me with it. 
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tain parent said ‘‘he would send his 
boy to college if he sawed wood af- 
terward for a living.’’ By which he 
meant that the boy’s mind would be 
enriched to enjoy the world in which 
he dwelt. Not all should go to ecol- 
lege. But the child that will is 
worth the sacrifice. It will not ruin 
him for the true work of the world 
if the home and school has already 
equipped him with a right attitude 
toward life. 
A Labor Creed for Every Day. 
The Presbyterian Church has es- 
tablished a department on the rela- 
tion of the Church and Labor with 
the intention of assisting the labor- 
ing man to mitigate the inequalities 
and injustices from which he suffers 
‘innocently. It is a pronounced move 
by a conservative church but is 
thoroughly in keeping with the mod- 
ern social movement. Rev. Charles 
Stelzle was engaged to take charge 
of this department and went to it 
peculiarly adapted for his labor by 
training and inclination. In _ this 
department he has been indefatiga- 
ble in the work for the social better- 
ment of the workers of society aud 
has done much to allay the unjust 
prejudice which has often existed 
against the church as an institution. 
This department has endeavored to 
interest every church in the observ- 
anee of Labor Sunday and has is- 
sued the following creed which will 
repay reading. Every social move- 
ment is a slow one, but progress is 
surely being made. 
**T believe in my job; it may not 
be a very important job, but it is 
mine. Furthermore, it is God’s job 
for me. He has a purpose in my life 
with reference to his plan for the 
world’s progress. No other fellow 
ean take my place. It isn’t a big 
place, to be sure, but for years I 
have been moulded in a_ peculiar 
way to fill a peculiar niche in the 
world’s work. I could take no other 
man’s place. He has the same claim 
as a specialist that I make for my- 
self. In the end, the man whose 
name was never heard beyond the 
house in which he lived, or in the 
shop in which he worked, may have 
a larger place than the chap whose 
name has been a household word on 
two continents. Yes, I believe in 
my job. May I be kept true to the 
task which lies before me—true to 
myself and to God who entrusted 
I believe in my fellow- 
man: He may not always agree with 
me. I’d feel sorry for him if he did, 
because I myself do not believe some 
of the things that were absolutely 
sure in my mind a dozen years ago. 
May he never lose faith in himself, 
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because if he does, he may lose faith 
in me, and that would hurt him 
hore than the former, and it would 
really hurt him more than it would 
hurt me. I believe in my country; 
I believe in it because it is made up 
of my fellow-men—and myself. I 
ean’t go back on either of us and 
be true to my ereed. If it isn’t the 
best country in the world, it is partly 
because I am not the man that I 
should be. I believe in my home; 
it isn’t a rich home. It wouldn’t 
satisfy some folks, but it contains 
jewels which cannot be purchased 
in the markets of the world. When 
I enter its secret chambers and shut 
out the world with its care, I am a 
lord. Its motto is service, its re- 
ward is love. There is no other spot 
in the world which fills its place, 
and heaven ean be only a larger 
home, with a Father who is all-wise 
and patient and tender. I believe 
in today; it is all I possess. The 
past is of value only as it can make 
the life of today fuller and freer. 
There is no assurance of tomorrow. 
I must make good today.’’ 
Bureau for the Protection of Human 
Life. 
There is strong movement on foot 
bv the American association for the 
advancement of science to obtain a 
department in Washington to con- 
serve human life. The executive 
secretary of the Committee of One 
Hundred, organized to prosecute 
the work writes: ‘‘It is as impor- 
tant as a department for agriculture 
and animal protection,’’ and with 
the secretary every one agrees. The 
Bureau is intended to make thor- 
ough study of diseases and other 
enemies of human life. ‘‘It does not 
aim to cure diseases by any one 
school of medicine, but to prevent 
disease by water purification, pure 
food, proper quarantine and by the 
spread of general information re- 
garding the causes of chronic ail- 
ments—so that less illness will ex- 
ist.’ The movement has been very 
strongly opposed by the so-called 
Christian Science organization. 
In December, 1910, in his Message 
to Congress, President William H. 
Taft proposed such a bureau. He 
wrote, ‘‘In my message of last 
year, I recommended the creation of. 
a bureau of health in which should 
be embraced all those government 
agencies outside of the War and 
Navy departments which are now di- 
rected toward the preservation of 
public health or exercise functions 
germane to that subject. I renew 
this recommendation, I greatly re- 
gret that the agitation in favor of 
this bureau has aroused a counter 
agitation against its creation on the 
grounds that the establishment of 
such a bureau is to be in the interest 
of a particular school of medicine. 
It seems to me that this assumption 
is wholly unwarranted and _ that 
those responsible for the government 
can be trusted to secure in the per- 
sonnel of the bureau the appoint- 
ment of representatives of all recog- 
nized schools of medicine and in the 
management of the bureau’ entire 
freedom from narrow prejudice in 
this regard.”’ 
The list of the committee of One 
Hundred, who have the movement in 
charge, contains the names of repre- 
sentative men and women of inter- 
national reputation such as Pres. 
Eliot, Archbishop Ireland and Felix 
Adler: This movement is one in 
which every citizen is interested and 
when the time arrives for legislative 
action there is no reason to doubt 
that our representatives will be 
found voting with the President. 
The Situation in Morocco. 
Our foreign problems are still be- 
fore us and the days of restraint, di- 
plomacy and caution are not gone in 
international affairs. The situation 
in Morocco has been acute and one 
which will cause considerable anxi- 
ety for months to come in diplomatic 
affairs. It is a cause for rejoicing 
that President Taft is not a ‘‘jingo’’ 
and that with his Peace program 
(it is intimated that Germany may 
arrange for a Peace pact with the 
United States Government) we have 
no cause for worry concerning any 
possibility of complications in Af- 
rica. Mr. Edmund F. Merriam, ed- 
itor, has made a careful study of the 
situation and in a brief paragraph 
published recently in the Watchman 
writes: 
‘Tt has doubtless been a surprise 
to most Americans that the great 
powers of Europe should twice be 
brought to the verge of a general 
European war by disputes over 
Moroceo. That territory is usually 
regarded as practically a part of the 
Desert of Sahara and as containing 
nothing worth fighting for. This 
opinion is hardly correct, for Mo- 
rocco contains, besides many other 
things, gold mines which have been 
sourees of great wealth to Spaniards 
for many years, and it has the only 
good harbor on the Atlantic coast of 
North Africa, Agadir. But it is not 
to Morocco itself nor what it con- 
tains that the concern of European 
powers as to what “becomes of the 
country is to be attributed. It is 
rather because the Morocco question 
is only a part of the far greater ques- 
tion of the partition of Africa. This 
