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17T ONE; OF" THE CAN'T 1TE. 8 roe
SCHOOL C1IIL DPE7T

a bakers shop. These seven millions
cannot do that. Their land is empty
Of nourlshment.
When the last scraggy cabbage stalk
IS devoured, when the last hen has
starved. when the last rind of cheese
has been raked out OF the darkest cor
her of the desolate house unless they
can nourish themselves upon the
earth OF the land to protect the viola
lion Of which they have martyred
Themselves these seven millions must
die and when they die Belgium Is
dead
What viii peace bring to the world
chem To what shall We ever look
forward again If these people are
allowed to die while rnere Is food on
the earth It were better that the
earth should die Ike the moon and
humanity itself become not even
name among the spheres of the uni
verse
Fur the fact that these seven mil
lions Br'Eians are still alive We owe
an ugpJr4 goued debt Of gratitude 10
the American Comm .ssion for Relief.
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think Of the stupendous quiXotry of It.
War which is resort5d to for that
solution of political problems offers no
solution for the misery II entails upon
humanity, War with its myriad ten
tacles squeezing the life out OF Flu
rope and squirting forth a murky and
loathsome juice to poison the tide OF
pity was nevertheless impotent
against the determination Of these
men. They were armed with the con-
viction that their countrymen at home
would support them. and with q serene
faith that has already been magnif-
Gently justified they brushed aside the
objections of the Chancelleries and
walked over the prejudices OF Gen
erals.
Nor would they listen TO the croak-
ing of iinanCiers, who spoke Of the
cost, and their resolution prevailed
even against the uncertainty OF ship
1ers who pointed out the restriction
upon thN export and import OF food
SUITS. Finally, they allayed the
doubts Of tho Allies when they pro-
cured from the Germans an assur-
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BY GEORG RRANDEs.
STRANGE thing happened at
the outbreak Of the war.

A STRANGE thing happened at
II the outbreak of the war.
4 n The proud fatherlanu, whose
watchword for half a century
had been, Let them hate me so long
as they only fear me-" suddenly
wanted 10 be loved, and lost no time in
seeking expressions Of sympathy from
the neutral nations.
Whenever Germany thought herself
unjustly criticised she Immediately
called the criticism a slanderous false
hood. on the other hand. when she
found favor abroad, when her cause
was anywhere upheld. her officials
saw to il that the fact was quoted
again and again with the widest pub
licity. Further, the happy author of
favorable articles was sure 10 be
lauded to the skies and his work or
works bought up greedily TO his sub
stantial betterment. But writer's like
Wells and Maeterlincl and composers
like Saint-Saens and Leoncavallo who
have dared to express disapprobation
of the Kaiser's cause are being re-
lentlessly pursued with scorn and
caricature
Nearly every writer NJ any standing
in the neutral countries has been the
recipient of a direct request from
official German sources 10 enlist his
pen in behalf Of tho fatherland. And
care has been taken not to omit to
call attention 10 the obvious advan-
rasyeS that might result from such
literary cooperation, while the possible
loss that might follow an antagonistic
aCtiVity has hapn inst "a clearly pm-
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and because OF the amazing difficulties
which that commission has already
surmountcd one is tempted to place
for the future an even greater. an
even more strenuously eNacting faith
in the American people. This com
mission was organized by American
citizens living In London.
Amid the blood and tears Of Europe
few gentlemen resolved that the
ultimate reproach Of peoples starva-
ton should not be levelled against
this time Of ours. IL was Brand Whit
lock, that fine Mayor OF Toledo and
now the American Minister in Brus-
sells. VINO made the first appeal. He
saw starvation and caring nothing for
the pettiness OF diplomatic restraint
he appealed for help through the
American Ambassador in London.
DIR. Page upon his own initiative ap-
pointed committee Of American citl-
zens resident in London in order that
they might apply Themselves to
organize the feeding OF a nation. Con-
slider how fantastic and improbable
that scheme must have looked and
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ny COMPTON MACKENZIE.


tcopUri1ht by the Commission for
RcEct IN BcIOiumD
TT il with consciousness OF deep
humility that / take up my pcn
to write these words about Bel
glum. When others have pleaded her
cause so much more worthily than |
can ever hope to plead II ana when |
have seen even tho most passionate
eloquence turned to an idiots tale
signifying nothing in its attempt 10
express a nations cruCifixion. / ask
myself by what right l dare intrude
with these poor words of mine.
The cities of Belgium are RACED and
her people are crying out for bread.
Louvain is become a heap Of rubbish
about which women scratch aim
leSsly. Brussels that onre was a gay
princess. has been debaSed To the
similitude of a starving drab: in
Chartered and Dendcrmonde. in Mae
stricht and in Biankenburghe the
children are whlmpering for food,
In Antwerp the children have clayed
their victuals from the hands Of the
German soldiers in the windows of
Malines, windows that are now as
empty as the eye sockets of a skull
little ghosts are peering, not the
ghosts OF the happier dead. but the
ghosts made by that hunger which
is death in life.
The world has read Of the dcstruc-
ton Of cathedrals and shuGdered for
the loss of great monuments of art:
the world has uttered peans for the
heroism OF a nation that esteemed
honor above gain and laid down her
lie for an ideal; it is not too much
10 Gay that the world mas actually
bean hypnotized again in the hood
OF belgium. Now comes a palcr story
and one that is horrible with all that
despair can bring of horror. Women
stan,t shivering in the winter smsh
az they walt for as much bread as
once upon a time they would have
seen thrown away without a second I
glance. Children are kneellng to f,
gnaw at the sodden roots Of the fields. !
Rich and poor must behold them
selves degraded from their humanity
TO lead the lives of rats. Nothing
that misfortune can give Of unrlean-
illness and inddgnity, Of age and youth
inundated Of pain and hunger has
been spared to Belgium.
Yet with all that they have endured
and with all that, whatever the worlds
compassion, they must still endure.
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OF Pasteur. vet that great FrenChman
was not a Cubist, and certainly he
was not a German.
I,
Before beginning any one Of h!g
three wars Bismarck made IL his chief
aim TO isolate his enemy entirely, and
thus in the hour Of peril neither Dem
mark nor Austria nor France could
boast an ally. Diplomatic cunning and
skill laid the groundwork. and then in
few months superior armies and "
resistible strategy in the field did the
rest. Germany realizes now fun well
that Bismarck did not leave sue
cessor, and diplomacy in the father
land has failed to-day when It is 30
sorely needed.
While Germany, In a military sense,
was prepared for war as no other
country in the world her diplomats
had done their work so imperfectly
that. in the hour OF need the Ger
man empire saw one country after
another unexpectedly side against her.
The German army was in such a
splendid condition that IL could meet
an enemy many times superior in
numbers. But automatically all was
unpreparedness.
Germanys Ambassadors and Minis
ters had failed to make friend and at
the critical hour four Of the great
Powers, besides a few OF the smaller
nations, united against the Austro-
German coalition. More than half ot
the entire population Of the world
,l,.... -.
Powers On the two battle fronts alone
the supporting populations OF Russia
and France comprised one hundred
and ninety millions, az against Ger
many's total OF siXty-eight.
The German Government soon is
sued its famous White Books, which
were 10 prove the Kalser's personal
love OF peace. AS these publications
put II he had turned to both Emperor
Nicholas OF Russia and King George
of England to prevent European
waT Yet these White Books seemed
TO lose sight of the fact that the
origin Of the war was not 20 be sought
in either Russia or England but in the
ulumatum presented by Austria to
SerYia They overlooked too that Sir
Edward Grey had done all within hui
man power to have this ultlmatum
Withdrawn or postponed and they fur
Their failed TO recognize that Emperor
William had obstinately refused TO do
anything whatever 20 help in having
the Austro- Servian difference sub
mitted to European arbitration tri-
bunal.
But. nevertheless as the white
Books sought to prove, Emperor Will
lam was Enthusiastically for peacel
No doubt he entertained high hopes
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Heretofore tho Germans haye Sc
Verely criticised the English maxim
Right or wrong. my country Now
the Teutons have adopted It them
selves. They must conquer at any
price. According to Harnack: The
fate that has befallen Belgium IS as
justified as was Daniel when no
robbed the sanctuary of its shew-
bread when suffering from hunger,
the only difference being. however.
that II did not hurt the shewbread
to be eaten. whereas Il has hurt tho
Belgians srievously TO be shot
However the Germans have had .
ready answer for all charges. In re-
ply to England's tender solicitude for
the smaller States Germany asks Il
England showed the same anxiety for
the Beers in the days OF their indie
pendence; or whether she has heard
or the fate that befeIl Finland at the
hands OF her dear ally of to-day. Rus
STA. In answer to England's tender
solicitude for Servia's autonomy
Germany puts the question OF PerSas
Independence for Great Britain 10 an
NhNAN PONi l4AAAN fphAANAs
was divided beween England and Rus
STA Or that OF Egypt's sovereignty
And to England's statement that she
ia lighting for freedom and civilization
Germany asks II that could be called
fighting for freedom and progress 70
support tho most reactionary Hbso-
But not for a moment was II mon
toned in Germany. in FIance or In
England that States never act on the
impulse OF moral motives but on the
contrary are inspired by poffftcs' ~
pediency. When the Germans so per
sistently claim always to have desired
peace they must have overlooked FOR
the while BernharSns writings and
the words OF other authors Of a SINH
lar trend. And when they claim
furthermore, To be fighting a purely
defensive war they must have fo''
gotten their statements, made repea'.
eddy for years, about the necessity nj
an offensive programme as the best
preventive for a protracted war
Fngland's attacks on Denmark IN
1901 and 1907 have been brought up
repeatedly by the Germans, but WITH
out ever mentioning the DAnish-Ger'
man conflict with its grave conse-
quences 20 Denmark OF 1864. Yet IN
the history OF a nation the loss Of l's
Heel amounts 10 bat little compares
with the sacrifice Of three OF it' prov
inoes. Such was Denmark's fate In
1S6f..-
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! many. What does that mean? II
means that Great Britain tears down
the barrier that hitherto has protected
western Europe and its clvilizat ton
against the sands OF the Aslatic
desert"
Harnack does not seem ever To have
heard that Germany was long Russia q
any and Russia's best friend, or that
bismarck in the Reichstag al the time
when the ties OF that alliance were
Ioosened called tho German peopIe.s
attention 10 the fact that Russian
friendship should be held far above
any momentary vexation. And now
an alliance with Russia becomes igno-
manfous. the more so as Germanv her
self happens 30 be the kinsrnan that "a
left out IN the cold,
All tho prominent man NJ r..
fstherland unanimously name Eng
iand as rheir real enemy. the stage
manager AZ II were. OF the great
tragedy. And every one at the same
moment suddenly discovers that Eng
iand and Germany are mental an
tipodes.
me German has always desired ex-
pansion for his intellectual horizon.
Goethe' for instance, was the first
one 10 introduce the word world lit
erature.' England. however, in her
arrogant narrow mindedness of an
Islander has looked at the world onIy
WIN eyes OF the ruler and exploiter
And at present England, through her
cable monopoly, IL filing all oversee
countries with hypocritical lies. Tina
world is being misguided by her mast,
or peaceful promoter OF civilization
and sanctimonlous preacher. Such is
che opinion OF the German professor
QUO Hintze. The noted philoioetat.
WilamowitZ-M oellendorff, in OF much
the same mind. for he saws: we all
know that England IS the one who
mas melted France and Russia against
US In order to destroy our country.
English diplomacy Aor many
years under a cloak OF mock virtue
has violated all international law and
the rights OF man. Great
Britain now seeks through Infamous
lies To arouse neutral nations against
us, Not word of truth passes Sir
Edward Grey's lips"
The aged and we'll known thinker
Wilhelm Wundt also expresses his
opinion In the harshest OF terms and
tells the world that England has
added fuel 10 the fire in fact "has
laid this diabolical plan" for the de-
struction Of Germany. What makes
this war so painful Is that It Is strife
between klnsmen Tn comparison
with this deplorable fact why should
We care about the Beigisns, who in
their blindness and audac1ty seem 10
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the flag, each and every one ready to
put up with hardships and to suffer
the terrors OF war, in fact anxious 10
give his life for the faJherland.
Not in 1873 nor even in 1870, do we
find story OF such unanimous en-
thusiasm. The temperament of the
German nature was intensified to a
degree that carried away every one,
and the spirit even spread 10 the neu-
trail stranger who happened TO be
staying upon German soil. inducing
him to participate in a war in which
he had absolutely no interest and even
20 lend the alien country his whole
fortune, all that he had saved during
long years under foreign flag.
As the numbers OF the enemy grew
the greater the German zeal and the
more intense the national anger, first
toward France, who, with her many
empty phrases of republican liberty
and aware OF her own weakness, had
bought Russia or sold herself to that
country-Russia the brutal. Russia the
absolute! Then the anger spread, as
expressed by the erstwhile kindly
natured German philosopher Eucken
toward: 'Servian blood thirst. Rus
sian passion for conquest, English
falseness and japanese villainy.'
Surely. indeed, objects for any ma
TONS Just wrath, provided all OF these
definitions fitted their subjects.
III.
But from the very beginning Ger
man hatred centred particularly
against England, who was looked upon
as the leading force OF opposition.
Typical OF the general feeling ia the
way in which Harnack, the noted
theologlan and expounder OF Chris
tiantty, expresses himself in regard TO
England. According TO him, ENGLAND
Is hypocritical and mendacious: she is
fun OF envy OF Germany. and has
acted out OF base covetousness.
Iiarnack, moreover, believes in abb
solute moral armies. England so he
says has lied about "our glorious and
strictly moral army!
When Great Britain gives the breach
OF Belgian neutrality as the real cause
for the war the Germans call II the
meanest Of all excuses" ENGLAND has
had no other reason than a desire TO
destroy Germany, or at least to weaken
her so that England may rule the seas.
And why does she want to destroy
us? Because she viii nor tolerate our
might. our industry and our successes.
No other explanation exists"
And filled with national self-esteem
Harnack exclaims: Should we be
conquered which God and our strong
.. Ii
on the Continent Will be buried in oon-
sequence Great Britain, com
bined with Russia, goes against Cor
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HEAD WORK.

IGEvERY now and again a. W,
walk about the streets NJ
New York" said man who
has not a little OF II TO do. won son
colored woman, never a man -ha, "a
can, carrying a big bundle on h.r
head. Those who have been in IN.
Southern States recall similar sigb,,
down there and conclude that soma ~,
our Southern darkies are in New yo-L
That part OF II is correct enough
because thousands OF them are bor.
but the American negro is no, N.
head carrier except in very -ane r..
stances and ther only among the very
old ones. The 'nodern American neg,,
may have to carry bundle when No
gets into n Northern CITY. but h.
never puts It on his head. Nor does n.
do II down South as formerly. Am,r.
lean negroes are too proud FOR tina.
now, because that method Of carriage
Is too much an indication OF early
African ancestry.
Those that one may see ca-r,.l,,
bundles so in New York are n,ns
times In ten West Indian black. no,
colored people. for the West Indian
colored people consider thensely..
quite as far above the blacks, having
no visible arfmlxture OF white blood. a,
the Cauca sian considers himself abov.
the African of any tint or shade. TT.
West Indian blacks almost INVARIABLY
carry their burdens on their heads
and when they come to the United
States they bring their customs with
them.
Indeed, I question IL they could
carry much Of a load any other way.
But even rhese soon adopt the North
cTE manner, and only those ia nfon
the habit ts too strong to break use
their heads for Transporting freight
about the streets Of the city"
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Deer stro1ied Into Town, Then Dis.
appeared.

IATnoBE, Pa. Feb IA full grown
male deer. which came in from N.
mountain. appeared on the main street
OF Lgonier. Dozens OF persons watched
the animal, which showed no signs OF
or fear. After apparently satisfying
us curiosity the buck scamepered baci
TO the mountain.
reports have been frequent as 20
how tame the deer have grown r-r,,.
ers often having found them p,yirr
visits TO the cattle in the fields and
oarnyards. while a couple OF the som
erset county villages - have enioved
visits from the nimblo footed animals
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WE SAVED SEVEN MILLIONS FROM
A SLOW, VICTORIOUS DEATH

Nay. rather in letters Of impcrishab.e
fire that would burn tho alternative
into the eyes!ght Of humanity fed so
fun with horrors as scarcely any more
TO be able TO heed their reitcration.
The fate Of these seven million people
is The worlds responsibility. This il
not tho m ment to try 10 say who Is
guilty OF their state; the wranglinc Of
diplomats and the clash OF arms Will
not drown the means Of seven millions
starving for bread We have read be-
fore 1914 II earthquakes. of pestilence
and shipwreck, of railway accidents
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Georg BrandeS during spared
any one Indeed his outspoken opposition
or some OF ms fellow who
of lecturer the Now with
feaenesS he analyses German
toward sHJuhhcaton. and he the
Big Stick has been held might
De unwilling TO advocate the Kaiser's
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have Joined this battle only TO show
the world their utter inability to form
a State?"
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the lives lost IN nifty years by sudden
visitation OF calamity We're added to-
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Of Pasteur; vet that great Frenchman
was not a Cubist, and certainly he
was not a German.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-06
STATE JOURNAL
BULLETINS FOR
WORLDS SERIES

In accordance with It's custom, the
State Journal will bulletin and give by
megaphone the world series of base
ball games to be played between the
Boston and Philadelphia teams. The
first game will be played at Philadel-
phia, Friday. at p. m, which is 1
o'clock in Topeka.
The news will be flashed into the
State Journal office over the Asso-
ciated Press wires and will be the
fastest service that can be secured,
the Associated Press having wires at
the grounds.
Charley Crews, the auctioneer with
the wonderful voice, will make the
calls on Friday, giving the plays, in
Guiding the strikes and balls as they
take place.
If telephone service is desired call
special State Journal baseball phone,
284.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-06
National Experts at Head of
Department Work.
GREATEST MEETING IN HISTORY
Thousands of School Instruc-
tors Will Be Entertained.
Kansans Will Not Be Over
looked in Speech Selections.

The program for the Kansas State
Teachers convention to be held in
Topeka this fall is practically com
pleted today. 1t will be an all-star
cast. More than one hundred men
and women of Kansas schools have CO.
operated to form the program, and
educators outside the state have help
ed in material and advisory ways.
The Kansas element in the program
is intense but is not provincial. Every
department and class of school and
college work will be dealt with by
educators of national fame. d. A.
Ellsworth, secretary of the Kansas
State Teachers association, and Lii
liam Scott, president have been work
ing on it since last years convention
adjourned.
Fifty-Third Convention.
The meeting to be held in Topeka
November IL, IL, 3 will be the fifty
third annual convention of the Kansas
association.
Kansas is not out of the woods on
the school book question. State pub
lication is being tried out. In some
ways it has succeeded and in others it
has failed. DIR. A. f. WinShip, the
greatest educational editor of America,
will present his views. on the question.
His subject, school Books-Educa-
tionally, Commercian and Politically
will be timely.
Twelve thousand of the fifteen thou
sand teachers of Kansas are women.
The message that Mary E. Woolly,
TContinued on Page Tenl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-06
BIG DINNER TONIGHT
Commercial Clubs Twenty Cylinder
Spread Will Start at 6:2O.

With 200 reservations already made
and the promise of more before 3
o'clock, arrangements for the 1915
model, twenty cylinder dinner at the
Commercial club were completed late
this afternoon. The dinner will begin
at 6:20 O'Clock.
Besides the playlet 'E1verytown"
and addresses, another feature, the
Santa Fe orchestra, was announced
for the program this afternoon. The
orchestra consists of Miss Hazel Levitt
Dale Rodgers, Dorothy Leeper. George
Miller, Done Brown, Julius Vogle, Vir-
gil Scholes, Orval Zarker, c. o. Hoop
er. Roy Booth, Miss Helen McNeeley
and Grant Burdett, manager
Officers of the Commercial club
have requested that all reservations
be made before the time set for the
big dinner tonight.
1t was decided today to hold the
dinner in the parlors of the club in
stead of the dining room, owing to
lack of room in the latter.
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HEAVY FROST PROBABLE
Colder Weather Scheduled for To-
night: Thursday VIII Be Fair.

The temperature Tuesday night was
higher than Monday morning, but it
was low enough to permit a light frost
had it not been for twelve mile wind
from the south which blew all night.
The lowest temperature was 45 de-
grees at o'clock this morning. This
reading is degrees below normal f. r
this date, but no records were broken
as the lowest reading on this date was
&c in 1889.
The forecast is for partly cloudy
weather with lower temperatures and
a probable frost tonight. Thursday
will be fair, with colder weather in
the eastern part of the state. There
is 2 good chance for a frost tonight if
the clouds do not intervene. And if
it comes it probably will be q heavy
one.
The temperatures were slightly
higher today than Tuesday, and the
afternoon readings were only de-
grees below normal. The wind shifted
to the northwest and the velocity to-
day was 2 miles an hour. Following
are the hourly temperature rea dings