It is the cupidity that in the misfortunes of others sees only a chance for profit.

In an offer made to its readers a prominent American magazine best expresses this attitude.

It promises prizes for the essays on "What the war means to me." To the American women Miss Ida M.Tar-bell writes: "This is her time to learn what her own country's industries can do, and to rally with all her influence to their support, urging them to make the things she wants, and pledging them her allegiance." This appeal is used in a periodical with a circulation of over a million, as an advertisement for silk hose.

I do not agree with Miss Tarbell that this is the time to rally to the support of home industries.

I do not agree with the advertiser that when in Belgium several million women and children are homeless, starving, and naked that that is the time to buy his silk hose.