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TIIl'RSDAV, Jl'XK 1918. c
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Our cat says it is poor economy to ,
waste shot on a dead duek. ^
A man never got anywhere abusing '
his competitor except further in a hole. *
"It is too much education," says ,
one. "It is the need for greater room (
on the earth." says another, "people t
are too thickly populated." "It is ,
political," says another. "It is com- i
mercial," says another. "It is eco- y
nomic," says another. The Bible is j
more explicit and hits the nail on the
head, in the reason given for this and t
all other wars: "It is sin," says the 1
flood Book. Among us there had
arisen false prophets who said: "There '
is no such thing as sin, which is true,
for sin is not a "thing," hut a state
of heart. The gumshoe theologians j
and the broadguaged skeptics will have 1
to come back to earth. Sin is here; c
it is bringing forth its full fruit; '
there is not one single "thing" wrong ,
Him mti worm, nut trie world's heart t
is manifesting its fruitage?"sin w'hen
full prown. brings forth death." It is
a state of being that is wrong. Sin is
sending: out its offspring, evil deeds
of every kind, war being: but one of
the children.
ABOUT DIGGING A PIT
"He who digs a pit for his neighbor,
falls therein himself," or words
to that effect. It is transpiring every
day, sometimes in one guise, sometimes
another. You can see the picture?a
picture in very concrete form:
A man goes forth at night, stealthily,
and without notice. Pick and spade
alternate as an instrument of his
hands. Through the hours of dark
uess in.- ions; xrom the work of his !
hands prows a pit, a deep pit, with
perpendicular wtalls; the loose dirt is
carefully distributed about the mouth
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of the pit; slender twips are placed I
over its mouth; dead leaves are scattered
over the mouth, hidinp it completely
from the eye of the chance
passerby. "Ah! ha!" says the builder
of this hidden trap, "now, I will be
avenped of my neiphbor; now will
T have sweet revenpe for the insults
be has heaped upon me," and straiphtway
poes to his house and about the
business 0f the day, forpettinp for the
time, all about the pitfall he has dup
for his neiphbor. Now, it so happened
that this wicked neiphbor had a
son, fair to look upon, and dear as
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the apple of his eye. This son, the j1
idol of the home, gun in hand, dogsj*
following him. goes forth early in the ^ }
morning to hunt for game that j f
abounds in that community. The fond i
mother, with willing heart, bids him
a happy adieu.
Now it came to pass that at noon (,
the plantation bell is sounded, calling i
the laborers from the fields. Tt is also a
to be the sound that is to call the son r
from the hunt. At dinner time the,
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mother anxiously scans the road, but c
gets no sight of the approaching form i:
of the beloved son. The father quiets'^
the mother's fears: "Our son will '1
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soon return; our hoy has hut traveled :
further than usual." The afternoon j j,
Wears away, and finally the setting, r
sun marks the time when the labor-'e
ers are to be railed from the fields I ^
at the close of the day's labor. Again '
the mother fcoes out, and with deep'o
anxiety scans the road. Still no sight jv
of the beloved son. The mother in u
frantic alarm and the father approach- ^
ing that state of mind, send out ser- s
vants to search for the missing boy. e
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)ilifrcnt search fails to find hue. on'
'hrough the hours of the night the
has
. eary searchers continue to seek for j)ec
he missing boy. At the rising of the- ter
un the next morning the father, liav- be
ng searched through the nignt, is reurnitig
home, his search and that of
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he servants proving* fruitless. Su'l- ^aj,
lenly he stops; unwittingly he has cor
ipproached the place where the hid- nui
len pitfall is, that his hands ! ; ve
ashioned; a horror grips his heart!
What if no it cannot be," yet he ?
Iraws near, he heholds an opening in div
he top of the hidden trap; in great >n
tVic
igonv he peers into the deep pit, and
Pei
ees?his only son, broken in body, a j
>ody rigid in death, stretched prone nie
it the bottom of the pit. "lie who ass
ligs a pit for his neighbor, falls
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herein himself," or his property does; j
i, ins son noes; or. ms uaugnier does; i
>r, his wife does. No man ever yet gri
ought the destruction of his neighbor in
>ut that in so doing he journeyed K
ere
learer the compassing of his own de- ^
traction. A man slanders his neightor;
somehow, the lie is a boomerang, 00(
lying back and winding itself around ^,e
lis own neck A man cheats his ^
of
leighbor; and thieves follow upon his 0j.y.
mvYi track. A man strikes at his ad1
leighbor in the dark, and upon his ? r
lir
iwn track stalks the assassin. A
nan burns his neighbor's house, and. 1
ipon his own trail there follows the
neendiary and the murderer.
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After all, there is a Just Ruler of
he world, and He has willed it; it is tJK
His law, and it is just. am
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>NK MILLION Ca
YOUTHS REGISTERED in
we
Washington, June 5.? (iCorre- neA
ipondenee of the Associated Press)?
Today, on the anniversary of Ameri- ^h(
:a's first manpower mobilization, an>ther
million youths, the estimated f'e?
strength of the class of 1918, regis- *i?
,er on the first station of the journey (^'s
o the colors.
When their draft registration cards j r
ome into their hands, they come to|^re
,he disposition of a swift, smoothly-1a^'
vorking and practiced organization, wo
vhose agencies in every country-side, lce
lamlet, and city of the land have asturned
successfully the task of discriminating
between the nation's need su<
for men who can fight or work, and vo
its additional need for men to support
its dependent population. -^r
Observers, foreign and domestic, s^r
nilitary and civilian alike, class the
jerformance to date under the Ameri- ^el
an selective service Jaw as the most ^OI
.anglibly successful of its military ef- 1116
'orts, and regard the accretion to the ^ei
nanpower reservoir of the youiiK- '"u
iters who had not reached their ma- ^ar
iority one year ago as the most cer- lwa
a in assurance of the final downfall of !co1
he Prussian autocracy. Be it near or!
'ar, the day of Allied victory cannot.cr<
>e evaded, the practical military
,'iew is, so long as the risincr flood of
he American armies, drilled, equip-! P?
)ed and equipping, can be turned to' *ei
he European battlefront. j*?
Provost-Marshal General Crowder,
vho supervises the draft, fixes the ^
entative number given above for the Ica
lay's new total, and likewise from!ffn
he experience tables of the year I
daces the number of potential sol-l|n
lier to be added to the list today at)1*"
r50,000, concluding that the class will j '1C
>e 75 per cent composed of military cr<
'Ifectiveness. ^h<
As they assemble at the register- '
ng stations today, the total of men ma
aised by the draft in the United 1^?
States for its armies will pass 1,300,-11*"
)00. Before the end of the present;^*?
nonth, the mobilized total will have!1?1
massed 1,500,000, for tho immense1me
nilitary machine that owes its exist nee
to the readiness of plain Ameri- ^ec
ans to fight is moving forward to a
foal that will meet President Wil- W1
ion's demand for "force, force to the ^UI
itrnost, and force without stint."
The 1.500 local boards throughout ov<
he country who take the burden of an
he work have named registering
lerks for every 100 of the young
nen within their jurisdiction. Men
hsent unavoidably from their homes ^
egistering day may apply to any S(M
ioard for their cards. Names as re- VO'
orded will pass into the existing ^
lassifications of registered men and,
n accordance with their physical
nullifications, their status as to de.
nr.,1 ? o. ~ .1. ... *-( - 1 ~
initin r? <uni c?r? IIIIIUAII 1(11 UI .
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icultural occupations,- they will be
issitrned to Class One, Two, Three, : '
our or Five. The overwhelming
najority, however, as indicated by the ^
stimate driven, the provost marshal
feneral expects to find placed in USI
31ass One. u'
They will to to the foot of the list mt
f 1917 registrants in each class and ' "
pill not be called, the regulations
intil those above them have been
aken, unless by trade or education ,|f.f
hey are fitted for specialized army
ervice, then they maybe called soon- p,-j
r. The system of determining the to
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er of their call as among them. es
the provost marshal general
i not yet fixed, but the general extation
is that some sort of a loty
of the type previously used, will
conducted on a national scale. Yet
this officials are not certain, beise
the recurring draft calls come
re swiftly, and run to larger tos
now, and the classification has
ne to be more important than the
nbers. A late order number will
ve only to postpone for a few days
. inevitable call to the training
nps.
National purpose to see that no iniduals
evade service is expressed
the regulations, wherein are voiced
i command of the government to
ice officers of all descriptions, UnitStates
marshals, Secret Service
n, and city police, that they shall
i?st exemption boards in scanning
;s and combing out attempted
uiers of the registration,
figures available show that no
ier country participating in the
;at war has the actual resources
men that the United States has.
ainst the provost marshal genii's
estimate of 1,000,000 for the
lerican military class of 1918,
ich is added to the almost 10,000,)
total of 1917, can be placed the
rman annual increment of 600,000,
? French of 400,000 and the Italian
350,000. And all these classes in
ier countries have been called in
vance.
:rm an \avai7 a it ii kg it y
says america's entering
toe war won't help allies
Mew York, June 4.?(Correspond e
of the Associated Press)?Arr.ern
participation in the war, and in
tight against German submarines
1 in the ship-building, program
re belittled by Vice Admiral von
pelle, German minister of the navy
his speech in the Reichstag a few
eks ago, as reported by German
vspapers received here.
'The military help of America in
i first year of the war was very
;le regarding troops and airplanes,"
dared von Capelle. "The expectan
of our enemies has been greatly
appointed. If America later wants
maintain half a million troops in
ance it wili need permannently a
light space (in steampships) of
out 2,000,000 tons which again
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uiu uc ut'pit-tiaieu xiuiii cue servof
supplying her allies.
'According to American and Britl
statements, the participation of
;h a large army is no longer inlved
in this campaign.
"In order to carry out the gigantic
nerican program of shipping con-,I
miction, the ship-yards must first be I
ilt. In 1917 America, following all
r huge promises, built 750,000 gross
is of sea-going ships. The large
;rchant fleet which America has orred
is not being built for the war
t in order to take the place of Engld
as the world's shipper after the
ir when the ships will have been
mpleted."
Discussing the economic situation
>ated by America's entrance into
s war von Capelle pointed out that
i1 United States was the mose imrtant
source of supplies for the finite
nations but he added?"Owing
the tremendous armament program
President Wilson, such economic
Acuities have developed that Ameri,
the land of export, must now bel
to ration herself instead, as had
imi hoped, to aid the Entente nations
increasing measures. All in all,
can be said that the economic difulties
of our enemies have been incased
by America's entrance into
? war.
In reply to charges that the Gerin
submarine-building program
s not progressing as rapidly as
should, von Capelle admitted that
rmany's enemies had attained cern
successes in their defensive
asures against the U-boats. But,]
added, "they have at no time afrted
the U-boat warfare in any way
jisively and, according to foresight
II not be able to do so in the fu e."
'The American U-boat chasers
i-r which much fuss has been made,
j a failure.
'The convoy system which gives
j ships a certain protection on ths
ier hand has great disadvantages,
ere is not a day in which one or
/eral ships are not shot out of conys."
IMPACT ADAPTER DOUBLES
CAPACITY OF A SOCKET
A new adapter with wliich a single
'ctric socket can be utilized to sup;
current through two cords at once
illustrated in the June Popular Meanics
Magazine. It is especially
ractive to the householder, or other
i*r, because so compact. Hemispheril
filugs for the two cords are fitted
o suitable recesses provided in opsite
ends of the fixture.
The sinking of those hoats off the
r suy cuasi win wnae up our cuaat
Fonse to keener watchfulness,
['he kaiser may give the crown
nee an iron cross, hut Koch is proinpr
cross him off the Flanders line.
SUBMARINE CRUISER
STORIES CHIMERICAL
London, June 4.?Stories of Germany's
submarine cruisers may be
dismissed, says Archibald S. Hurd.
widely known writer on naval subjects
in an article appearing in tint
Daily Telegraph.
"They are merely large submarines
such as we have been building," he:
says. 'They do not represent a tri- J
umph of German engineering any
more conspicuous than a triumph our
shipbuilders have achieved. It was
because Genpan submarines of about
800 tons could remain at sea only a
short time were very uncomfortable
and the conditions were very telling
on the nerves of the crew that the enemy
evolved a large type modeled on
the Deutschland. This type, having
been designed, it was decided to indulge
in exaggeration in order to impress
the world.
"What is the truth about the German
submarines?" he continues.
"These 'cruisers' displace not 5,000
tns, hut about 2,000. They are not
450 feet long, but less than 300 feet.
Their speed on the surface is not 28
k?ots, but about 12 knots. When
snknerged they do not travel at the
raKH)f 15 knots an hour, but approximately
10 knots or so.
"It hanpens that we have heard
more about the operations cf German
pi'hmarines than about the British
.simply because the en era v c.lT?vs few
targets for our submarines, while we
offer the enemy thousands of targets
every week. The percentage of hits
by our submarines is, in fact, about
three times that of the Germans,
which in itself indicates the high
standard of efficiency of British ship
design, construction and operation.
"The work which British submarines
are doing is magnificent. Our
officers are handicapped by many
things besides the small number of
targets afforded them. The Germans
are able to maintain their campaign
only by defying every law of every nation
and ignoring the ordinary dictates
of humanity. There is nothing
easier than murder."
PASSENGERS FARES WILL
BE ADVANCE!) JUNE 10
Substantial advances in passenger
fares will go into effect at 12:01 a. m.
Monday, June 10, in compliance with
jrecent order issued by Director|
General McAdoo. The advances are
fur-reaching in their effect, and should
I e understood thoroughly by all who
contemplate a journey in the near
future.
George H. Bower, general passen
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i y<-i *"i nnj iiiiiiois v^eiami
Railroad, yesterday made a digest
| from the numerous orders he has received
from the United States Railroad
Administration with reference to
the advance in passenger rates.
Herewith is a summary of the or-,
ders as given out by Mr. Bower:
All passenger fares, both intrastate
and interstate, on a low'er basis than
three cents per mile, will be advanced
t.. ihree cents per miles, but no fares
in excess of three cents per mile, in
effect principally in the west, will be
reduced.
Mileage books and excursion tickets.
except summer tourist rates, will
be discontinued. Veterans of the G.
A. R. and U. C. V., however, may
travel to their reunions at the rate
of one cent per mile on presentation
of certificates from their respective
camps.
ircuitous routes are to be abolished.
Murses, soldiers, sailors and marines
in uniform, traveling at their
own expense, will be granted a rate
of one cent per mile.
Children under five years old will
continue to ride free; children under
12 at half fare, and children over 12
4.
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retain their shape and s1
season.
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TAR AND FEATHER SUIT from
day at
VicksburK, Miss., June 4.?Deelar- overht
inpr that he was a German symna- in the
thizer and eaperly awaits tlie day uttera
when the German forces will invade Abo
this country, which he is alleeed to procee
have declared would surely happen down
within two or three years. W. M. of tea
Wilkerson, who stated to the authori- patrio
ties that he was a native of Missis- of the
sippi, was arrested, placed in jail and prever
afterwards treated to a coat of tar was i
and feathers by citizens of Delhi, La., countj
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ling to reports reaching this city
<lay.
kerson was taken from a V. S.
passenger train, while en route
this city to Monroe, La., Mon
, the instance of passengers w*ho
;ard his remark* He was placed
city jail, charged with disloyal
nces.
ut midnight a body of citizens
ded quietly to the jail, broke
the door and completed the job
iching the prisoner a lesson in
tism. Interference on the part
j authorities, in all probability,
ited further bodily harm, and he
mmediately transferred to the
' jail at Rayville.
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