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Evening journal., 1915-10-25
cERnAN AMBITIONS nor REALIZED.

CERMANY expected its advance upon Paris begun
- in August, 1914. 10 be parade The
German troops farther from Paris today than they
We're year ago. The French and the British armies
and what is left of the valiant little Belgian army are
standing like stone wall between the Teuton hosts
and the French capital Every day seems merely to
strengthen them in their resistance to the invaders
from beyond the Rhine.
The German and Austrian drive into Russia has
failed to bring with it the fruits OF victory that we're
expected from it and the Russians have resumed the
ohensNe in many places the long battle front
While 1t is admitted that the Teutonic armies are maxi
ing gains in the Riga and Dvinsk regions many mill
tery experts doubt that any lasting advantage will re-
Sult therefrom.
In the southern war the Italians are holding
tne Austrians wel in hand so far as the operations
nave progressed in that difficult territory while in the
Balkans the serbians menaced by Germany Austria
and Bulgaria are lighting desperately in defense of
their country and nnicting heavy losses upon the in
Vaders Meanwhile Great Britain France Italy and
Russia are sending aid to the servians and endeavor
Ing to bring Greece and Roumana into the fight on the
side OF the Allies to counteract the effect of Bulgaras
recent action in declaring against seryia and in
vading it,
The Germans have not realized their warlike ambi-
tons in sny direction That they have fought braveiy
desperately and brutally cannot be denied Ijnfortu-
nately for them, however. they fighting against
great international coalition that must triumph in
the end and also conending against the sentiment OF
the civilized world which is horrihed and disgusted By
The excesses committed by the German army ana navy
against neutrals and non-combatants It is the wind
up that viii everything in the struggle now
in progress
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
rHAT PREPAREDNESS PROGRAMME.

VKT HlLE William jennings Bryan has announced his
w purpose to exert all the influence at his COM
mand to defeat the Administrations program for milf
tary preparedness. and while Representative Hay
chairman Of the Military Affairs Committee has indi-
Gated some-and feels greaer-hostility to anything
proposed by Secretary Garrison the administration is
confident OF success. It's reasoning as outlined by a
man very close TO the President is as follows:
The Democratic leaders viii be called to the White
House. few at time and informed Of the financial
condition OF the government It will be pointed out
that the government has already behind SAP 400 900
since July l. that the proposed repeal the free sugar
clause in the Underwood bill while It will prevent
further reduction OF the by about
will not mean a penny Of increase
As consequence Of this situation bond issue will
be imperative but for the Democrats to issue bonds 10
carry the government will be conclusive evidence
of that incapacty to conduct affairs which the party
has shown in all its previous administrations
II, however, the people can be aroused to the inn
portance of bringing the military establishment up-to-
date, they will not criticse a bond ssue-and bonds
can be issued in sufficient amount to make good the
Democratic deficit well defray the cost OF pre-
paredness
The administration will be compelled TO sell bonds
anyway and your vote for military preparedness will
help TO cover up the reason" is the warning which
President Wilson will give to each good and faithful
Democratic member of Congress this autumn
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
Just q Moment
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.
Compiled by John G. Quinius.
(The Sunshine Mani


Let me tell a dream which was
given by night to one of my dearest
friends. He beheld stupendous
range OF glorious sun-lit mountains.
with their lower slopes enfolded in
white mist Lord" he cried, 81 pray
that l may dwell upon those heightsl"
Thou must first descend into the
value a voice replied.
Into the vale he went And down
there he found himself surrounded
with all manner of fierce, ugly, loath-
some things. AS he looked upon them
he saw that they were the incarna-
tions Of his own sinsl There they
we're Sins long ago committed, show
ing their threatening teeth before
hint
Then he heard some One approach
ing, and instinctively he knew It was
the Lord, And he felt so ashamed
that he drew a cloak over his face.
and stood in silence. And the Pres
ence came nearer and nearer. until He.
too. stood silent After a while my
friend mastered sufficient courage to
lift the corner of his cloak and look
out upon the Presence: and 10! all
the loathsome things were IN Him.
"The Lord laid on Him the iniquity
Of us all."-John Henry lowell.
Behold. I stand at the door. and
knock; il any man hear my voice, and
open the door. I will come in TO him,
and viii sup with him, and he with
Me.-Rev. iii. 20.
Dayton. Ohio.
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
Editorial Opinion
THE EXECUTION
OF EDITH CAYELL


From the New York Sun.
Nothing is more pathetic in the
Cavcll case than the unfortunate wo-
mans realization that mercy was not
TO be expected from the military Gov
ernor OF Brussels. She admitted her
offence, the aiding of wounded Brit
ish. French and Belgian soldiers to
escape concealed nothing, equivocat-
ed nothing, disdained to show weak
ness In the presence of her judges
and met her fate without faltering.
The woman's humanity to German
soldiers should have pleaded in trum-
pet tones for her, but Won Bissing
was not to be diverted from his pur-
pose of executing the sentence of the
military court before the appeals Of
the American and Spanish Ministers
could reach the ears of the Kaiser.
There is now reason to believe that
William would have reprieved and
saved the heroic English nurse, for
he has intervened in the cases of
other women and of some men who
also were found guilty of aiding the
enemy" in the same way. BY his ac-
tion he condemns the ruthlessness
of the Military Governor, who has
covered himself with infamy and
earned an odious immortality.
In spite OF the manifestations of
"frightfulness" with which the rec
ord is already crowded, we are not
willing to believe that chivalry to
women is dead in the German army.
To the rank and file Won Bissing can
never be a hero. Doubtless his
INDUSTRIOUS deed will be justified I;
nevertheless, il will sicken the soul
OF many an honest German officer.
And the German women-for woman
is true to her sex the world over
will deplore the fate imposed upon
one who was a victim Of her SYM
pathies Never has there been a
war in which women have not play
ed such a part as this English wo-
man did.
Indeed. to all Germans who have
not been corrupted by Prussian mil
itarism the hurried. stealthy shoot
ing OF hapless Edith Cavell in the
dead Of night behind prison walls
will always be a bitter memory.
More than all the counts in the
Bryce report of atrocities in Bel
gium it will weigh in the scale Of
judgment. for it has struck the world
with horror.
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
A COMMENpAnLE pRnIrcr

1NhE Board OF Education Of Smyrna is displaying
commendable wisdom in enlareing and imnro,,
ing the grounds surrounding the public schools of that
town It's course is in line with enlightened pres-
ent-day policy and should serve to mpel the educa-
uonal officials in other Demarva towns TO FOLLOW, it's
example
me public school grounds in Smyrna are serving two
nshE usetui purposes One is to provide athletic and
Vul'l ie'reau'e ADVANTAGES for the school children;
the other to supply a civic centre at which oar,i,a,
the Chautauqua and things that sort NAV he beld
II is the present plan to enlarge the grounds untl
they will embrace approximately three acres situated
within less than two blocks Of the heart o. the town
such an athletic and civic cannot fail TO resu
IN communal good in many directions The project
speaAs wen Tor the progressiveness OF the smyrna
school officials.
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
. A NATIONAL THERMOPYLAE

Time and again in the present
struggle the thought must come to
those who are watching it that the
very nearness OF the thing is OBJ
scuring the vision, bewildering and
benumbing the senses and making
mankind obivious today to the things
that tomorrow and forever will en-
dure in the minds Of men, And in this
order Of thought the struggle in Serbia
naturally holds first place.
What we are looking out upon in
the Balkans now Is no war as modern
history knows war. 1t is not the mod p
Grated barbarity OF the conflict be-
tween armes trained and equipped,
composed Of soldiers. going forward
to fight in the accustomed manner
Of war. Not an army but nation, is
fighting. Not men. but men, women
and children, a whole race, three gem
erations, are holding the trenches, de-
Tending the smoking village and dying
In the burning farmhouses.
II Serbia falls she does not lose in
dependence merely. She does not lose
provinces, economic independence or
political liberties. She loses life. SO
In the older periods tribes fought
against tribes. and the losers did not
surrender-they perished from the
face Of the earth. So the barbarians
descending upon Rome, swept before
them not cities and palaces, not walls,
arsenals and monuments, but abol-
ished the fraction OF mankind that
could be called Roman.
Such would have been the fate of
Greece had the Persians prevailed.
Such was the fate of those races which
faced and fought Ghenghis Khan. 1t is
annihilation, not defeat, that over
hangs three million and a half of
men, women and children who are
fighting not to win campaigns not to
attain power-all that has vanished
they are not lighting to liberate the
millions of captive Serbs beyond the
Danube and the Save.
The battle Of Serbia is the simplest.
Evening journal., 1915-10-25

most primitive of all struggles. A year
ago, when the Austrian troops crossed
the Save and approached volievo they
killed as they advanced As they re-
treated they left behind them a smok-
ing wilderness. They came to destroy
a race, they retired defeated. but left
behind them an appalling wilderness
and for the victorious survivors the
crowning tragedy OF typhus cpl
demic.
Those who invaded Belgium slew
the child and ravish the mother
whenever there was a military pur-
pose TO be achieved. But the crimes
were committed in a narrow field,
the victims were relatively few. There
was no general massacre or wide
spread prescription. Belgium lost
her liberty, she saw many Of her
monuments wrecked, not a few Of
her women defiled-, but a sullen,
stricken captive. she survived.
No such fate waits for the Serbs
II German, Austrian and Bulgarian
armies prevail. II is a war to de.
struction. to the knife-it is the
ma noge' Of Serb and Bulgar alike.
The spectacle is more terrible, more
complete. more appalling than any
modern war has known or the al
legged civilization of recent centur-
les permitted
Oddly enough, too, it is the second
time that Serbia has held the gate
against the enemy Five hundred
years and more ago there was, a
civilized Serbia. with laws and courts
and all the adiuncts of civilization.
In that time there was every prom
ise that from the Danube to the
Aegean and from the Adriatic to the
Rhodopians there would arise a Serb
state which would take its place
among the great powers of Europe
and under the successors Of Dushan
complete the work Of empire build
ing. Even Constantinople seemed the
ultimate prize Of the Serb.
Then came the Turk and to the
Serb was allotted the duty of holding
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
(From the New York Tribune.)

back the flow of Asia as the Hellenic
states had held It back in other CEN
turtles. In the struggle Serbia per-
ished On the field of Kossovo all
that was great and powerful in the
Serb race was blotted out and the
Osmanli host flowed up the vardar
and down the Morava. along the route
the Kaiser's armies are now follow
ing.
Yet Serbias sacrifice was not in
vain. The Osmanli host, although
victorious, was halted for a precious
year by Serbia's self-immolation.
More than that, thousands of Serbs
left their homes and crossed the Save
and the Danube to take service with
Austrian and Hungarian armies
whose duty it became to resist the
Turk Finally, in the darkest corner
of the Black Mountain some hundreds
of Serbs took refuge and kept the
faith. The Bulgars and the Greeks
capitulated the Bulgars forgot their
race, but a remnant of Serbia sur
vived.
Then it fell out that when the
iNANh lNiNOAullOi hdh
rope and Napoleon's march had but
begun. Serbia. too. felt the STRINGS
Of the old lost liberty and struck.
A decade, two decades before the
Greek revolution. which captured the
imagination If Europe, first famed
up. Serbia raised the old standard
and under an ObrenOvitch and Kar-
ageOrgovitch did for the Serbs what
France and England did for Greece.
in a century Serbia has marched
far toward the olden glory. Her VIC
tories in the two Balkan wars have
Won back old provinces, retaKen the
field Of KOssovO, and after five CEN
turtles a Serbian prince has entereu
Uskub. the ancient capital of Dushan.
Across the Austro-Hungarian frontier
millions OF subjugated Serbs have
heard and needed the voice of race
and the call Of ancient liberty.
Now. after five centuries and half,
the storm has come again. A new
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
MONDAY OCT. 25. 1915
A NEW ERA FOR DELAWARE COLLreE.

REORB good fortune has come to Delaware College
AVA wealthy friend OF the institution who desires
that his identity shall remain unknown to the public
has given to it 100000 The terms Of the gift are
that 100000 OF the amount shall be used for new
buildings and that the remaining 100000 shall con-
sutute an endowment fund, out of the earnings OF
which the new buildings shall be maintained That
means that the much-needed college development re-
yulting from the magnanmity of the anonymous siver
will entail additional burden upon the state II
will finance itself under the terms OF the gift
The trustees faculty and student body of the college
and the people of our State are to be congratulated
npon the fact that at last the institutonhas aroused
the interest Of someone who is both able and willing TO
make the pecuniarx sacrifice needed to put upon
proper plane OF educational efcienscy II means that
others Will be encouraged give aid to worthy in
stitution, the chief drawback Of which has been the
lack Of adequate financial support
Months ago large tract OF land in Newark was
given to the college by person whose generosity was
featured by desire that his name be kept secret
This 100000 gift is in addition that gift Of land II
VIII be seen. therefore, that new era has dawned
for the institution and about to embark upon
q comprehensive plan OF development the ultimate
scope OF which be definitely measured at this
time.
Certain 81 is, however. that all Deawareans owe a
oebt Of profound gratitude to this anonymous giyer
who has made it possible for that new era TO dawn
with golden promise the boys and girls Of this and
other States who may 30 "Old Delaware to be edu-
Gated.
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
WORKING FINE.

From the Milford Chronicle.
The Dover Index editor says that
he has been waiting expectantly for
good news of wonderful improvement
in Sussex county government under
the reform laws passed at the session
of the last Legislature. regulating
taxation. county government, roads.
etc. and that he still hears of waste
tulness and bankrupt conditions.
Well, what more can we expect from
the editor of the Dover Index? He is
either too lazy to read the laws as
passed. and so inform himself of
their powers and when they 90 into
effect or else he is too narrow in his
political groove and desires to falsify
the true conditions, so as to create
wrong impressions of the laws and
when they are effective.
The tax law is working fine In Sus-
sex county. Better than the laws
of Kent are doing. The Board of
Assessment is working out an en-
tirely new system Of assessments for
Sussex county which will not go into
effect until 1916. The old Levy Court
was continued in existence until
January, 1917, or until the people can
elect the three commissioners who
will succeed it. This fact the Index
editor does not know. or deliberately
ignores and attempts to lay the sins
of the old Levy Court with is monu-
mental failures in government be-
cause Of the system, at the door of
the new law. which will not go into
effect for more than year hence It
is a pity that the new era could not
have been made to go into effect for
the entire State at January /, 1917,
for all the counties.
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
7HAr DYNAMITE 0nrRAGE-

THs attempt 70 dynamite the plant OF the BaYarian
1-sstnE Company Fifth and dupont streets
~ -ii3 = q crime hat should call into play the very
-s -1s G. tie state county and city authorities 10
-+--s-- i-@ criminals and bring them TO justice
- A-i's- Faat Differences o. opinion there may be
z o-i eo-----T relative 70 the brewery workers
strike and tAs srelss 1ss-,oa .here sn h. s-,o, 49,.
es' men and roe- only one rntsrIynz orinion a. fo
ue p-eins q mar dglanlts- That Is f1at those who
80 ---o " eo-aia-T 70 destroy The plant and
nose VINO we're concerned Directly r. The rl.,.- i,
e explosive should receive no mercy a. ne ts-s. -
s eoui II 'ne police be 20 fortunate a. 70 arrest .t
ons' uirect OF eircumstantiai proof has seer -.
tanned II would be manifestly unfair 10 si-..+ .-.
against any individual or body OF men The tti-r -
'nc police officials to do is to work 50 ine,iirer., -
INC case that they viii bring the crime home 10 ~
perpetrators.
wilmington has been singularly free from dvna-,tss
outrage n those who engaged in the ofense u,ser
discussion be permitted TO escape punishment il vi
encourage them and others TO resort in future 10 dvs
mite argument when less dangerous and destructive
methods have failed.
Evening journal., 1915-10-25

Kossovo, like that for which for half
a thousand years the Serb of the
Black Mountain has worn a mourning
band on his cap, seems impending.
Once more Serbia is holding the gate
against the barbarian, against the foe
of all that Western civilization means,
and once more she IS sinking under
the terrible blows of a gigantic
enemy.
In time when the rumble of every
vehicle of modern civilization breaks
on our ears and across our eyes
passes in procession all the latest
mechanism OF the Twentieth Century,
there is going on just beyond our
horizon, but in plain, garish daylight,
a tragedy which recalls that which
is most ancient, most memorable in
the past OF legend and OF song.
For liberty, for the right to live and
speak their language, worship their
own God, follow their own democratic
customs, for all that means most 10
that portion of mankind to whom any
thing but the trivial and the common
matters. a race is making it's last
fight. II called its men TO the front
in 1912, it called its boys in 1913. Now
in 1915 the women and the children
are with their husbands and their
fathers. The last levy is out, the last
line Of the race, not the nation or
the army It is this that the Kaisers
host Is trampling under foot in the
bloody mire of the battlefield is
this which Is the last obstacle. the
only human barrier, between Ger
many and her world power the Ger
man prophets have foretold.
Is It not possible that when the
memories Of Hindenburg's Polish vic
tories and Mackensen's Galician tri-
umphs have faded away. when
Kaisers and Cars and big ministers
and little ministers have been put
away in the dust Of remorseless cen
turtles, there will still be treasured
the glory of the Serbian national
Thermopylae. the ultimate and inn
mortal resistance OF liberty to
tyranny. of right to force, Of man to
the machine?
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
With The PaTagraphers

young Chicago girl has married a "a. -,
count Perhaps she takes the count now aeurnc beI,
take the count soon--Allentown Chronicle ana w.
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford has entered n ,isor
GUS protest against the folly and worse of the recent
attacks upon German music, notably upon the works
OF wagner and Brahms II is satisfactory to lind that
there Is one English composer who dares 10 advocate
the catholicy OF real art and refuses to admit tha
with view TO capture market English composers
should ban the masters Of their art-London out
look 80
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
CLOSING MATINEE At sEAFORD.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
SEAFORD. Del, Oct 25.- Probably
the closing race Of the season will be
held at the driving park OF e. John
Hearn and Sons on next Thursday
Horses from Middletown. Bridgevi'le,
Milton. Milford, Georgetown, Frank
ford, Lewes. Rehoboth, Seaford. Lau-
rel, Millsboro Bishops and several
other places are entered.
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
THE RAG LAS NO PLATFORM.

THE RING HAS NO PLATFORM.
From the Snow Hill People.
The Ring Of Worcester county has
absolutely nothing to offer the people
beyond the nom de plume Demo
cratic" and this is enough to make
that great founder of the Democratic
party-Thomas Jefferson-turn over
in his grave.
In former years it did go through
the formality Of adopting a platform,
but as this biennial joke became so
stale, we presume that this year it de-
cided at least to throw of one cloak
OF hypocrisy and not promise to do
anything, thus precluding the oppo-
sition In the new campaign from hold
ing up before the peoples eyes the
long list Of broken promises. We
commend II for its frankness. The
Ring workers say vote for us be-
cause we are Democrats not because
we have anything to offer you--"be-
cause you were born and rocked in a
Democratic cradle"-not because we
offer you better service than we have
given you in the past-.because the
Democrats ought to rule"-not because
we will give you an equalized assess
ment, better roads. street enforce
ment Of the laws, better schools, etc,
etc.
The Ring has absolutely nothing to
offer and if it did it would not produce
1t until forced to do so by the Peo-
pies Party. as it did last year in the
case of the County Treasurer law.
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
GEMS OF THOUGHT

Orr past lives build the present which must mold
ne hFsa 70 be.-sr Edwin Arnold
-,eigtllng must pass. the memory OF words kisses
-..p-sts embraces but the contact OF souls which
III ,.. ~ end hailed each other amid the throng
q -zss7 =7spes, that never can be botted out-ro-
main Roland '. nv
.-.-e-.
l1e csy q peace IL one when e,erv no., .t,s -
'r''nl-nion and eaf and drink the Bread and
we ~ nose Nho have suffered and died for M All
an1 ~ enter into communion tbeir s,,ri'. al a.
their psseion.-stephsn Graham ' anu
Evening journal., 1915-10-25
Spirit of the Delmarvia Press

The Index editor represents part Of
the old system. which the present
day methods are supplanting, and he
dies hard.
Evening journal., 1915-10-25

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fslAla lean Advertisers haa ex-
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the circulation Of this pub
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-15
MAY ANNEX TO LEE.
Part OF Darlington County VANS
Ci..nge-Hcaring Before Governor.

Columbia, Sept. 10.-Gov. Manning
Will hold hearing next Friday on
the petition from citizens Of a certain
portion Of Darlington county, which
Is seeking annexation to Lee county.
Former Lieut.. Gov. Thos. G. Mcleod
Is representing the citizens seeking the
annexation. while former Senator L..
M. Lawson is representing those op-
posed to join Lee.
The area proposed to leave Darling
ton and join Lee consists of as
square miles located in the northwes-
tern portion of Darlington county, and
II this Is done the new line between
the counties would begin at the inter-
section of Sparrow Swamp and Pine
Swamp.
After hearing both sides the cover
nor will then decide whether to ap-
point commissioners to survey the pro-
posed area and whether then to order
the election or refuse the petition.