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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-23
SEEK FUND OF 100000
FOR MINISTERIAL RELIEF
Immediate Action by Southern
Presbyterian Assembly.
SPECIAL ORDER FOR TO-DAY
If Report Is Adopted. Denomination
Will Have Largest Endowment for
This Work Of Any Church in the
South.

ORLANDO. FLA. May o2.Au on
dowmcnt fund Of S1,0o0.o00 for the re-
lief of retired ministers. widows Of
ministers. and orphans OF those who
have spent their life in church work
VIII he recommended in committee
report 10 be submitted to the General
Assembly OF the Southern Presbyterian
Church in the United States to-mor-
row. TIL. committee Will suggest that
the endowment be provided "as soon as
possible and should the report be
adopted. the PresbyterianS. ii - said
viii nave the largest fund for this
wnrk Of amy church in the South.
When the endowment for ministerial
relief was authorized in 1911 the goal
set was $4,000. The fund is growing
rapidly, and is now S332.Ooo. one rul-
ing elder has offered To give $4,000 not
later than January /. 1917. If the
church or other individuals will give
twice that amount. Already more than
$4,000 has been raised 10 meet tho
offer. This matter has been made the
special order for Tomorrow morning.
Another special order for tomorrow
morning is the dcaconesS feature of the
report on wcnan's activities in the
church When the assembly decided on
Saturday that women should not preach
II was determined that consideration
OF the deaCOness question should fol-
low.
The Rev. Neal l.. Anderson to-day
made an unsuccessful attempt to get
thc matter before the assembly immc-
djatc!y, hut II was deferred until to-
morrow.
REPORT or COMMITTEE
ON SYSTEMATIC BENEEICENCE
The work of the assembly to-day was
largely confined to discussion and
adoption of the report OF the commit
zee on systematic hcnciicencc. The re
port was adopted as presented An
overture providing that the treasurer
OF the executive committee OF foreign
missions be made the treasurer Of all
the executive committees OF tho assem-
bly, Was referred to tn. committees m,
ueneitccncc, with instructions To re-
port next year
ANOTHER important feature Of this re-
port was that no appeals FOR any cans.
o. inc assembly should be made TO the
chuEcheS during the coming yenr OK.
cept in tho month assigned to sncc;.ic
causes. and then only in those churches
nor enlisted in the assemblies plan
. i"c asSohihiN to-day apportioncd its
'hahclai budget FOR the coming vr;,
ana ST amounts that The church viii
attempt to raise for each den.rt,,n,
flfty-hve and one-halr nor ron, ~ 49,,
'otal was awarded 20 foreign missions
titu the minimum set for this work u.,s
5 666.000. ""'
pthcF appointments were: HON,
!isSions. per cent, with a minimum
d sJ24'ooo: Christian education and
Ministerial relief, 1917 per cent. win
I: minimum OF Si5o, 600: publication ana
,u,"aF school extension. per cent.
WIN & minimum of.$fS,OOn. Nor rc,,
'oF me Bible cause. with Il minimum
81 $1,000, This makes 81 total OF 81.
100000. Vi 81
NO session was held to-nirb, ana
zone VIII be held Tomorrow afternoon
mar time being given up to an cn;er,
ainmcnt feature |'e'
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-23
The statement reads:

western front: East OF Nieuport. a
German marine patrol entered French
trenches. DESTROYED the enemy defenscs
and returned with one officer and thir-
ty-two men as prisoners.
"Southwes, OF Givencny- Encoehele.
seVeTa! lines 81 British positions over
a 'front.' OF about Two ki!ometcrs were
captured, During the night severa,
couh'eFattacks we're made and were re-
pulsed. We captured eight officers, 900
soldiers, four machine guns and three
mine tfrowcrs. Moreover. the enemy
suffered exceedingly heavy losses.
I'm me distric, of Berry-au- Bac the
French, carly in the morning. attempt
eel SaS attack without success.
Wes' Of The Meuse our troops storm
"G French 'roops on the eastern spurs
al nil 800. ana maintained them
AGAINST repeated attacks of the enemy.
IN addition 10 great losses Of the enemy
ia wounded or killcd, we captured nine
"ticers. 700 men and five machine guns.
The booty taken on the southern spurs
Of Dead Mans Hil has been Increased
I" thirteen cannon and twenty-onc ma
chine guns. South Of Dead Mans Hin
and in the vicinity OF Cha;iancour, the
enemy made futile attempts 10 recap
ture lost ground.
The French made savera! attacks
without success on ouc lines IN the
region OF the quarry south of Haud-
romont. and on the Vaux ridge Yer
dun tront. IL the third attack, the
French succeeded in obtaining foot
in. in the quarry.
During the night the artillery was
extraordinarily active on both sides.
our air squadrons yesterday re-
peatcd their attacks, with visibly great
success, on the harbor AZ Dunkirk y
hipiane Of the enemy foil into the SCI,
after fight -Four other acropIanca
"er. disabled IN aerial comhats. and
{ f"il within our lines, on" in the vicinity
Of Weiriuuc. another near Noyou, the
thtrd near Maucourt. east Of the Meus".
and the fourth northeast of Chateau
Salinis. Tho last named was shot down
/ ny Lieutenant Wintgcns. who thus dis =
ahlcd his fourth acroplanc IN add!
/ ton I" those mentioned, First Lieuten
/ an. Hoelke has brought down his
/ Seventeenth and eighteenth hostile
a"roplanes. one south OF .tvocourt and
! the other south Of Dead Mans Hill
/ This brilliant aviator has been rro-
noted by The Emperor 10 he rank 81
captain IN acknowledgment ~ his
! achievements
Eastern and Eaikan fronts: The
/ situation generally is unchanged"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-23

NEWARK, y. j. May 2o--William
Tailmedgc Hunt editor Of the Newark
sunday can since 1885. and for many
tics, died here to-day
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-23
GERMANS WIN SEVERAL LINES
or BRITISH POSITIONS

BERLIN, May 81 Cby wirelessp.-Thc
eapt-re OF several lines of British posi-
lions over a front OF two k!lome,ers
cone and one-quarter miles, near
hy-Engoehe!e. was announced
to-day by the War ONCE.
German troops stormed French POSI-
lions on III" eastern spurs OF hill! 800,
on the Nerdun front, and maintained
them against repeated countcrattacks.
which are said - have cost the French
great losses
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-23
MEMBERS OF TEXAS GUARD
- REFUSE TO TAKE: OATH

81 l,eports from General Funston that
JIG members OF the Texas National
Guard had refused TO take the muster
ing oath and enter the Federal service
under the Presidents call, brought
smembers OF Congress from that State
TO the War Department to-day to find
out what action WAS in contemplation.
tThey Were told the matter had not yet
{ reached Secretary Baker for considcra-
: ton. MIR. Bakers military advisers
are preparing recommendations for
him. They appear to agree that the
men are subject TO court under
1.-The existing militia laws. and il Is
Known that some officers believe they
,should he tried and fined as n warming
to national Euardsmen in general that
they are undertaking serious re-
Sspcnsibility IN joining the orSaniIa t!on.
The secretary himself has postponed
study Of the law in the case until all
tho facts are before him.
:, state Department announcement,
late today said the situation in the
Saqui Valley did not appear 70 he
acute at present The Yaqus are re-
ported 10 have headquarters al Nic;m
Three bands were reported south of
the SaQu! River a few days ago, but
department advices were uncertain
whether they We're outlaws or Taquis
enlisted by the Mexican government
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-23

der left the situation unchanged as TO
steps TO be taker with regard 10 the
new raids.
81. The Washington government Is s'ill
proceeding on the theory that the right
10 follow hot trails across the border
has been established. and General
Funston's Instructions are based on
this view
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
Byyam l0sesS Wilson wins

embarass President Wilson in the
handling of the present critical situa-
ton"
The predictions which were so
numerous and so confident on Satur-
day that the House would go counter
to the President, producing such a
current that the Senate might see fit
to modify the impression of united
sentiment created by it's overwhelming
vote of last week crumbled and vanish
ed before the approach of the time
for putting the situation to the test.
The whole controversy has been a SER
les of demonstrations that the Iegisla-
tive branch of the government at the
present time had no mad desire to
quarrel with the executive while the
latter is exercising executive func-
tions in accordance with the COnstitu-
Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
Religion q Requisite 9

and for the skeptic, like Benjamin
Franklin, to be good citizen
One of Russia's greatest writer's,
Dostoevsky, said that in order for a
man to be saved, it was necessary for
him to believe in the Russian god.
Religion to him was matter of citi
zenship. The old Hebrews were al
ways speaking of the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. This god did not be-
long to the Gentiles at all. He was
the Jewish Yaweh, just as JOve was
a Greek deity, and Jupiter a god to
whom the Romans belonged.
Where God is like the tariff, local
issue, belief in the national god is
part of accepted citizenship. Where
religion is matter with which the
state has no business to concern itself,
as in the case of the United States, a
man may be a good citizen without
any reference to his religion, or his
irreligiOn.
Or, perhaps, if I may be allowed to
lay down my own formula for the re-
lations between religion and citizen
ship, man is a good or a bad citizen
according to the extent to which he
applies to our institutions those prin-
ciples Of right and wrong which are
recognized in the highest regions Of
the thoughts Of all religions.
On these uplands of religious
thought the impulse of all minds is
towards Justice. The bible tells us
that on earth we see God as through
a glass, darkly; but the religion of
higher citizenship, no matter in what
image it sees him, recognizes that i'm
age as a symbol of the common good.
He who believes in the utmost ex-
tension Of demOcracy-in knowledge,
in opportunity, in culture, and in in
dustry- has the true religion of the
good citizen-no matter what else he
may believe or disbelieve.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
MUTISlIE

(By DR. FRANK CRANE in Milwaukee Jaurnal)
Mutisme is a French word and might be translated
tonguetiedness but the two terms have not exactly the
same meaning AIutisme implies aversion to talk.
1t signifies that inward stubbOrnness which leads one
in misunderstanding, to keep strained rela
ton, to persist in dumb suspicion and hostility, rather
than talk it and have it over
1t is responsible for end of trouble that might easily
be avoided.
There is no deeper you offend person OF sense
than say 60 what's the good of talking about it? 1t
is use. You cannot possibly understand
Mutisme splits many happy home The young mar
red couple that fall into proud silence when they disagree
speedily drift apart.
When you say nothing imagnes everything. And
hateful thoughts by perversion in natures,
readily imputed than thoughts OF love.
One of the saddest of things is growing apart
of parent and child In almost every instance is due to
the fact that they in the habit of talking things
Each fears unbend What begins sensitive reserve
harshness side and surness the other
father and son, mother and daughter, wall built by
foolish silence
Any lawyer of long practice will tell you that the eX
pense and worry of endless litigation might usually be
avoided could the parties but together listen patiently
talk canddly and seek satisfactory compromise So
if you would kill your enemy, go and see him.
Don't introduce me that man." said Sidney Smith.
Il feel my political duty to hate him, and can't hate
a man when you know him.
NIutisme slow inward fire. 1t keeps grudges hot It
burns friendship and preserves enmit 1t embtters
love.
Of course there is such thing talking too much,
talking the time when you should be still, and saying
the wrong thing
But you also eat too much, eat when you should
not, and food that is good for you.
Yet for all that, eating is mighty good and essential
And so is talking it over.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

A significant demonstration of the
waning influence of William Jennings
Bryan was the paucity Of attendance
at the luncheon given for him in Wash
ington recently by Congressman Bailey
of Pennsylvania. Besides Mr.. Bailey,
seventeen members Of the House and
two senators made up the crowd that
ate with the distinguished guest The
affair was more than "a FROST" it was
a hard winter The winter of Mr.
Bryan's discomfort it must have been,
when the fight on President Wilson's
European war policy was discussed
and abandoned, Representative Bailey
shortly afterWard announcing to re-
porter that cit was the sense of those
present that Americans should be
warned off armed ships, but it was de
cided that nothing should be done to
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

uals," he said, "are a fertile source
of criminals, Of whom twenty-five to
forty per cent are mentally defective !;
of our drunkards, sixty per cent of
whom are mentally defective; of our
paupers, prostitutes and other delin-
quents.
Mental deficiency is markedly her
editary, and mental detectives out
number normal stock to one"
He said that there are over 100000
feeble minded people in the United
States, and that only about ten per
cent Of them are cared for.
There are more insane persons in
this country than there are men in the
army and navy combined, or than
there are students in the universities
and colleges of the United States.
DR.. Guyer discussed the peril to SO
ciety through allowing mental defect
ives to marry and reproduce their
kind and explained the aims of the eu-
genists.-Oconto County Enterprise.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
SURPRISING Symptoms

taurants which was the root of all
our troubles. Mayor Harrison Grad
icated it at one time, but there was
still immortality and drunkenness. At
one time during that excitement we
almost legislated against the tango
and the bunny hug, and we did in
stall chaperons at public dances,
whose business it was to keep the
dancers at least six inches apart. But
there was no noticeable increase in
moral tone.
Somehow the recollections of all
these campaigns does not lend convic-
ton to this one.
Our moral reformers refuse to see
that they are all for treating symp-
toms and not for curing the disease.
For weak and chaPacterless girls even
the innocent countryside was fraught
with moral danger. The moon and the
summer air have proved quite as in
toxicating as the cocktail and the
dancing.
The trouble arises from the fact
that young people like to meet to-
gether and have a good time. When
things go wrong it is because restraint
has not been cultivated, not because
temptation has not been removed.
Children, Of course, should be protect
ed in some degree, but the American
notion is to trust in protection alone.
To remove the temptation is not
great moral act; it is simply an ac-
knOWledgement that we are raising
children who have not enough charac-
ter and discipline to live their own
lives Clearly and well.
Instead of stressing the smashing
Of cabarets, we should stress the
building of character
Instead Of attacking one symptom
after another, let us attack the dis
ease, which is our enfeebled national
haracter.-Chicago Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
a Peril TO Society,"

Wisconsin has over $4,000 individ-
uals passing through it's jails annual
ly and an average annual population
in it's poor houses of over 26,000," is
remark found on one of the charts
exhibited by DR.. NJ F. Guyer during a
lecture at the biology building recent
ly.
That number covers only those who
have come to official notice and is
called relatively small. According to
DR.. Guyer, there are 1915 insane per-
sons in this state, and only about q,
900 are under custodial care, and there
are 10,029 feeble minded, Of whom
about 5000 are not in institutions. The
care for epileptics is much less. He
estimates that there are about 1890
epileptics in Wisconsin and that there
are only few that are cared for. The
total amounts to about $4,000 or 1 to
100 Of the population.
"These mentally sub-normal individ-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

The cabaret as an institution has
been receiving the agOnized attention
Of Chicagoans for something over a
month. Every morning our citizens
have been reading the spicy accounts
of investigators and every evening
some of them have been going down
town to see for themselves. Gradu-
ally the respectables have modified
and they are now on the point of MAX
ing the council Obliterate the cabaret.
There is not great deal that can
be said in favor Of the cabaret. The
entertainers are generally quite the
reverse of entertaining. Unless you
like noise you cannot really like the
cabaret. But in spite of the showing
which it's enemies have offered against
it we cannot see that prohibiting en-
tertaining in places where food and
drink are dispensed will do any par
ticular good. Certain refOrmers will
make a loud noise about a triumph for
virtue, but virtue is not going to be
triumphant in the world as easily as
all IulS.
Chicago seems to demand some such
scapegoat every year or so. Young
girls from the country persist in COM
ing here and drinking too much and
getting into jams with strange men,
while young men without sufficient
stamina to work hard persist in in
dulging themselves on the proceeds
of forgery or some other kind of con-
dence game. Each time we pick on
some institution and smash it, but the
characterless youths find temptation
somewhere and succumb to it.
Not three months ago it was the
poolroom which occupied the stage. If
boys could be kept out of poolrooms,
we were told by scores Of observers,
there would be no more baby holdups.
Before that it was dancing in the res
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
(By Herbert Quick.)

Not very long ago Mr.. Joseph Ep-
stein of Baltimore surprised an audi
ence addressed by him at the city club
by including religion among the req
uisites for good citizenship.
A man cannot be a good citizen
said this good citizen, unless he has a
religion. No particular religion is
necessary, said Mr.. Epstein, but some
religion
Well, then, will any religion do?
The Thugs of India are sincere and
fanatical believers in the practice of
murder as pleasing to their goddess,
Kali. But does this religion make
them good citizens? The Indian gov
eminent regards them as murderers.
Let us take cases nearer home. Was
the Catholic Duke of Alva, who exc
cuted thousands of Dutch, regarded
as heretics, a good citizen? Was the
Protestant Maurice of Nassau, who
cause they held what he called hereti-
cal views on infant baptism, good
citizen?
On the other hand, was David Hume,
whose character was irreproachable,
or Thomas Paine, who helped so much
to found the government of the United
States, or even Robert G. IngersOll,
who did much to humanize the ethics
of even the Christian churches-were
these men bad citizens?
Few people will say that the relig-
iOus men above mentioned were good
citizens, or that those called irrelig
ious were bad citizens. On the other
hand, Jesus was called irreligious by
those who crucifed him, and was put
to death as bad citizen.
1t is possible for the most fervent
religionist to be the worst Of citizens,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
THE STUMBLING BLOCK.

Don't quit when the road gets rOugher,
Jump over the biggest rock;
For the winning on there's star and
a sun
However the shadows mock;
Don't run when the troubles grab you,
Don't faint when the failures knock;
Rise up and say: otis the herO's way;
Thank God for the stumbling block"
Don't stop when the sun grows hotter
And crisp in the burning heat;
There's a rose that grows by the long
est rows
And the hours of rest are sweet;
Don't bend when the heavy burdens
Hard down on your shoulders fock3
Earth gives her spoil to the hands tina
TOLL
Thank God for the stumbling block.
Don't run when the troubles grab You,
Don't faint when the failures mock;
Rise up and shout to the foes about,
"Come on with the stumbling block"
For the prize at the goal is waiting,
The gold in the granite rock;
To earth's sons cry: "'Tis the gods
that try
Thank God for the stumbling block -
Freeman E. Miller in Oklahoma n.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

A new thought, to some of us at least, was eX-
pressed at the high school meeting the other
night Are we neglectful of the strange teach
ers who come into our midst to care for our child
ren's mental training and do we too much regard
the teacher as pedagogic machine who grinds
out education during the day and hibernates dur
ing the night time? Hospitality, friendliness and
interest, outside school hours toward the teach
er, cannot help but reap big returns inside the
schools. We don't think that's all.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
SYMPATHY.

FerVently praying or signing,
Dreaming of those DER the sea;
Many of whom may be dying,
Do you condemn it in me?
There are my playmates of child
hood,
Now to maturity grown;
There in the shade Of the wildwood,
Often we fingered alone.
Though my kindred and lover,
Far l have wandered away;
Vainly [ sought to discover
Friends that are truer than they.
Mingling in wars confusion,
Calamity striving to win;
Victims of someone's delusiOn,
Who is to blame for the sin?
SeIfishness, pride and ambition,
Seeking for power and fame,
Brought on the world this condition,
Poverty, ruin and shame.
Desolate, sad, but unyielding,
Now is the land of my birth;
Still are her faithful sons welding
Weapons for rulers of earth.
Weep for the slaughtered and
wounded,
Weep for all victims of greed.
Pray that the wicked, confounded
Get what is justly their need.
Geo. w. Woodwork,
Cedarburg, Wis.,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

(Written on brown paper, by one
Walter Sandmayr, held in the Milwau-
zee Jail on a theft charge.)
Whisky! oh whisky! darn your old
soul;
You've stripped me, you've robbed
me of silver and gold.
You've stripped off clothes from my
foolish hide,
You've shriveled my brains till my
senses have died.
But still. oh! l love you. Why
shouldn't 1? hey?
l want you, 1 crave you, by night
and by day.
Whiskey! Was it Whiskey? You've
wrecked, sir, my home.
You've turned friends against me,
and caused me to roam.
You've painted my heart, sir, as
black as SCOT.
You've given my eyes the glare Of
a brute.
But still, sir; I crave you. Why
shouldn't i! hey!
For driving my wife and my child
rem away.
Oh! Whiskey! Say, Whiskey! See
the tears on my cheek.
I'd quit you tonight, but, God, I'm
too weak,
Friends all have left me; why should
live now?
I'd quit you tonight, but I haven't
the power.
I can't quit; I shan't quit. You'd
haunt me to death.
You've poisoned my soul with your
venomous breath.
Whiskey! Say Whiskey; my head
aches like sin.
You've killed all my chances; you've
got me all in.
Won't you let me get sober just
once more?
I'll quit you! I'll quit you! I said
it before.
But, this time I'll quit you, I'll be
darned if I lie.
You've dug me, sir, my grave, ere
I'm ready to die.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

"A satisfied customer is supposed to be the best
advertiser and particularly is he SO when he
voices his satisfaction to friends and neighbors.
If your neighbor doesn't take the paper hand it
to him when you have finished reading it. Say
a good word for it when you can and verify, your
returns shall be ample, for each new subscriber
means that much more power to the editors ell
bow.