Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-28

7 from hand to hand with great awe. II
was exchanged for an entire collection
! of regulation bullets. 1t remained a
| seven days wonder. Then the trick
was discovered and now dum-dum bull,
| lets are IS common as Junebugs in
May
Not only in the relics of death and
bloodshed does the juvenile world of
! Europe keep a bristling collectors
trade. The occupation of each others
territories by the belligerent nations
has developed a stamp craze. From
the German possessions which the
English have seized in the Pacific,
from the territory occupied by the
Germans, and from the strip of land
which is all that remains of Belgium,
new stamp issues have come. With
the taking over by Turkey of her own
postal system a weird combination OF
Arabic characters is added to the al
ready Heterogeneous collection.
(Corres pondence of The
Associated Press.)-The archbishop of
Canterbury and DR.. Dryander the Ger
man court chaplain, have refused to
sign an appeal addressed to the Christ
ian churches urging them among other
things seriously to keep peace before
their eyes in order that bloodshed soon
may cease
The appeal has been signed by many
prominent divines including Bishop
Greer of New York and Bishop futile
of st. Louis. But although both the
Anglican prelate and the German doc
tor of divinity are in entire accord
with the signatories, as the CORES
pondence just published makes plain.
in devoutedly hoping God may ordain |
that peace shall soon be restored, each !
is of the opinion. apparently that the |
only peace to be desired is that found /!
ed on the triumphant demonstration of /
the righteousness of his country's |
cause
The archbishop writes: "You may
be certain that at the first moment
when it seems to me that an opening
is presented for securing a righteous
and enduring peace l shall do my ut
most to urge it. but l am clear that
that moment. greatly as we long for
il, has not yet come.
THE conflict which has been forced
merely state a facD must / fear, now
hat it has begun, proceed for the
bringing to an issue the fundamental
moral principle of faithfulness to a
lation's obligation to its solemnly
)lighted word. The recognition of the
moral validity of such an obligation is {
to the maintenance of
'eace and progress among the nations {
Il the world" s
DR. Dryander takes strong exception
o a paragraph of the appeal which g
eads: The tangle of underlying and
ctive causes which accumulate in the |
vents which led to the breaking of i
eace, are left to history to unravel." ]
lie declares it would be impossible / Z
Or him to sign that statement. He o
rites: 2
History will certainly show to us ::
1 different light much that we can h
ow see through the dark clouds of C
ust arising from the arena of the
resent struggle. But that history o
ill show only all the clearer-as Il
as been done already-the righteous Fl
ess of our cause. upon this firm con- t,
lotion OF ours are founded our good T,
Onscience. our confidence and our C
ssolution in the terrible distress of j.
he present time II anyone is attack e
d on four sides and defends his life, S
e acts in selfdefense and fulfills a p
hristia'l duty. We are in>this situa- c
on lw