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I | I TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 11 WHAT THE WAR I MEANT TO WOl (Continued From Page Two face. All humanity Is one. The ' nno 4 _ J ? rtim no nation can suffc less all nations suffer. No natio ^ prosper without all nations prt 1 ing. We havo got to take fac 1 they are and we have got to fln the best thing we can have. Thi 1 thing that has been given us an -J only thing we have before its li ' Leaguo of Nations. We have no League of Nations. We have this one. Wo must take this o no one can tell what will come have no midway point.. We ha purgatory. We have to choose < heaven or hell. We must take we must reject it. Suppose the senate of the TJ States amends that League ol tions, so as to make it radicall; ferent. What will happen? to ?? .? ua|f|(cuinK 10 us all over the try today? You and 1 have fel slump that has come to our na1 ^ life since the armistice. We hav It In business: we have felt it i morale of the people; it is every\ apparent. We are simply wa Waitlnf for what? Waiting foi peace which will give to us a upon which we can start our life, and we will not be able ( cover unless we do have some of that sort to bring us back to the high plane upon whic stood during the war. To stand > we stood before the war will n< We must have an incentive befoi an incentive for the intellectua moral and industrial advanceme the people; the incentive mu unuiversal in its application an are waiting for it?waiting unti League of Nations Treaty of has been signed. If the Senate Amends. Suppose the senate reject league in its present form and n amendments, as it says it has a to (In Ktt* no J MUV uo DUHIC iliniMlKUiMIIMI yers thing It has not?suppose <lo that. What will happen? thing thnt will happen is that will have to take it back agaii deliver it to thirty-one differen tions to see if they will ratify amendments which our senat< made. It will have to go to many as well as the other natio see whether Germany will acce And it may not be accepted. And some other nation, seeing tha have distinguished ourselves by ing amendments and changes, want to make changes and ar ments and it will have to come and then we will make some and then it will go back and fortl heaven alone knows when peac< come or anything else to give start in the upward way. Suppose we do not sign the treaty as it is. Suppose the s of the United States refuses to it with the League of Nations enant in it as it is 'now, but an the League of Nations provisk that it is of no value whatever, will happen? We are told b: press that there is one clause in treaty which declares that il three nations sign the treaty Germany as it stands, then they enter Into Internationa! relations Germany. They may open up and start to do business with many Just the same as if all the nations had signed it. Suppose Japan and France Great Britain and Italy should that pact and we should refuse it; what would happen? They \ be at peace, and we would be ai with Germany. That is what \ happen. We have not signe< peace treaty and we are still at They would be in a state of while we, isolated, would be s ing alone. Another Big .lob for Wonie Women, what have you been i the last few weeks? You have going from house to house raisin Victory Loan. I think one o: greatest Jobs that women have for the country has been the Li Loan. The country came to y< the beginning to send your across the seas; what was 11)e Send them provisions! Send munitions! That was the crv. ^ have you been doing the las t L ui four weeks? Yo? Have been i A out from house to house in the old way, as women always do. do not. They think it is easy 1 w I have been in n great many pol * rampalgns for reform, reform m Hk and other people, and when th K form group get together and d what they want to do they alway th it the women are too feeble to for the reform mayor but the; Bs not too feeble to do the Work ^ 8j& is assigned to them, which is i from house to house and do the tBbl vassing and raise the funds. T) all they sak us to do. Sg\ Now It Is the habit of men t |;l that kiud of house to houso can W* .. ^ ' rs.'i m. iuk on women, in the Liberty Loa VIEN campaigns they told us, "You mug not touch these big sums; we wil .) stand behind our counter or desk an when a man wants ten thousand dol world larH <>r a hundred thousand or a ml! >r un- H?n dollars worth of bonds we wi] n can take the subscription, because the )8per-|are so big you could not understan :ts as. It. You may go from house to house d out you may set your booths on the cot b best ner; you may take a fifty dollar sut d the acriptlon or a hundred dollar sul s this 8cription." And the women have don other It ,n every Liberty Loan drive. only! 1 was in a city where. In the las ne or! campaign, in that kind of hard drudc . We er>' women raised fifty per cent of th ve no'entire quota, just the women, goln jither 'rom house to house, and in all ou it or elttes and states they have done thei full share and have done it splendidlj nltert What was the cry this time? Wa J Na- R "Send the men across the sea," a y dif- was in the beginning? Quite dil What ferent. One sign I saw all over Nei coun- York, all over Pennsylvania, all ove It the Boston?"If you could sell bonds t Llonal send the boys across, can't you se! e felt more bonds to bring the boys home? n the That was the cry?to bring the boy vhere home. How the boys would be cheei ltlng. e(* when they knew the men and wc that men of the country were raising raor basis ey t? bring them home. new But If all the other nations excep 0 re_ ours sign the treaty of peace and a< thing cePt the League of Nations, and w again 8t'll remain at war with Germany, ar h we we going to bring the boys home wit vhere this money or are we going to kee >t do. them over there and provide for thet re us, while they are still holding the fort 1 and "lo"K th" Rhine? ,nt 0f Hugaboo Words, st be our senate is talking, talking d we women and men?are so afrai 1 thla of words. If tllOV are nnfnmlllo Peace enough they scare us to death. T call a woman strong-minded In m girlhood days was enough to thro' s the 'ier 'n,? a spasm, because It meant I aakeH tlmt day that she was a little bit li right human or unhuman; and then wt i law- n,en began to discover that ther they were only two kinds of minds, stron The minds and feeble minds, and they a they w'anted strong minds, they were ni 1 and lightened by that word, t na- Then came the word "suffragist, these which used to fill them with terroi 9 has an^ hy they came to understan Ger_ that the suffrage of the people wa ms to method of registering the will c the people, and then we were not .1 then afraid of that word because t we dignified us. mak-| Then they used the word?"fen will inist," and a lot of women got frighi nend- ened for fear *hey would be calle back, feminists. And when I speak upo more, the subject in which I am so much ir h and I terested, the democracy of tho cour , Win! try. which includes women, they a us a ways hurl at me the word "feminist, and what does that mean? It is w< man aspiring to be human, which i pGJlCc , . 1 not a bad thing at all. enatet I We are so afraid of words, and th sign ' {congress of the United States, know us uur icar ui worcis, invented tli lends word "super-sovereignty." Tliat is )n so , , , .7. , A | wonderful word? super-sovereigr what , , . , f ty. There is only one thing thn | they have produced that is new i , ' their arguments against this Leagu with'0' 'N,a,i?n8. that lias not been use j against the enfranchisement *of wt with I mon 'or ?ast years; and thn , I is the Monroe Doctrine?that I b< trade,, , . , , lieve has never been used against wr CJermen's political freedom. When the other i couldn't do anything else they hav always gone back to the fathers. Yo an(' have heard about the fathers s.n sign wj,nt fathers did. Why, the Oh to ('? ine.se never worshipped their ancestor vould | so niuch as congress worships th t war fathers, when the yhaven't any rea vouhl son to give for their attitude upon an 1 the' - Our Neigh doing; (The State.) been Mexico is not the most desirabl g the neighbor in the world; so much ever> the <>ne knows?but that is but half th done story. Mexico is a wealthy nelghboi berty 'ho Mexicans have vast territory opu [>u in lent in oil. minerals, timber and i boys fertility of soil. These riches the cry! j have shown little capacity to develo them'and without the assistance of outsit! What erg they would have brought no mor three 'ban a limited prosperity to the Men gofcg | 'can people. name To a unlet, orderiy aiiu safe Mes Men | l<*o. thousands of enterprising an work, shrewd Americans might go an< Iticnl make a great deal of money, ayors When an enterprising farmer has re- neighbor owning a broad acreagi eolde adjoining his lands, which the neigh s sayjbor won't work himself and allows t > vote 1 He idle until the farmer leases a par i are of it, the relations of the two may b vhloh satisfactory. The thrifty farmer cul to go' tlvates tlie neighbor's land, improve can- them and pays him a fair rental, toe tat Is Hut suppose the neighbor depre j dates on the lands that he has leased o lay ' Suppose he permits his cattle to breal ivass- into the farmer's leased fields or hi a i k* mm.. _ :.v THE LANCASTER NEWS, LANCAST n subject. drawn, the Unite it Then when they have exhausted the years or months. II fathers they bring out the constitution with exactly the ! d and they say "it is unconstitutional." bad neighbor w I- Everything is unconstitutional. The American mil I- The Meaning of a Ix'aguc. er iu Mexico, his II President Lowell, of Harvard, has erty would still y clearly exolained pvor? u?i>?rio i-io.. tv.- ? ?? . , iuvu >uicc lemuries, d there is in the league and every pur- periods of dictate ; pose of It?simply that we may be I'orfirlo l)laz wai - able to have some sort of an organ- ico has wallowei i- ized body by which we may have in- tion. War with >- ternational cooperation in keeping would end in vicb e peace, international cooperation in be tWe worth of i helping to protect weaker peoples, in- Hence, a war ' it ternational cooperation in providing a not include the ;- certain uniformity of law in the pro- nexation of all or e tectlon of the laboring people of the or a protectorate g world, international cooperation to the land with an r prevent the spread of disease and would be, in the r other evils. There is little for me to useless. ' r. say on that la3t proposition. Wheu Do we intend s influenza was sweeping over the coun- any part of it? 8 try didn't we wish that we had some we have been ly f- kind of an international health bu- all these years? x reau by which we could have kept hypocrites and tl r that disease out? And that is only Do we wish I o the beginning of many diseases which occupation and ti 11 will sweep the world as a result or unless we are n "|the war. of the impoverished condi- mate of America) s tion of Europe, and the unhealthful know that, whil ; conditions of living forced upon the diers and sailor >- soiuiers in tne trenches. v hardships and t i-' And from those evils come back to pay the bills, th | us the lesson we must learn, that the profits would st ?t "sins of the fathers are visited upon small class of in' the children even to the third and What if the M e fourth generations." When I read selves profit by I e that peace pact and 1 thought how iron American di h hard it is, how difficult it is. there either right or p appeared before me just 113 if it wpre assume the res| n ' written in words of light, "The sins their guardians a .s ( of the fathers shall be visited upon if we profited 1 the children unto the third and fourth be possible to a generation." So Germany's children minds of South 1 ;! will bear the burden to the third and pies of other fo d fourth generation of the crimes our motives wer r|aguinst them and the children of the est? 'ol world will bear the burdens of the The concluslo y, obligations which they are compelled count should the iv to assume because of the sins of the States think of 1 n ' peoples of the world. Mexicans. No In >-| We women, the mothers of the race, from it and it is have given everything, have suffered that a weak, hi e everything, have sacrificed everything, republic could in g | and we come to you now and say. degree that woul 11! "The time has come when we will "<-> , - What then, M >t longer sit quietly by and bear and ki|linK Americai rear sons to die at the will of a few government " men. We will not endure it. We will pet,ation of rrin r. not endure it. We demand either propertv is to t djthat you shall do something to pre- only ansv is | vent war or that we shall be per- must deal with >f. mitted to do something ourselves." we oan an(j it I Could there be any cowardice, tQ jmprove his it could there be any injustice, could there be any wrong, greater than to i- refuse to hoar the voice of a woman t- expressing the will of women at the (1 peace table of the world and then for ?* n men not to provide a way by which t- the women of the future shall not be ^ robbed of their sons ar the women of ? 1- the past thave been? * ir# " To you men we look for support. )- We look for your support back of Is your senators ami from this day un> | til the dust when the League of N'a- ?, * e tion.s is accepted and ratified by the ^ ll HI r- senate of the United States, it should 1 e be the duty of every man and every t A a woman to see to it that the senators t- from their state know the will of the it people; that they know that the peon pie will that something shall be done. e even though not perfect; that there,. . (11 shall be a beginning, from which we X )- shall construct something more per- V* it feet by and by; that the will of the V ?- people is that this league shall be ao-( ASUCMlie, >- cepted, and that if, in the senate of WaVHCSvi y the United States, there are men so e blinded by partisan desires for pres^ Z I-?iKe .JU11 u ent advantage, so blinded by personal 4 Flat Rod d pique and narrowness of vision, that ^ Brevard i- they cannot see the large problems * ' s which involve the nations of the % Balsam, ] e world; then the people of the states Rjdg"ecres t- must see to it that other men sit in y the seats of the highest. 4 bor, Mexico f I0 hired men to ride over and trample t e his crops? That would be a case *4 somewhat analogous to that of th e United States and M-xico but not t* entirely so. The farmer could hail 1- the neighbor to court and, subm'tting L n the facts to a jury, have his repara- 4 y tlonjn damages. Mexico, however, t p */ r p the bad neighbor, is not under the l\A|| 1- jurisdiction of the farmer s COUntrv's e courts. It Is an independent repub- ?* lie and has courts of its own?and, withal, a proud and sensitive country. JL L- Some o? the Amerienn people have X d pone to Mexico, where they have ind vested money in larpe sums and have V the prospect of accumulatinp preat a wealth. ? ? Is it the duty of the United States TH1 i- to protect these people and their prop- JL o erty. thouph it be at the cost of war? X tj A war with Mexico that would he J "V e merely punitive in character would j ^ [- achieve no permanently pood result. < rr s An invasion, accompanied with thO|?*? t. destruction of lives and property, j i- wou.d not convert the Mexicans into' Jfc. f & ? law-abidinp and industrious citizens j ? k When the war had ended and tl.ej s American roldiers had been with- #4VVVV i ER, S. C. d States, after a few would be confronted _. _ . _ _ _ _ , _- __ lame condition. The IT'S NOT Y ould still be there, ner or railroad buildfamily and his prop- KMaty disease to M r-p? be exposed to peril, son*. A majority of tbo tl except i? the brie. EtSKl* twW" ** irships, notably when The kidneys are tbo bimi , the executive, Mex- SISSEVfha'VuriSii I in chronic revolu- KMney dlMw? Is usually I R AMiAd ron ii t rv weariness. sleeplessness. n i a craztd countr> despondoncy, backache. sto ory?but what would M?. pain In loins and lows yall stones, gravel, iheumatl t and lumbago, with Mexico that did All these derangements a ,. ? ... , signals to warn you that i notion either of an- need help. You should part of the territory MBDAL Haarlem OH Cape ) and the policing of army of occupation " *~~ large sense, utterly going upon his land to car ness must do so with a full to annex Mexico or that they assume risks tha Certainly not, unless not shift to the shouhlei ing to the Mexicans government and fellow unless we have been home. The Mexican govern tiieves at heart. be trusted so far as it m lo send an army of taught that in its efforts t r> police Mexico? Not order and security it m listaken in our esti- upon a helpful dlspositior a opinion. Do we not ington. e the American sol- Not all the people of s would endure the criminal. Thousands of th? he taxpayers would I nestly striving to save th< e major part of the and to raise it out of Its uff the pockets of a and the practice of kindly vestors? d in good faith can bring exicans would them- them an excellent understa >eing subjected to an ( the basis of which impr< scipllne?would it be relations, though it be slov expedient that we to come to pass, tonsibility of being | There are those who wot nd taskmasters? And, United States into a M< >y it. would it ever because they covet Mexlc llay suspicion in the I Against their wiles it is n Vmerica and the peo- build up American sentime ireign countries that e saltish and dlshon- -pQ PRESENT RILL S n la .hat on no ac- FOR MILITARY Tl people of the United linking war with the ^ar Department Hps >1 vnor could be derived Moderate System of l"i scarcely conceivable Training. oken and distracted suit our country to a Washington. Aug. 4.?1 d justify war. partment hill providing l exlcans persisting in erate system of univers ti citizens and their training as the settled mil ng to prevent the per- of the nation will be laid les against American gress without further del te done? ably it will be in the ban ror is?patience. We tor Wadsworth and Hep the bad neighbor as Kahn, heads of the two mi try to persuade him mittees, early this week, manners. Americans Previous plans for exten j4a a*a a?a a+a a*a a+a a^a a^a a^a a^a a^a a^a a^a a?a a?a a< United States Railroad Director General of Itailn uthern Raili SUMMER EXCURS From LANCAS , N. C $ 8.82 Hen ille, N. C 10.32 Try* aluska, N. C 10.20 c . Salu c, N. C 7.44 0 Q>) Blac - - - U.Um S\ C 10.74 Hid it, N. C 8.04 Hig] (War Tax Extr.i AND MANY OTHER ATTR Tickets on Sale Now. Final Spend Your Vacation ii Mountains of West lennis Horseback Riding IV LIVE 01 TDOO IN "THE LAND OF TI ROUGH SERVICE. ( . B. CAUTH LANCASTE __ PAGE THREE ???? ?i SBrmsr w . IT'S YOUR KIDNEYS ?t?r of per- diately. Th? uothlnc, bMllai oil itlw la afll?iln( ulntas tbo bldney^ relieves InBimmf <l bacK to tlona Ufd destroys tho ftrmi whA > tutvt caused It Do not wait until A t Important morrow. Oo to your dnintat today ad >y are tbe Insist on OOLtD MEDAL Haarlem Qti oOr blood. Capsulea. In twentv-fonr hour* ? . . should feci health and vlg-or returnlnf nd tested by and wm bieM jhe day you first heart lerroueness. of <x>Li> MKDAL Haarlem Oil. f trou- xfter you feel that you have curst T . MS?' yourself, continue to take one or tin am, so. at lea capsules each day, so as to keep U Orst-claaa condition and ward off the ire nature's danger of other attacks, the kidneys .Ask for the orlRlnal Imported OOLaC use OOL.D ME!>AL brand. Three sizes. Money rS" ules lmme- funded If they do not help you. ry on busi-' onees with General Pershing anil (Hi knowledge' er overseas officers before presenun t they may the bill have been abandoned. Fc s of their I that reason, however, it is understoo citizens at the committee chairmanill be ii ment must formed that while the project inclut lay be and od in the proposed measure repr 0 maintain' pents the best, judgment of the ws ay depend! department at Ibis time it is to I) 1 in Wash- looked upon as tentative in some rj spects and subject to possible moo Mexico are fication in the light of the experieni sm are ear- and judgment of these officers *7hl eir country their testimony shall be availabj difficulties The department, It is understood,! tact found- not only willing but anxious that Gej about with eral l'ershing and his o(fleers shou nding upon be heard and Secretary Maker is 4 jvement in peeted to make this clear in his lj r, is certain ter transmitting the bill. Details of the department's tr ild lure the have not been made public. There M >xican war indications, however, that it dlflJ an wealth essentially in some ways from tl ecessary to Kahn-Chamberlain universal trainli nt. hill already before the committees^ In previous discussions of the stl >OON ject, dating back to the preparedm hearings from the United States S tlAININ(i tered the war, most army officers w) testified held that training should | ensure for KjVf,? jn (j,e iotli year. Secretjj liversnl Maker expressed the same view* a it is thought probable the war depaj ment plan will he found to call fort "he war de- training of youths of 1!) instead bf or a mod- provided in the l\ahn-ChambW|l lal military measure. itary policy " before con- When a man tells a widow that lav Prob- 's not wor,hy of her, she mildly i ds of Sena- n'es ~,)Ul doesn't argue the poii ?resentative ^ ilitary com- Hy ,h<! t,me ,he avera?e man old enough to have common sense, ded confer- is too old to use it to anv advantagi - - i Administration J >a<Ls road Lines: ION FARES TER, S. C. J dersonville, N. C 7.62 :>n, N. C 6.48 Ida, N. C 7.02 k Mountain, N. C 8.16 cory, N. C 6.00 hland Lake, N. C. 7.56 0 ACTIVE RESORTS J I Limit October .'Jlst l ^ ^ i the Glorious . s ern North Carolina 1 . Iotoring Fishing Camping i t IRS I IK SKY" CONVENIENT SCHEDULES. EN, Agent i :R, S. C. J