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The Wilson Theory Of Democracy (From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.) It is possible to talk a thing into life. It is even easier to talk a thing to death. Carlyle said modern democracy was the result of printing. The neswpaper opened the floodgates of publicity. Mr. Wilson recognized the power of the press twenty-five years ago, when he wrote: "When all sources of information are accessible to all men alike, when the world's thought and the world's news are scattered broadcast where the poorest may find them, the nondemocratic forms of government must find life a desperate venture. Exclusive privilege needs privacy, but elder patterns needs sanctity, but can find it nowwhere obtainable in a world of news items and satisfied curiosity. The many will no longer receive submissively the thought of a ruling few, but insist upon having opinions of their own." There are echoes of this early conviction in Mr. Wilson's use of press publicity; in his arraignment of the German autocracy; in his attempts to stimulate discussion in Germany. The facts of the world today bear him out. For example, difficult as it has been to get a true account of what is going on in Russia, the enterprise of the press is every day piecing together the large design. The precise views of M. Trotsky on world socialism, his plan to uproot the capitalist ^-.tem pvtrywhere, his version of this war as being not between nations, but between Germany, while it can keep news out, can not keep news in. But mighty as are the forces of the press. Mr. Wilson went on to say in the essay quoted -1 nuuve; "No one can fail to preceive that they are inadequate to produce of themselves such a government as ours The influences of popular education, of the press may only confuse and paralyze the mind with their myriad stinging lashes of excitement. They overwhelm one with impressions, but do they give stalwartness to his manhood?" The big point that he leads up to is that not mere talk, not mere wildeyed revolution and stormy protest can erect a democratic government. "There is almost nothing in common between popular outbreaks such as took place in France at her great Revolution and the establishment of a government like our own. Democracy in Europe, outside of closeted Swtizerland, has always acted in rebellion, as a destructive force. Democracy in America, on the other hand, and in the English colonies has had, almost from the first, a truly or- i iranic ktowiii. v/ur democratic | i State was not a piece of developed theory, but a piece of developed ha- I hit . T?- was not created by mere I aspirations or by new faith, it was ' built up bv slow custom. An imma-! ture people could not have had it. < Such government as ours is a form of conduct, and its only stable foun-1 dation is character. A particular form of government may no more be adopted than a particular type of j character. Democracy, far from bo- ! ir.g a crude form of government, is' possible only among peoples of the highest and steadiest political habit. It can never be made to sit easily or safely on first generations. It is poison to the infant, but tonic to the man." This sober conservatism is not the side of Mr. Wilson that it is the fashion of the day to applaud. We hail the Russion revolution as the greatest event of our times, as a thrilling promise of a good time coming, but } 3 VTTj" dTj ?? pniSEKY, whole-hi V-y Southern hospitali BEB almost a magic phrase t< But really it stands for gawp friendship, cordiality and guessed it) lots of delicious jdM Luzianne Coffee is alw iBU eluded in Southern hos because it tastes so good, grant hot coffee for peop know what's good?that's Li Good old Luzianne fl um-m-m f?better try som jk Your grocer has it?anc jfl aren't satisfied, he'll giv |)E every cent?honest 1 44 Whoa It Po COLONEL JOHN NANCE Col. John Nance Is chief of the balloon division of the United States aviation service. not as the completed product of a mature democracy. Making the world safe for democracy, in the Wilsonian philosophy, is making it safe from kings and from mobs alike. The world prays for sufficient stability of government in Russia to save her from a return of Czarism, to make her voice sound ever clearer the prophecy of libery through Germany's eastern gates. But it is we in our maturity who must teach Russia democracy, and not she who must teach us, grown men in the art of the checks and balances of liberty. Revolution, not anarchy, is what Germany needs. Revolution is not anarchy. It is the opposite of anarchy. "Revolution must always be for something respectable," as Chesterton puts it. It will do no good to urge Germans to imitate, but to surpass, the Russians in democracy. The President's policy of supreme patience with Russia implies supreme impatience with German autocracy. The more friendship we hold out to the budding, Russian Government the more relentless fighting must we threaten for its arch-enemy. A CHILD'S TONGUE SHOWS IF LIVER OR nrvll rTiT i ? DUWtiLS A It Hi AL11VK If Cross, Feverish. Sick, Bilious, Give Fruit Laxative at Once. Every mother realizes, after giving her children "California Syup of Figs," that this is their ideal laxative, hecause they love its pleasant taste and it thoroughly cleanses the tender little stomach, liver and bowels without griping. When cross, irritable, feverish or breath is bad, stomach sour, look at the tongue, Mother! If coated, give a teaspoonful of this harmless "rvuit laxative," and in a few hours all ike foul, constipated waste, sour bil" and undigested food passes out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. When its little system is full of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ach3. diarrhoea, indigestion, colic?remember, a good "inside cleansing" should always be the first treatment given. Millions of mothers keep "California Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a teaspoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for a bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has directions for babies, children of all ages and grown-ups printed on the bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold here, so don't be fooled. Get the genuine, made by "California Fig Syrup Company." goodies! ^2':^ ^ rays inpitality ura. It Roi&na" NERVE OF BOBBIES Police Display Thoroughness That Astonishes Colonials. London of Today a Marvel, Forming One of the Most Important War Centers of Entire World. A Rhodeslnn who has arrived In England to "Join up," after service In the three campaigns undertaken by the South Africans, assures me of his astonishment at the tact and thoroughness exhibited In tire dully work of mlUtary police, says a writer in Westminster Gazette. The London of today Is, Indeed, a never-ending marvel to the colonial soldier. It forms one of the most Important military centers of tho world. It Is Inhabited by a floating population draw from one of the most cosmopolitan -mies In history?an army, too, that is in no way remarkable for the gentleness of its fighting methods when the game's afoot Yet as my South African friend phrased it "the whole mob I goes about on its business and its pleasures like a small flock of contented sheep with a couple of well-j trained dogs behind them." Things were not always managed1 that way in the early days of the forces raised by the dominions in the j first year of war. My Informant illustrates the contrast with an incident that came under his notice while his regiment lay intrenched at Swakopmund during the "German Southwest" cnmpalgn. One morning the j men of the Union advanced posts saw; approaching them from the desert | three living skeletons, who staggered like drunken men as they groped i their way blindly through the fur-1 nace of sand. A comrade lay help- j less a mile or so behind, too far gone I to walk. He was brought in later, unconscious, but still alive. The four heroes?captives in the hands of the Hun?had preferred the chances of death to the grim certainty of a cruel, and galling captivity, and had managed to escape from their Jailers under cover of darkness. Practically without food and, for the most part, without water, they had traveled some hundreds of miles?from one end of the vast territory to the other. Almost naked, the Ice-cold winds of night had crippled them, hunger hnd robbed them of their strength, and thirst hnd all but driven them to madness. They had escaped "by the skin of their teeth" from both vengeful Hun and prowling lion. And an officious military policeman greeted them on their arrival in the British lines with the order that they were not to loiter in the streets of the townl "Up Again!" When we were little shavers, toddling about the house and went down on the floor or the ground because our feet could not keep up with our ambition to run and "get there" right off; grandmother, a lovely old down East lady, would sing ont to us: "Up again I Never mind I That didn't hurt you ! Up again!" So up again we would jump, all the hurt gone, jusi because grandmother cheered us to try it over again, writes Vincent In Farm Life. Sam Jones has had the luck < f had crops two or three years. Things have seemed against him. But he lias been as bravo as a lion. No frost can ever come that froze the smile from his face or withered the hope in his heart! And he Is right at it this year, just as if ho had had the best of luck all through the years. But I wonder who of his neighbors has been down to sing out to Sum: "Up nguin, old man! This Is all right 1 You'll come out all right?can't help It J" I don't know of anybody that has had time to look up from his own hoeing and plowing and digging long enough to do that; It's a shame, tool Come on' Let's go down right now and cheet Sain up a bltl Maybe we can give him a lift at the work, too. AJ1 the world will be the brighter for It after that?to Sam and to you and to me, writes Vincent In Farm Life. Codfish for Trench Soldiers. The codfish array is no dream. It arrives In the trenches somewhere In Fra.ice at the rate of 5,000.000 pounds a week. On Its strength of "twt> breakfasts and one fish dinner" Canadian and British "Tommies" are kept up to their working mark. Cannda herself is helping to solve the food problem by having two fish days a week?Tuesdays and Fridays, notes a correspondent. With this great demand for fish the Nova Scotia fisherman s. tiers neither fog, nor rain, nor ice, nor snow, nor darkness nor submarine to Interfere wtth his task of supplying the dominion and the empire with fish In quantities never paralleled in history. Time Will Tell. Nora?Do you think marriage is always a fnllure? Ada?Always n fnllure I Well, I should say not. Why, I know a case where a wife fairly Idolizes her husband, and he?why, he can't keep away from her a minute. Nora?Bless me, how long have they been married? Ada?Nearly a week. Clever. "Clever, isn't he?" "Very. He can even persuade bii small boy who wakes at seven o'clock 8unday morning, ready for play, to go *??fk to *leep for another hour or two.** I Baker Will Not Be The "Goat" Secretary of War is Little, But He Has Always Proved Himself to be Very Loud. Cleveland, O., Jan. 29.?Almost ; any Clevelander who has been lined ; up with or against Newton D. Baker ! back here in his home town, will lay you a bet on this: That the effort of politicians to make a "goat" of the secretary of war, will NOT succeed. The business of being the center of a big fight is not new to Baker. A.s city solicitor and aid to Tom L. Johnson and as mayor and Johnson's successor in the battles to make I Cleveland a "City on a Hill," Baker | fought bitter and powerful opponents and interests for many years. With President Wilson standing firmly behind him and his owr. ability to dispose of political enemies, Baker's "home town" has no doubt of the utcome. Baker has a fighting jaw, not unlike that of the Dresidenf and ho Vma an uncanny habit of being on the right side of a fight. "A pacifist who never played with 'oy soldiers as secretary of war!" coff his enemies. But there are pacifists and pacifists. Baker is as intolerant of peaceat-any-pricers as he is of inefficiency. His own statement is: "I believe in peace and in the proper enforcement of the laws of peace?by force if necessary." This little man with the strong jaw and the whimsical eyes is a "human little cuss," but he never has been a "slap-'em-on-the-back" politician and he never will be. A Cleveland reporter once asked him. "Why don't you thaw out? A lot of people don't know how human you are because you won't warm up to 'em. Why don't you cuss once in a while?" The next time that reporter entered Baker's office Baker greeted him thus: "Come in, damn it, sit down!" But it sounded so strange he never tried it again. Baker's working knowledge of the English language is so complete that he doesn't need cuss words. It has been said of him that "he can talk longer, more fluently and more convincingly on any subject without notice than any man in the United States." That mny be exaggeration. But he can talk! Long political campaigning has < sharpened his natural ability at the art of repartee. Roosevelt, who's out to get him now, knows something about his ability in that line, as the ' result of the many letters exchanged I >.ir BaW ~..,i t r> ?l. iU- ? "J I dim 1. XV. WIU-II tilt? lilUtT wanted to lead a division to France. After he was graduated from John Hopkins and Wnshington-T.ee, Baker nractieed law for a while in Martinsl.nre, W. Va. Previously he had been secretary to former Postmaster Gen-i oral Wilson. He came to Cleveland in 1S07 and hocked up with Tom Johnson, who said of him: "Raker is a little mental giant." II" was elected city solicitev three times and fouths ai* Johnson's side throu h ihe three-cent street <,,r fere fight. He looked 'ike a boy in court, but he handled the months' 'itifration in this case so well that the legal lights arraigned against him?some o? the best in the country?first sat up to take notice, then went down in defeat. Raker was first elected mayor of Cleveland in 1011 by the biggest majority ever given a mayoralty winner. As mayor he fought for and won a municipal electric light plant that sells current at a maximum of three cents a killowat an hour and forced down the private lighting and power company rates. He won the lake front case?a battle with the powerful railroad interests that involved thirty million dollars worh of property. And then he turned around and got the railroads he had beaten to agree to build a magnificent Union depot for Cleveland. The war has held up this project. Nope, Baker's friends are not troubled. He has come out on top many times in fights just as bitter with opponents just as powerful, if the stakes weren't so high.? So much better is the French lanfWiiarvA 4- V* r* r* flin rrl J a V> /1!a IS MMftV UIMII l/?V ? ??*S AV/i WOtance telephoning that expert operators have transmitted messages from Paris to London at rate of 190 words a minute. The inventor of a steel railroad tie that also serves as a cattle guard claims it can he laid in half the j time required for a wooden tie and it will prevent wrecks caused by rails spreading If plans for standardizing the gauge of the railways of Australia as recommended by the chief engineer of the different lines be carrier! out, . it will means an expenditure of $180,000,000. ii Ovcrnigl ! for Con: 'TpHE mild, pica? S nation of simple m pepsin that is know Syrup Pepsin, taken S will afford grateful pi ing, without griping ? Dr. Cal ? Rvrnrv - 1 UF ? The Perfect m ? SOLD BY DRUGG1S' s 50 cts. (Z ? ^ * aa A trial bottle can l>e obtained, ? Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 457 Was! MMMUBUHUMI Put on the Bevo Glasses whe table for the bite you've prepared the evening. As a suggestion for Cream cheese and chopped olive brown bread). Dill pickles, Shrim Bevo. Itself a nutritive drink, Bevo mnl and delightful addition to any m< light or heavy. Bevo?the all-year-'roum Sold in bottlea only and bottled t Anheuser-Busch?st. 2.>n = An Appreciation of ( Cainp Entertainment To The Training Camp Commission: ( Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. Jan. 31st.?The thing I saw last night has given me the greatest thrill in years. I stood in the back of the tent in Spartanburg and say eleven hundred men in uniform singling ^ with pleasure and excitement as the j Artists wenth through their stunts. 1 aught the spirit of the men in khaki, j T oft ur f bn oV?Anr a1- - - ? 1 * . v..^ o?.v/v> tiiivu^ii trifir eyes, I j laughed with them, sane: with them, c and pounded my fists in unison with * their mighty applause. I, too, was lonseome and away < om home. The contagion of the t thing swept me into the full tide of i their enthusiasm. I found myself f instinctively cheering at. the colse of j a catchy song, and was more than1 j once on the point, of thumping a I i neighboring private on the hack in ! j hearty commendation of something j that pleased the elemental man with- j in me. t And now in my critical moments I know that the show was just ordinary. But out there, drawn into the collective personality of that hilarious unit, I saw beauty coloring the drab monotony; fragile feminine charm to balance the accustomed brute strength of the mass; the spickand-span habiliments of civilization to offset the primitive limitations of social ostracism; laughter, jests and * - i?'? - v - pviik tn imiiisii iur it nriei wniie trie loneliness and the intilerable mono- , tony of a soldier's life. And during , the evening there was tender senti- ] ment on the bill which under other circumstances might seem mawkish; but here it only called to the surface the hidden things a man will bury in his heart undo* the assumed indif- 1 fereace of a harsh extent,r. For awhile -as, night these men ( forgot drill uncomfortable hunk- j houses, weariness and the enemy they are being trained to kill. They I found a friendly companionship in ' the shoulder-to-shoulder informality * of the meeting and a relaxation in the community singing. Ana tney left without sacrificing any of their self-respect. It was a i clean show. They had seen and heard young ladies, who might easily have been their own sisters, doing their bit to add a little cheer and bring a little color into the lives of : a set of men away from home and hungry for the human touch and the ( refining influence of feminine charm. And when it was all over they filed it in orderly fashion, showing in i their bearing that they bore the utmost respect for the whote institution. . , J Cordially, O. E. Behymer. . . * tit Relief " " a stipation | . ant-tasting combi- jj ' laxative herbs with 3 n as Dr. Caldwell's ? M just be!ore bedtime, 3 relief next morn- 3 or other discomfort, 5 Idwell's '& m Pepsin [ IutXiiiive S N n PS V.VKRYVVHKRK :?) $1.00 ? n M free of charge, hy writing to 9 lington St., Montiivllo, Illinois gj a u S in you set the for the guests of a dainty lunch: sandwiches (on p salad, Ice cold res an appetizing ?al? hot or cold, a soft drink. = ======= J :alomel dynamites a sluggish liver "rashes Into Sour liile. Making You Sick and You I?xe a Day's Work. Calomel salivates! It's mercury, "alnmel acts like dynamite on a sluggish liver. When calomel comes into ontact. with sour bile it crashes into t, causing cramping and nausea. If you feel bilious, headachy, consti>ated and all knocked out, just go to mur druggist and get a 50 cent bottle >f Dodson's Liver Tone, which is a larmless vegetable substitute for dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful ana f it doesn't start your liver an* straighten you up better and quicker liar, nu-.ty calomel and without makng you sick, you just go back and jet your money. If you take calomel today you'll be (ick and nauseated tomorrow; beside*, t may salivate you. white if you tak* Dodson's Liver Tone you will wake up 'eeling great, full of ambition and eady for work or play. It's harmless, deasant and safe to give to children; hey like it. QUICK LOANS. Money to loan upon county or city eal estate. Loan may be had for from me to twenty ye^rs. tO-tf Barron & Barron. NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS From January 1st to February 20, 1918, the County Auditor's l>ooks win be open for makinp returns. An who are liable to taxation will pleas* see that their returns are properly made. All real estate and personal property have to be returne/L Poll Tax from twenty-one to sixty. All returns must be made by School Districts. If you have property in mow than one District make return fo? sach District. Also make returns af transfers of real estate frern out nnrt\r fn n Your failure to make returns call for fifty per cent penalty arf prescribed by law. Will be in oifice all of January except as stated below: Carlisle, January 22. Santuc, January 23. I.ockhart, January 24. Adamsburg, January 25th, in the morning. Kelton, January 25 in the eveaing. Jonesville, January 29. Buffalo, February 5. Union Mills, February 6. Monarch Mills, February 7, in tha morning. Ottaray Mills, February 7, in tha evening. West Springs F(4|ruary 8. Cross Keys Wilbilrn's Store, February 13, in the morning. , Sedalia, Minter's Store, February 13, in the evening. Goshen Hill, February 14, at BIfcct Rock. J. S. Betcnbaugh, 19-tf. County Auditor.