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brethren are not only slaughtered on the bat
tlefelds. their fathers and mothers their wives
and children dying of hunger; they are not only
bounded, expelled from their homes, driven to
shame and to suicide; but they are hanged and
they are shot by the very troops of the country
for which the are fighting We are confronted
by a condition of massacre.
The Jews of America realize now that they
are charged with grave duty and the great
responsibility of helping their brethren in dis
tress abroad. There are certain prominent
American Jews who believe that the Jews of
America must be neutral" Some of US have
even been criticised for crticisng the Rus
sian government in the Jewish and the Amer-
can press As | have stated on a previous oc-
casion as Americans and Jews, are bound
to be neutral. But our sympathy ior our dis
tressed brethren-have we no right to express
that? Have we no right to tell the truth?
Should neutrality prevent US from presenting
the facts, even if they are facts Of pogroms?
In a letter | received recently from DR.. Max
Nordau, one of the most brilliant Jewish lead
ers in the world, now an exile in Spain, he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11

The Zonists of America have assumed the
responsibilities and the colossal task. They
have striven to rise to the situation, to deal
with the great problems of Zionism in a big
way. New forces have come to their ranks.
Some of the foremost American Jews have
joined the Zionist movement and leaders have
thus been acquired, real ieaders of foresight
and wide experience and Of craftsmanship.
For ages the Jews have carried within their
hearts the land of their fathers, and they have
framed and they have prayed and they have
toiled both in Palestine and in other lands, for
the Zionist ideal.
According to diplomatic explanations this
war has been started for the sake of the safety
of the smaller and weaker nationalities whose
existence was threatened, and Israels claims
for home in the general readjustment could
never be brought to the attention of the nations
with greater force than at the close of this
war, in which the Jews have fought for all ma
tons and all lands.
In the final readjustment, if justice should
prevail, lsraeps place among the nations with
regard to Palestine and with regard TO equal
rights in other lands will doubtless be estab-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11
Civilization Offers Manv Substitute ApOca-
tionS Which Develop the Same Human
ViriIitieS as War, Says the Great
Psychologist, Pointing Ont Civilizations
DEVELOPMENT

more especially a scavenger; he is the rat OF
sewers and drains. The black rat came t.
Northern Europe frst-both of them probably
being Asiatic animas-and has no doubt been
to some extent replaced by the brown rat who
has been specially favored by the modern ex
tension of drains and sewers which exactly
suit his peculiar tastes. But each f1ourished
in his own environment; neither of them is
adapted to the others environment; there is
no war between them, nor any occasion for
war, for they do not really come into compe-
tition with each other The cockroaches, or
"black beetles" furnish another example. These
pests are comparatively modern and their
great migrations in recent times are largely
due to the activity of human commerce There
are three main species of cockroach-the ORR
entail the American, and the German Tor cro-
ton bug)-and they flourish near together in
many countries though not with equal sue
cess, for while in England the Oriental is
most prosperous, in America the German
cockroach is most abundant. They are sell
dom found in actual association, each is best
adapted to a particular environment; there is
no reason to suppose that they fight. 1t is so
throughout Nature. Animals may utilize
other species as food but that is true Of even
the most peaceable and civilized human races
The struggle for existence means that one
species is more favored by circumstances
than another species; there is not the remot
est resemblance anywhere to human warfare.
We may pass on to the second claim for
war: that it is an essential factor in the social
development of primitive human races. War
has no part, though competition has a very
large part, in what we call Nature" But
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clare that warfare is in contradiction with the
whole of the influences which build up and
organize civilization. A tribe is small but
very closely knit unity, so closely knit that
the individual is entirely subordinated TO the
whole and has little independence of action or
even of thought
The tendency of civilization is TO create webs
of social organization which grow even larger,
but at the same time looser, so that the indl-
vidual gains continually growing freedom
and independence The tribe becomes merged
in the nation and, beyond even this great unit,
bonds of international relationship are pro-
gressively formed. War, which at first
favored this movement, becomes an ever
greater impeachment to its ultimate progress.
This is recognized at the threshold of cIvlliza-
ton, and the large community or nation,
aboishes warfare between the units OF when
it is composed by the device Of establishing
law courts to dispense impartial justice. AS
soon as civilized society realized that 1t was
necessary to forbid two persons to settle their
disputes by individual fighting, or by initiating
blood feuds. or by arming friends and follow
ers. setting up courts of justice for the peace
able settlement Of disputes, the death blow OF
all war was struck. For all the arguments
that proved strong enough to condemn war
between two individuals are infinitely stronger
to condemn war between the populations Of
two-thirds of the earth. But, while 1t was a
comparatively easy task for state to abolish
war and impose peace within in its own Ooun-
daries-and nearly all over Surope the proc
ess was begun and for the greater part ended
centuries ago-it is a vastly more difficult
task to abolish war and impose peace between
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11

powerful states. Yet at the point at which we
stand to-day civilization can make no further
progress until this is done. Solitary think
ers, like the Able de Saint-Pierre, and even
great practical statesmen, like Sully and Penn,
have from time to time realized this fact dur
ing the past four centuries, and even attempted
to convert it into actually. But it cannot be
done until the great democracies are won over
to conviction of its inevitable necessity.
International Law Courts.
We need an international organization Of
law courts which shall dispense justice between
nation and nation in the same way as the eX-
isting law courts of all civilized countries
now dispense justice as between man and man.
and we further need, behind this international
organization of justice, and international or
ganization of police strong enough to carry
out the decisions Of these courts, not to eXer-
else tyranny but to insure to every nation, even
the smallest, that measure of reasonable free
dom and security to 20 about its own business
which every civilized nation now, in some small
degree at all costs, already incures to the hum
blest of its individual citizens. The task may
take centuries to complete, but there is no more
urgent task before mankind to-day.
These considerations are very elementary,
and year ago they might have seemed to
many,-though not to all of us,-merely aca-
demic, chiefly suitable to put before SCHOOLGIRL
dren. But since last July they have ceased to
be merely academic; they have indeed acquired
a vital actually almost agonizingly intense.
For we realize to-day that the considerations
here set forth, widely accepted as they are, yet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11

when we come to primitive man the conditions
are somewhat changed; men, unlike the lower
animals, are able to form large communities
"tribes" as we call them-with common H.
terests, and two primitive tribes can come
into a competition which is acute to the point
of warfare because, being of the same and not
of two different species, the conditions or lie
which they both demand are identical; they
are impeled to fight for the possession OF
those conditions as animals Of different species
are not impelled to fight. We are often told
that animals are more moral than human be-
ings. and it is largely due to the fact that
except under the immediate stress of hunger
they are better able to live in peace with each
other that the greater morality of animals is
due Yet we have to recognize this mis-
chievous tendency to warfare, so often Though
by no means always found in primitive man,
was bound up with his superior and progress
sive qualities. His intelligence, his quickness
of sense, his muscular skill, his courage and
endurance, his aptitude for discipline and for
organization-all of them qualities on which
civilization is based-were fostered by warfare
War and Dancing
With warfare in primitive life was closely
associated the still more fundamental art
older than humanity of dancing. The dance
was the training school for all the activities
which man developed in a supreme degree-for
love- for religion, for art, for organized labor
and in primitive days dancing was the chief
military school, perpetual exercise in mimic
warfare during times of peace, and in times
of war the most powerful stimulus TO mill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11

Make no Further Progress Until War Is Abolished ana eace
Established Between Powerful States.
Under Cipili1ed Conditions There Are Hundreds OF
Apocat0nS Which Furnish Exactly the Same CondltonS as
Warfare for the Cultivation of All the Manly Virtues OF
Enterprise and Courage and Endurance Physical or Moral
War Is Not Factor of National EVOlHt0H
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War Has No Part in What We Call STATURE"
The Struggle for Existence Means that One Species Is More
Fapored by Circumstances than Another Species There Is
not the ReoeSt Resemblance Anywhere Human Warfare
At the Point at Which We Stand Today Civilization Can
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11

he youth furnished with trophies of heads or
scalps can hope to become an accepted lover, is
out Of date in civilization For under civil
lied conditions there are hundreds Of avoca-
tons which furnish exactly the same condi-
tions as warfare for the cultivation of all the
manly virtues Of enterprise and courage and
endurance, physical or moral. Not only are
these new avocations equally potent for the
cultivation of virility, but far more useful for
the social ends of civilization. For these ends
warfare is incomparably less adapted than it
is for the social ends of savagery. 1t is much
less congenial to the tastes and aptitudes Of
the individual, while at the same time it is
incomparaby more injurious to society In
savagery little is risked by war, for the pre-
cous heirooms of humanity have not yet been
created and war can destroy nothing which
cannot easily be remade by the people who
first made it.
Civilization and Tradition.
But civilization possesses-and in that pos
session, indeed, civilization largely consists
the precious traditions of past ages that can
never live again, embodied in part in ex-
quiste productions of varied beauty which are
a continual JOY and inspiration to mankind, and
in part in slowly evolved habits and laws of
social amenity, reasonable freedom and
mutual independence, which under civilized
conditions war whether between nations or
between classes tends to destroy, and in so
destroying to infict a permanent loss in the
material heirooms of mankind and a serious
injury to the spiritual traditions of civiliza-
ton 1t is possible to go further and to de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11
By FTave1O OK Ellis

THE Great War of to-day has rendered
acute the question of the place of war
fare in Nature and the effect of war
ON tho hrn,an race These have long
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-07

crush the municipality owned util-
tiles which already exist, II will
mean that eventually the waterworks
the municipal light plant and the
other publicly-owned utilities will
pass into the hands of the privately
owned interests.
This bill is the most vicious thrust
at the peoples interests which has
been before the Legislature for years.
1t is notoriously backed by the pri-
vate interests. 1t is even openly
proclaimed by its backer to be a
measure designed to make municipal
ownership hard and to give the pri-
vately-owned corporations a chance
against the municipally-owned util-
tiles by giving them advantages.
The very braZen nature of this at
tack on municipal ownership seems
to have diverted attention from the
matter.
The situation will now call for a
referendum vote. This should be
pushed all over the state A state
wide municipal ownership league
should be formed to get the facts be-
fore the people. Unless some such
step is done the corporations will
control the situation again. These
matters should be looked after at
once, and the place for them to be
started is here in Columbus.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-07
AGRICULTURE.

/. Suggest some arrangements for
studying root growth.
3 What are the merits of the Jersey
breed of cattle?
g. Distinguish between hot bed and
a cold frame. For what is the latter
useful2
a. Name some of the best species of
shade trees and give few words on the
merits or disadvantages of each. How
do you secure trees for arbor day plant
ing?
S. Give an outline of the methods of
preparing and cultivating corn field,
and give the reason for each process.
e. Explain the principle and the ad-
vantages of the cream separator When
it is not used how is the end attained
(imperfectly)?
2. How can plants be made to root
deeply? What advantages are there in
getting them to root deeply? What
plants are noted for roofing deeply?
8. Give an account of the life of three
of the following kinds of insects, tell
what harm each of the three kinds does
and how it is kept in check plant louse,
tent-caterpillar, round headed apple tree
borer, scaly bark louise, cankerworm,
chinch bug, oyster shell bark louise, cab
bage worm.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-07
HISTORY.

1. What has been the governments
method of dealing with the Indians dur
ing the past ninety years? To what ex-
tent has it been successful?
2. Give a short sketch of our govern
ment's relations with Cuba. What les
sons would you impress in connection
with these acts?
8. What was the effect of the first
battle of Bull Run upon the North and
South respectively?
4. Discuss the record made by our
navy in each of the wars in which we
have been engaged.
S. What was peculiar about the cleo
ton of J. Q. Adams? Why were he
and his administration unpopular?
6. Discuss briefly the career of Bene-
dict Arnold.
7. What is meant by a proprietary
government of certain colonies in Amer
ica? By charter government? Name
some colonies which had each.
8. What are some of the new pro-
visions introduced into our national or
state governments designed to make the
government more truly one by. the peo-
pie? What effect would the short bal
lot have upon making the government
more responsive to the majority?
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-07
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE

Leipsic has a postofIice ranking as
second class. L. S. civil service law
and rules apply. Postmaster Place
must keep the same assistants and
clerks that were in when he came.
They are under civil service regula-
tion. Woodrow Wilson has respect
for his oath of office. He intends
that tn civil service law shall be hon
estly observed as long as it is the
law. At Columbus the story is diff
erent.
Republicans do not intend to have
any respect for the amendment to the
constitution of Ohio, which provides
by vote of the people, for civil SER
vice. Forty thousand republicans
are holding Office under Wilson by
virtue of the civil service law. In
Ohio, under Willis, several thousand
competent persons now under civil
service rule, will be thrown out if
the wrecking crew has its way.-Ot-
tawa Sentinel
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-07
TO CURB INDEPENDENT
VOTING intent OF RIPPER

One of the minor "rippers" not
widely noticed in thetorgy of legisla-
tive ripping now nearing an end at
Columbus is that fathered by Repre-
sentative Hulswitt, of Cincinnati.
1t is aimed to curb Independent yot-
ing. AS a proposal it has not sin
gle excuse for existence.
Among the measures adopted by
the last Legislature to put voting in
Ohio upon a more itelligent plane
was one providing that in quadren-
nial elections the names of pTesiden-
tial electors and of candidates for
state offices should appear on separ-
ate ballots. The purpose is obvious.
1t tends to encourage voters to use
their brains at election time. 1t
tends to prevent an unworthy candi-
date for office from getting in on the
merits of someone else than himself.
And the Hulswitt bill would abol-
ish this separation of ballots. 1t
would re-establish conditions that
existed previous to the action of the
last Legislature.
This much is certain. Every sell
fish politician in he state will favor
the Cincinnati mans measure. Ev-
cry aspirant for state office who be-
lieves himself incapable of winning
on his own merits will approve of
this proposed method to permit him
to get the Office upon the popularity
of someone else.
Ohio bears an excellent reputation
for independence in voting. Her
citizens have learned how to discrim-
mate at the polls. The partisan yoke
rests lightly.
Enactment of the Hulswitt bill
would be step backward The peo-
pie of this state are not ready to
abandon the promising plan to en-
courage independence at the polls
even before it has an opportunity for
trial
The man next to occupy the COVER
nor's chair should attain that posi-
tion by virtue of his own qualities
not because his party may have nom
mated a strong man for president OF
the United States. The Hulswitt
bill is vicious in tendency 1t should
be sent down to defeat.-P'ain
Dealer.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-07
ARITHMETIC.

l. The cost of insuring house worth
$4500 for AS of its value was $3275;
the cost of the policy was $l25S what
was the per cent of insurance?
2. Find the bank discount and pro-
ceeds OF note of $50, dated May 20,
1905, payable in 6 months with interest
at 90, and discounted September 9,
1905, at 80.
3. A dealer in notions buys 60 gross
shoes strings, at zoe per gross, list, for
50, 10 and So off; if he sell them at 20,
10 and so off list, what will be his
profit?
4. Divide .OO3s68 by .Ol6; square the
quotient.
S. 1t takes boat II hr 40 min. to
make a round trip of 90 mi. each way
If it goes down in 5 hr., at what rate
does it return?
g. How many square #. of land will
the price of ten-cent plug of tobacco
buy, at the rate Of $50 per acre?
Z. a weight of 10000 lb. is distrib-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-07
DECENTRALIZATION HUM
BUGGERY

What food for reflection is furn-
ished by the present situation In
State administration affairs! What
a commentary on the futility of at
tempting to divorce a hog from its
wallow is presented when a monde
script legislature, backed by the Re
publican party of spoils, proceeds TO
pull down the entire structure reared
by a former Democratic general AS
sembly and a Democratic governor
to protect the innocent heads of Ohio
people.
At the time Republican orators
and street corner mouthers were so
Justify declaiming against the jim
Cox machine CD everyone knew
their utterances were for one pur-
pose only. the return of power to the
local boss, eXemplified at its worst in
Cincinnati by such men as George B.
b. Cox, Rud Hynicka, Garry Herr
man, and Peter Durr. The whole
scheme was a humbug, and decen-
tralization, now in progress, is a
humbug.
win a complacent public ever rise
to an appreciation of their rights
and duties? When the hands of the
clock are turned backward the labor
of patriotic citizens is made heavier,
if they, some day, are to recover lost
time. Its the old story of the slow
progress of truth and righteousness.
Stout hearts will not become discour-
aged, even though vandals deface
the beautiful and trample the good
The structure may fall, but its des-
cent will crush those who did the
wreking. Cincinnati Record.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-07
BETTER THAN CALOMEL
Thousands Have Discovered
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets
are a Harmless Substitute

DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the substi
tute for calomel-are a mild but sure laxa-
tive. and their effect on the liver is almost
instantaneous. They are the result of DR..
Edwards determination not to treat liver
and bowel complaints with calomel. His
efforts to Danish it brought out these little
oliVe-colored tablets.
These pleasant little tablets do the good
that calcmel does but have no bad after ef-
fects. They don't injure the teeth like strong
liquids or calomel. They take hold of the
trouble and quickly correct it. Why cure
the liver at the expense of the teeth9 Cal
omel sometimes plays havoc with the gums.
So do strong liquids.
1t rs best not to take calomel, but to let
d. Edwards Olive Tablets take its place.
Most headaches, "dullness" and that
lazy feeling come from constipation and a
disordered liver. Take DR.. Edwards Olive
Tablets when you feelIoggy and "heavy."
Note how they "clear" clouded brain and
how they 'perk up the spirits. At l0c and
2sc per box. All druggists.
The Olive Tablet Company, Columbus, O,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-07
GRAM MAR.

/. Define principal and auxiliary
verbs. Give list of the latter.
2. Give the complete conjugation of
the verb must What do we use for
the missing forms, that is, how do we
express the thoughts that would haye
been expressed by them2
g. Give both ascending and descend
ing comparison of happy, late, far, Sc
rene, intelligent.
a. Give model letter heading, intro
duction and conclusion and envelope
address.
S. Give the complete conjugation of
the verb to be in the subjunctive mode
6. Give six examples of nouns which
form the feminine by adding sufix to
the masculine.
7. Diagram: The present war in
Europe is looked upon by those safely
distant from the clash of arms not as a
splendid spectacle but as an awful ca
lamity.
8.
ERE rnsset fields their green resume,
Sweet fO2Uer, / love, in forest bare,
To meet thee. when thy faint perfume
Alone is in the virgin air"
Give the construction (syntax) of
each italicized word in the above quo
tation. What does the first clause mod
ify?
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-07
THE MEAT IN THE COACOANUT

The keynote of the situation in
the Eighty-iirst general assembly is
the demand on the part of the mem
bers of the delegation from Hamilton
County that Governor Willis keep his
promise made to them for the votes
their county gave to make Willis
governor The difficulty which has
arisen is due simply to the efforts of
the governor to sidestep responsible
ity in this matter just as he has in
all other things.
The deadlock over the liquor Ii
cense decentraliZer is not because Of
any love the Cincinnati people have
for the present liquor license law,
but is simply predicated on the
knowledge they have that the cruX
of the matter is in the admlnistra-
tion of whatever law may be writ
ten on the statute books. They feel,
that given a suitable local license
board and friendly state license
commission, it will be just as easy
for Mr.. Wills to allow them to enjoy
the full measure of freedom they
were promised as it was for Mr.. Cox
TO see that the law was enforced to
the letter. In other words the simple
statement of ther arguments is that
it is just as easy for the Willis ad-
ministration to allow Sunday open
ing as it was for the Cox administra-
ton to enforce Sunday closing.
The conference between the gov
ernor, Peter Durr and others of Gin
cinnati, and Rev. u. B. Campbell, of
Ada, makes plain the terms of the
Cincinnati deal which was consum-