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troops. is crime against human
ity. There Is not the
shadow Of excuse In morals for
applauding the sale Of arms for
warlike purposes up to the moment
the war breaks out and then rep
Rotating it as un-Christian. War
and the preparation for war are
parts of one -reat transaction,
which must, in the forum of morals,
stand or fall as n whole.
But we must not reprint the whole
volume in quotations, readily as IL
lends itself TO the purpose. We have
sufficiently indicated the satisfactory
blending of the Ideal and the Real
which has been effected by the writers
of "The Nation" II is being effected
to-day not only by them. but by con-
siderable and. we trust, increasing
number Of journalists who intelligently
and conscientiously seek TO rise TO the
full dignity of their estate and to make
the pages OF their journals a discrim-
mating history, in both chronicle and
comment, Of their times. Nor is it un-
fitting to add that this volume shows
the possible and actual union, not only
of the Ideal and the Real, but also, with
equal success, of Literature and Jour
nalism. The essays here reproduced
were sufficiently brisk and timely to
serve as up-to-date journalism, and
they require nothing more than re-
reading after the lapse Of years to be
appreciated as literature of as pure a
type as though they had appeared first
and solely on library shelves instead OF
on the newsstand. We may not always
agree with THE Nations" ideals. But
we cannot turn away from contempla-
tion of its expression Of them withou,
some enhancement Of our estimate OF
the journalists profession and Of its
place and its functions in the social
and intellectual economy of the human
race
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
AMERICAN JOURNALISM
A Half-Century of Constant
Achievement.
PITY YEARS OF AMrmcAv 1DEA1sM n

FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN 1DEAIIsM. The
New YORK Nation. lSoj-lgl5. Scections AID
Comments by Gustav Polak SVo. pp' H. fos'
The Houghion Mirin Company
We must contradict Schiller. The
Ideal, he said, should never touch the
Real. If that were true we should have
to condemn this book and the long and
honorable achievements in journalism
which il represents. More than most
other American journals, The Nation
has from the outset been devoted TO
ideals Il has been reproached again
and again for what seemed TO its critics
ultra-Idealism. Yet when we review its
notes and comments as they were made
week by week, from year TO year, for
half a century, and as they are re-
called in Mr.. Pollak's eminently repre-
sentative selections, We find them 70 be
devoted 10 the most practical, everyday
subjects and 20 be intensely practical
in tone. The Ideal not merely touches
the Real. II grips it, assimilates It.,
identifies itself with it.
What were the ldealists discussing
fifty years ago? "The Good, the True
and the Beautiful" Rather the effect
of Western migration and the New
/ England factory system upon changes
/ in population; the supreme absurdity,
/ even among the absurdities of war, Of
| destroying private property at sea, and
! the need Of making American naturali-
zation more absolute against all the
/ world. These topics are about as prac-
tical. as much a part of the real. as any
that are discussed by the most up-to-
date and most practical pubiicists of
to-day: and the treatment of them
fifty years ago was as practical as these
latter could make 1t. Indeed, an almost
literal reprinting of what was then
said would furnish a very pertinent
editorial for the present time. And
the same rule runs through all the
fifty years. The collection of the in
come tax, the controversy between
shippers and railroads, the people and
municipal government, our Mexican
troubles, the restriction Of immigra-
tion, neutrality anc contraband. the
morality of arms-dealing, and so forth.
Real life is touched at every point
This we must regard as a high and
admirable type Of journalism. IT com
prehends the gift of vision, which is
one of the most tremendously practical
attributes of the human mind and soul 4;
the power Of discerning that which is
Of vital and therefore of permanent
importance, and of taking a view of Il
that will be of perennial interest II
we should turn TO many newspapers of
those years we should find in them
many articles on other topics which
then seemed TO loom as commandingly
as these, though none Of them more so,
[ but which are now as dead as the pro-
verbal doornail, and of which we could
not read three lines to-day without
yawning. II is, Of course, necessary to
treat in newspaper many just such
| ephemeral subjects. But that need
should never blind the editor TO the
coincident need of treating in enduring
fashion the themes which will endure.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
nARPER,S MAGAZINE.

Albert Bigelow Paine tells in his
paper. "A Yankee in Switzerland" in the
new "Harper's," this anecdote, which, If
it be not literally true, has undoubted-
ly solid substratum OF fact: Il had
heard that the Swiss Republic set the
pattern of government for the world,
and | was anxious TO know something
Of its methods and personnel. | was
sorry that | was so ignorant. didn't
even know the name of the Swiss Presi-
dent, and for week was ashamed 70
confess it. was hoping | might see It
in one of the French papers | puzzled
over every evening. But at the end Of
the week | timidly and apologetically
{ inquired of our friendly landlord as to
the name of the Swiss President. But
then came a shock Our landlord grew
confused, bushed and confessed that
he didn't know It. either. He had
known il, he said, but il had slipped his
mind. | asked man who sold me
cigars He had forgotten, too. |
asked the apoihecary, but got no in
formation. I was not so timid after
that. asked fellow passenger
guest, | mean-an American, but Of
long Swiss residence, and got this
story. | believe most of il. He said:
"'When came to Switzerland and
found out what wonderful little
country it was, its government so
economical, so free from party
corruption and spoils, from graft
and politics, so dtfe. MT from the
home life Of our own dear Colum-
bia, | thought: THE man at the
head of this thing must be master
hand; I'll find out his name SO
picked out a brght-looking subject
and said: What is the name OF the
Swiss PRESIDENT"
"'He tried to pretend he didn't
understand my French, but he did,
for | can tear the language off all
rght-learned it studying art in
Paris. When ! pinned him down
he said he knew the name well
enough, parfaitement, but couldn't
think of it at that moment.
THAT was surprise. but |
asked the next man. He couldn't
think Of it, either. Then ! asked
a police officer. OF course he knew
II all right. "Oh, oui, certainement,
mais"-then he scratched his head
and scowled, but he couldn't dig
up that name. He was just plain
liar-tout supplement the
others. | asked every man | met,
and every one OF them knew II,
had II right on the end cf his
tongue, but somehow il seemed 20
stick there. Not a man in Vevey
or Montreux could tell me the
name of the Swiss President. IL
was the same in Fribourg, the
same even in Berne, the capital.
! had about given it up when one
evening there in Berne / noticed a
sturdy man with an honest face
approaching. He looked intoll-
gent, too, and as a last resort
said, could you, by any chance,
tell me the name OF the Swiss
President"
1.-THE effect was startling. He
seized me by the arm and, after
looking up and down the street,
leaned forward and whispered in
my ear:
"'"Mon dieu, c'est moi, I am
the Swiss President; but-ah, non,
don't tell any one. | am the only
man in Switzerland who knows it"
"'You see.' my friend Continued.
he is elected privately; no torch
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
light campaigns, no scandal, and

light campaigns, no scandal, and
only for year.
"'He is only sort of chairman,
though of course his work is i'm
portant; and the present able in
cumbent has been elected number
of times. His name is-is-is-
An, yes, that's my tram. So sorry
TO nave 10 hurry away-see you to-
night at dinner"
There is some interesting gossip OF
many Victorian luminaries in Some
Unpublished Papers of Robert and Eliz-
abeth Barrett Browning; John Bur
roughs writes of "The Master Instinct,
the birds nest building in spring; Wal
ter F.. Weyl discusses THE New
Wealth. which we lack the leisure TO
spend properly, wherefore so much of
our spending is banal and puerlle.--
There are short stories by William
Dean Howells, Mrs. Henry Dudeney,
Jennette Lee, Wilbur Daniel Steele and
others.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
Mr.. MaeKaye's Shakespeare Masque.

The Shakespear, Memorial Masque,
"Caliban: BY the Yellow Sands" de-
yised and written by Percy MacKaye for
the Tercentenarv celebration. will be
published March 20 by Doutlei~y Page
& Co. The more elab, rate illustrations
will be by Urban, with smaller decors-
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
War Nights.

after Dark in the War Capitals" by
Karl X Kitchen. Of THE New York
World" is in press for issue about
March 10 by the Broadway Publishing
Company. There will be thirty original
drawings by Herb. Roth.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
The Far East

The same firm announces further a
work on Contemporary Politics in the
Far East, by Stanley X. Hornbeck. II
Is intended to give Americans accurate,
up-to date information concerning
American Chinese-Japanese affairs, the
international problem which will over
shadow all others the moment the war
Is over; perhaps even before then.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
The Hapsburgs

From the Messrs. Appleton IS to
come. also, volume of "Recollections
of Royal Governess." who chooses to
remain anonymous. The lady lived for
while in a nobleman's family in Aus
trian Poland and was afterward the
companion-goyerness of the Arch
duchesss Elizabeth. the daughter OF
Rudolph of Hapsburg. Of whose mystic
rious death at Meyerling the author
promises a version (which is nearest
/ the truth"
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
Another Prize Play.

The Steadfast Princess" by Cornelia
L. Meigs. the children play whc has
won the prize offered by the Drama
League OF America. appears in book
form with the imprint of the Macmillan
COMPANY.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
New Fiction.

Among the spring fiction Of the APP
pletons are Robert ". Chambers's The
Better Man" a collection of fifteen sto-
ries of outdoor lie in the Adirondacks
and Florida; The Fall Of Nation" by
Thomas Dixon, a prophetic tale Of what
is in store for Us, with a Sicilian Yes
pers sort of ending; The Cruise of the
Jasper b." a cheerful romance by Don
Marquis; Mary 'Gusta." by Joseph c.
Lincoln, and The Winged Victory" by
Sarah Grand.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
The President.

Woodrow Wilson: The Man and His
Work" by Henry Jones Ford, professor
Of politics at Princeton, is announced
by d. Appleton e. Co. The book is de-
scribed as IAN intimate account of Mr.
Wilson's personal traits and character
istics,' and closes with "a mid-career
aDpreciation."
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
Jack London's Peace Play.

"The Acorn Planter" Jack Londor's
new book, is "A California Forest
Play" 1t deals with certain aspects
of the problem of world peace. This is
not Mr.. London's first dramatic ventu, e.
His "The Scorn Of Women" a drama
in three acts, was published eight or
ten years,ago.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26

In connection with the Shakespeare
Tercentenary the oxford University
Press will publish in two volumes a
work entitled "The England OF Shake
speare," containing an elaborate ac-
count Of the life, society. customs, in
stitutions and recreations of the Eliza
bethan age, the materials for which
have been collected. with the assistance
Of many collaborators. by Sir Sidney
Lee. Thus DR.. Henry Bradley deals
with Shakespeare's English, Sir +.
Maunde Thompson with handwriting
Sir Walter Raleigh with the Eliza
bethan age, Mr. J. W. Fortescue with
the chase, Sir W. Thisclton-Dyer with
plants and Professor Firth with bal
lads. Other chapters deal with authors
and patrons. booksellers. printers and
the stationer's trade, the playhouses,
rogues and vagabonds. the court. the
army and navy, voyages and explora-
tion, religion. learning and scholarship,
etc, the whole object being TO familiar
ize the reader with the background and
atmosphere of Shakesp peare's plays.
The two volumes are now passing
through the press under the general
editorship of Mr.. c. T. Onions.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
From the Russian.
Early Wild Flowers.

"Our Early Wild Flowers" is the
title Of new nature book by Harriet
L. Keller, author Of "Our Northern
Shrubs" and Of "Our Native Trees" Il
is announced for publication hate this
month by Charles Scribner's Sons.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
Feminisnn
Compton Mackenzie.

"The Passionate Elopement." Mr.
Mackenzies first novel, has been taken
over by G. p. Putnam's Sons, and is
reissued by them to-day.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
Chicago Poems"

This is the title Of volume of ULTRA
free vers libre, by Carl Ssndburg, an
nounced by the Messrs. Holt.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26

The export of rifles and revolv-
ers for military purposes Is very
important branch of the national
trade. 1t is viewed with no dis
favor or reprobation. A manufact-
urer of arms. or the inventor of a
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26

UNDER TIE RED CROSS FLAG AT HOME AND
ABROAD Hy Mabel r Bosrdman. ChAiIman
National Relief board. American Red Cross WIN
furcwort hy Woodrow Wilson. fresident i
lnstraied Svo. pp $50 Philadelphia The }.
n Lippinco,t Company.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08
CALOMEL DYNANHTES A
SLUGGISH LIVER
Crashes into sour bile, making you
sick and YOU lose a days
work.


Calomel salivates! It's mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on a
sluggish liver. When calomel comes
into contact with sour bile it crash
IS into it, causing cramping and nau-
sea.
If you feel bilious, constipated,
md all knocked out, just go to the
druggist and get a fifty-cent bot
tie of Dodson's liver Tone, which is
1 harmless vegetable substitute for
dangerous calomel. Take a teaspoon.
tul and if it doesn't start your liver
md straighten you up better and
quicker than nasty calomel and with
out making you sick, you just go
back and get your money.
If YOU take calomel today you will
De sick and nauseated tomorrow; be-
sides, it may salivate you, while II
you take Dodson's Liver Tone you
will wake up feeling great, full of am
oition and ready for work or play,
IT'S harmless, pleasant. and safe to
give to the children; they like it,
Advertisement
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cards, and all kinds of engraving,
at the Weekly News office, Duraut,
Oklahoma. (adY)
The News desires correspondents
in every community in Bryan county.
Liberal proposition offered for a few
minutes time each week. Address
Weekly News, Durant, Okla. tady)
Ben Dwight, Spot Durant, Bill
Rushing and Choc Perkins have re-
turned from an extended trip to Tex
as in Mr.. Dwight's automobile, all
reporting a great time.
bill" Reilly, Jr., youngest son of
Mr.. and MRS. j. H. Reilly of this city,
has gone to st. Marys, Kansas, there
to attend the great Catholic St.
Mary's University. This is Bills first
trip away from home, and he hated
to leave his parents-and a number
of others.
Miss Helen Gray is here from Mar
shall, Texas, for a visit of several
days with Miss Jack Pruitt.
Rev. Herman Jones, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church, has returned
from a pleasant visit with friends in
Alabama. On the return trip he
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

Mr.. and Mrs w. E. Utterback and
daughter, Priscilla, returned Sunday
from an extended pleasure trip to
Chicago and other Northern points.
They were accompanied on their re-
turn by Miss Virginia Howard, VINO
has been taking some special work
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08
SHORT sQUIBs

Q SHORT sQUIBs 3I
Q o o o 0 0 0 0 o o 0 0 o o o o 0 !
T. j. Perkins, who went to Eurc- |
ka Springs, Ark, several weeks afo
Off the bentfit of his health, has re-
turned, much improved. He was ac-
sompanied by Mrs, Perkins,
Miss Anderson, stenographer for
Utterback & Macdonald, has return
ed from a trip to Oswego, Kansas,
where she has been visiting relatives
and friends for two weeks.
Mrs. Mary Veal has returned from
Oklahoma City, where she spent ten
days with Mrs. A.. N. Wilcox, who
formerly resided mere.
Mrs. u NJ. Albin and children
have returned from a very pleasant
trip to points in West Virginia and
Kansas, where they spent the sum-
mer with relatives and friends.
A Mexican was found in the cem-
etery last week pulllngup weeds. ana
after investigation was arrested on
a lunacy charge.
If you want a typewriter that will
do any work that any machine will
90, do It as we'll and do 1t as long
and can be carried with you easier
than you personal grip--buy the
Corona. e. NJ. Swans, Agent, Ou-
rant, Oklahoma. tatyl
w. NJ. Hynds, who has been con-
fined to his home with illness for
several months, was down town Fri
day for the first time on a long
while. Mr.. Hynds says he is feeling
muchb etter.
Cards received her from Gill Alex
ander, who is at San Angelo, Texas,
say that he is considerably improv-
ed in health.
Reports of the U. s. Department
of Agriculture. place Oklahoma's cot
ton crop this year at about 65 per
cent of a normal years crop.
The News will pay cash, at 3hc
per pound, for clean white cotton
rags, delivered to ia North Third
Avenue, Durant, Okla. (adv)
Having given up the agency for
abe Oliver Typewriter, have several
bargains in the latest model divers.
These are brand new machines. The
idea is not profit, but to get out from
under. E. NJ. Evans, Durant. (tdv)
Engraved calling cards, business
cards, wedding invitations and an
nouncements, at home cards, birth
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

Durant's streets resembled a street
carnival Saturday, so dense were the
crowds in town. At several points on
Main street pedestrians had difficulty
in making their way along the walks.
Merchants report a good business.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

Monday was Labor Day, but one
could easily have forgotten it in Du-
rant, had not the banks and post Of
flee been closed for the day. Many
laborers laid off for the day, but re-
tail business went on as usual.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

j. Roy Williams, editor and owner
of the McAlester News-Capital, ives
here Tuesday en- route home from
hugo, where he had oeen on business
matters.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

Just Received - 10000 lbs. OF
Prince Royal and Vienna Flour, $4.0O
per hundred. Higher, but better
than ever. Enterprise Grocery Coru-
pany. w&sJ
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

The county assessors office force
is busy completing the tax rolls, and
Assessor Yeats says they will be in
readiness for the collection of taxes
by November l.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

visited Mrs. Jones, who is at Eureka
Springs for the baby's health.
Miss Esther Stinson has gone to
McAlester to assume her duties as a
teacher in the public schools there.
She taught there last year.
Several troop trains passed thru
Durant last Saturday. part of them
northbound, others southbound. Pas
senger trains running north Sunday
, carried a large number Of men going
north from the border, being reliev-
ed of duty, owing to dependent fam
lilies.
L. B. Josserand has returned from
an extended visit to his old home in
Indiana, where he was called some
time ago owing to the illness of his
father.
Frank Rogers, who was arrested
last week at Kemp on an adultery
charge, was released Saturday on
recommended on of the County At
torney.
A new concrete sidewalk, full
width, is being laid on the north side
of Main street from the Corner Drug
Store to the Downing Grocery, thus
filling a long-felt want.
Several local people, as thoughtful
of the comfort of others as OF their
own sent a box of books and other
readables to the boys of Company
II on the border, and the boys have
acknowledged the gift in letter
made public this week.
Miss Ollie Simmons. Durant-
raised young lady, elected as teacher
in the public schools in this city, has
accepted a similar position in the
schools Of Oklahoma City.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Badger Wis
ited relatives and friends in Denison
last Sunday and incidentally took II
the Denison-Sherman ball game.
John Reason died at his home at
Pirtle Sunday at the age of 80. In
terment was made in Highland Gem
etery here Monday at 10 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Harris
and little daughter have returned
from two weeks visit with reln
tives and friends in Sherman and
other Texas points.
Frank Albright was here from
Bokchito Monday attending to bust
ness matters.
Misses Alice and Halle Mckinney
have returned from Chicago. where
they took special work at Chicago
University this summer.
Mrs. j. Winfield Scott has returned
from Kirksville, Mo-, wher she had
been undergoing treatment for sew
eral weeks.
Mrs. w. H. Echols and her sister
Miss Myrtle Humphrey, have return.
ed from Claremore, where they Wis
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tied relatives.

Attorney Will Semple went to
Pauls Valley Monday to attend to
business affairs.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

Bill Durant returned Tuesday from
Oklahoma City, wnere he had beel
for a couple of weeks on business.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

v. B. Hayes returned Sunday from
weeks visit with his parents at
GToesbeck, Texas. Mr.. Hayes IA
ther, recently in poor health, has i'm
proved. v. B. reports that big per
cent of the cotton of that community
is already marketed, and that the
yield in and near his fathers home
is averaging about one-third Of a
bale to the acre.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

Miss Esther Stinson has gone to
McAlester to assume her duties as a
teacher in the public schools there.
She taught there last year.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

visited Mrs. Jones, who is at Eureka
Springs for the baby's health.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

Miss Helen Gray is here from Mar
shall, Texas, for visit of several
days with Miss Jack Pruitt.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

this summer at the University of
Chicago.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

cards, and all kinds of engraving,
at the Weekly News office, Duraut,
Oklahoma. (adY)
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

Mrs. w. H. Echols and her sister
Miss Myrtle Humphrey, have return
ed from Claremore, where they Wis
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

Engraved calling cards, business
cards, wedding invitations and an
nouncements, at home cards, birth
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

Several troop trains passed thru
Durant last Saturday, part of them
northbound, others southbound. Pas
senger trains running north Sunday
carried a large number Of men going
north from the border, being reliev-
ed of duty, owing to dependent fam
lilies,
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

T. j. Perkins, who went to Euro
ka Springs, Ark, several weeks afo
Off the bentfit of his health, has re-
turned, much improved. He was ac-
sompanied by Mrs, Perkins,
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-09-08

Mrs. J. Winfield Scott has returned
from Kirksville, Mo-, wher she haC
been undergoing treatment for sew
eral weeks.