Condition of the Poor. As the weather grows cold, the need for overcoats, good shoes and warm underwear for these old men becomes acute."

It is not my intention to focus attention on any particular society, but to impress upon your mind this: If you want to bring heaven to earth, bring a spiritual situation here, where "moths cannot eat," go to the closet and pick out some castoff clothing, and send to some needy friend or organization. No! The Silent Partner will not charge to the account of Mr. Sinclair any work of this nature, but can credit so many things to his efforts to help others to help themselves that it is a burning shame he refuses to let us refer to them in detail. I know of no man, or rather set of men, in New York that is doing more good work than the Sinclair & Valentine Company organization.

Every time I hear a voice on the telephone say, "This is E. Sinclair," my mind instantly reverts to Volume II of "Heart-Throbs," the wonderful book of my Rotarian friend, Joe Chapple. And this is what you will find on page 1:

"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty, or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration and whose memory a benediction."

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ONE ON THE KNOCKER

To knock your neighbor, to find fault with your own town, to criticize your competitor, is to insult your own intelligence and to give evidence of a decayed sense of respect for the man who must listen to you and who must know that you are a swivel-tongued son of a man who knew little or he would have left you in oblivion.

NOTHING CHEAP TODAY NOTHING is cheap today. What you wear, what you eat, costs much more; and this condition cannot be changed so much by a lowering of the standards of living as it can by an application of ingenuity and intelligence to the problems of how to live as well as before.

LIBERTY

NE of the most inspiring moments in all my life was when I stood among thousands of Americans and,

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with bared temples and a throbbing heart, gazed at the lighted Statue of Liberty. My soul surged for France, and my heart bled for Germany. My eyes were wet with tears for the patriots of the Old World.

Liberty! How you stir the thoughts of dependence and gratitude in the true American's heart!

Liberty! the most beneficent gift that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

Liberty!-the one principle indispensable to the permanence of a nation, and best elucidated in the recent language of our President:

"Throughout the last two years there has come more and more into my heart the conviction that peace is going to come to the world only with liberty.

"With all due and sincere respect for those who represent other forms of government than ours, perhaps I may be permitted to say that peace cannot come so long as the destinies of men are determined by small groups who make selfish choices of their own."

Every available page in this magazine might profitably be devoted to the fostering of the thought of liberty and to the encouragement of an appreciation of the advantages of living in America—to a wholesome and wholesale propaganda designed to stop this constant complaining about our country.

As compared with Continental Europe, at the moment, I would prefer to build my home in the hollow of a tree, live on a crust of bread, and have what we all have-liberty! ᄆ

INDIVIDUAL INCENTIVE

WORK is not a hardship: it is a privilege. That is, it is a "privilege" so long as the employee saves a part of his salary. But when the employee spends all of his salary each week, the work takes on the form of slavery, in which there

is no incentive to get ahead.

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GUARANTEES SECURITY

THRIFT in youth gives the start. In middle age it loans the advantage of investment, and in old age it guarantees

HIS DOCTRINE OF SMILES

HERE is a man up in Wilkes-Barre who has a smile that cannot come off, and this is better than a smile that won't come off.

When his face is fixed in earnestness, his voice smiles. When his voice seems to show that some smiling soul is talking to him on the inside, his face is often resolute.

Joseph F. Evans never looks like a stalled hearse in a snowbank.

His smile is either on his face or in his voice—always. This inclination to smile is a characteristic that does not belie his evident downright earnestness and enthusiasm in every enterprise.

Sometimes his smiles are in his voice, and at the same time they are on his face; and this simultaneous smiling is

a scream.

Smiling is a reflection of the soul. Smirking is what a dog does when he scratches his ear.

Recently I sat in the presence of some people-members of a certain organization; and it is in the presence of such persons that it is possible to tell how much a man weighs. It was here that "Joe" Evans said things behind men's backs that established him in my mind as a real man. He is established in the hearts of his friends as surely as is the moon hung in the heavens at harvest time.

Some men whom you meet at a business-association meeting make you feel about as luxurious as you do when you are sitting on a picket fence. Evans is an exception to this class: he is an organizer.

His doctrine of smiles is best told in these few words: "Successful men can afford to smile, and successful men often do, because success did not put the smile there: the smile put success there."

CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST THE man with a daughter feels smug and secure on the question of temperance. He figures that the girl will never drink to excess, and why should he worry? But by and by the girl marries a man who does drink, and did you ever notice how chickens come home to roost?