. St. Nicholas [serial] . settledown to the work ofrebuilding; for Ger-many, because doubt ismore distressing thaneven a quite unpleasantcertainty. For these reasons,we very sincerely wishsuccess to every endeavor to reach some hardand fast decision on every point at issue. A QUEEN WHO WORKS AND SMILES There was a good story in the newspapersabout Queen Marie of Rumania. Her country,wrecked by German invasion, needs—amongmany things—railroad locomotives. American,French, and British agents went to Bucharestto try to sell them, but they did not care toopen a charge account. They wanted cash. Th
. St. Nicholas [serial] . settledown to the work ofrebuilding; for Ger-many, because doubt ismore distressing thaneven a quite unpleasantcertainty. For these reasons,we very sincerely wishsuccess to every endeavor to reach some hardand fast decision on every point at issue. A QUEEN WHO WORKS AND SMILES There was a good story in the newspapersabout Queen Marie of Rumania. Her country,wrecked by German invasion, needs—amongmany things—railroad locomotives. American,French, and British agents went to Bucharestto try to sell them, but they did not care toopen a charge account. They wanted cash. The Queen had an interview with one ofthe Americans. She told him some thingsabout the resources of Rumania and the spirit 1920.] THE WATCH TOWER 945 of the people that interested him. Finally, bythe force of her own faith, she persuaded himto supply the rolling slock, payment to be madein Rumanian Government bonds. Faith is con-tagious. Queen Marie knows her people. She de-votes her time, strength, and fortune to their. Wide World Photos QUEEN MARIE OF RUMANIA AT THE OPENING OF THE RED CROSSORPHANAGE AT BUCHAREST service. She is a hard worker, and a goodbusiness woman. She is also an author. The photograph reproduced in this numberof The Watch Tower shows RumaniasQueen in a characteristic pose. She has beena great Red Cross worker, and put off her visitto the United States to be present at the open-ing of the American Red Cross Orphanage inBucharest. If all the kings and queens had been like theRumanian Queen, the cost of living in Amer-ica to-day might not have been quite so high. THROUGH THE WATCH TOWERSTELESCOPE Mail carriage charges, now paid to vessels offoreign registration, make quite an argumentin favor of the development of an Americanmerchant marine. We pay more than threemillion dollars a year to have mail carriedacross the ocean, and five sixths of this goes,it is said, to foreign ship-owners. Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose service asassistant secretary of the navy
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