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UNA with the poller voice, in accur that has been sjnc'6 the outbreak of the war of hold* fng fr;>m Euroixeaii comi-unatlops < in the prosecution of the war. fills government piolmbly ‘wllf-jnof. at-' tempt To aid in the settlement of tradl: tional Kuorpean quarrels, except. pos sibly as, a matter of friendly interest if. opportunity arises. s ' .• ' blouse Likety to Be Delegate- It was said unofficially that when the time enmis nV organize a peace conference, Colonel House, by vlrtpe of his-present assignment, would in -till pryhahilit.v he selected as bqe of Call Of th<: PreseirM^qr a >6iv ing of Self to tlie Utter^st, ■~ : y Even as Did Christ, x Direoted by' President to Collect Material to Be Used at / Pedfce Conference. . We, who in the prov.ibenee of God r iy. not called to the battle, line, call 4 not sit idly by while, our young men are preparing,themselves to risk every tiling that life seemed to 'haye'ih store for them. Purely the cross of Christ', must mean little to men who can live , selfishly In "’such .a crisis! Our sfons and brothers. In; cunSp and'on bqttle- field 'must feel our strength behind them! If they show their manhood not by high thinking only,' hut by high action, surelyrby plain living and he roic givifig, we can let them know that ' the race Is worth the 'great sacrifice we are asking of .them. St. Raul bade men labor, not. that we may. five In . comfort, but* “that we may have to givp.” Not only in the Innumerable small ways in which *we waste, so much, not only in the easy luxury In which we delight to live, t not only In the costly apparel of which we are So proud, hut in the ordinary comforts and con enieruys of life must we learn the meaning of sacrifice. If we are to feed and equip our young men,for, battle, if we are to supply the famine- stricken-people of the world, above all If we are to get out "ofThls war some return for the sacrifice of our-sons, we must learn ourselves anM thus teach others - that “man’s .life doth not eon- sist.inthe abundance'.of the things that lie possesseth,” that “man doth not live by bread alone,” we must learn ourselves and must practically tenclv others, that idealism and not material ism is “the wealth hind the glorjr of our race. “ ' ' We ought to have.learned this long tfgo, for 4lie basis of our religion IS the fact that the Eternal Son, who “thought- it not robbery" to he equal with God,” taking uponjiimself human nature, lived among men, a life df strenuous labor und self-denial. We ought to have learned kneeling before the altar, where Christ’s great sacri fice is a mystery offered morning ’by morning to the Eternal Father, that •our chief value consists in giving even to the uttermost. What heroes men should be -who cliiVg for Salvation to the cross of Christ! But we have not learned it. The Eternal Father who sp:i,r.'il not hi s'only begotten Son must tench It to us. I wonder if the fun- WAR’S END NOT IN SIGHT United States to Be Equipped With Full Information on All Matters r ... That Air6..Vjdgi..:ta— .. (airs. .1 — • - ‘ • ‘ N €plonel House, will have associated with hlin, ns has been ; stated, several experts, probably college professors, economists and specialists in commer cial and financial affairs. The work ho is to perform will not be-connected with, similar undertakings iu any of the countries-with which the United States is Associated -In the war. State-department officials, when re minded of the statement that the United States would be interested in purely European territorial ques tions, answered that the American army ‘ was in France, and that the United States would, of. course,: have Its Interests ble at the now unknowable blit yet in-. ey|table date, when tlie warring na tions meet to settle peace terms, has Asked Col. K. M. House, Ids intimate frlendNqjd unofficial counselor, to as sume this vcomplex and gigantic task. Colouel Holme has accepted the un dertaking. amb” with characteristic promptitude and thoroughness has al ready made ground\vhih phue; for as sembling all pertinent information, his torical, geographical, and ethnological. His Initial move was the selection as e .'.;in i-'raucLKcn, .who Is in cliarg**, >,| ihq.commereinFielatiuiLs «livision, of lb** food ad- ilc grocers," vegetables, fruits,' markets, etc. j^-Marv >>T.. Vfrn* Baker and Genexal «! dr Rainbow division at (’nilTp ’Mills; the Indiana Field artillery jun^cTtlng by. &— winter Shelters on it hillside in the Marne sector ", 1 Mark l.uAvrejjM ministration, includin. REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH OF FLIGHT OF THE RUSSIANS >r. John H. F4tt- ley, New Yark , state commissi oner of education, who has just returned from Europe, where be made an exhaus tive study of conditions^ The selection of Hector. Finley i* in dicative of tile sort of experts with whom Colonel House will confer. No man or woman xxiiji a' preconceived opinion - widest might tempt one to color "circumstances mi as to prove the cor rectness of a personal point of. view will be permitted to participate^Uu a work where open-mindedness Is a pre requisite to the arrival at occlusions "that, will enable the government to de- teihqine upon a correct policy. . Prejudice td Be Barred. 5 HBmph:i>ii is put -'upon the. unalter able detenimqitio'n that nelthei’| pro ; fessldhal pmljRts imr confirmed mili tarists caiXKe. in nm slightest degree useful in preparing sYhi isto-s for gov ernmental guidance, withdi must Ik* Without taint of bias’. • - in an i: trrview Uotoneb,House made data wllF be compiled prl- assjst,-American representa- lic police conference, after the nay also be used in the mean- ielp guide the government in ng policies. It "has no bear- otiff- ing oh peace negotiations or n< tiofis ol any kind with fori igp. gwvern* monts. which, of course. coine within the province of the president and the state department. .X The United States government isn’t getting Teady- to enter into peace ne gotiations with Germany. • Isn’t going toXiTieddle In Strictly European^ Ques- viuns relating to the war, and isn’t ne gotiating just yet on the problems of peace‘xxiub tlie Entente. ,aA -has fre quently been^Aqriniseil. Mu5t Have Data in Advance. It is imp"rtrrnfforthe United States [government uoW and Avill lie CVCU, more important Inter on f«vjiave a so- cutled “wIki’s who and wluit’^. Vhat" in the war |m.prder that all phases in- duimmtul anaaidng of thii». aia ifs appointment docs not y 1 umlerstooi "without shedding m blood-, there Is po remission of sins!”—Frcrn Address .li^sltisliop.of. Fond du Lac. , Indicate any 'thought of -4nimediate | refer* peace Is now being entertained hy 4heJ in 1 United Stall's government.. He^a^rees ‘ fs»iIs with Lord Northcliffe'in hhXnessage ! matel delivered before the Ainpfiian Bank- j phihn ers’ association In Atlantic'City that I torial peace seems fnrX" and -America ! Brltal Should beware tjx^trh kery and trench- j’ found erv of such propaganda. Tin* .truth Is poleoi that this effort on the part of the rami Unlteil States to analyze war eondi- F^am lions and e\olvi* a plan of-.proeeedurc uatioi when hostilities end is a belated one, er K lust aK our ’ miHUirv \ preparations. eerne lagged for a period. But.-now It is to tin iHU-4na»p^ at ou« I ‘ ; I Etirope, sbbw s the first niad tljght of Buss tlertntiM caValry liavc woken through." w THE COST OF FELLOWSHIP It Is the'DisciplUne of Living With Peo pie That Develops Christ- J MAJ. GEN. F. S. STRONG WHERE CHURCH WAR COMMISSION MET tikendi fuiwers and io.stund-as. tin* chumppter living with others^ sweetly and har moniously is always self-forgetfulness, self-effacement. " But this cost, is'"’the very gold of life. It is the only anti dote for Selfishness. It is the way of Cliristllkene^s. People are means of grace to ns in many ways, and not In the smallest measure through the self-.' denials which we are required to make In living with them. It is the self-dis cipline of friendship und home and hu man fellowship that makes men and women of us, that makes us at last like 11. Excepting that Christ. We may thank God, therefore* for what people do for us In life’s cop- tacts. Sometimes we say certain per- that sons are hard to live with. Possibly will they find-us hard to live with, too. We do not know how many crotchets there itre in our disposition and temper, nyr hoW we try our friends by offr selfish^, ways.—Dr. J. It. Miller. . , iff the public rights of Kuropg*^ Prineii Tallcyraml maimjjwer«'d, and siiceessfuTly. accorditig^To tin* rules of a secret (lipimf'Hcy/'t He really worked in behalf of sellisli and na tionalistic interests. The- partitioning of Europe liy' the congress of W-Tnia xvus tlie oqteome of arbitrary cympro- tnlse; It xvivs prolific of future wars. The knowledge which the great dip-* lomatic exponent of France displayed was more comprehensive- than that of his foes, that Is a be recognizes the need of precise In formation, President Wilson acts up- "ii a. principle different from xvhjeli 'guided Talleyrand lie urge this nation into no alliance, even xvitli the nations with whom It 4s as sociated in the eoimnon war against the* Teutonic powers. lie proposes simply to.efLpIp himself \vith knowl edge pertinent to the jrights of all na tions in common with America asThey may he eoneerned hy the proceedings of the peace conference. . ' To Show War Aim^. spirit tlie president ' has ill el House'to. survey' the keep pace with an energetic prosecu tion of the contest, hut xxiil nut halt it In any xvay. To pause now in any pliase of belligerent endetivor niigtit make the prospect of peace evAn more remote fhun it st'emg at present. : No' Sign of Early Peace. The government sees nothing what ever to’ indfeiLto the early approach of pence, .nor \\ilT^Cotoncl House have anything to do xvitlr ascertaining the point of view of either the. .Entente .belligerents or the central powers, er. possible towns upon the basis of which they might lie willing to enter Into nV>- goflations. He will'remain In the Unit ed Sfates. \i Is possible* that the state department x\ill hp abb* to afford him aid in* the Work he has undertaken, buUhe xxfll (iot work xvitli the depart ment nor in a diplomatic capacity, for mal or informal. He wMl InUo'no title and will receive no salacv. • .” . The appointment, of Coloiiel..House affords another*JtWustration of the''(ex panding position of the United States In xvorhi-Ttffairs. Heretofore the state depirrmient has been equipped with Narrow Way of Living, 'PW- w;rr.<qitumi<si.*>i | of the I’rotestant Episcopal i is. in V'sslbn in completed portTiH^ril the noxv St. Alban's cathedral In''Washington niVUnlans raise half a ndilioiTHlpllars !o maintain a l»ishnp/of. fife <*hur< ; h in Eufiff'c, hd wilt look aft dr the spirituyT biter* -ts .of the-'American soldiers there. ^Thl^ umpission is compos**d of six BbsTiops, six clergymen and X&'Tayiilen.. , • *- In this' asked Co fi»*id of military, naval and’ political Is an attitude which makes, it almost' conditions in the countries of our en emies and our. friends; to get at the econmqie, political and .emotional state of things in every country, and to toll frankly to Great-- Britain, Russia. France, Italy and\the neutral jiowers- the-4hl^s -*t444R ^ve that- xve intend to -do. ln J[ thX x X' ur. Mor**. over, an attempt wilr be made to ifft the Heavy curtain .of censohdiip In' fJenhany 'and Aystrla-Uungaty, raLor- der to 'sprea*! among their peoplesNi comprehension of American War alias and potentialities. “ ... , Officials afo anxious that no impres sion should be created, ag'a result of Colonel House’s appointment* of any intention to star! peace negotiations in the nrttf* future* *So’far as tlie at titude -of. the United-States Is con- ceriu'd. the president’s reply to. the pdpo still ri'inalns, the unaltered view of the government bere. "/The iipb"iutnient of • Colonel House is recognition by The.-governmeru of. the faetthat the adjust inrhitof peace'' terms xyitl In* a very complicated pror reeding. #MM!iy .pp1 nts of dispute must be'settled, .tbiewons of all'sorts, economic, political, artdXistcrical, will come dp for discussion, and the -Anier- lcanjlelegates ini^st be forearmed with a mass of Information 6j\d statistical data-to meet every situation. Ntr-diR® concerning'present condT 1 * tidns in Gecmany or Ausirta Wllf ifome w lthLn the scope, of. Colonel House'* work,'as this would eome under ..“mil* Aiming tlie recenjly appointed major generals is Frederick S. Strong, who ; xvus horn in Michigan ii sited fmpi tin* Military 1870, and beeutm a Yuli in lfiiri^lT"^dqi" been ii branch of tin* sCrvict*. ITED STATES icmlerny In Ion b is stiiipilat*‘d'British search for sort)*' <ither fuel fop ftutmuohilCoal i ^U- s is- being_lried-*f«. .many 'eitie.s, and I lyVlnsul -Clailxirtie, at Bradford, Inti- nffttes that, ns Rk'chief disadvantage is Yits luilk, eimifdete. success iu Us use : awaits, only facbiUes fur ounpresslon <w. stonrge. As now ufied, the gas • drawn from tiu* main is ct*, riqd In a rubher-iiiie^ canvas bag ef 4 mattress ' sha{ki, xybdeii is.strapped to the top of me inotor oPtnilnt> or to \hy fgar of the iftROfinihi-Uv Tin* gas iiUthe bag is , <;unne< ted to tb^iinduciiou pi|>^ and •^Hie engine is xx^prkieil by the suction process in tic saniejtiaiiner as the oK dinary gajiu!i!i.* \ap.tLr'.induetiuu.- In a N. Rest Your Joul. ‘Rest youKsiiul by refflembering that one xvho f*‘«‘d>KJlic birds and elbthes the njies is aroubd you, ‘dose ■ as the air, xyarm. as the ennlight. with his careful cherishing y 1niiiNH-ies. . Learn from.the birds ami Tin* lilies to rest bn the loving cafe xvjudNenfolds you.—James Baldwin Brown. \ , and policies deeded must be at hand. It will he CoTotieJ^ouse’s functlon_to gather a corpfc of experts to.gef this material In form,for use. Others, how ever, ( .vxill prepare the brief. *With u exclusive - European problems. It is not expected that the- representa tives <ft tbr'Unt ted-States at the peace council ^BlU be concerned. But in the disposition of geneffll questions,, relat^ iiig to economic intercourse and po- iitrcal development whlch wfll. affect TirtuaUy ill the'natlons of the world: * Sweater Than Life. XRevenge is sweeter than life Itsei/r- so think'fools. ReVenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.—Juvenal - ;* isM^n of ilq;**** nun frdfti' Holland po will atfeLai»t P«» lit***, abolish inUdlTy 'fTr?' , 7 t mbarg (> 'hn fdWIs^ffs to tha 1 \ edin^Washlngt atb They are^ from left to right Joosi X T5iu_. Baidc, head of the mlssiohk and J. B. Van Der X- 3 / ^ f •' _ 'X T i.. -, f . ( W .*/.* • k a ■?*■**■ International Film Service m¥i m 4 Tm Z. • aj wkm .wt/ ^n