The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-08-04

defeated Austria, but she could
not defeat Austria, Germany,
and Bulgaria combined, and the
destruction of Serbia followed
the destruction OF Belgium. But
the Suez Canal did not fall, nor
did England's nerves futter.
She was aroused instead, and
gave Kitchener the 100000
men he had asked for.
Strange to say, this was the
effect of Frightfulness every
where, Infallible Efficiency fore
told that an attack on a fishing
village, a Zeppelin raid over
London, the sinking Of a liner,
the shooting of an English nurse,
must shatter England's nerves.
Instead, it filled the slow En-
glishman with fury, and he en-
tered the army by the million.
Today there are hundreds of
thousands of Englishmen in the
armies that are pounding Eff
, cheney to pieces on the Somme
who would not be there if it had
not been for Eficiency's master
; pieces-ScarbOrough, the Lusi-
! tania, the Zeppelins, Louvain,
| Edith Cavel. But the principle
of Frightfulness is that it is in
-. fallible and that all that is nee
: essary is to keep it up long
: enough; so Frightfulness goes
on; today it sinks a hospital ship
| in the Mediterranean, and more
! E~nglishmen crowd to the recruit
} ing Offices. Yet, strange to say,
= after a year and a half of war
7 Efficiency discovers that there
can be exceptions to an infall-
1 ible rule; it gives up the sub
. marine war on passenger ships
e so as to avoid war with the
United States. 1t is the first
!, dent ever made in the conscious
e ness of i~nfallibility. 1t amazes
t and angers the true believers
f Efficiency cannot be mistaken.
: Frightfulness can have no excep-
t tons; and they clamor for the
e official scalp Of Bethmann Holl.
|, veg, a Laodicean Efficient.
e So the war goes on well into
o its second year, and Liberty be.
y gins at last to be ready for it;
a defense against the Superman
: 1t was unprepared in 1914, ever
5, in 1915, but it has prepared it
self under fire. Liberty is no
2. infallible, not omniscient. Blu.
o Liberty is determined that tn,
e Superman shall not rule tn
y earth; that the things that hav.
a been so slowly and painful,
! won for the race through al
/ these centuries shall not g
# down at the flat of a new theory
a new doctrine-the old doctrin
d of Divine Right made world
= wide and turned into religion
l. 1t makes no brag of its destin.
|; or divinity, but it closes aroun.
g Efficiency in a deadly circle. TIL
r. Iron Ring becomes a reality. A
n last, though not until 1916, tn
r fraudulent god begins to tottel
r The old things, the things tina
N men fought for and toilsomel
won from Runneymede to Bunk
y er Hill, are dimly seen emergin
ID through the black smoke tina
Is obscured them so long; and, de
y, spite the two years of travail
m their faces are unchanged.
D. The sea still beleaguers Eff
,iency. Frightfulness has cease
l. its futile, murderous war there
re Once, this year, Efficiency sen
h her ships out to fight manfully
not murderously. After the bal
is tie was over, nothing was chang
5; ed; the sea was still a foe. A
or along the east front Eficienc
p is desperately resisting the g
D. gantic rush of Europe; here he
lines hold for a while, there the
n go pell-mell, and the armies 9