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Here evidences of good taste on the part of the architect and master painter show to the best possible advantage and are put to the best possible use, because, in hours of relaxation or preparation for gayety, the surroundings must be restful or cheerful, according to Milady's mood. There is only one finish we know of that is at once restful and cheerful,-white enamel. Restful because surroundings that satisfy the well ordered mind of absolute cleanliness and good taste are restful. Cheerful because brightness and sunniness are two of the primary results of the use of BRIDGEPORT STANDARD It will be a source of satisfaction to many master painters who have been accustomed to using the finest grades of imported enamels, to find a thoroughly adequate American-made Enamel of the very finest grade which will absolutely satisfy their most exacting clientele. "Yes, the world comes to an end every hundred years or so. People don't understand that. They look for the stars to fall and for fires to consume the earth, taking the Bible prophecies literally. But once in so often, old things pass away, the institutions that we thought were lasting, the creeds that we lived by, the laws we made to keep us, they all pass like smoke from a fire. We get a new heaven and a new earth. And we start out fresh with new institutions, new laws and creeds nearer to the mind of God. Read your histories and you will find it so. Civilization is a spiritual phenomenon, based upon the quality and character of the people who make it. But the qualities and characters of nations change as they do in the generations of men in the same family. So civilizations wear out, or they get too small, too narrow for the mighty minds and spirits of the growing people. Then they must be laid away in history and poetry as Homer folded a world away in his great epic. That is what is happening in Europe today with this war sweeping like a consuming fire through the undergrowths of her civilizations. The Europe we have known is passing. The Germany that we hate will go, too. The same thing must happen here, though an enemy's ship never reaches our shores. We have got to go and come again, or perish. We can never be what we have been after this."-Cora Harris in The Independent. A WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY BY JOHN A. HOBSON, Author of Democracy After the War, The Evolution of Modern HE enthusiastic adoption by our European statesman and publicists of President Wilson's famous declaration that the object of the war is to make the world a safe place for democracy is either a momentous act of spiritual conversion or the last word in camouflage. For while no one would dispute the genuineness of Mr. Wilson's attachment to the great ideal, the past records of most political leaders in this and other European countries bear little testimony to the vigor of their new-found faith. While it is true that the forms of political self-government inhere in the constitutions of the European Allies, as in that of the United States, the spirit of democracy has hitherto pulsed feebly through these organs. Moreover, social analysis has made it evident that political democracy is inseparable from industrial democracy, and that the complete failure of the peoples hitherto to attain the latter is chiefly responsible for the defects of the former. No thoughtful democrat can accept the shallow representation of the war as a conflict of free democracies, upon the one hand, against military despotism upon the other, or feel assurance that the mere defeat or even the destruction of the latter will in itself afford security for the attainment of his ideal. For while Prussianism stands, indeed, for the negation of democracy, is the allied power which shall defeat it entitled to the positive assertion of that name? I do not here dwell upon the obvious fact that war itself, being the operation of arbitrarily directed force, is the antithesis of democracy, and that every nation during the process of war is compelled to suspend many of its ordinary liberties. It is admitted that the help of Beelzebub must be invoked in order to expel the devil of Prussian militarism. The necessary cost of this tactic must, however, not be left out of account when we regard the war as an instrument for achieving democracy. For it can hardly be denied that a prolonged suspension of ordinary civil and political liberties, not to speak of the fetters upon economic freedom. must go some way towards establishing the habit and temper of arbitrary rule upon the one hand, of unquestioning submission on the other. In a word, war makes for a "servile state" with ever-extending areas of despotism, and the fact that peoples in the stress of the emergency accept this curtailment of their liberties does not purchase for them immunity from the practical and spiritual reactions of this servitude. They will be less able to look after their own affairs in the future in consequence of this experience. In considering the possibility of achieving democracy as the fruits of a successful war, we cannot do otherwise than approach our subject by this gate. For the practical problem will have been transformed by the experience of the war-time. I must not be taken to prejudice the issue if I insist that we must realize at the outset that the reactionary forces, the enemies of democracy, will be more strongly entrenched when the war ends than they were before, and will be more clearly conscious of the need and nature of their defenses. However the war ends, a profound sense of insecurity alike in international relations and in domestic affairs will for some time afford support to the emergency powers wielded by every government. Military force will everywhere be at hand, and the disposition to use it, so as to maintain social and industrial order, will be rife among "the authorities." The difficulty of the tasks of demobilization and of restoring the tenor of pre-war economic life must involve the long retention of many of the extraordinary powers wielded by governments. Nor is it possible to suppose that, when this early period of reconstruction is got through, the social economic structure and working of this or any other belligerent country will return to the pre-war conditions. The state, with its arbitrary or ill-checked executive powers, will be found in permanent possession of large new functions, political, social, economic. Railroads and mines, electric power, banking and insurance, chemicals and other "key industries," will either be nationalized or tightly controlled by the state, and local authorities will also possess greatly extended powers. Society, through its instrument the state, will keep an eye upon and lend a hand to "its" citizens and "its" producers from the cradle (and before) to the schoolroom, the workshop and office, right on to the grave. Collective Enterprise Here to Stay. The whole attitude of mind towards the state will have been transformed. Hitherto the balance was heavily on the side of indi |