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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
War and Suffering Needed
To Create Real Literature
Shan F. Bullock, in the Chicago Post.

ohan r. Bullock, in the Chicago Post.
have often though it one of our ma
elohal mlSfortunes that England has
never suffered the chastisement of a
state or war. How far this misfortune
winch may call a blessing has affected
our national character for good and i'll
IS d problem for philosophy; but any
ana art can see that they lack some-
.nlhs you can find easily in the litera-
.ure OF countries that have experienced
tae scourge of war. Take French art
ana literature. for example, or Russian
art and literature n music, and COM
pare these with the similar manifesto
Mons of national character in this
country. Compare Tschaikowsky's
1nusic-the Pathetic Symphony" for
eNalmple-with "Pomp and Circum-
stance Tolstoy's Peace and War"
"lth-What3 Or compare French ar:
as III is represented at the Louvre with
ours as it can be seen in the state gall
,eIS-so pastoral, SO tame, so insular. so
little concerned with emotions. agonies
ideas. 1 think the same may be said if
we compare French and English verse:
certainly it must be said if we turn
from English to French fiction.
Novels and War.
a one form. What English nov
elfst has ven written a war novel
worth the reading? There are echoes
OF war in Thackeray. rumblings from
Malplaquet and Waterloo, just as there
are echoes Of invasion in Blackmore
and Hardy, of sea fights in Smollett
and Marryat; but there is nothing ac-
tual. nothing that has been seen and
experienced. If we want a background
we must go back to the civil wars or
the Norman invasion, or up to the Scot
land of the Covenanters which Scott
has depicted in immortal fashion.
Nothing has happened in England to
stir its bovine placidity worse than
Chartlst riots. corn law agitators, DEM
onstrations by militant women, party
a~ntagonislns. frantic disputes whether
our children shall or shall not be taught
the bible in school,. The effect of all
this patent in our fiction-the 'ostlers
and coach roads Of Dickens, the mills
and pastures Of George Eliot. the do
mestic passions of Charlotte Bronte, the
social cynicisms of Thackeray, the lit
tie lronies of Hardy, the elaborate par
ish subtleties of Meredith. Nothing
elemental stirring the ape and the beast
IN us. nothing t%hrillingly national lift
Ing US to the music of the "Marseil-
laise," nothing recording all those HUI
mutations, agonies. enormities, all those
unimagined emotions which you find
expressed everywhere in French fic-
tion-in Russian fiction, too. Read
those inimitable "Gontes du Lundi,' by
Daudet. Where in English literature
is a story in the same world with La
Derniere Classe." with "Boule de Stuff"
with 'L'Attague du Moulin" with all
Hugo. with Zola's "Debacle."
Tho Circutmscribed English.
You can't find them. Our novelists
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
COUNTRY AWAKE TO DANGER
Legislation Dealing With TubercuIo-
sis Has Been Enacted in Ma
jority Of the States.

Legislation dealing with tuberculo-
Sis has been enacted in IS states and
territories of the United States, &C.
cordlng to a comprehensive bulletin
on this subject published by the Ma
tlonal Association for the Study and
prevention Of tuberculosis. Only in
the states of Arizona, Idaho. Nevada,
Wyoming and Alaska has the sub
Ject been given no legislative consid-
Grafton.
State tuberculosis sanatoria to the
lumber of AZ have been established
IN 80 different states. Special laws
providing for the establishment OF
local hospitals by municipalities or
counties have been passed in ID states.
In "a states laws are in force provid-
ing for the reporting and registra-
ton of living cases Of tuberculosis.
In four states, New York, New Jer-
say, Wisconsin and Minnesota, spe-
clal laws have been enacted giving
state and local health authorities pow
er to emove and detain t%uberculous
persons who menace the health of
their families or associates. Six
states, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Mime
sofa, New York and Texas, have laws
which give the people the privilege of
voting at general or special elections
on the establishment of county or mu-
nlcipal tuberculosis hospitals. Massa-
chusetts, Minnesota. New Jersey, Wis.
consin and Washington grant sub
sides ranging from So to SIS per week
to such local hospitals. Laws prohib-
iting splitting in public places have
been enacted in more than twenty
states.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28

were not born to write them, had no
country inspiring them thereto. A ma
ton of shopkeepers-a people given
over to the production of record trade
returns-a race of 200 creeds and one
sauce-a nation shut in to content
ment, enjoyment, placidity by her
wooden walls and silver sea. Why,
the sight of soldiers in our suburban
streets and parks draws crowds of
curious onlookers. A general in uni
FORM crossing from the war office to
the admiralty draws all eyes. We
see our fleet. Our battlefelds are
all over the world. and the bones of
our soldiers everywhere but in Eng
land. All of which may be our good
fortune under the dispensation of the
same God who sustains the Emperor
William-but it is our misfortune also
those good folk who are Willing time
by discussing the neglect of art and
literature the red blood of revolution
and war in them. they would not now
be reading newspapers; they would
be out living and helping somewhere
in the lines-as Daudet did-as Toll
stoy did. Anyhow, it is quite useless
lamenting the neglect of letters just
now, and quite futile to counsel folk to
read a poem or study a picture instead
of distracting their minds with wal
news and lies. 1 suppose not even lit
crazy genus are dIlAlouS 10 CultlVata
their gardens under the rule of the
kaiser n Colt. But that is really
h stops our f1ddling.
Watson Volunteers His Brains.
Recently one of our territorials re-
preached an artist friend for no en-
listing, applied to him, in fact, the
current epithet whole skinner. my
dear man." said the artist, you for
get. / am of the civilization you are
fighting for" That reminds me Of a
quatrain by Watson l read in the
| Westminster Gazette last evening
wherein, after lamenting his deficien-
cies in purse and prowess, he ends
proudly by declaring, but L have given
my brain. / have given my heart"
What value would Kitchener put or the
artists veneer on Watson's brain, on
the post-bellum philosophy of Wells?
About the value of one recruit to his
500, 900 army, l
Conrad Leaves for Cracow.
i 1t is stated that SO of our journals
chiefly devoted to trad INC sport,
have stopped publication. A few will
are happier dead = y + An artists
emergency corps is being raised from
the civilized professions. There should
be no lack of recruits. In one week
20 provincial travelling companies We're
disbanded in LondO y y = Belloc is
not at the front. but here writing about
the war. ' In July Conrad went
for a holiday to Cracow and has not
since been heard of. He will reappear
charged with a better book than
Under Western Eyes"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28

Compound to me and l tried it at once
and found much relief. After that I
had no pains at all and could do my
housework and shopping the same
q always. For years 1 have praised
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for what it has done for me,
and shall always recommend it as a wo-
mans friend. You are at liberty to use
my letter in any way. Mrs. THOMSON,
go w. Russell St, Philadelphia, Pa.
Change Of life is one of the most
critical periods of a woman's existence.
Women everywhere should remember
that there is no other remedy known to
carry women so successfully through
this trying period as Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
If you want special advice
write to Lydia -. Pinkham Med
icine Co. (cOnfidential), Lynn,
Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by q woman
and held i'm strict confidence.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28

be able to stand the strain Of field work
as well as he. He gave Francean in
dlcatlon OF his appreciation of physical
worth when he was made supreme COM
mander of the French army a few years
ago. After one inspection of the various
posts he dropped five generals from
actlve service because he deemed them
physically unfit to take the field.
More Power Than the Car.
Some attempt was made to shelve
Joffre because of that action. He made
no defense. He said. however, that as
iohs as he was commander he intended
TO spare no man or no thing for the
sake OF efficiency; n he made a de-
mand that in case of war his power in
the field of operations be unrestricted:
his the only authority and the only re-
sponsibility.
Such power was given him. The New
York Times epitomizes his authority i'm
a line. II sends a message each day
to the government, but he receives none
in return"
M. Millerand, the French minister Of
war. is quoted as saying with pride:
III l We're to take a motor car and
enter the zone of operations without
JofIre's consent, he would bundle me
u without ceremony"
Scant Respect For kinos.
General Joffre has scant respect for
men who attain high rank in a military
pody through circumstances of birth.
II IS recorded that when he met the
KING Of England and car of Russia
on a european trip he IA them only
Wnat courtesy etiquette required. but
devoted himself to the few soldiers of
his staff. who had demonstrated their
fitness in active service.
General Joffre was born in 1892 He
entered the French military school for
artillery officers just a year before the
ffanco-Prussian war. That struggle
gave him his commission as sub-lieu-
tenant when he was only IL years old.
He served with credit during the war.
ana a1terward was stationed in Paris
70 assist In rebuilding its defenses. A
story is told that one day Marshal Mac
Mahon, himself a silent man for all
MS %blundering, was inspecting the new
works. He noticed the t%aciturnity of
the young lieutenant in contrast with
the volubiiity of the other officers. AS
he turned to leave he beckoned Lieu
tenant Joffre to him.
captain. 1 salute YOU" the marshal
said.
Joffre had become a captain when %.
Lona Years Of Hardship.
Later he worked on the defenses of
Beifort. and then was sent to Indo-
China to build another chain. of forts.
Here he had his first active Command
~ Tue l!elo. He directed a successful
war against a powerful native clan. His
following years were full of hardships,
flghting and severe tests. In Timbuc-
LOO. Madagascar and Dahomey he al
ternately fought and %colonized.
He was called home to become gen.
eral of brigade, then division. then
corps, and. finally, of the armies of
france. 1t is said that when the coun-
Gil was considering a new commander.
General Paul Pau was asked. to state
mis- choice. He pointed his finger at .Iof-
fire.. without speaking. A vote was ia
ken and Joffre chosen. 1t is Character
isttc of the man that he never thanked
tie council. made no speech, nor wrote
any proclamation. He simply took COM
mand.
He is married. but has no children.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
The Sanitary Kiss.

DIR. w. r. Snow, secretary of the
American Social HYGIENE association,
has suggested that ii people must
kiss they should kiss through a
square of tissue paper that has been
prepared in an antiseptic bath.-News
Report.
The doctors state an awful fate
turks in the mildest kisses, / can't
c~onceive-you get me, Steve-of medi-
icated blisses. Though they affirm
the deadly germ makes kissing COM
plicated, who'd have the nerve for to
observe, Are your lips carbolated?'
These chilly cynics from the clinics
think of naught but drugs. Yet who
would sip them from a lip in prefer
ence to "bugs?" To sterilize a lady's
signs would simply be outrageous.
Who'd o prefer to humor her and
let her be contagious ?-New York
Sun.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
coIors of Helaolano.

Should any Helgolanders find their
way to this country during the war
they will be surprised to find a com.
blnation of their national colors-red.
green and white-adorning the little
army of the National Union of Woman
Suffrage societies. 1t is true that not
all of the $4,000 members of this on.
~ganfzation are demonstrative enough
to wear their gay buttons and ribbons
every Cay. But on public and process.
sional occasions the red, green and
white favors make a brave show. as
the Londoner in Hyde Park Sunday
afternoons is we'll aware. The Hell
golanders derive their ribbon from
the natural coloring of their island
home-the green of the land the red
Of the rock and the white of the
strand.-London Chronicle.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
NEARLY CRAZY WITH ECZEMA

1854 Plum ST. Youngstown. Ohio.-
"Blotches like ringworms started to
come out all over my face and neck.
Later it took the form of white flakes
and when l would rub they came off in
little white scales. The eczema so
disfigured me that l was ashamed
to go out anywhere. 1t itched all the
time and whenever l %perspired or got
my face the least bit wet, it would
burn until l very nearly went crazy.
The more l rubbed or scratched the
more 1t spread and it made me so
restless l could not sleep at night.
"One day a friend prevailed upon
me to get a sample of Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. They caused the itch
ing to stop instantly and in a very few
days my face and neck began to show
q marked improvement. l used three
cakes of Cuticura Soap and one box
Of Cuticura Ointment and my face
and neck are completely cured"
(Signed) Newton d. w. Chapman.
Feb. "a, 1914.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L. Boston."-Adv.
Not a Handsome Man.
He-They say, dear, that people
who live together get in time to look
exactly alike.
She-Then you may consider my re-
fusal final.-New York Sun.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
Cut Out Waste; Result, Beauty.

When Joseph Pencil was in Pana-A
man he stopped to admire the lock ct;
Pedro Miguel. How is It," he asked;
the engineer. that you make your
arches and buttresses as fine as those
of a c%athedral?" "Oh, that's done to-
save concrete" was the reply.
Economy as the basis Of beauty IL
not SO strange as it may seem. II,
was through elimination of the super,
flous that the loveliness as we'll ~
strength of that Panama structure
grew, and the same principle may
be found at the root of every success
full work whether of art or industry.
The Craftsman.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28

SIOUX CITY PIG. CO., NO. 44-1s14
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
Unwelcome.

George said the wife to her gen
orally unappreciative husband. how
do you like my new hat?"
We'll my dear" said George. with
great candor, Ito tell you the truth"
Stop there, George, dear. IF you're
going to talk that way about it | don't
want to know."-Stray Stories.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
Money for Christmas.

Selling guaranteed wear-proof hosi-
cry to friends & neighbors. Big Xmas
business. Wear-Proof Mills, 1900
Chestnut ST., Philadelphia, Pa.-Adv.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
MRS. THOMSON
TELLS WOMEN
How She Was Helped During
Change of Life by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Philadelphia, Pal am just Sugars
Of age and during Change of Life l suf-

Tered for six years
terribly. l tried sew
eral doctors but none
seemed to give me
any relief. Every
monththe pains
intense in both Sides,
and m ade m e so
weak that I had to
go to bed. At last
a friend recommen-
ded Lydia E. Pink
HAMS Vegetable
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28

Even the study of physiognomy
won't always help us in sizing up a
mar who can be crooked with a per-
fectly straight face.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
Il Depends.
From Man Lacht

FTOm MAJ Lacnt.
II wonder how many men win IA
made unhappy when l marry" said the
flirt. How many do you expect to
marry?" asked her dearest friend.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
Dr.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discover,

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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-09
United States Has Not +
Slighted Measures for
Defense OF the Nation

CONTINUED From fnge One.l
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and OF the older continent of Europe.
do not stop TO inquire why, or 10
mako any comment on probable
causes. What interests us Just now
Is not tho explanation but the fact,
and our duty and opportunity in the
presence of It. Here are markets
which we must supply. and we must
find the means of action. The United
States, this great people for whom we
speak and act. should he ready, as
never before, TO serve itself and to
serve mankind; ready with its re-
sources. its energies, Its forces of pro-
ductlon, and It's means of distribution,
A Matter OF Ways and Means.
II IL a very practical matter. n mat
ter of ways and means. We have tho
resources, but are We fully ready to
,tso them? And. IL we can make
ready what we have, have we the
means at hand to distribute itg We
are not fully ready: neither have we
the means OF distributions. We arc
willing. hut we are not fully able. We
have the wish TO serve and to serve
greatly. generously; but we are not
prepared MS we should be. We are
not ready To mobilize our resources at
once. We are not prepared TO use
them immediately and Mt their best,
without delay and without waste.
To speak plainly, we have grossly
In he. ID. A, s,lx n.
stunted and hindered the development
of our merchant marine. And now.
when we need ships, we have not got
them. We have year after year de-
hated. without end or conclusion, the
best policy to pursue with regard TO
the use OF the ores and forests and
water powers Of our national domain
In the rich states of the west. when
we should have acted; and they ara
still locked up, The key is still turned
upon them, the door shut fast at
which thousands of vigorous men, full
OF Initiative, knock DANGEROUSLY for
admitfance. The water power of our
navlgahle streams outside the nation
al domain also. even in the eastern
states. where we have worked and
planned for generations. is stiil not
used as II might be. because we will
and we won't; because the laws we
have made do not intelligently bal
|ance announcement against restraint,
We withhold by regulation.
have come to ask you to remedy
and correct these mistakes and omis-
|sions. even At this short session OF a
congress which would certainly seem
TO have done all the work that could
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-09
EFFICIENCY REQUIRED.

More and more, II Is being brought
home to the people Of the United
states that we must preserve our
powers Of head and hand II we are
TO compete with the peoples engaged
In the same occupations as ourselves
The business men Of the country,
those who have large numbers of em-
ploycs. arc Insisting more and more
that those on their payrolls shall be
sober and of good habits.
The railroada took the lead In the
crusade. and large factories were not
long in following the example Of the
big transportation companies. Next
were the Wholesale houses The old
idea that a travelling salesman must
be q good fellow and buy the
drinks for his customers has passed.
|The customer of today Is too busy to
lose time from his business and the
travelling salesman is too busy to do
other than talk business with his Gus
toner.
Competition Is too sharp in all vo-
cations for other than the highest
efficiency both in employer and en-
ploye.
A big manufacturing plant of ilii-
nois has placed signs over the en-
trance 10 Il. which read: Did booze
ever do you any goodY' Did booze
over get a job for you2" Did booze
ever help YOU TO hold a job7" \ Kan
sas city paper says "the big stores are
placing the ban on the salesman who
stands at the har and orders another
round and the saleswoman who IRE
ouenis the cabaret places
These arc the forces that are mak-
ing for real sobriety in the country
Iit is not the temperance agiators.
not the men and the women who talk
prohibition. but the business interests
where the highest grade of efficiency
aud responsibility are required of en-
lplnyeA.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-09

of the amount their government costs
II they are sure that they get what
they need and desire for the outlay,
that the money is being spent for OH
jects Of which they approve, and
that II is being applied with good bus
mess sense and management.
Governments grow, piecemeal, both
in their tasks and in the means by
which those tasks are to be per-
formed and very few governments are
organized, venture to say. as wise
and experienced business men would
organize them If they had a clean
sheet of paper to write upon. Ger
tainly the government of the United
States is not. | think that it Is gen.
orally agreed that there should be a
systematic REORGANIZATION and reas-
sembling of its parts so as to secure
greater efficiency and effect consid-
cradle savings in expense. But the
amount Of money saved In that way
would, | believe, though no doubt
considerable in itself. running, II may
~ thtt httt iiillttOnsf ~ ititllNtl1
small--smnl, | mean in proportion
to the total necessary outlays of the
government. II would be thorough
ly worth effecting, as every saving
would. great or small. Our duty Is
not altered by the scale Of the saving.
But my point is that the people of
the United States do not wish to cur
tail the activities Of this government:
they wish. rather to enlarge them;
and with every enlargement with the
mere growth, indeed of the country
itself there must come, of course, the
inevitable increase. of expense. The
sort of economy we ought to practice
may he effected and ought TO be eff
fected, by careful study and. ASSESS
ment of the tasks to be performed:
and the money spent ought to yield
the best possible returns in. efficiency
and achievement And. like good
stewards, we should account for every
dollar of our appropriations as to
make Il perfectly evident what ii was
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-09
rue MOO sITCATIoN.

Tho Journal has called attention TO
Naco md tho remarkable situation
there For weeks The forces of Cover
nor Maytorena and General benjamin
I'm have been lighting on the hor-
der and forty-nlno persons have been
hit ny Bullets fired into American ter
rltory. Two more American soldiers
we're wounded Monday
but the most singular thing oc-
cured Monday evening Colonel
Gunfoyie. in command OF the Ameri-
can forces. charged with the protec-
tion OF the people on this side of the
border, called the people Of Naco to-
Igcther, doubtless on instructions from
Washington, and asked them TO sug-
gest what they thought would be the
best means OF protecting life and
property. stating. however. that crlti-
cisms OF the government or advocacy
OF the use of force against the Mexi-
cans vas not desired.
Probably no such thing ever before
occurred In the history Of this or any
Io,her nation That military officer,
in command of force of soldiers
should call in civilian population
Ito advise him as TO what he should
do for their protection against for
Ieiea force, Is hare 70. isnaglnes Par