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Os these the oldest and |||Kjgt is the American Peace society gfSiipgt-T, which was organized 100 This organization convened BHttScmal Peace conference which la San Francisco in October, ilfniorsed the Woman’s International • : ><|bfiocram relative to a neutral na- the plan of which was ■KjlMft and adopted at the peace mass R Bated a year ago with Federation of Peace it emerged the national n Francisco, e conceived and being hold mass meetings county asking the peo esolutions favoring a ss of neutral nations, are sent on to Wash ft, personal telegrams. wrfd Starr Jordan, who aa envoy, will present 'WHmmamX In person, the desires of those who endorse this idea and the spirit, be in the forefront movement. I amply stated is “that I am urged to take steps to the United States in the neutral nations immediate convening of war. Shall I offer a continuance of warring nations in the early, honorable settlement? Are assured by members of the congress that the belligerent countries want peace if it can be honorable terms. That they will be a position where they cannot act independently and that the neutral spirit is only awaiting action by the United States to get together. That is a war party in Germany which has no equivalent in the war for commercial owners and ammunition manufacturers, but that Bethmann-Hollweg and others in high positions wish and that unless the neutral nations, Europe, will bleed to the heart. He is now virtually for 15,000,000 Mexicans who have no equal in the war for the protection of the lives of the people. He is obliged to be held accountable for the safety and is confronted by the humanitarian operation of re-habilitating the country and placing it upon a sound basis. The treasury is exhausted and the government is now in a state of chaos. The treasury is exhausted and the government is now in a state of chaos. This is a significant step for the government, as it is a vital part of the government's economic and political landscape. The situation in Carranza is a stark reminder of the importance of maintaining peace and stability in the face of conflict. The United States, in particular, is facing a critical crisis, with the United States facing a critical crisis in the face of conflict and the United States facing a critical crisis in the face of conflict. The United States, in particular, is facing a critical crisis, with the United States facing a critical crisis in the face of conflict and the United States facing a critical crisis in the face of conflict. The war in Carranza is a stark reminder of the importance of maintaining peace and stability in the face of conflict. The United States, in particular, is facing a critical crisis, with the United States facing a critical crisis in the face of conflict and the United States facing a critical crisis in the face of conflict. The war in Carranza is a stark reminder of the importance of maintaining peace and stability in the face of conflict. The world peace Foundation is printing a serial pamphlets containing all the official documents, concerning neutral rights and freedom of commerce and navigation. The World Peace Foundation is printing a serial pamphlets containing all the official documents, concerning neutral rights and freedom of commerce and navigation. That have passed between this country and belligerent nations since August 1, 1914. They include Typical Proclamations of Neutrality by the United States; American Neutrality Explained and Defended; War Zones, or Strategic Areas; Interference with American Trade with Neutrality by the Powers of the Quadruple Entente; Foodstuffs Cargo of the Wilhelmina in the British prize court; German and Austrian attitude toward American trade; The Sinking of the William P. Frye; The Sinking of the Lusitania, with the cases of the Falaba, Gulflight, Cushing, Nebraskan, etc. The documents will also include the Dumba letters; the Declaration of London, and other material of a similar nature. A copy of each or any of these unphlets will be sent, free, to any address. Write to 40 Mt. Vernon-st., Boston. From Another Point of View The Britannia, stuck in the middle ground for two weeks, always gave reasonable-priced service, and now it is free. Don't stand forever arguing the rejected purchase plan in the streetcars. Take your strap. The military training camps teach patriotic citizens how to tramp 30 miles a day. We suggest for the next camp, "How to cross the street to the polling booth." Preparedness of the Panama police has cost too many lives; so they are taking their high power rifles away from them. Yes, we’re the "wonder city." Wonder who’ll be the next to die on our busy thoroughfare? Those 41. 386 wet paraders in Chicago disprove the claim that the closing of the Sunday groggeries leaves no place for the bibulous to go. Joe Fordney feels that while preparedness may be important, there’s nothing that will really preserve our liberties like a high protective tariff on wool. We invite the attention of the defense league to the crying need of a little preparedness against fires in American factories where women and girls work. We are not surprised at the report of the fall of Nish. It never sounded as if it could hold out long. Lord Kitchener is betaking himself over there to see what all the blooming brother is about in the Balkans. RUSSIAN HISTORY Unfortunately, it is the sensational accidents and not the unsational developments of Russian history which have arrested the attention of historians and publicists. Popular Russian history continues to be written, as if nihilism and regicide, an if persecutions and pogroms were the one normal and characteristic development of the Russian people. We are told little of the noble traditions of the government, of the deeper instincts of the people. We are told little of all that Russia has done for Christian civilisation, through her victory over the Tartars, for European political freedom, through her victory over the Turks. It is just as if Great Britain were to be judged solely by her pitiful failure in Ireland, or as if the evictions of small crofters in the Highlands were described as the essential characteristic of Scottish history. —Charles Sarole in London Everyman. CASTING THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE. Young Mother—What business will baby take to do you suppose? Young Father—The feed line apparently! Judge. A leader of the Haltlen bandits has been killed to an engagement with United States marines. That ought to be some. DETROIT TIMES Our Boyhood Ambition. TAMES W. LEEDS Wanted to be star-eyed A HOME town N.T.T.S. filler How to Read Novels BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE. Author of The Riddle of Personality." Psychology and Parenthood," etc. The recent proposal to banish fiction from the New York public library provoked a storm of indignant comment. And rightly so. Fliegende has its place in the scheme of human existence, and a highly important place. Even so-called ‘trashy’ novels, when morally clean, have a useful function to perform, indeed, they perform several functions. By their “exest,” their “snap,” their “dash,” they provide entertainment for the most tired. Jaded mind. They bring color-at times over unduly, to be sure— into the dull life of everyday life. They open up unsuspected visions and romance and enchantment that appeal pleasurably to the imagination. Creating pleasurable emotional states, they have a certain tonic value to the physical as well as the mental organism. For the enjoyment derived from them stimulates, as all enjoyment does, the internal processes. The process of digestion, circulation, assimilation, etc. It is not without reason, therefore, that persons recovering from illness are advised to read "light literature." The pleasure that an entertaining novel gives them is of positive value in hastening their return to health. Novels, again, are often of profound educational significance. They arouse the curiosity as to facts of biography, history, geography, and so forth. In this way, they may become decisive factors in determining a lifelong interest. I can definitely trace my own abiding interest in the colonial and revolutionary history of the United States to the fortunate circumstance of my having read in boyhood Cooper's "Spy." Novels also serve in many instances to awaken humanitarian impulses and to inculcate sound ethical ideas. The novels of Dickens and Rufe, dubbed "trashy" by more than one contemporary critic, instantly come to mind in this connection. There are not a few novelist's writing today, including contributors to the "trashiest" of all fiction magazines who are rendering a similar service to society in promoting sorghum-need reforms and in to the public conscience. Surely such facts as these justify opposition to any proposal for the "Every doctor" is continually finding patients who have some serious ailment which has cured are great of knowledge that there is something radically wrong with them. In the majority of instances, kept these patients from seeking a physician's aid. There is one of many instances that might be cited to show how essential courage is to health. It is want of moral courage. In many instances, which leads a man who is perfectly aware that alcoholic stimulants are breaking him down physically and often mentally to continue to thrive. Then again, every physician meets in his practice men and women who have the pleasure of reading fiction from public libraries. But they do not justify the reading of fiction to excess. This is the great danger to which novel-readers are exposed. Unconsciously, they may develop a distaste for all forms of literature except novels. Many of them, by developing a distaste even for novels, except novels abounding in "thrills" and "shocks." Such unfortunates are as truly victims of an abnormal craving as are the men and women obsessed by a craving for narcotics and intoxicants. The only sure cure is for them to "swear off" novel reading for a time. Let them, during that interval, as siduously cultivate other literary interests, through the study of art, the drama, science, history—anything of developmental value that requires the aid of books for mastery. By doing this, they will gradually discover that pleasure, as well as profit, is to be gained from books other than works of fiction. Gradually, they will acquire the habit of reading such books for mental diversion, not for purposes of study merely. Not until they have thus broadened their intellectual horizon can they safely take up novel reading again. Then, and then only, will they have learned to read novels as they enlighten their environment for a benighted editor. By B. S. H. The editor of a weakly paper takes a patronizing attitude toward woman when he begins his illuminating editorial with "How are we going to make it easier for woman to be happy?" We can tell him without stopping to consider, that he and his kind haven't it in their power to make woman either happy or unhappy. But, what is far more important, that woman is not seeking for happiness, in her fearless, persistent struggle for the vote, but for simple justice. With other we agreat with the dean of Barnard College in her address at Vassar or not, is beside the mark. Let in a blue tank over the most ailment. Often enough these worry themselves until they arrive at a state of mental and physical depression which makes the mind prey for disease in occasionally there are many dangers to health which we must meet every day of our lives. It is to know of these things in order that we may form the habit of avoiding as many of them as possible to be ever fearful, thinking of and cringing from danger will find us to avoid it. When people pause to consider more than 400,000 persons are killed or maimed annually in the United States alone, they are appalling but how many of them realize more people are lost annually from preventable diseases than are killed by accidents. More Germans Go Back Than Emigrate to This Country. Commenting on our immigration problems, Commissioner Frederick C. Howe fires some interesting figures showing that the tide of emigration has slowly ebbed southward in Europe. The only north Europe immigration, of any consequence, he shows by government figures, is from Norway, Sweden, and Great Britain. The effect of English, Irish, Scotch, and Welsh to our country, while never extraordinarily heavy, has always been steady and continues to be so. But the most remarkable fact of all is that for 20 years the emigration of Germans to the United States has amounted to nothing. That is, while some few thousand come over each year, as a matter of fact, more people emigrate from the United States to Germany every year. The great decrease in German immigration for 20 years and the fact that a lot goes back every year, easily accounts, therefore, for the fact that the German element in this country is so heavily outnumbered by the peoples of the allied countries. Women will be home-makers or wage-earners as circumstances determine, with or without suffrage. They will marry and have children and do their big part, or they will remain single (for reasons which never have entered the bewildered editor's head) as the individual case may be. Neither suffrage nor non-suffrage will charge that. The writer is wandering afield and cannot seem to find a shady spot to lie down and rest. He reminds us of the grazing cattle, which roam aimlessly, here and there, seeking what they may devour and with no other end in view but waving. More indolent and fat. Home are the unit of our civilization, and the woman who goes out of the door is that she may have a home to return to. But there may be times when even the home must be left in the background. The revolutionary and civil wars made men eager to leave their homes, for they were the call to the colors for a high ideal. Jesus wandered among the hills of Palestine and has no place to lay his head, all for humanity’s sake, no one has ever criticized him for it; and until justice is done to woman, there cannot be homes based upon the second foundation of equality; for, without it, woman is a pensioner living on the bounty, or suffering from the neglect of others. The girls of Vassar are probably the vanguard of American womanhood. If they are lofty enough to sacrifice personal ease, comfort even love itself, for the greater love of justice through the emancipation of their sex, the hearts and minds of the best of American manhood should appreciate and not depreciate their efforts. We are breeding and type of womanhood, and if men would know their daughters, in this great spiritual development, it behooves them to look out. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1918 A Poem a Day | FOR DIVINE STRENGTH. Father, in thy mysterious presence kneeling. Fain would our soul feel all thy kindling love; For we are weak, and need some deep revealing Of trust. and strength, and calmness from above. We have wandered forth through doubt and sorrow. And thou hast made our steps an onward one; And we will ever trust each unknown tomorrow— Thou wilt sustain us till its work is done. In the heart's depths, a peace serene and holy Abides, and when pain comes to have its will Or we despair—oh, may that peace rise slowly, Stronner than agony, and we be still! —Samuel Johnson Pointed Paragraphs Only fools mortgage their opportunities. If ignorance is Miss, why so many fres schools? So sure of your facts before attempting to pose as a liar. Some women are happy because they know how to think they are. Men who always give advice save the best they have for themselves. Many a man's future has been spoiled by his wife's social success. How easy it is to acquire a bad reputation and how difficult it is to lose it! A man does meaner things than he says and woman says meaner things than she does. Women who are the most careful of their complexion are those who haven’t any of their own. A wise woman never tries to entertain her husband by singing to him in order to keep him home nights. In searching for the per capita wealth of a country, look in tables of statistics rather than the pockets of the people. But if a man turned over a new loaf every time his wife wanted him to be, would have but little time left in which to earn the price of her bonnets. Germany’s Synthetic Food. By German government order, Sundays and Wednesdays are the only days exempt from the new restrictions on the use of meat German newspapers published schedules prepared by the German federal council controlling the consumption of meat. The announcement is made that meat supplies must be conserved. The schedule as forwarded by Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent, is as follows: Mondays and Thursdays: Restaurants shall offer no meat, fish, fowl, or dishes cooked in lard, bacon, or dripping. Tuesdays and Fridays: Butchers shall sell no raw or cooked meats. Saturdays: Pork shall not be sold. Thus far, no restriction on the cooking of meat in the home has been placed by the federal council. German papers contain some tempting offers of chemical food which the public is asked to purchase. One of those appeals follows: 'Certain Sale!—Artificial omelettes; artificial butter. Chemical honey and marmalade. Artificial coffee and milk in any quantities. Packets made up ready for sale at 10 to 20 pfennigs (two and four cental). Ritterstrasse, 86. Patience Worth Hundreds of St Louis lawyers, merchants, educators, and leaders in society crowded the eleventh floor banquet hall of the American Annex, to be mystified by accounts of “Patience Worth," who has led many to believe she is an actual personality, although invisible, and revealing herself in old English dialect thronging a quiet board. The banqueters were members of guests of the ultra-exclusive Papyrus Club. William Merlon Reedy, publisher, declared he believed Patience Worth not only a disembodied spirit, but the most inimitable creator of literary values in the history of English literature. Mrs. John H. Curran, medium of the “apirit poet," said her discovery was due to pinochle playing at her home. She said her husband and the husband of a friend spent many nights playing cards, and that in self-defense she purchased a single board and with the wife of her husband’s friend began making experiments. She was unable to explain the manner in which she received the message. Many who attended said they were partly convinced that "Patience Worth" was a reality. A Surf Care. A correspondent suggests the following plan to keep from constantly losing your umbrella: "When you get on the train, first hang up your umbrella. Then, hang your coat up to remind you of your umbrella. Then your hat to remind you of your coat." Now, the point is not to forget your umbrella! To remember your umbrella, bother." A Suggestion to the Next Congress BY DR. FRANK CRANK (Copyright, 1915, by Frank Crane) The legislative program of the next session of congress, as we gather from perusal of the public press, includes the following: National defense, increase of army and navy; Embargo on shipment of ammunition; More tariff, or a bond issue; Philippine independence; The seamen’s bill; Child labor; Appropriations; Prohibition and woman suffrage; Treaties, including Colombian, Nicaraguan and Haitian; Relations with Mexico and the belligerent states of Europe, and Averting financial disaster as a result of the European war. According to its custom, congress will attack. These questions with an eye to party advantage, looking toward the presidential campaign next year. If our national representatives would like to do something for the United States, and incidentally for mankind, they could find an issue big with potentialities. It is, to propose, and to take measures to inaugurate, some kind of league with all the neutral states, that is, those not now at war. For the purpose of preventing war, and of preventing the thing that causes war, which is national defensive armament. As for the nations now battling, there is no use dealing with them on this subject until they have had their fight out. You can’t argue with mad folk. All agree that war, particularly an invasion of this country, is possible and ought to be guarded against. The only way the average man can see to obviate attack upon us, is to get ready to resist by arms. The trouble with this plan is that it has never worked in the history of mankind. Why should we adopt a plan that has plunged Europe into ruin? The only way any thinking man can see to prevent war is to substitute armed nationalism for armed nationalism. Every intelligent statesman in the world agrees that eventually this must be done and that wars will keep coming until it is done. It is the only possible way. It probably cannot be brought to pass at once. It is a big undertaking. But it can be begun at once. And the logic nation to begin it is ours. It is not a “peace” plan. It is a constructive plan to substitute law for anarchy. Any party that will advocate this idea will win with the American people. We are not all for “peace at any price”; we are not all for “military preparedness”; but we are all with mighty few exceptions, for stable international law, reducing armaments and insuring the peace. world against any bandit nation's outbreak. Said Dr. J. A. MacDonald, editor of the Toronto Globe, the other day, at a banquet of the Japanese-American League in Los Angeles: “The new note is not nationalism but internationalism, not independence but interdependence, and the goal to which we must turn our eyes is internationalism. This war revives the old problem of how nations may live together in a world too small for war.” Gentlemen of the next congress, why not take up this problem? Instead of arming ourselves to the teeth, why not undertake the task of leading the world out of war, and the burdensome preparedness for war, into world government. “Then the common sense of most shall hold the fretful world in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber wrapped in universal law." THE NAUGHTY TRUMPETER. The swearing habits of our soldiers annoyed Lord Wolseley, who became president of a society for the suppression of improper language. One day, when he was inspecting an Irish garrison, commanded by an officer renowned for his purple flowers of trumpeter, ordered to sound the charge, sounded the "retreat" instead. The officer's mouth had opened to volley forth appropriate denunciations. When he caught Wolseley’s eye fixed it upon him. He hesitated, choked, stared wildly around, then bellowed, naughty, naughty trumpeter! London Chronicle. JACKIE’S TROUBERRY The average male who wears narrow-bottomed trousers is apt to think the bottomed garment rather ridiculous, or at least a senseless adherence to a useless fashion. But there is a reason for the flare, if you wear long trousers, try rolling yours up above the knees. You can't do it. But the sailor can readily roll up bit, and they will stay up. The sailor has much wet work to do, and by doing it with bare feet and rolled up trousers he avoids soaking his clothing and blistering his feet in rubber boots in hot weather. If a sailor falls overboard, he can kick out of his trousers in the water, as they will not stick at his feet.— American Boy. Mountain climbing is hard and dangerous work as usually practiced. The chances of accident are many, but climbing is too good fun and too invigorating an exercise to be monopolized by the hardy for long. But it happens that in the west they have developed mountain climbing clubs, open to both men and women. The largest clubs are the Massena of Boston and Bellingham, Washington, and the Terra of San Francisco. In the east we have the Appalachian club, operating mainly in the White mountains.—Outing. If you feel inclined to get angry at some Halloween prank, just let your mind run back a few years and then smile. 