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FhiUdrlpMi. M.nJsy, Apnl 11, 19U
THE LAST WEEK
SO FAR In the wnrAmcrleans have glM'n
leant of nil for tlj'e protection of Amer
ica. To hold back the Germans the English
hav given their lives, their fortunes, their
homes, their places In society, till their
leisure and almost nil their comforts. The
French liavo given virtually their nil. And
yet. for somo Inexplicable reason, people
who are naked to subscribe for the third
Liberty Loan seem to feel that they are
nuked to do somo special service for the
Government or for the soldiers.
They are being asked, as ti matter of fact,
t Invest their money I" the safest se
curities on earth and to benefit doubly
tit the-same timo by protecting tlulr own
homes, their own children, their own
womenfolk and their own futuic.
England, France, Italy and even Russia
havo sacrificed without stint to save the
world and, incidentally, America. Amci
'(jeans are asked only to save.
Those who let the last week of the loan
go by without Investing every available
dollar aro not slackers merel. They nre
&ols.
Speaking of Liberty Bonds, the Gentian
do not ask for your money. You have to liana
It to them, as the phrase goes.
PATTEXESQUE PESSIMISM
PROFESSOR rATTKN. distinguished
economist, is looking at tlio world
through blue glasses when lie talks of the I
decline of agriculture and the poorness or
land in America. Agriculture today has a
brighter future than any other industry.
Its products are constantly In demand and
tho prices for them, are constantly going
up. "When the tractor Is perfected the cost
of cultivation will bo reduced and tho
niargln of profit enlarged. All these things
tend to attract young men to the land and
to hold on the farms the young men born
there.
JVYo have land enough to feed ten times
our population. It is better than the land
of Germany, but the Germans raise much
larger crops than we. The agricultural
colleges nnd the Department of Agriculture
ire teaching tho old farmers and their
Children how to Increase their crops. Tho
" corn and potato clubs and tho canning
clubs havo demonstrated possibilities of
profit undreamed of. What we aro likely
fo seo Is smaller farm more thoroughly
tilled with tho resultant increase In the
supply of food. And the demand for food
will Increase so rapidly that there Is no
immediate danger of an era of unprofitable
prices. Farming Is all right, and so long
as wo must cat It will continue to uttract
men who wish to be Independent.
It seems about ns easy for tho Germans
to get past tho Allied lines as It Is for a
l'hlfadelphtan to get a. good theatre scat at
tho box olfice.
THE MUCKRAKE IN GRAND OPERA
OF COURSE there will bo pained ideal
ists of art to mourn and snuffle over
ttfe news that twenty singers arraigned
la enemy aliens 'have been released un
ceremoniously from the Metropolitan
.Opera Company. It will bo said that tho
country Is losing its balance and permit
ting Its prejudices to hinder culture. To
those who aren't more deveted to art
than to patriotism, however, the elenn-up
)n the Metropolitan Company wouldn't bo
even Interesting but for the fact that it
Is being helped along by Boston, which
at last has taken its consciousness oft the
Ice. ,
The Incident Is naturally reminiscent
of Muck, whom Boston mourned and pray
ed over in the days of travail preceding
his internment. The logic of the matter is
simple. An enemy alien in a position of
prestige is an irritation. "Wo Just do not
like it. And there has been a suspicion that
onle of the artists in tho Metropolitan
Opera Company have used their voices for
other purposes than those of song. In this
hey followed the examplo of Doctor Muck.
Srt. after all. Is a matter of the heart and
pirlt, and there has been little in Doctor
Muck's career to indicate that he could
iodst much of either. Similarly tho Metro-
" ti.,n tni-ora ran bo snared without
danger of heartbreak in tho audiences.
The Kaiser has not 't threatened tho
Zulys and the Eskimos.
WHERE AN EMBARGO-IS NEEDED
EXPORTS of news print raper have in
creased nearly 60 F?r cent since the
W- began. Production has been affected
h? !bor shortage and the Ajjierlcari- news
papers have had to reduce their s fie be
eue of paper shqrtage. The. demand of
Ut American Newspaper Pubitsher' As
notation that export of paper 'should bo
WjkSden la natural ii& reasonable, under
the ctrcumstanoes, Even H the paper.were
Sjfav needed at home, the apaioccupled by
' ;t In ahlps could be better used for food
t .".. miinitinns. Indeed, there has been
liV fiklkc of putting an embargo on the ship-
a&Ri . .. l -.1.1. . .iii.t. .. M,t iin.iiiMaii,
it oi everyiiiuin wvu ."
ry to the conduct or. tne war.
jtla-ftH tjwt much of the paper sent
m la ul by periodicals not in sym-
h th purpose of tho hnteite
Of America
H3EdBE3y2
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BIG BRAINS NOT NECES
SARILY IJAD
fPHE American people is Roing to
school. Its mind ia stretching to com
prehend tho wonders thnt arc bcinc;
forced upon its nttcntion. War is having
its broadening effect, for we cannot con
template the great issues involved in u
life and death struggle without thinking
ubottt the leally fundamental things.
What is the place of America in the
world? Are we ready to fill the plncc
into which events nre forcing us? Or
are we inclined to drift nnd let others
do tho steering? Do we understnnd thnt
we must utilize all the ability thnt cnti
bo found in business men as well as in
politicians? Or nre we to sink hack
when peace comes into the old habit of
bniting every man who has n broad vision
of commerce nnd industry nnd attempts
to irnllze it?
Most of us know now, even if wc did
not know it when Roosevelt years ago
told us, thnt America must fill a big
place in the world and that wo must de
cide whether we would fill it nobly or
ignobly. When he snid this there were
men who laughed nt him. But we know
now that he wns right. Wc hnve begun
to call to the help of tho Government
the mnnagcrs of big business of the
same type ns those who a few years ngo
were hounded ns "malefactors of great
wealth" by this same Roosevelt.
If we were to do the things that needed
to be done we discovered that we must
get tho assistance of men who, in spite
of the efforts of the Government to ob
struct them, have succeeded in develop
ing gtcat industries.. Stettinius tind
Da' 'son, connected with tho Morgan
banking firm, arc now in the Govern
ment service. Yet there was n time when
the demagogues frothed nt the mouth
whenever tho name of Morgan was men
tioned. Sehwnb. who hns built up a great
steel mill, has been denounced as one of
the trust magnates, and Ryan hns been
charged by n congressional investigat
ing committee with being n monopolist.
Doth these men nre rich und they hnve
made their fortunes by building up an
industry. Wc have been told that they
have succeeded by exploiting the coun
try. Hut we cannot get nlong without
the kind of brains that glow in their
heads now that we nre confronted with
an organized system of savagery seeking
to rule the world.
And it is equally true that wc cannot
get along without them when pence
comes. Fortunntely big business has
learned something in recent years. But
it has learned its lesson faster than the
people at large have learned theirs. It
hns discovered that the public hns lights
that must be respected. But save for its
need of the leaders in this crisis the
Government itself that is, tho politi
cians do not seem to have discovered
that if America is to hold its own in the
great commercial rivalry that is to come
when the work of rehabilitation begins
it must still depend on the Schwabs and
the Rjns and the Stettiniuses, and that
we must follow their lead and do all in
our power to develop other men of the
same kind.
Mr. Vauclain, himself u repiesentntive
of big business, marked the path for us
to tread when he told the National Com
mittee of the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers the other evening that
they ought to suppott in the next presi
dential election the man who has the
capacity and understanding to suppoit
big business and will devote at least one
half of his time to establishing great
industries here.
We must turn our backs on the Brynn
esque notion that it is a crime for a
man to do a hundred million dollars'
worth of business a year. We must
abandon the attempt to restrict and must
engage with our whole strength in tho
effort to expand every old industry and
to create new ones. And we must hold
out adequate hope of reward to the men
who can do great things in a great way.
But this cannot be done unless those
who sec its importance begin now to
educate public opinipn. There is bound
to be a tidal wave of socialism sweeping
over the whole world when the fighting
censes, nnd unless we begin now to build
dykes we shall be inundated. The great
war fortunes made and made legitimately
will be cited by the socialists ns proof
that our economic system is all wrong.
They are already agitating. But the un
selfish patriotism of the great industrial
leaders is having a beneficent effect on
popular thinking. If the people can
have the lessons of the present so firmly
impressed on their memory that they
will not forget them the future is safe.
Vlirn the potato a most fxprnho the
public walled for it Now that It In relatively
cheap the food administration must plead
fur its consumption. Puch Is life.
ARMIES WITH MANNERS
WOMEN" nnd children marching In mile
long ranks In the cause of war pre
sent a sight that Is at once beautiful and
terrible In tho things It implies. Women
have most to fear from war. Tho pain
that can ensue Is not a matter of an
agonized minute. It can fill the years. Re
cent demonstrations In tho streets of
Philadelphia wJH be unforgettable. Women
inarched In thousands with their eyes up
and they brought their children to shaio
tho roadway with the ranks of 'lighting
men. But to understnnd the true difficulty
of their ancient role In war It is necessary
to a.k what they do when they are alone.
Do they lift empty nnd passionate hands
to tho sky where their children of a few
j ears ago are gone winging it? Or stand
in' spirit on windy docks where the trans
ports go out? Or wake at night to fly In
Imagination over half a world to listen
for ono voice in the wilderness of noise?
They never tell, being proud of heart,' But
when they walked by It seemed that the
soul of the nation had passed armored In
Its faith, summoned upon a high mission
to the ends of the earth under shining
banners revealed mysteriously to their
eyes alone. They know! The cry of the
little and of tho weak has called them out
whose primal office Is pity nnd the care
ot Ufe'
ti the American Inverttor for a gun that
will khoot around the world and he probably
will Be it to you.
JAPAN IN SIBERIA
THOS13 who suggested that the recent
resignation of Viscount Motntio, the
Japanese foreign minister, was duo to his
having espoused the aggressive policies of
the militarist patty, were apparently in
emr- TH,e full text of, Slotgno's speech
Mere the Itnptirka ,Jap4n B-let PR
f Mrab ; im femis aJ'wk4 Ut
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA,
tho foreign minister Urged tho utmost
moderation nnd sympathy In Japan's deal.
Ings, with Russia. "Wo havo not tho re
motest Idea." he said, "of looking upon
Russia ns nn enemy." And ho stated In
unmtstnkabio teims that the Japanese
Government would never adopt "hn
aggressive nnd prcdatoiy policy such ns
Gcimany has actually assumed In Euiopcan
Russia. t
.luit what political difficulties are
delineated .by Viscount Motono's resigna
tion, wo do not know; but his plain und
piesumably nuthorltatlvo statement of
Japan's sympathy with Russia In he.r
present discontents docs much to ro
nssuio those who havo been nnxlous over
tho situation, it Is truo that troops were
landed in Vladivostok on April C, hut they
wcro marines of three nations, ' Japan,
Great Ililtnln nnd tho United States. Ap
parently the Bolshevik authorities havo
shown themselves unable properly to pollco
the city. Japaneso citizens have been
killed by Russian rioters. As far back as
last January Jnpancso troops wcro landed
in Siberia to keep order, nnd thero Is no
reason to suppose that Japan is acting
under any different motives from those
that actuated our own Intervention in
Mexico two ears ago.
Viscount Motono Mild on March 20 that
Japan had made no suggestion ot sending
an expeditionary army lo Siberia. All
thnt she has dono up to tho present time
is to police the coast nnd keep order.
Tlie Varos do not even talo tho trotibl";
to iuii the police directly. They let their waul
lie, lers do it.
It was astonishing to bear a Ilrltlsh army
officer say here that mi Kiigllriunaii eat
master three Germans In a tree fight. Can it
bo that a real lighting man can only beat two
Germans at once?
Amlntv In Holland is said to lie dying
Anxietv usually dies before the people fol
low its' example with a Hun invasion.
It Is strange to con-
It lt In liennaii ulei what a world
..f difference there Is
between cutting bread and cutting rations.
Ulcht Help wl nuvc'to WOrk ut
least thirty-six hours a day.
The tnnl: thnt goes by
l'iil.
gasoline Is ns popular
and useful In this war
ss the other sort Ifn't
BEEl IRON AND WINE
Declaration of Hundepcndencc
( ts iiffcrco of the Kaiser)
w;r
HEN In tho courso ot inhuman events
becomes necessary for ono nation to
make war on the world and to assume
among the Powers of the earth its proper
urea of sunlight, n decent disrespect to tho
opinion.' of mankind requires that it should
declare the cnues that impel It to rapine.
HOLD these tuiths to be self-evi
' le
dent, that all men aro created to bo
cannon fodder, nnd that among men a
chosen people known ns Germans havo
been ei.dowed by Treltschko nnd Bern
hardl with certain unalienable rights, such
ns Life. Military Training and tho pursuit
of other people's llappli ess. To securo
theso rights, German armies nio Insti
tuted, deriving their powers from n long
course of physical and spiritual drilling
nnd a ruthless willingness to trnmplo upon
the weak. Tho known rule of German
warfare is an undistinguished destruction
of nil ares, sexes nnd conditions.
A SMALL nation has no right to exist:
It Is a gross affront to Its larger neigh
bors. Insolently Implying that a country
may bo small and yet happy.
NOR has a largo nation ' any rlsht to
csist. it it is larger than tho German
empire.
FOR the support of this declaration We,
William of Hohenzollcrn, do pledge tho
lives and fortunes of our cubjeets nnd our
own dishonor.
Every one knows tho British Tommj's
genius for adapting French and Flemish
names to his own nimble tongue. Ho calls
Ploegsteert "Plug Street," and Vlllcrs
Cotterets "Veal Cutlets." But Philip Glbbs
tells us a new one: Gocdesversvelde be
comes "Gerty Wears Velvet."
Good luck to Gerty (who lives near
Poperlnghe), nnd mny she eontlnuo to wear
velvet ot tho British color!
Doo Dulcet's plan for tho Ideal arrange
ment of nn Icebox was so successful that
ho submits n blue-pilnt showing tho wa
his prhato strongbox Is laid out:
Llfo Insurance
Mort.i?ft on homo
In Ubc-slty. N. J.
Fire Insurance
Baby's birth
certificate
UNSOLD
MANUSCRIPTS
LIBERTY
BONDS
OOOOOO
six lumps of
coal, left over
from last winter
Almost every day we read In the papeis
of the arrest of sorno fake military officer,
who wore an uimy uniform because he
wanted to engineer some uitle flim-flam
of his own.
Can't our Ingenious Government devise a
way of making it impossible for torn, dick
nnd harry to walk into a tailor's shop and
buy any kind of military regalia that ap
peals to them? It seems co us that the
uniform, of Uncle Sam might in some way
be protected against this most despicable
fraud.
The kind of salute we would suggest for
tho young man in New York who bought
and wore a uniform because "he liked to
be saluted" would be very short and swift
and would have gunpowder behind It.
Loud Appluii6c
Consider the self-restraint of tho art
editor who runs (on the last page of this
Issue) a photo of two soldiers, one six feet
nine, the other four feej. eleven, without
captioning It "Mutt and Jeff."
Speaking of the alumni of those fortresses
$n 8L Petirsburg. why JlUn't we think to
call thcra Petrografluates'
iOORATPS.
"1 i
BOAR HUNTING
BY PACIFISTS
The folioiclno inter ioiii i iiirnihrr o the
reconstruction .til of the tijclctu Prlcmfs
In 1'rancc tcps written from Herutl:c-lc'
llnlns bj o t)irnfr of the tnift ioiii fi(
cfljv
T' HL'Hi: Is a regularity of rnutliu which
calms tho spirit nnd quids tho nerves.
Uut sometimes we have our excitements
despite tho pacific character of our wirk.
For Instance, the wild honrs of tho adjoin
ing forest I Sermnlzo Is situated upon tho
edgo of quite a large forest Foret des Trols
Fontaines, in tills, for It Is not under
strict enro nnd hns -grown up Into some
whnt of n Junrle, wild creatures abound
deer, a few wolves nnd especially wild hoars.
In tho case of the Intter. their Incrcnso
hns been so grent that they have become
a regular nulsnnco nnd hardship tq the
farmers. Before the war the peasnnts wcro
allowed to shoot the "cochons Ningulnnalrcs'-'
down, but since the outbrenk of the war
nil firearms have been taken nwny, so that
the boars hnve been permitted to go unre
strained. The result Is that they have multi
plied with grent speed and do considerable
damage by rooting large holes In a wheat
field or field of any grain crop. Last week
1 went with another jouth to cut one man's
crop. The renper wns embarrassed several
times with these big holes yawning ahead,
it made cutting quite dlfllcult. The poor
farmer was nlmost beside himself with rage.
Evg
ER so often n commune or vlllago or
ganizes a hunt ns Sabbath entertain
ment and for mutual preservation. Not
wishlnr to miss mo thing, we. of course,
volunteered to beat the bush nnd slay the
wild boar. The hunt begins In tho very
caily morning, with the hope of surprising
some beast at his depredations, and continues
through tho d-iy until one or several lenrs
ore slain. Wo met nt the plaro agreid
upon with weapons of various Kinds and
proceeded to hunt the boar
It was a motley irew about fen grlzzh
old men, each one wearing some sort of well
chewed mustache, after the manner of the
French : cneh w Itli n rea sash about thi
waist, after the inaivu-r of the countr; .
And each with a different Instrument of
torture, v One old ehroilio had a spear.headd
staff; another bad half of a scythe-blade,
well shaipened nnd held In n stout oaken
handle: another, had an ax looking some
what like a bnttleav : another carried a
most wicked looking nnord. And so It vent
up to tho Mayor, who was the only man
on u horse mid the only man with a gun
ti is v'cry easy to shoot members of the parly
If too many guns g.i along, because you
can readily sec that most nny one, w itb a
slight rustling of the leaves, might be taken
for a wild boar, n'est-ce pas?
THE hunt commenced hi fine stjle A
great hullabaloo wns set up. W snrend
ourselves out in the fimllke formation In the
hopo of frlghtcnl-ig the bentn to the np
of a triangle nnd then by forming a cm lc
we might bv chance slay tho prev. The
night vi ns fine but moonless. About five
of the party carried Hare ttirches, cmisi-t-Ing
of a huge tin soldered on the end of n
stick packed with rags and snaked with
petrol (kerosene). As luck would have II
we saw- nothing ilurlnr the first hour ami
by the end of the second hour wp had
worked well Into the forest from a damage d
field. We met an old deserted farm house,
after following Innumerable little paths inn.
niug hither, thither nnd oi and also after
an abundance of shooting and thrashing
nbout. You should hav- been present to
have seen with jour own eyes the. wild,
fantastic piituio that we made. Tn the
center of an old dealing was this deserted
house mire of a woodcutter's home than
a faimerV. It had fared badly, however,
for with the desertion of the owner decav
set in, crumbling the walls nnd sagging
tho Hwavbiuk roof ot the Teau-to shed. Uut
tho Germans had probably been thete, too.
for chaned rafter ends stuck out like snags
from the walls. Great holes all jagged and
roughly torn jawned like so many open
wounds in tho walls. Light nil of this up
with tho glare of the torches, making the
whole place lesound with clash of 1'rench
patois nnd Kngllsh carousing: throw In the
rattle of weapons and the nervous champing
of ixclted horses. A little to one side the
leaders of the party foimed a furtive chile
consulting, at high tension, tho progress of
the hunt. They looked Inrteea, like a hand
ful of brigands. With their gesticulations
they managed to crowd some pieces of dry
bread Into one cheek nnd stale cheese Into
tho other. Shortly the signal wus given
for another start. The Mayor leaped upon
his horse, sunk his spurs Into the shies of
the poor beast, which plunged forwnul like
a rabbit with leaps ami hounds, to disappear
In no lime down a wood load. Hon- the
rider mnnnged to escape a fall or hou the
steed picked a suie footing thiough the
night I cannot guess. Uut somehow- all
went well. The whole crowd flung thmn-V
selves alter the leader with renewed vigor
nnd determination to find tho boar nnd Mnv
It. To bo sure, fortunatus magnus, no
sooner had we spread ourselves out In the
agreed formation than those on the extreme
left set up an extra loud and raucous tiy.
Bvery omi knew that they had espied an
animal. The shrill ry of "cochons! o !
cochons!" made It doubly clear. Then fol
lowed a chase for those at tlio other end of
tho fan to rus.li round rnd head off the
beast, I was about the center, so did not
have so far to chase.
I
i i a very risisj inaiicr to corner n Hoar.
for they then grow- quite dangerous
Naturally tney nre quite shy and aro vciy
seldom seen bv men. But when cornered
they quickly show fight. Their tusks, tno,
Incrcn-e the danger, curves n.s they ale.'
for with them they slash their victims,
preferably In the stomach, Jerking the head
up and out with a wicked, savoge cut.
Then. too. they are exceedingly quick, dash
ing about with lightning rapidity. Their
usual practice is to charge, nlming to hit a
man, for Instance, about hip high or a
little above. Thp best mctnoa of protection
is to stand ground until the boar charges,
then step aside quickly and deliver a blow
In pas-sing. Fortunately, one of the Void
timers received the first attack Acting as n
regular matador, he dealt the pig a bad blow
in the neck, so that flying blood was added
to tho scene. The Mayor, however, from Ids
horse's back had the advantage and soon laid
tho beast to lest with a couple of wclkahned
shots. Whereupon, two of the stoutest
pinned front nnd hind legs together with
cleverly cut sticks and flung the brute on
the horse's back. The return Jouiuey was
almost an orgy of the chase. The horse
prancing ahead, the lest of the party swag
gering after the Frenchmen almost beside
themselves with glee. A nne sight we made
as wo came out of the forest over the crest
of the hill down Into the village, just as
the most tardy stars weie winking u last
farewell, with the sun trying Its best to
get up, only to be pulled and tugged at by
tho earnest effort of the rosy-fingered dawn.
We shall never forget our first wild boar
hunt, n'est-ce pas?
Too True
Some of the German-language newspapers
have done all they possibly could to create
prejudice against tho Idea of teaching Ger
man In the public schools. Washington Star.
Nobody Satisfied
Humanity Is constituted so that in Mas
sachusetts theyhywl for four-cent raw cotton
and VI ginghams. We are not so rapacious
and unreasonable In Texas. We would be
perfectly satisfied with our SS-cent cotton
If we could buy cotton goods for C tents a
yard with men's shirts thrown in free,
Houston Post.
A Surfeit of Ananiatei
Another reason why the Hohenzollcrn
dynasty must be extirpated before peace is
declared is that w have all wo can do deali
In with, -purely domestic, llara andNplrnPly
can't pothmrwlth 4hejm, any Jeiwer',1 the
rln' ti?ril6 S,at Jvurit, ,
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A MINISTER WHO
STARTED SOMETHING
By Walter I'r'irhartl Eaton
T11I2 Cougiegntlonal minister In the rural
village where I live has accomplished
something this last winter niid spilng which
seems to me wen thy of tecord. Ours Is n
small town of less than 200U souls (many of
them living on scatteied and icmoto farms),
nnd In common with a good ninny other uirnl
communities it is smaller now- than It was
flftv vears ago, and very lonslderably less
active. Yet It still Iiuh the eild I'olonlal
"meeting house," whcio tho Congregational
ism worship, a fine building, which could
ciifllv hold teni times the present congicga
tkm; It has a Methodist Chinch, likewise, far
too largo for present needs; It has a Roman
Catholic church which, somewhat oddly, Is
built of wood pn the Colonial model; and,
finally. In' recent years a small Bplscopallun
chinch has been erected of stone, In the
Kngllsh style, which doesn't in the least 111
on our village street.
obviously, hole is a considerable diversion
of effort, and under modern conditions, at
least three of our clergy nr umleipald. one
, of the church buildings Is fast going to pieces
for lack ot funds to repair it. ami wo nave a
ptaetlcal object lesson of certain of the evils
that may result from denomiuatlonallsin.
ITiWAS not. however, primal lly because of
theso conditions that our voung Congicga
tlonallst minister started his experiment last
winter. It was lather In patt because. In
common with all thoughtful persons, he felt
that tho most ciylng need of tho times Is n.
fuller understanding by all men of the vital
piobltms of today and tomorrow; In part, be
cause bo came te feci a conventionality
amounting to futility In tho eustoin of mid
week "pi aver meeting." So, ns a substitute
for tho time-hallowed "praver meeting" ho
proposed to substitute a -discussion club,
whli h should meet twice u month In the
rh u nil parlors nnd discuss pro nnd con the
great Issues this war has brought home lo
men lie further proposed that this club
should, of course, be open to unvbody frum
any church or no church.
Being oung, nrdent. sincere and beloved,
be. had no trouble t all In bringing about
the change; but somo of us who in the past
in similar small communities had tried to
gather persons together for serious discussion
had our doubts whether he would assemble
more than a half-dozen persons the usual
prayer-meeting number. Uut wo reckoned
without tho changes wrought by this war lu
even tho most pcdestrlnn intelligences.
THE meetings ot this discussion club im
mediately took their firm place in the
viiinirn life, vdtb an aveiage attendance, even
during the severe winter, of between thirty
nnd forty. Tho Methodist minister and the
Kplscopal rector becamo members of tho
program committee to chooso subjects for
discussion nnd becure n leader for each meet
ing. Members of all the churches In town at
tended, and still attend, and also a few who
are membeis of no church. Gravo questions
aro threshed over in a spirit of seriousness
and, a splilt of tolerance. Pnder the guidance
.,( tho snonsor of tho Idea, wo havo been
meeting to seek the truth, wherever It may
lie, and while u few- sensitive kouIb havo
from time to time been Jolted n little by this
process, for the most putt It has proved
greatly stimulating, it has brought divergent
points ot view together, emphasized funda
mental differences sometimes, but more often
disclosed the leal superficiality of our dif
ferences, FOR each meeting a leader is selected, who
prepares a talk. After his talk the topic
Is In the hands of the gathering. Among the
topics we havo discussed are .woman suffrage,
prohibition (both because they wero Immi
nent Issues), the meaning of "democracy"
(and when forty people discuss this you
realize how In need of definition the word Is),
the "self-determination of nations," Interna
tionalism, socialism (here, ugaln. In a rural
community, there Is profound need of defi
nlt.on and understanding), universal military
training (upon which there was the clearest
split, u fundamental difference of opinion
which will probably be reflected In the coun
try at large) and most lately the league of
nitidis. '
8o far there lias neen no uiincuny m secur
ing leaders who have given earnest thought
to their subject and prepared themselves to
tho best of their resources, Nor has there
even been a meeting which lacked an Inter
ested audience with plenty of questions asked
from the Jloor itnd much animated expres
sion;, of pplnlop. A10. tWe'SMs fceen po
nBtvaltatK1 brmtg; Ho lkJ!siice -of; rartr
1918
FAITH
leal sentiments, but a fair listening to all
shades of opinion. It has been steadily n real
effort of men and women, meeting together,
to clarify their Ideas, to gain Insight and wis
dom from mutual counsel. To me It has been
extremely inspiring, a heartening contrast to
the conventional drono ot the old-time "prayer
mcet.ng,"' when n handful of the very pious
met on a Wednesday evening to swap "ex
pel fences" nbout the salvation of their petty
individual souls. Tho individual soul doesn't
matter so much as It bccnied to four veais
ago.
IT IS further Inspiring because four vcars
ago I know from experience that even It
ou could by some nilrncle iiave gathered
forty people together In our little village to
discuss socialism or a league to enforce peace
or any other grave and pressing problem of
international significance, jou could not have
i allied fuur of them for a second meeting.
This means that a group of us here and
relatively a rather large group are thinking
now. Our bialns have waked up, our vision
is denied nnd we ate looking beyond our
border Into other kinds, and Into the future
as well. If that Is true of us It must be true
of other places nil over the land, and else
wheie, too, the timo Is ilpe for discussion
clubs to rally these thlnkeis lo council for
the safety of tho futuie.
STILL again our meetings have been In
spiring to mo because they have meant a
recognition by tho Christian church of Its duty
to shape incnts minds toward the realization
of a better world, meaning this world and
not the ne.xt ; and In tills process all denom
Inatlonallsm has naturally disappeared. We
nre all working together as one body to get at
tho trutli and make up our minds what It Is
wc must do, what It is we must desire. If tho
futuie Is to bo saved from tho wreck of the
present.
Our llttls minister Is abroad to enlist, but
his discussion club Is not going to stop. He
has "started something," as the doctor says,
nnd It Is going on. When people are once
Intellectually nwnkciud they do not easily
go to sleep again.
THE FLOWERING
Tho land Is like a garden with a blossoming
ot boys.
All across a continent, from tho wide At
lantic's booming,
To the hoarse Pacific breakers, shouting deep
triumphant noise;
All across a thousand prairies; from tho
Rocky Mountains' looming;
From the farms and from tho cities, out of
villages like toys
Pour the boys !
Everywhere oh. my country, everywhere
The (lower of America has sprung to sud
den blooming.
Steady flowing, never-ending, never heeding
rank or races.
Lager faces set and sober, toward the cloud
of battle lowering
Hear Hie swinging of battalions, see the
young, unfearlng faces.
Thousands upon ciowdlng thousands, Iron
muscles, steady faces.
Out of snows and out ot bayous, out of
fields nnd cities towering,
Rich and poor,. from lordly mansions, out of
tiny homes like toys
Stream the boy-B I
Everywhere oh, my country, everywhere
The harvest of the land we love has ripened
to Its flowering.
For the God of Hosts has lifted up our soul
to be a nation ;
Ho has silenced them who doubted that we
knew his trumpet voice ;
He has set us on a mountain top to suffer
for salvation.
Has crowned us and has cleaned us with suf
fering and salvation.
And to answer If our hearts are fixed on
riches and on toys
Lord, the boys!
Not for gain Ood Almighty, not for gaining
We are offering our flowering for a bulwark
to creation-
Lord our boysl
.V-Mary Raymond, SUIpman Andrews,
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OUR OWN CIRCUS PARADE
IT'S A dull day lu Philadelphia that lias
no parade. And speaking of circus
parades, we've been laying out a line of
match fjir one ot our own. This Is the
schedule:
MAYOR SMITH
with magnifying glass, looking tor vice
resoits.
Director Wilson
with smoke bairage.
Liberty Bond Slackers
In chains.
Garabed GIragosslan,
Liberating un ounce of "fiee energy "
Amateur strategist".
too busy over their maps to send tobacco
to ll a soldiers.
Frails who write sob letters to the boys at
the camps.
Tho people who kick about the weatlier
Tho Weather- Man
Amateur wilters of patriotic vcrtes.
Uoll top patriots.
who say that the bravest thing Is stajins
at' home with tho garden.
Bevy of street-cleaning contractors, looking
humble, and virtuous
Teople who worry so much about the Irish
Republic they have no time to buy
bonds.
Suburban diplomats
who think Austria can be "detached"
tho Central Powers.
from
insincere husbands,
who sav in the safety of the smoker, "My
wlfo always does Just what I tell her to.
Teople who Invent the ground glass fables.
The Goddess of Pathos,
represented by an empty coal bin
People who sign pledges for Liberty Bonos,
and then don't come ncros. '
People.
More people.
Newspaper humorists, muzzled and shackled.
SOCRATCS.
Sufferers Hit
They are proposing a meatless week l
France during which time only horse fiesn
may be eaten. And thero are a bunch ot
mutts In this country who think they are
carrying the entire burden of the war ' vyhen
they eat about half of a corn dodger in
whole week. Houston Post.
Yts. When?
"There Is nothing said when rents r
lowered." says a real estate agem ....
i bite. When are they lowerec,' "
were they lowered? ueaoniB .-
What Do You Know? J
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7. Who was HectorT
8. What U the. flulf Stream?
0. Who was SlollereT
10. Who is Auten Chamberlain?
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