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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-29
How Barbarous Old Morse Gods
Have Come TO Life in Europe

Thackeray received when on his Irish journey
he read in the newspaper that the local bishop
had just been consecrated by the Pope. Such
an announcement" he wrote in The Irish
Sketch Book. sounds quite strange in English,
and in your own country as ii were; or isn't il
your own country"
There could not be clearer more uncon-
scious Identification of religion and country.
National boundaries are felt to be natural
boundaries. Had these boundaries been really
crossed by Christianity. II is impossible
should witness Christians fighting Christians.
still less Catholics fighting Catholics or Protes-
tants Protestants. Everywhere the old national
religion has remained latent beneath Chris
tianity and in moments OF peril It is not the
angels that appear but the old gods of the
race upon their horses.
So long this ataVistic reversion 10 the
tribal theology is unconscious, 1t is compare
lively innocuous. 1t leaves the road open for
the return Of Christianity when the war ends.
But the wilful German backsliding to heathen-
ism is as dangerous IL is ridiculous. Idol
airy is catching Already we have had George
Moore crawling underground-as II Hene's
fantasy was geographical reslty-in quest OF
old Irish gods. One hears too, OF fire worship
pers and Diabolsts. VIII some sophisticated
Syrian revive the cult OF AstRrte some in
tellectualy intoxicated Greek the Dionysiac
festivals? Are we safe even from the Egyptian
cat? These galvanizatons Of the dead past
are grotesque that primitive" art which
chisels with staggering simplicity the crude
wooden dolls that we're the sayages stride
toward complexity. To religion TO art self
consciousness is fatal
Less grotesque. IL no less perilous. is the
German movement not to restore old gods, but
TO give new lamps for old. Why should the
modern spirit not be creative the ancient?
This is essentially Nietzsche's question, as il is
the "Leitmotif' OF that voluminous work by
Houston Chamberlain. which the Kaiser dis
trbuted so lavishly.
Why be beholden for your religion to Jews.
II, indeed, Jesus was not a German?
But just as NietZsche's effort at construction
only achieved destruction, so his apotheosis OF
aristocrauc individualism has been answered
by the deepest abasement OF the individual
and the greatest Qualification Of the herd
known 10 history since the days OF Sparta
Well may Nietzsche denounce the State
the coolest OF all cold monsters: the liar that
says Il am the people" the piece OF hellish
machinery. the horse OF death. rafting Ia the
attire OF godliks honors"
Vet il Is N this "heuish machinery that DR..
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-29

Stanton Colt OF our own Ethical Church, has
found such edification that in his profound
book, THE Soul OF America" he adjured every
country TO found similar State religions We
to worship each our own national spirit.
to the exclusion even of whatever God tran
sends humanity. For every institution has its
spirit-Eton, Cambridge. the Carlton Club-we
even speak Of esprit de corps and the genius
loci-and the spirit OF the nation should be
the real and suffcing centre of religion Ii is
notion TO be found also in the disciples Of
Durkheim. But this religion skaters itself
like neopaganism upon the rock OF self
consciousness. You can sink yourself in wor-
ship of a God believed infinite and inefable.
but hardly in one whom you know TO be merely
the spirit Of your tribe, mutsble and fallible
And how II 1t is evil spirit, a narrow, pulled
up sprit7
French patriotism. according to Heine, eI-
pands the man, warns him toward all civiliza-
ton, whereas the patriotism OF the German
Is shown by his heart becoming narrower and
shrinking up and drawing in like leather in
frost" And how well Hene knew his country
men We have already seen. "Oeutschland
ueber alles'-that Germany's citizens shall put
her before all their private interests a
creed which may be better for them than none
st all. but Prussian patriotism is, If not the last
refuge OF a scoundrel the last refuge OF an
atheist Immune from any standard outside
itself, II easily slides from the ideal Of
Germany above all It's citizens TO the deal OF
Germany above all he world-a mistransla-
ton of its motto into action which justihes the
current mistranslation into English
When Fichte. the preacher OF the national
patriotic education which the Kaiser has fos-
tered. delivered ais famous Addresses to the
German Nation in 1908. the destiny he put
before the young generation was TO found
Empire Of Mind and Reason-to destroy the
dominion of mere physical power" But Fichte
vas speaking after Jena, when Prussia lay
powerless at the feet Of Napoleon. The grapes
were sour. AS soon as Moltke provided the
sword for q more material Empire, the inherent
viciousness of State-idolatrv became manifest
Communal egotism is no more vorshipful than
Individual
Not by worshipping themselves. but by sacri-
6cng themselves 20 something conceived
larger than themselves, have nations or in
stitutons become saturated with the spirit Of
greatness And the individual requires the
State. so the State requires the world and the
great international ideas. II Dr. Colt over
looked this fatal defect In State reli gion,
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but in all their crude reality-and TO resume
their sway the mind OF the West, nay 10
drive IL TO those extremes of barbarsm OF
which only logic is capable and from which the
heather in his simple blindness would have
shrunk in horror. That II the old German
gods-"those abortons OF blood and mist
who would lead this assault upon Christian civ
ilization was prophesied by Heine in that mar
vellous chapter Of his Germany In which he
figured the German philosopher evoking the
demoniac energies OF old Germanic pantheism,
Weakening the ancient Teutonic battle-madness,
and rousing Thor from his thousand-year sleep
10 shatter the Gothic cathedrals with his giant
hammer, and 10 send the old German thunder
der Deutsche Donner"-crashing as naught
ever crashed before in the whole history OF the
world. Felix Dahn and the German novelists
of the seventies had begun coquetting with the
old gods and warriors, but by irony OF his
tory IL Niet8sche who by shaking what ne
called the Semitic slave morality" OF Chris
tianity paved the way not for the super-moral
ity he preached, but for the ancient barbarism.
Christianity was not indeed difficult to shake.
late and exotic importation II had never
harmonised with the Western temperament,
and In the nomadic warriors Of the Northern
forests IL was a mere veneer. Peculiarly did
its universalism clash with European tribalism.
II vain for Paul to declare that there
should be neither Jew nor Greek neither
Scythian Barbarian. Nature. says the
Roman poet, will return even IL driven out with
a pitchfork. Still more II driven out with =
dogma.
BY dint Of the Roman Empire. and through
its spiritual afterglow, the Holy Roman EN-
pire, Christianity did indeed achieve an uneasy
universalsm. But II is significant that Ger
many, through Luther, the first 10 break
such European unity had been achieved by
the martyrs and thinkers OF Christendom. For
whatever be the merits or necessity OF Protes-
tantism. the Reformation was as much a reac-
ton OF nst!Onalism as a protest against the
corruptons of the Church Universal
The treatises OF Luther mingled criticisms OF
the Papscy with appeals TO German patriotism
against the jurisdiction OF = foreign Power In
Switzerland ZWingli likewise combined spirit
ual reform with political protest against the
Pope's claim TO raise Swiss levy Even the
countries that remained loyal 10 Rome could
only be handled e loose rein. AS for Eng
land, the jealous national spirit not only shook
of the Pope. but all possibility OF communion
with the Reformed Churches OF the Continent
How deep goes the British instinct against
alien domination NAV be seen from the shock
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-29
NEW YEAR s EVE
TO Be LIMITED
New York Crowds viii be
Forced to Go Home at
One O'clock.

NEW YORK. Dec. 29.-The gay
white way viii have a maximum OF
one hours celebration New Years.
eve. This in the adamant resolution
Of Mayor John =. Mitchell He heard
that a certain prominent hotel in the
vicinity OF Broadway and LonEacre
square was advertising.
MAKE your reservations now for
New Years eve. Positively sunday
Dec. e."
SO he sat down and wrote a letter
- his police commissioner. reading
In part as follows.
"As you know. "A request was pre-
ferred for the issuance of all-night
licenses 70 New Years eve by
number OF representatives of hotel
interests Of the city I pointed out
TO these gentlemen that a. New
Years eve falls this year on Sunday
there is no discretion permitted us
by the law i'm this matter. and hotels
which alone may sell liquor on sun
day must stop their sales i'm the
rooms where liquor is sold at such a
time that all the guests will be out
and the door. Chased at l o'clock
=. IN.
II had the assurance Of the repre-
lentatives Of the hotel interests who
-alled upon me that they would
heartily cooperate i'm the enforce
ment Of the Law. have every reason
10 believe that this pledge was given
boo an sincerity and will be carried
ont IN spirit as we'll as in letter
~ note however. that one hotel
proprietor has announced that he
proposes TO permit his guests TO cell
citrate New Years as usual on the
night OF Sunday the .31st This may
or may not indicate an intention TO
break the law. I do not propose.
however. 10 permit any immunities
cor special privileges. The law will
ise enforced alike in all cases.
You will. therefore, please adopt
an necessary measures to enforce a
trict compliance with the law as
laid down i'm the statute You will
also please report to me all cases in
which an attempted breach of the
law may take place. tt is my in
tention 20 revoke the > o'clock Ii
cense now held by any person who
may undertake to violate the law on
New Years eve
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-29
By Israel ZdngtUiH,
The Noted Playwright and Leader Of the
Zionist Movement.

The Noted Playwright and Leader Of the
Zionist Movement
7 YANS RICHTER. the great conductor. once
II told me in the days when the Ring" was
deranging London's dinner hour, that in
reading conducting Wagner's music he felt
himself IN mystic union with the gods OF his race
But who were these old gods? Tacitus.
who has left US a valuable study of the Ger
many Of the year 9S. and who records in
CredulOusy the rumor that there were German
tribes with human faces. but the bodies and
limbs of wild beasts. reports that the chief god
was Mercury. and that the Germans propitiated
him even with human victims Now Mercury.
from whom comes the French for Wednesday,
was merely the Roman name for the Teutonc
Odin or Wooden. who survives in
Wednesday. Mercury was originally the god
OF commerce and gain, and Wooden comes
from root meaning the furious one. that
the worship OF this grim old German god seems
accurately 10 foreshadov the contemporary
combination OF "RealpOliuk" with Mitarism.
But how could such a god appeal to a
musician? Richter's Odin was probably the
WagneriZed WOtan Of the Ring And the
Morse and lCelandiC mythology which Wagner
sophisticated had been already modified by
radiatons from Christianity. The old Teutonic
races knew nothing Of Valhalla or the Valkyries
these were the creations OF poets OF the
Viking period, working on microscopic basis
OF folk myth
But whatever the intellectual falsincstions
and fallacies OF Wagner he did undoubtedly
set out 10 transcTibs the Germans own in
digenOus national world OF feelings and tones"
and this his sUbcOnscious genius effected so
truly. so far as the mere music was concerned,
as TO send the old racial memories vibrating
through his fellow Teuton's soul deep calling
unto deep. / imagine, however. that what
Richter felt was not so much the presence OF
definite old gods as the absence OF the Chris
tian. Heine pictured the old gods as going into
exile underground al the triumph OF Christ.
Where they really went was under conscious
ness. AS they had never had any life outside
mans mind. now they became not subter-
rRnean. but subcOnsclous And Il was these
submerged strata OF pre-Christian feeling that
Wagner stirred up in Richter
10 IS these pre-Chrfstian strata that under the
inspiration OF German philosophy now threaten
&c rise 70 the top again-not sublimated as art,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-29

Prussia has probably enlightened him by now.
But there is still another German theology,
and that the most popular OF all, with the
Kaiser High Priest. There is a German
Colder Deutsche Gott"-who has often been
compared to the old tribal" Hebrew God. with
Germany in the role of Israel. and the Hohen-
zoerns as the Patriarchs. Were there truth in
this comparison. Germany would not stand
alone in communicating Isrsers Cod DID not
Kipling annex Him in his Song OF the Eng
lsh"?
For the Lord our God most high. He hath
made the deep dry.
And smote for US pathway to the ends OF all
the earth"
And the liturgy Of the Established Church
anticipated Kipling. The Romans merely took
Palestine. The English have taken the whole
OF It's history and literature. But they have
taken It because-despite all the alterations
and iniquities Of imperalsm-it represents
their own ideal OF justice for all races. And
they have taken IL with its shadows as well
its lights For Israel had not only a sense or
mission, but also a sense OF sin.
Germany has only a sense Of mission no
German Kipling has arisen to write her "Reces-
sional" 1T is really because We are pure"
Pastor Fritz Phillips told his Berlin flock that
have been chosen by the Almighty as His
Instruments TO purify the world" Not for thy
righteousness or for the uprightness OF thy
heart" says Deuteronomy, "dOst thou go 10
possess their land; but for the wickedness Of
these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them
out from before thee The Bible Is, In fact.
one long indictment Of the Hebrew race, but
outside Nietzsche we look in vain for any cssti
cation OF the Prussian.
The Kaisers God is a mere caricature %
Jehovah, for It is a gross II popular error that
the God OF the Old Testament a tribal
deity with a pet people. The very first line Of
Genesis is universal In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth" The
genealOgy OF all races and cOlors from Adam
strikes the same broad note. while Abraham.
the founder OF Judaism, actually asks God. In
what I have always considered the epoch-mak-
ing sentence in the Bible. Shall not the Judge
Of all the earth do right" righteous God 10
not tribal God because a tribe is the first TO
worship Him. Browning was not a cliquey poet
because he was az first the poet OF clique.
The God OF Abraham could no more be kept
tribal than electricity could be kept English
because Faraday was. Elijah did not rail
against Baal as alien rival god, but al
Gbominable idol.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-29
DRUG STORE TO HAVE SHORT.
Err HOURS.

Beginning with Jan. 1st. 1917.
Nicholas SchiHing at 3O3 s. Mich
igan St. druggist. will open his store
at 1880 a. m. and close at .. IN.
-AdVt
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-29

Or s T. Kilmer has removed his
offices 20 Rooms 1O6-1OS Dean
Bldg. first floor. Advt.
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the word for no one is considering
me), she breeZily included me in the
invitation, and l stepped off the train
to find her motor car, with David run
ming it, waiting to whisk me to her
palatial home.
The whole situation has so crushed
me- Tommie, that there seems no
fight left in me. You know how
eagerly I came here once you had
shown me it was right. You know
all 1 gave up-my old home, my
friends, my people, my tastes, safety,
everything-to help David have his
chance
'And now find myself fifth wheel
"a mere wife who is IN the way! I
am to be dominated in my private
life as well as in David's professional
work by this woman 1 don't even
know and whom Dave mas known but
a week Why, Tom, I shall be liv-
ing in David's and Mrs. Brett's office.
for that is what it amounts to if this
crazy arrangement is carried out.
shall be worse than useless. I shall be
absurd. l could die with chagrin and
wretchedness. David is very angry
at my refusal to go to the Brett man.
sion and be sacrificed to another
woman's personality.
He has delivered an ultimatum It
leaves me the choice of running his
career or watching Rose Brett move
US like pawns on a cressboard or be-
ing sweetly adaptable and entirely
hypocritical, gaining success at the
cost of comfort, home life, my feel
ings, my individuality, my whole hap
piness
You see what distressing position
I am in, don't you, Tom, dear? Say
you do or L shall go mad in my
loneliness and misery CORA"
Cora realized she was stiff, cramped
and faint as she finished it. But, hav-
ing eased her burden through the me-
dunn of words she felt sudden mis-
cradle longing for David. Perhaps
he saw her side of it more clearly
now. Perhaps he realized
Cora speculated no further. She
grasped her pen and addressed the
envelope to David instead Of to Tom
Woodford.
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Three Soldiers Withdraw
Habeas Corpus Petition
to Secure Their Release

Montgomery, October 19.-(SpeciaD
Clarence w. Conway, James A. Watkins
and John L. Henderson of Decatur, pri-
Yates in Company M, Forth regiment,
today voluntarily withdrew habeas COR
pus petitions which they filed in the fed
eraI court Tuesday, and will accompany
the regiment to Noga1es tomorrow
The petitions asked the court to compel
the release of the men from service on
the ground that upon enlistment they
were promised to be made noncommis-
stoned officers.
Inability of federal officers to obtain
service has resulted IN the virtual dis
missal of habeas corpus proceedings in
stituted yesterday for the release OF
Russell Hibbs of Ensley, private in Com
pany B, Second regiment. Before Hihbs
could be served with the papers, he had
been carried off to the border with his
regiment His release was sought on
the theory that he has not taken the fed
eral oath and was about to be carried
from Alabama for service
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RANDOM NOTES

Mrs. Harvey Dumas of Detroit will ar
rive soon and will be the guests of her
sister, Mrs. George Blinn, at her home
on Eleventh avenue, south. Later she
will spend sometime in Marion with her
parents, Dr. and Mrs. George T. L. Reid.
Mrs. George Blinn has returned from
an extended trip east and was also the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Harvey Dumas,
in Detroit.
Mrs. C. M. Handy and two children
who have spent the summer here with
Mr.. and Mrs r. A Murphree will leave
early in November for their home in
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Otis of Washing
ton are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ
C. Otis and will be among the out-of-
town guests at the Brown-Otts wedding
tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock
Mrs. John B. Reid has returned from
short stay in Jasper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aubrey Nicklas of New
York have named their little daughter
Mary Spottswood Nichlas. Mrs. Nichlas
will be remembered as the Miss Mary
Spottswood of Jacksonville, Fla, who
mas D60U d frequent anu pOpuldI 6uCoI
of her sister, Mrs. r. A. Mullins.
Mrs. Leslie Fulenwider, who has spent
sometime geast with relatives, has re-
turned home.
Mrs Oscar Hundley, who was the guest
of friends in Huntsville, has returned
home.
sss
tomorrow for New York for two weeks
trip.
Miss Kate Goodloe, who has spent the
past two weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. T. H.
Motion left yesterday for her home in
Jacksonville, Fla.
Mrs. Paul Speake, who has been the
guest of her sister, Mrs. J. E. Penny, has
returned to her home in Huntsville.
Miss Pattie Rena Shepard has re-
turned from a visit to Gadsden.
Mrs. M. c. Yates, who has spent the
past 10 days in the city, has returned to
her home in Albany.
Miss Alice Hale is the guest of her
niece, Mrs. G. B. Ashcraft, in Florence.
DR.. W. F. Scott and DR.. William Dab
ney are spending two weeks at Johns
Hopkins and at Rochester, MINI.
Miss Elizabeth finder will leave today
for Washington, D. c., where she will
spend the winter months with her rela-
tive. Mrs. NJ l.. Kilby.
Miss Florence Bentzen and Miss June
Foreman have returned from a delightful
siv weeks visit to the formers old home
in Hartford, Conn, and also to her sis
ter Mrs. P. It. Newcomb, in Philadel-
phia-
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guilty conscience after I'm laid away in
my grave for all the money in the Bank
of England"
And yet we only clean house twice a
year. What if l were like some house
wives who clean house every week? And
housekeeping, Mr.. Caudle, is just a sig
nal for you to come home to lunch; the
rest of the year nobody could pay you
enough money to make you leave your
club and have luncheon at home; it's just
your perversity, Mr.. Caudle, nothing
more or less. Oh, but you are enough to
try the patience of a saint and yet 1
never open my mouth to you, but bear it
all with Christian fortitude and humil-
ity. 1 am just a mere worm on the
face of the earth for you to step on and
trample and-kill. No; it won't do to call
me soft names now, Mr.. Caudle; it's too
late; after the way you've abused me for
the last hour disturbing my rest and
keeping me from getting a wink of sleep
after I've worked like a dog all day
long. Now, Mr. Caudle, if you begin
to shout in that manner 1 shall get up
and sit up all night; really can't bear
to hear you screech like that. And
please don't swear. sir; you say you were
not swearing? Don't you suppose know
swearing when 1 hear it; after living
with you for 25 years, sir; then do be
quiet and let me have moments rest!
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~ NE of the attractive parties of the
III week was the tea given yester-
~ day afternoon by Mrs. H. e. Bis
sell at her home at Chestnut Hill, hon
oring her guest Miss Hortense Bissell.
Lovely autumn flowers were used
throughout the house. which was thrown
open and most attractively arranged for
the occasion.
Mrs. Bissen was assisted in receiving
in the living room by Miss Bissell and
her mother, Mrs. Bissell.
On the porch a number of popular and
attractive brides-elect greeted the guests.
Mrs. Houston Davis and Mrs. Melville
Drennen served at the coffee and tea
table, which was decorated with yellow
cosmos and ferns. Among others assist
ing to receive were Mrs Richard Stot-
lar Miss Anita Eustis, Mis- Ireta Nc
Crossin. Mrs. James CARRIER, Misses AL
ma and Eleanor Messer, Mrs. w. Bew
White, Mrs. j. D. Moore, Jr, and Miss
Fannie Mae Pointer.
More than 100 friends called during the
receiving hour.
Mrs. James L. Walker entertained at
a lovely informal bridge party yesterday
afternoon at her home on South Twelfth
avenue complimenting Miss Louise Ne
vile, who will be married next week
to Mr.. Wier. Among those who were
Mrs. Walkers guests were Miss Neville,
Miss Catherine Matthews, Miss Teress
Housman, Miss Margaret Dewey, Miss
Nina Nicholson, Mrs. Kenneth Harwood,
Mrs. w. G. Colmery, Mrs J. s. Chairsell,
Mrs. R. F. Hall, Mrs. D. Boiler, Mrs. A.
Hall and Miss Ada Coke
Miss Gertrude Motion entertained at
luncheon yesterday at her home at Idle
wild park, complimenting Miss Ida Otis,
whose marriage to Mr.. Brown will take
place tomorrow afternoon.
Among the guests were Miss OTIS, Miss
Marion Pinckard, Miss Elizabeth Massey,
Miss Dorothy Davis, Miss Frances White,
Miss Doris Moughon, Miss Lois Brown,
Miss Katherine Ross, Mrs Richard Lus-
sier, Mrs. Winston Roberts, Mrs. Roy
Woodruff of Admission.
Mrs. Charles Plosser entertained yes
terday at a buffet luncheon at her home
in honor of Miss nellie Cosby
There were two lovely tables beautifully
arranged and decorated, each holding
gilt basket of pink blossoms and ferns
and were presided over by Mrs. Mortimer