeable mind is like an instrument out of tune-you cannot depend on either.

The man who fears competition is the man who fears to profit.

A hungry man may be quick to think but he is rather slow to work, unless it be working a game.

Man's only enemy is his own kind, an evil that turns man into devil.

ENVIRONMENT OF GEORGE

WASHINGTON

In the month of February our thought turns to the twenty-second, the day we celebrate as George Washington's birthday. We have no desire to honor Washington's memory, for his life of faithfulness and selfimposed duty continues to echo throughout the Union, but we are honor-bound to remember that era of our history and apply its lessons to the urgent requirements of our present day.

Indeed, this nation might well remind itself of the simplicity and lack of the artificial in the manner of living in the days of the original thirteen colonies. Invention being practically unknown, every home had to provide most of the necessities of life from what they could raise and their own ingenuity could create. No where was this better exemplified than at Wakefield, the birthplace of this child of destiny. It was a well-chosen plantation; the land lies as level as a table; the soil is sandy with a wonderful clay subsoil and being river-bottom land it possesses almost indestructible fertility. The temperature was much softened by the waters of the wide Potomac river, and thus the land yielded early every kind of deciduous fruit and a variety of vegetables most delicious because

of the elements so generously bestowed by nature to the soil which is really fragrant when newly turned.

In Washington's day the Virginian delighted in garden, orchard and fields of grain. In a well-regulated home, the mother-and what memories encircle that sacred word, for no where in our wanderings have we seen woman treated with the reverence as in old Virginia-was not only the head and center of the home, but the garden was her special charge and pride. It was she who discussed and selected the "square" for the vegetables, which of course underwent changes annually. The garden was laid out in squares with wellkept walks bordered with flowers and shrubs. Of course there was the summer house, covered with vines, where the robins and mocking birds build their nests, and even insects added their note of color-dancing among the blooms.

In such a home George Washington was born; can we wonder why his heart always turned to his "vine and fig tree," as he referred to it when weary of the strife of a sin-laden race? His father, Augustine, was a strong character, and instilled by example and precept that understanding of truth and principle which marked his son's life, which the nation has ever held up as an example. So in the fields, in the forest, where he rode and listened to the whisperings of the breezes

passing the crowns of the great and small trees, fording the streams with their neverceasing music as they rushed on and on over rock and pebble; watching the denizens of the woods and learning holy lessons from nature, this boy grew strong and powerful to carry the burdens that fate had flung upon his shoulders. So well did he perform his mission that we see in him an example we may as well continue to pattern after.

When commercialism gives way to agriculture, extravagance to simplicity, and waste to economy, we will again take up the broken threads of human relation and be happy; finding joy in the sight of a grassblade, and see in the gifts of nature the blessing to mankind by an Infinite Intelligence.

CULLINGS FROM SCRIBBLES

Much good thot and freedom often prove disastrous.

Self-restraint assures confidence, self-reliance, respectfulness and courage.

Is camouflage of man or of the devil, if of the latter where in the d- did he get it?

The cruelty of "foot torture" has been. prohibited in China, consequently it is our turn to indulge in tight skirts to increase the rate of accidents.

THE WHITE RACE

"For centuries the White Race has struggled to find a place to find its own. Each and every one of the various races have been born on continents of their own, and have held their own, but when the White Race evolved it found it had no home.

"It brot ingenuity and intellectual endowments that linger in all the previous races, but the Sixth Race came as a stranger by virtue of its mission and purpose. As in the case of Jesus, He found no place to lay His head, no place to call Him welcome, and He was received in a manger. The story says 'there was no room in the inn.'

"Because God is made manifest thru the white man, there was no room on this earth, so the white man took to wandering. His main trend was in a westerly direction. Western must be the trend till he finds a place of safety.

"In traveling, but still retaining conditions and environments of all the preceding races, a division was brot about and there were developed twelve distinct tribes. These differences among the tribes have grown so, they have become strangers.

"This accounts for upheavals and warsthe consequence of conditions. Endowments the white man possesses, but these in nowise protect him. It is the use of power and con