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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-15

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New Britain herald., 1915-12-06

to do all in our power to preserve unstained and unsulied the consti- tuition and institutions of our beloved country against the attacks of every influence that threatened their des- truction.
 Our order is a matchess propa- sanda for the diffusion of manly ex- alted ideas and it's history is star gemmed with noble glorious deeds It's glorious past is secure, safe against 1 the erasure and tooth of Time and born of that unfaltering faith that l have in it is the prophecy that the future will brighten and endure as long as nobility of purpose and the desire to make the world better and brighter, find lodgment in the hearts l Of men,"
 Calvary" was played by the or
 chestra, followed by vocal selection,
 ''The Plains of Peace," by F. M. Hewitt.
 The closing exercises by the officers 1 of the lodge were by Exalted Ruler 1 Curtin; Esteemed Leading Knight w.
 c. Foster, Esteemed Loyal Knight T. l w. O'Brien, Esteemed Lecturing
 Knight O. O. Butler, Esquire J. G. 1 Woods, Secretary D. T. Holmes and Chaplain Henry Martin
 The audience rose and sang the
 ode of the lodge Nearer My God To
 Thee.''
 Benediction was given by Chaplain
 Henry Martin and the orchestra . played Priests March," as the as-
 sem blaze slowly wended it's way
 out from the hall. At the close re- treatments were served.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-06

paid off by the generous gift of Q friend of the church two years ago. We know how happy were were to re- ceive the gift of $5,000. In october, Dr. Brown added, he was sitting by the f1reside at his sisters home tn Virginia, and when the late mail came in it brought him letter, and as soon as he opened it he told the members of the family he had something to tell them and to get ready to throw up their hats in the air. The letter read: Pastor, you baptized me, and this church was built during your pastorate. 1 want you to have hand in what purpose to do. l purpose to pay off the mortgage on this church. I don't want anything said about if now, and when you come home to preach some Sunday you may select, you may announce the cancellation of the mortgage But leave my name out. Dr Brown said that after con- siderable persuasion he had finally obtained the giver's consent to leave his name in. He shrunk from it. but his modesty was finally overcome, so that you will have both joy of the gift and what I wanted to have you have, the added joy of Knowing the name of the generous giver. 1t is
 
 inspiring that young business man of this congregation starting out on successful career should remember his church in such handsome man. ner Dr. Brown said he expected to have the mortgage on hand to be able of the city. The pastor read off to destroy it, but the holder lived out l check for $5,000 drawn on the New Britain National Bank by William IT.. | Sloper Just before pronouncing the benediction, Dr. Brown paused to say that while they rejoiced to receive Mr. Sloper's $5,000, they didn't want to have him have a monopoly of the 1 generous giving. There was a mort gage of $5,000 on the parsonage and it would be a fine thing to welcome the new pastor to a house they owned.
 MT. Sloper's generous gift is deeply appreciated by the congregation and it is hoped that the members of the church will now get together and do- nate enough money to pay off the
 s5,0O0 mortgage on the parsonage, so
 that when Dr. Cross takes charge he
 will have a free church with which
 to work.
 MT. Sloper is the second son of Hon
 Andrew J. Sloper and is one of Ney
 Britain's most successful young men.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-06

gays of violets with rose centers set in white frills and showers of tiny mignOn roses and ribbons. The ma trOn of honor was similarly attired, but her frOrk was entirely violet.
 August c. Pratt, a brother of the bridegroom, was best man and the ushers were: Carter Phelps, Abram B. Chittenden, Arthur Pratt, Clinton B. Smith, Donald Hart, Lloyd Sou vile, Junior Salmon, Arthur Phelps and Reginald Cauchois. A reception followed the ceremony at the Gotham ballroom. Following their honey moon, the couple will live at 23O West Seventy-first street.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-06
WIT. SLOPER PAYS
 $5,0O0 CHURCH DEBT
Generous Gift Is Announced to
 Baptists From Pulpit

Rev T. Edwin Brown, Ph., D., former pastor at the First Baptist church, in preaching the morning ser mon there yesterday took occasion to announce that William T. Sloper, one of the most prominent young men Of New Britain and a staunch rpember Of this church, had presented the church with a gift of s5,000, thus entirely wip- ing out the standing debt of the church.
 pr. Cross Acceptance.
 pr. Brown also read the tolloWlng letter of acceptance from Rev. pr. Earle B. Cross, who has accepted call to the local church:
 ITO the First Baptist Church,
 New Britain, Conn.
 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
 Trusting in the guidance of our Father God, whose wisdom directs the affairs of His people, I accept the call of the First Baptist church in New Britain, Connecticut, to become your minister. The relations which I am now to sever are such that l cannot and would not break them too abruptly. I, therefore, by virtue of the privilege granted to me in your cali would name the first day of Jan nary. nineteen hundred and sixteen, as the date upon which my work with you shall begin.
 May our mutual choice be ratified | by a fraternal and happy relationship | in the work of Jesus Christ. Truly yours,
 l "(Signed) Earle E. Cross" "
 Dr Brown called attention to the fact that he has been an active clergy man for fifty-three years and by his retirement would become a member of the First Baptist church here SC that Dr. Cross would be his pastor too, the first time he has had a pastor in over a half century.
 $5,OOO Gift Announced.
 In announcing MT. Sloper's gift Dr
 Brown spoke in part as follows: You have heard of the man whc went away to supply the pulpit an' wanted $10 he could put in his pocket 2 2 so it would make him feel better. The
 with the amount of money l have ha in my pocket I ought to hay preached the greatest sermon in m life, as I never had so much in m possession in my life" He recalle
 how when the new church was bui
 they didn't have enough money to fl . it as they wanted to. More mone had to be raised, and they secured il first money by putting a mortgage $5.0OO on the parsonage. Then | putting second and third mortgage : on the church they raised $1O,0O
 more. One-half of that $1O,00O wa
New Britain herald., 1915-12-06
City Items

The ideal Christmas gift-silk hos iery. Damon's Shoe Shop.-advt'
 A daughter has been born to MT. and Mrs. V. Sazama of South Main street.
 Big sale of smart trimmed hats. Bowen & Co.-advt.
 The New Britain Teachers club gave a whist Saturday afternoon from 3 to o'clock in the Grammar school hall. The hall was decorated for inc occasion. Fifteen tables were filled and there was prize for each one. Homemade candy was served.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-06
PRATT-GEDDES.
Wedding at Christ Church, New York, Saturday, of Interest to Local People.

Saturday, of Interest to Local People.
 wedding of much interest to New Britain society people occurred at Christ church, Seventy-first street and Broadway, New York, at o'clock Saturday afternoon when Miss Vir- gln1a Geddes, daughter of Mrs. Charles Paul Geddes of 23 West Sev- enty-slxth street and a sister of Mrs. Charles B. Parsons of this city, was married to Stephen Wilcox Pratt, son of Mrs. Nathaniel Pratt of Brooklyn. The ceremony was performed by Rev. M. George Thompson of Green wich assisted by Rev. Edward Van Et- ten of Christ church.
 The bride walked up the nave with her mother and Charles B. Parsons, her brother in law, and was given in marriage by Mrs Geddes. The bride was beautifully gowned in short skirted frock of cloth of silver with lace silver petticoat, the whole draped with tulle. Her corsage was made of pearl passementerie, sleeveless, but with wide bands of pearls over the shoulders and arms. The court train of striped cloth of silver was yelled by a heavy tulle veil held by 8 sprig of orange blossoms. She wore diamond brooch and a string of pearls and carried a bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley.
 The matron of honor was Mrs. A. B. Chittenden of Burlington, Iowa. and the other attendants, who came down the nave from the chapel to meet the bridal party, were the Misses Virginia Keys, Eleanor Youngman, Eleanor Davies, Jeanette Torrey, Ruth Fisk, Virginia Rees Scully, Margaret Case and Mrs. Carter Phelps, nee Miss Eleanor Bartlett, a recent bride They wore pink taffeta embroidered in sill yer over short petticoats of silver lace founces. Their large hats with silver lace crowns and tulle brims over velvet had touches of mignon roses and all carried oldtime nose
New Britain herald., 1915-12-06

Great Britain found Tod Sloan, the famous former jockey, an undesir- able alien and told him tC take him. self off. So Tod returned to America and protested on his arrival in New York that he had been deported without just cause. He was accused of maintaining a gambling house. It was also said that he was sent to America because he had recently been in Germany.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-06
FTREMEN TO MEET

The tremen who are on the various committees in charge of their New Years eve ball will hold an important meeting at o'clock tomorrow even ing at the Central station. Reports of progress will be made and one or two new matters taken up for considera- tion. Indications are that this years firemen's ball will be the biggest event the association has ever held.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-06

given out by MT. Bryan himself, who came from Miami, Fla, to bid MT. Ford and his companions godspeed on
 the journey and to assure them of his unqualified indorsement of their pro- ject. MT. Bryan went to Hoboken to shake every pilgrim by the hand. The number of voyagers was given out as i40, including fifty-four newspaper correspondents and three moving
New Britain herald., 1915-12-06

picture photographers. Prominent among the travellers were Mrs. Inez M1lholland Boissevain, the famous suHraglst; Governor l.. B. Hanna of North Dakota and the Rev. Charles F. Aked, the born English clergyman who was formerly pastor of the Fifth avenue Baptist church of New York and who now officiates in San Fran cisco.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-06

Before the hour of the departure of Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II. from Hoboken for Europe, with the Detroit mans party which hoped to find a way of ending the war, it was announced that William Jennings Bryan expected to join the party soon, probably when the pilgrimage reaches The Hague. This information was
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1915-11-05
ably take part in it.

ably take part in it.
Germany, by bursting her way
through Belgium, was enabled
to seize 80 to 80 per cent Of the
coal and iron resources of France
and the greater part of her APP
paratus for the production Of
arms. She holds also the en-
tire resources of Belgium, both
of raw material and finished pro-
duct. The foul blow by which
she possessed herself of these
indispensable treasures had two
consequences which she did not
look for-the active hostility Of
England and the moral indigna-
ton Of all other nations. In
helping France to make good the
loss which she sustained
through such perfidy the Amer
lean people think that they are
doing Gods service, and their
only regret is that they cannot
do more of it. If they had fore
seen the present conditions thew
would have enlarged their gun
factories and powder mills to
meet the emergency more
promptly. ;
A German writer in the New
York Times of May 80, MI. vom
Bruck, says: eff the German
nation is wiped out with the
help of American arms and am
munition no man of the white
race in the United States would
be able to think of such a catas-
trophe without horror and re-
morse" All of the contending
nations say that they are fight
ing for existence, which means
that if they do not win in the
end they will be wiped out. With
such an alternative staring us
in the face very few tears would
be shed by Americans, of any
color, if both the Hohenzollerns
and the Hapsburgs, with all
their belongings, should be wip-
ed off the face of the earth.
HORACE WHITE.
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SeIIing Ann to the AlIies.

Selling Arms to the Allies.
Horace White in the North Ameri-
can Review.
The sale of arms and munitions
to belligerents in the present
war and the questions of law re-
lating thereto have drawn at
tention to the French Arms de-
bate in the Senate of the United
States in 1872 1t has been as
sumed in some quarters that the
matter in controversy then was
the same as at present: that we
were guilty of an infraction Of
our duties as a neutral; that we
were helping the French with
arms and ammunition to the
detrimeht and disadvantage of
Germany; and that the notable
speech of Carl Schurz on that
occasion was a protest against
such infraction.
A reference to dates will show
that this is a misconception. The
Franco-G German war had been
fought and ended more than a
year before the French Arms
question came up as a matter
of controversy among us. King
William was crowned as German
Emperor in the place at Yer
sailles on the 18th of January,
1871. Carl Schurz's speech was
made in the United States SEN
ate on the 10th of February,
1872. The debate and investiga-
ton arose upon a question
whether a ring of our Govern.
ment officials and a few private
spectators had defrauded the
United States and violated oui
laws by sales of Government
arms in order to put money ii
their own pockets. The question
whether there had been a breach
of neutrality was only inciden.
tai. The manufacture and sale
Of arms by private individuals
or corporations to belligerent:
was never called in question il
the debate. The arms sold dur
ing the Franco-P russian wal
were the property of our Gov
eminent, and the breach Of neu
trality, if any, was due to that
fact.
The year 1872 was that il
which the Liberal Republican re
volt took place against publ,
scandals which were then cpl
demic. It was a time when mucl
corruption was uncovered anC
when any suspicious circumstan
ces were likely to attract con.
siderable attention. There haC
been large sales Of arms from
the public arsenals following oul
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Civil War and the disbandment
of our armies-sales both to bel
lgerents and non-belligerents
Some suspicious circumstances
were discovered. One was that
the law governing such sales
required that the offerings of
arms should be in pursuance of
previous public advertisement,
whereas there had been no ad-
vertising except in a single in
stance. Another was that when
breech-loading rifles were sold
the Government made and sold
cartridges to fit them; that the
the public arsenals following our
Government arms to any friend
ly Power which was at war with
another friendly Power; that
the arms sold were not obsolete
but serviceable, and actually
better than the arms then in the
hands of the Militia of the sew
eral States. In fact there were
good grounds for an inquiry in
to the matter, but not for a con-
demnatiOn of anybody offhand.
There were answers to all of
these charges, which if not
wholly satisfactory, took the
sting out of them, so that the
French Arms sale was not heard
of in the subsequent political
campaign. AS to the failure to
advertise, it was shown that
Gen. SchoieId, when Secretary
of War, had ruled orally that
when there had been one adver-
tisement for thirty days of a
peculiar kind of property for
sale by the Department, it was
not necessary to advertise sep
erately each subsequent sale Of
the same kind Of property. AS to
the manufacture of cartridges
for the rifles it was contended
that it was the custom of the
trade when dealing in breech
Oaders for the seller to furnish
cartridges to the buyer, without
which the arms would be useless.
It was proved that when the
first sales were made to the
Remington Company. Gen. Dyer.
the Chief of Ordnance, did moi
know and had no reason to sup
pose that they were agents Of
the French Government; thai
when that fact became known
the Secretary of War prohibited
further sales to them but did al
low their representative to take
one lot which had been sold but
not delivered before their desti.
nation became known. Other
parties then came in as buyers
who sold to still other parties,
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who in turn sold to the French
The Nation of April A, 1872, dis.
cussing this point said:

cussing this point said:
The other law that the Government
is accused Of disregarding is that di.
recting that no arms, the property Of
the United States, shall be sold to the
agent of any friendly Power when al
war with another friendly Power. II
is charged that the offices Of the War
Department disposed Of old arms to
persons whom they knew to be French
agents. In the main it seems to us
that this charge has not been made
good. Certainly up to the 18th of
October, 1870, no arms were sold to
any person known to the Department
to be the authorized agent Of either
~belligerent. On that day Secretary
IBelknap and General Dyer discovered
that Nj. Squire, to whom they had
just made a large sale, was an agent
Of the French Government. Secretary
Belknap at once ordered that no more
arms be sold to him but he delivered
what had been sold and for this he is
censured by some. Perhaps it would
have been better if he had not done
so; he had not yet received from Mr..
Squire the margin commonly exacted
from purchasers, and could have re-
nounced the bargain with propriety
had he chosen to do so; still there
was nothing in this action deserving
of severe censure. In a word we think
the War Department has been per-
haps a little careless while we acquit
it at this point Of any violation Of
United States law.
The fact came out in the in
vestigation that when the Sec
rotary of War learned that some
of these arms went to the French
Government he caused an offer
to be made to sell the same num-
Der and kind Of arms to the
Prussian Government, but the
offer was declined and the an
swer was returned that the
Prussian Government had no OBJ.
lection to our selling to the
French. Bismarck added that
he could get the arms cheaper
on the banks of the Loire.
AS to the expediency of sell.
ing at all, it was in the discre-
ton of the War Department tC
sell arms not actually in use. The
Secretary could decide for him.
self when . particular pattern
had been, or was likely to be.
superseded by a better one. Such
decisions, however, were made
only with the approval of the
Ordnance Department.
In short, it turned out that
there was nothing reprehensible
in the sales per Sc, though prob
ably some persons on this side
of the water and some on the
other side made more money
out Of them than a fair commits.
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lie. 1t remains to be seen wheth-
err our Ambassador at Berlin
was instructed by his own Gov
eminent to make such request;
also whether Germany did or did
not sell them, and if she did not,
whether she was justified in re-
fusing.
When neutrality is put upon
a tigher plane than the settled
law and practice of nations we
are bound to inquire on which
side the preponderance of moral
principles is to be found. Which
of the contending parties began
the war and made itself respon-
sible for the awful human mis-
cry that has flowed from it? The
reasons why Germany declared
war may be briefly summarized
thus: (1) the necessity of Civ
ing "a free hand to Austria in
dealing with Servia )" (2) the
mobilization of Russia; (3) the
secret, hostile intentions of
France; (4) the commercial ieal-
ousy Of England (5) Germany's
need of a place in the sun; (6)
her need of a place on the sea.
These causes for beginning a
world war are sufficiently varie-
gated. All of them may be dis
missed except the first. Every
body knows now that if the first
had not existed none of the
others would have been heard of.
After giving Austria her head
in a world war Germany ex-
claimed that she was defending
herself and fighting for exis-
tence! She then carried fire and
sword in Belgium.
The belief Of the great major
ity of people of the United States
is that Germany began the war
without sufficient cause, and
that when she invaded Belgium
she made herself the outlaws Of
the nations-a country whom no
agreements can bind.
Closely connected with this
thought is the conviction that
no limit can ever be put to tn
worlds expenditure for arma-
ments while one incorrigible
outlaw is at large. Even in time
of peace the cost of armies and
navies goes on increasing, and
this is logical. If every nation
may declare war at its own
whim it may reasonably esti-
mate beforehand the cost of il
and provide for it accordingly.
There is no reason why il
should pause short of the last
dollar in its treasury, and the
last male inhabitant capable OF
carrying a gun. The costs of ar.
maments will go on increasing
until the entire net earnings OF
the human race are absorbed in
death dealing Instruments or un.
til a supreme tribunal shall be
established to decide Internal
ional disputes and to enforce its
decisions. 1t is the opinion of
most Americans that the most
incorrigible and dangerous ont
law and armed maniac now ex-
listing in Germany, and that the
first and indispensable step to-
ward a restriction of ornaments
and a quiet world is to throttle
and disarm her, and that no
price is too great to pay for such
a Any result Of
the present war which falls short
of this win be the preliminary to
a new armament and another
war on a wider scale than the
present one, since the United
States win make preparations
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