12 WAR'S WAKE OF GRIME "The International Sunday School Lesson For March 16 Is "The Cities of Refuge"—Joshua 20 By William T. Ellis Great Britain and Francb, more than our favored land, underwent a ■veritable wav e of juvenile crime and moral laxity during the later years of the war. The loosening of old restraints and conventions; the ab sence of fathers and officials; the apotheosis of violence In the public mind; the concentration of public interest upon overseas problems— all these considerations have been factors in producing a condition •which is an aftcr-the-war problem. •'Even the returned soldiers them selves, men of action, do not find it easy to submit to civil law. Obviously, the war will have been won In vain if the safety of alt men and all the orderly processes of or ganized society, and the sanctity of are not now firmly estab lished in the earth. All the consid erations that led to the overthrow of the lawless Hun should now operate •to preserve us from a reign of law lessness. It is a timely lesson •the story of ancient Israel that the Sunday schools study today. Justice should have a heavy hand in dealing with offenders. With the ■Jews, as with all other Orientals, the shedding of blood meant one thing: swift and certain punishment in kind. 1 WOMEN NEED SWAMP-ROOT Thousands of women have kidney and bladder trouble and never sus- Tect it. Women's complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trou ble. or the result of kidney or blad der disease. • If the kidneys are not in a Yiealthyi condition, they may cause the other organs to become diseased.* Pain in the back, headache, loss of ambition, nervousness, are often times symptoms of kidney trouble. Don't delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-lioot, a phy sician's prescription, obtained at any drug store, may be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions. 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Undoubtedly one cause for the in crease of capital crime Is the fact that so piany murderers go unpun ished. That, too, is why lynchings have attained the proportions almost of*an epidemic. All of this is closely related to the fact that certain class-j es of. powerful criminals have* been able for yerus to defy the law with impunity. It is impossible thus to overthrow justice from her seat in one case, and then to expect her to resume her sway in another. Except law be unhindered 'always its oper ations cannot surely be counted, upon ever. America has been more sorely wounded than she now real-, ized by the men who have tampered with Justice. A sorry sight greets the eye of one who looks around him to find Jus tice. The wheels of the courts move , slowly for one who has "pull" or pelf. Prisons strangely ' open their doors for the release of sueh who may have been forced to enter them. Law is quite commonly looked upon as something to evade; lawyers draw largest fees for their skill in finding technicalities through which the plain purpose of statutes may be evaded. Even courts sometimes show an ex cess of zeal in interpreting the most rigid letter of the law. to the neglect of its spirit. Corporations pay sal aries which attract the brainiest legal talent, in order, usually, that they may defeat, in enactment or administration, legislation which con flicts with their interests. All this is one with the vast popular demon strations in behalf of a labor leader on trial for his life: and with the unrestrained utterance of others in condemnation of him before he is convicted. The Sunday school teach ers of America will be doing patriotic service if they seize this proper oc casion for laying stress upon the sanctity of law. A Bedouin's Tale Private vengeance is by no means synonymous with justice. The aveng er is seldom noted for his calm Judgment and discriminating temper That is why "Cities of Refuge" be came necessary. For family feuds, whether in Breathitt county, Ken-1 | tocky, or in Canaan, do not work out i the social well-being of the people. I They are the cause of great injustice | and terrible loss of life. , The Bast has not outgrown the ] system of privately administering ! law, of the sort that the wise Mosaic ■ legislation endeavored to overcome. | Swinging along on the backs of i dromedaries over the Libyan desert. | one daj, v ,' my Bedouin dragoman told i me a tale that Illustrates the theme | under discussion'. In brief and shorn bf its picturesque local color and the quaint speech in which Abdullah told it, the story i# this: A lad of twelve one day was in quarrel with some playmates. They taunted him Vith the fact ' that his father had been -mprdered, and that the slayer still lived. The crime had happened in the boy's infancy, and he had grown up ignorant of it. Going home, he awaited his opportunity, and when he found his mother near the fire, he suddenly grasped her and j held her face near the blase, throdt j ening to burn her unless she should | reveal the slayer of his father, j The Woman, who had kept the. se- J cret from her son. out of dred for ] the bloody feud, was forced to name i th c murderer, a prominent citizen of |'the'; next village. The boy went to the village, having first borrowed a neighbor's gun, and having found the fhan ho sought sitting among the village elders, he approached him with th e words. "You killed my ! father: I am going to kill you." This he did straightway. Thereupon "the elders held a conference and decided that the blood debt was due, and that the boy had don e right. Thus a continuance of the feud which might have resulted in the' decima tion of the neighboring villages-, was averted. , , . The Cities of Refuge From prehistoric times this cus tom has been practiced in the East. It was a custom attended by grave dangers—the danger of making the blood-avenger ~ or "gocl," as the Hebrew has it an instrument of private revenge: the danger of creating long bloody feuds, with the extermination of the community's best life; th e danger of visiting the penalty for murder upon one who has accidentally caused death: the danger of the perversion qf justice by the rich and powerful, through the payment of "blood-money." In the construction of an organ ized social life, the Hebrews were bound to have some better method of Justice than this. "With the ad vance °f civilization and the grad ual evolution of the state, the duty of safe-guarding the rights of the community passes to the state." So Joshua was instructed, after the law given to Moses, to appoint "cities of I refuge" in the new land now being settled. Sljt of these were named at the six most favorably situated points in Canaau, and to them the highways were to be made and kept free, so that naught might hinder the man seeking asylum from the blood avenger. Along the way were Signs hearing the wards "Refuge: Refuge!' to guide the unhappy fugitive. If any on e refused to flee to these cities of refuge, his blood was upon his own head. This principle of an inviolable sys tem was not designed to make mur der safe. The cities of refuge were for those who had taken life un wittingly or without criminal Intent. The murderer yielded himself to the elders of the city for refuge, declar ing his cas e fully to them; In other words, standing open and fair trial for his deed. If guilty, he died at the hands of the avenger. If not found guilty of wilful murder, the man was safe so long as he remained in the city of refuge. This deten tion from home, and virtual exile, until the death of the high priest, was in itself in the nature of pun ishment; for men must suffer for their mistakes as well .as for their crimes. Where Shall We Now Fleet This right of sanctuary is an old one: England's famous churches were, priiy to the Reformation, sanctuaries for fugitives. Greeks and Romans had similar provisions tn connection with their temples. The principle is one that runs through all of life; the threatened, fleeing heart of man seeks an asylum of safety. In all ages, religion has been regarded as the great refuge |of mankind. This is a function of religion which is important' to bear in mind. A present day aspect of this truth is Indicated in an ordinary editorial in The Wall Street Journal: "What America needs more than railway extension, and' western Irri gation, and a low tariff, and a big ger wheat crop, and a merchant ma rine, and a new navy, is a' revival of piety, the kind father and mother used to have—piety that counted It good business to stop for daily fam ily prayers before breakfast right in the middle of the harvest; that quit work a half hour' earlier Thursday I night, so as to get the chores done j and go to prayer meeting; that bor- I rowed money to pay the preacher's salary and prayed fervently in se cret for the salvation of the rich man who looked with scorn on such unbusinesslike behaviour. That's what we need now to clean this country of the filth of graft, and of greed, petty and big; of worship of fine houses and big lands and high office and grand social functions. What is this thing which we are worshiping but a vain repetition of what decayed nations fell down and worshiped Just before their light went out? Read the history of Rome in decay and you'll find luxury there that could lay a big dollar over our little doughnut that looks so large to us. Great wealtri never made a nation substantial nor honorable. There is nothing on earth that looks good that is so dangerous for a man or a nation to handle as quick, easy, big money. If you do resist its deadly influence the chances are that It will get your son. It takes great er and finer heroism to dare to be poor in America than to charge an earthworks." Pushed a step farther, the com monest application of this whole story of the Cities of Refuge is that a roan's refuge from the avenger of j sin*—and sin inevitably has an aveng j er—is Jesus Christ "It is not the church, it is not the altar; it is Christ himself who is the one and only sacrifice for sin, and therefore the one and only hiding-place to which the sinner can repair." Kill Sympathizers of the White Guards Stockholm, March 14.—A1l the relatives of officers of the 86th Rus sian Regiment which went over to the White Guards as against the So viet government, have been execut ed, according to a dispatfh from Petrograd. Thfe executions -were or dered by the military revolutionary .committee of Petrograd. CONSIDER HUN MILITARY PLAN American Military Experts i Look Upon Future Systems Paris, March 14.—The American i military experts here, although ac cepting Premier Lloyd George's plan ! of prohibiting conscription in Ger- j many and providing for a voluntary ; army with a long term of service in- ; stead, have been giving the subject deep consideration in its possible ! bearing upon the future military systems not only of America but of the whole world. They believe this subject might properly conic before | the League of Nations in connection : the limitation of armaments. I The American experts agree- with [ the sentiment attributed to Lloyd George that if the system started in : Germany . proved beneficial its ex- | tension to the other European c