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THE NEED FOR WAR

nation 20 look 'Hcts IN the ltN". 'Hl
politicians. initiating the policy or the
ostrich. commence to hide their heads 50
that they may not see the approach of
trouble. Then inevitably the iahor mar
ket becomes unsettled drmagoEues seize
every opportunity TO show their strength
and labor IL organized against capital.
and trade unions. finding Weddings
against them. 10 bully All
the tendencies OF e~ffeteness, perrertiSm
and national carelessness develop one
after another. Politicians demand pay
for work which should be given patrIotl-
cally 10 tho nation men, women ana
children sneak out of conforming 20 tho
religious ~observances of n former genera
ton; all men begin to live above their
Incomes; a grottsGue extravaganza N
women dress follows ~schoolboys ana
undergraduates hin Il necessary 80 be-
Gin vher, their fathers left off. Finally
political corruption becomes the smart
nina the nation has begun 70 hN" FOR
the momer and fuses TO look into the
day after tomorrow.
Even at this time, when men have not
yet recovered the habit OF looking run
IN the face, a howl Of Indignation VII
he raised from all sides when ! have the
tcmcrtv 10 assert tina Germany Is TN"
Alrcs' best friend. But this is true be
cause Grrmauv has supplied the tome
W'.rN f'I,lnh' r,"''' CIV" h'S'' =.
E''''\ h''''c" ny "'N'"N Wv ,
many has forced thcs" countries out of
"tE'h'''H anu nae '"'e'u 49,
their houses in order. Germany mas
awakened the national spirit and the
sons" or la'r'o'lS,h WnI,' i"..t,.n,H ''n
almost N''''n anu VIM" >
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II. G.. WELLS IN HIS NEW
BOOK AGAIN A PROPHET

~ G Weiss attitude OF mind in his
new book. What Ia Coming IS inter
cstlngly revealed In the following pas
sage from the fret chapter OF that
volume:
The present writer Is n prophet by
use and wont. He IS more Interested
IN tomorrow than he Is in to-day. and
the past IL just material for futur"
guessing. Think ~ the men who have
walked here +" said a tourist in thu
Roman coliseum. II was a Futur!st
mind that answered Think OF 'he rel
who Will II IL surely as interesting
that presently some founder OF III" world
republic, some obstinate opponent OF mil
itarism or legalism, or the man who vii,
first release atomic energy for human
use. will walk along the Via Sacra aS
that Cicero or G!ordano Bruno or Shell
ley have walked there in the past. To
IA" prophetic mind all history IL and
viii continue 70 be a prelude. The pro-
phctic type will steadfastly refuse to
see the world a. a museum II Will In
S!st that here IS a stage SGT for a drama
that i-rpetually begins"
Mr. Mclls's literary career is marked
by a number OF prophecies, and many
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OOKS OF THE WEEK SEEN IN REVIEW AND COMMENT

north and south through the continent.
The author gives a clear description of
the roads In existence and projected in
each of the countries OF South Amer
lea. especially the Argentine, Brazil,
Chile and Bolivia He adds also what Is
to be known about the railroads in the
Central American States. Mexico he
omits. He includes much information
OF Importance to those studying the
problem Of enlarglng the m OF
the United States with the Latin
American countries.
Good Letters.
The aesthetic and artistic side of one
OF tho very minor arts Is kept con
stantly In view in Thomas Wood
Stevens's manual on Lettering CThe
Prang Company. New York;. The
need Of plates OF the right size has
made 1t a very handsome small quarto
volume. The text is intended for be-
einners and all the explanations are
f%ittingly clear. The plates with their
many beautiful examples of letters will
prove useful to all experts in every line
OF business that calls for lettering.
Country Houses.
An album Of plans for houses ct
varying dimensions. accompanied 10y
pictures Of the completed structure.
which embrace many styles of arChl-
lecture. and with descriptive text, i
issued by the Garden city Company
OF California, Los Angeles, with the
title Ideal Homes IN Garden com -
munitios (Robert NJ. Mcbride and
Company. New York;. Several archi-
,ects have combined in drawing these
very attractive plans.
Diet Cures.
In Eat and Re Wei. Eat and oct
Wen (Alfred A. knopf. New lork)
Eugene Christian, starting with the
idea that 90 per cent. OF human dis
Ease originates In the stomach. gives
out the bills of fare by the use OF
which many diseases may be averted
or cured. The absence OF meat IS
noticeable. though a number OF the
menus include chicken and Ash. They
are based on the scientific theories re-
carding the values OF foods. and appeal
TO hygienic rather than gastrenomical
tastes.
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AND HIS WIFE.'S DEVOTION

In tho intimate record "Reminis-
cenccs OF T%olS'ny' century, by his
son. Count ll'a Tolstoy. the latter
throws Fight on tive famous definition OF
genius as the taking Of infinite pains
and AT tho sam" time EXHIBITS the de-
votion Of ru'stoy'- " fc, lie says:
"My mo,hrrs work seemed much
harder than MY fathers because We
actually saw her nj It, and she worked
much longer hours than he did. She
used to So iu 'nr small drawing room
off the ZaIt. AZ her little writing table,
and spcud an Nrr free time writing
LtiuIu- over 'No manuscript and trying
to droipAcr MY fathers scrdwl with hcr
short SIGHTED eyes. she used 20 spend
whole evenings at work, and often set
NJ late at r.-h' after everybody else
had zone to- bod Nv fathrr
had 4 very had riting
and o terrible hadn't Of Inserting whole
sentences between the lines. or IN the
corners Of tive I'gc, or sonnet mos right
across H. My mother often discovered
gross grammatical errors, and pointed
them out to my father and corrected
them
"Whcu Anna Karcuina' began to
come ont i'm the RuSSki IU'Stnik long
galley proofs Mere posted to my father,
and he looked them through and
corrected them NJ first, the margins
would be marked viii the ordinary
typographical signs, letters omitted,
marks Of punctuation and So on then
individual words would he changed, and
then whole sentences, crasurcs and addi-
lions began III IN the end the proof
sheet was reduced 10 n mass OF patches,
perfectly hla. k in places, and 1t was
quite impossible TO send Il back as I
stood, because no one hut my mother
could make head or tain Of the tauglo
of conventional signs, transposi'ions and
erssures.
"My mother would sit m an nigh
COPYING the whole thing out afrcsh.
"In the morning there lay tho pages
IN her table, neatly piled together. coy-
cred al over with her fine clear hand
writing, and everything was ready so
that when I.yoyot"hha came down he
could send tho proof sheets on by post.
"My father would carry them off ~
his study to have just one last looh,'
and by the evening II was just as bad
again the whole thing had been re-.
written and messed m once moro.
"'Sonya, my dear, l am very sorry,
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but I've spollt all YOU work again 3
promise | won't do IT any more a..
would say. showing her the passages IL
had linked over with a guilty air. Wei
send them of tomorrow without f,l
But this Tomorrow was often nut "A
day by day for weeks or months 10.
gether.
There's just n biz I want TO loo
through again my father would sa,
but he would get carried away and IT,.
write the whole thing afrcsh. Their.
were even occasions when. after pos;.r,
the proofs. my father remembered some
particular words next day and corrected
them by telegraph"
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removal TO prison. He commits felony
in every case that Is described and
even after his forced appointment TO
the Supreme bench he Is guilty Of
blackmail in securing his nomination
as a candidate for the full term. His
relations with the young woman who
commits perjury for him are dis
creditable and he accepts a bride from
a corporation. AS soon as he knows
that he has a long term before him he
decides that he will he an upright
Judge. That course naturally makes
him turn down the men who have ad-
vanced him. 1t is no flattering picture
OF New York politics or New York
lawyers that the authors have drawn:
still less do they provide any excuse
for their high minded young oma TO
take up with this despicable criminal.
They seem to favor a five cent fare
10 Coney Island.
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Modesty Is no characteristic of the
anonymous employee OF the London
Duily Mdil who writes M Secret Ser
rice George II. Doran Company, so
that the reader may feel inclined to
take his impressions and even his
definite statements with n good deal
of salt. He was In the Balkans and
had obtained an interview with Envcr
Pasha when the Kaiser turned up In
Nish and met King Ferdinand of Bull
garia at a public banquet. The au-
thor was admitted with other repre-
sentatives OF the press which makes
him call himself "the man who dincd
with the kaiser. he took down the
speeches. found he could not transmit
them owing to the censorship II so
made his way to Paris in order to com
mum, &c with his newspaper. His aC-
count - his trip is the substantial part
of his book.
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desired that all sides should be heard.
so that the papers now edited and pub
lished by I'rof. George II. Blakeslee.
me Problems aud Lessons Of the
War 90. L. Putnam's Sons). are ar
ranged SO as to present the two sides
Of the debate. Among the twenty-five
participants are President G.. Stanley
Hail, Prof. kuno ~F'rancke. Or. Stanton
Colt. Normann Angel. Or. George
Haven Putnam. Admiral Chadwick. w.
T.. Walling and Or. Morton Prince. e
Two Ministers Against War.
An exposition Of strong pacifist
views Is made by the Rev. DR.. John
Haynes Holmes IN Nctc Wars for old
(Dodd. Mead and Company, with a
review OF the instances in the past
where war might have been avoided IL
the dictates Of religion had been fol-
lowed.
A similar denunciation Of war in
general and the present war in par
ticular is made by the Rev. DIR. Charles
f.. jefferson In the Merrick lectures
delivered before ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity. what the War Is Teaching
(Fleming II. Revell Company.
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Many persons will be started when
pcrus.ng Frederic VI. Halsey's RdllWhD
Erpdns sion IN Latin America tThe
Moody Magazine and Book Company,
New York; to discover how extensive
are the railroad systems already hu.lt
in south America and how near real
~i2at!on is the dream of IA road running
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Some time ago a small book. pro-
fcsscd.y written hy a German. FAC
c'Jsc,' Ctto-oriua''y put the blame FOR
beginning IT," war on Germany. and
brought uut replies from German au-
thors. In another little book. Be
cause ! am Il German IE. l.. Dutton
and Company. Hermann Fernau. who
apparently has been accused of being
the author Of the first book. refutes
tie attacks. He that his
readers take as deep an interest as
he does IN these pamphlets. The main
question. rs TO the blame. rather drops
out OF sight.
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Though he chooses to use a very
iorid vocabulary and somewhat pomu
Gus style Everett Macdonald ha
written an interesting tale Of Ken
lucky mountaineers in The RED Dcbt
&C. W. Dillingham; Company. o!
, course there are I'VE clans which have
Il feud, but most OF the trouble Is
caused by the persecution OF "A revenue
co. ector, who acts throughout with
little regard to the law, After killing
TWO important persons he comes to
a highly dramatic end. There * Il
charming young girl, who acquires an
education with wonderful speed; a fine
young fellow. who is badly used AMI
has to overcome his desire for re-
ycnEc, a small hoy eager TO keep hp
the feud. the picturesque head of the
clan and "A lot OF other interesting peo-
pie.
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Those who have been waiting pa
| tiently for a definite account of what
the English troops have been doing
on the Continent will he gratlticd by
cant. Ernest llamilton's account "l
the nshting IN Belgium in The Ft'St
Screen Divisions az. i. button n
Company. lie ends with the battle
Of Ipres, and that is sufficiently an
cient history for him To be allowed 10
give details OF the military movements
to tell what regiments were engaged
and the losses they sustained ana to
give not only the names of officers
| and men who fell in action, but 10
! say where and when Il happened. THIS
is all information that military n"c"S-
s.ty kept from the public al the time
If now allows the poop" I" learn
| from concrete examples the h"rn!sm
the soldiers have shown.
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WAR BOOKS.
4 War Corrc.pondcnt'. story,

Enough time has passed for Wythc
Williams. who Was in Paris as Curre-
spondent for "A New York newspaper
when the war broke out, TO put IN
order his r~eco.lections of those days
OF confusion and to tell n connected
story OF what he observed IN Passed
bv the Censor az. L. Dutton and Com
pany). He gives a vivid picture of
what went on in Paris and other
places he visited. with humorous de-
scriptiuns OF the trials undergone hy
the men who sought t" transmit news.
and never betrays anything that 4
rigid censorship might object TO. The
brilliant picture he draws OF Ambas-
sador Myron 7 Herr.ck and the wholly
competent manner tn wh!ch ne handled
the difficult problems THAT confronted
him makes the book one that every
American should read.
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POSING In the Face Of War.

A far from pleasing picture Of Brit
ish decadencc Is drawn with great
artistic virtuosity by John Palmer N
The Kings Men GO. T. I'l'nam''
Sons). a book which may be intended
as a satire but which seems rcmark-
ably inappropriate at the present
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win an overwhelming victory that vii
wholly wipe uIt existing boundaries
or institutions, There is much that
every thoughtful nan must agree with
In his views. for WIZ, h. Is optimistic
enough about the future. he is not
carried away IS MIA aspirations.
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Embarrassing complications arise
when an amiahle married woman dies
suddenly in IA London hotel, just as sic
was starting on a short trip with the
man she loves. in ]. W. Brodie-lnnes's
Thc Tragedy Of an Indiscr'tiOn tJohl
f. Lane Company. He is called away
just before, and tho friend who offers
to explain matters TO the lady finds
that she Is dead. and also that she is
his divorced wife. He carries her of
TO a quiet place and huries her under
her former name. Not knowing her
present husbands name he Is unable
TO notify him. SO he goes off to the
Amazon with his friend and tells him
what has happened m the voyage.
The husband thinks his wife has gone
of on a visit and does not worry. A
malicious and inquisit!ve woman, how
ever, thinks the wlfe's absence sus-
: piciOus, makes up her mind that the
husband has murdered her INC spreads
stories about him. Meanwhile the
wlte's drcssmakcr is fished out Of the
Thames: she is wearing clothes be-
longing 10 her late customer and her
body is mistaken for hat OF the other
und The husband is tried and
found guilty, but the case is appealed
the two other men get back from
South America in the nick OF time and
the man is saved. There are other
complications and more altruistic self
sacrifice on the part of the first hus-
hand, 80 that the reader will be kept
in suspense. Nobody seems TO think
| thu thorn IG anytbipu npt of tho x,. .
IN the conduct of the whose
death causes all the trouble.
I " n Ordeal.
9hc valley Of Lebanon URobert J.
shores, New York; receives very little
consideration from the men about her.
She lives in a farmhouse in the Berk-
shire Hills with her paralyzed father;
he has dragged her about Europe for
years. avoiding everybody who might
know him, because his wife ran away
frosn him. With him helpless on her
hands she is Respondent, but a young
doctor from IA sanitarium neal by bids
her cheer up and urges her to work
hard at her painting, for which she
has talent. The cure is effective. The
doctor falls in love with her, but he Is
engaged to another girl. She loves
HIM. but makes no move to interfere
with his plans, she keeps cheerful af-
ter his marriage. Tho wife dies in
childbirth. the father also dies. so there
is nothing TO prevent the lovers COM
ing together. There are very pleasant
people In his simple story, and charm
ing descriptions OF tho country and
the hills.
Deficient Legal Ethics.
Tho proceedings Of the hero OF Il. S
and j. y. Dorrance's M Robe OF
Honor Moffat. Yard and Company
should have led to his disbArment and
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CRITICAL REVIEWS
OF THE SEASONS
LATEST O

Anne Shannon Nlonros Story of Lifelike People-De-
moralizing Effect Of the Movie Business.
New Fiction by Arthur Stringer, John Palmer. Louis
Tracy, Everett Macdonald and Others.
H. G. Wells as a Prophet The British in Belgium.
German Atrocities, and Other War Subjects.
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4 summary Of the various Official
Investigations into atrocities COM
mitted during the war has been made
by Prof. J.. II. Morgan in German
Atrocities (E. + Dutton and Com
pany). The author Is preiudiCed
enough to apply different tests of cred
ibility TO German and 10 British test!-
mony. He seems to have made inves
legations OF his own, which impressed
him more han the Government re-
ports. The most valuable portion of
the book is the set of condensed state
ments of individuals as to what they
saw or what happened TO them. Even
with these the line should he drawn
between instances of abnormal brutal
ity and the common, regrettable Incl
dents of war. An article by Lord
Bryce Is appended.
o.. q. Wells Looks Ahead.
The articles which II. q. Wells has
gathered under the title what Is Conn =
ing? (MaCmillans) may be taken as
the talk of a sane and sensible man
about some of the consequences of the
war, a subject that many people are
pondering over. Mr.. Wells is fair
enough to appreciate and admire all
of the good qualities OF the German
people. which he believes will be
patent again after It has freed itself
from what he calls "the Hohenzollern
d%elusion." lie INDUCES neither In the
bold sp%eculations hat characterize his
scientific tales nor In the expression of
his w fanciful ideas about things In
general. but looks on things as they
are In a matter OF fact way. Appar-
entity he does not expect either side to
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The invasion Of Belgium.

Making capital OF the prcjudiccs
against the Germans and drawing on
the reports OF atrocities. Louis Tracy
In The Day OF wrath edward J.
Clode, New York; undertakes to paint
tn" picture of the beginning of the
invasion of Belgium. His Germans.
officers and soldiers. are libertines and
drunkards, besides being brutal. His
hero and heroine are an English OFF,
cor and "A strange young woman who
fCs.ons on him ms he leaves Berlin.
They manage to escape ut the from
tier and JON their fortunes to a Bel
glan peasant family. The things they
do in self-dcfence would seem to JUS
tifv pretty arbitrary treatment Of
civilians on the part OF a hostile army.
They finally get away and are mar
r.od. though the author does not waste
much tim on love making. His chief
object is to show how dctestahle tho
Germans ATE.
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time. The author describes with SONS
Nigor the upsetting Of former ideas
and standards Of conduct by the
questions brought up by the war. He
then tells how this affects Il group
OF. young men. the aesthetic dabblers
In the novelties and eccentricities Of
literature, art and morals. Several
Of them act like ordinary men and
volunteer at once; n finds that he
car serve his country better at home
than in the field: the author. however.
dallies over two who stick to their
individual theories OF life. lie relates
the subtle hairsplitting In their rea-
soning. their objections TO serving be-
cause II Is their duty and to being
subjected to the stigma of cowardice
for staying at home. 1t would seem
that such creatures are too i~nsignif :
a II at this time for any one to trouble
himself as to what they think or do.
The rest of the story deals with a
more serious matter. the author de-
scribes the unwillingness Of business
men to give up their profits on Gov
eminent contracts and the necessity
for the Government TO take into its
~ hands the industrial and CONNER
Cial enterprises.
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The proceedings Of the hero OF Il. S.
and j. +. Dorrance's HIS Robe OF
Honor tMoffat. Yard and Company
should have lcd to his dtsbArment and
The Keota news., 1916-02-11

he state superintendent of public in
nctlon has fixed the last Friday in
Druary, 1916, as Standardization Day.
Fry rural school in the state will be
ed to post in the school building on
u day a card showing the require
nts for recognition as a Superior"
Standard" or a Probationary"
DOL of the state of Colorado. The re-
rements can be discussed and ex-
lned on that day and at the first visit
the county superintendent after the
eging of the score card the school will
judged and record made on the
ia. 1t will be found possible in many
Fes to secure recognition in one of the
re- Zee grades by means easily within the
pity of the district.
The Keota news., 1916-02-11
WORTH THINKING ABOUT

WORTH THINKING ABOUT
pief Deputy Harper Of the state
krintendent's Office of Wisconsin
)hasizes two things that are needed
fe everything else to awsken pride
be country school. He says that they
been tried and proved worth while
IS state.
Frst-School board conventions.
econd-Rural school inspectors.
talked with him in his Office late in
pber and he'is convinced through
rs Of observation and study that
be two factors have contributed
Fely to the general awakening ap-
ent in Wisconsin for better rural
pols. and progressive legislation in
interests of education generally.
j. H. SHRIBER
State Teachers College.
The Keota news., 1916-02-11

A. F. BROWNS. Register.