Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1917-03-16
the TREND OF GREAT EVENTS

of current events. says:
Ii /. difficult to write or think of
much save the condition of the coun-
try.
People are not in any frenzy or
hysteria, but are taking it grayeIy
and more or less quietly. Personal
~, feel rs if | can once more look
an honest and courageous nation in
the face.
Ny sense of humiliation has been
very great, all this while that Ger
many Ia, been slapping Us in the
face. We certainly have turned To-
him the other cheek, also.
\ very fine Young German, Il fin,
tenor, who was captured 10y the
French and then released ia order to
come to America to fulfil his singing
engagement, he asks that We keep
has name secret, told rs tins: tina,
There are hundreds of thousands o.
Young men IN Germany who feel cN-
actly A. he does, namely, that their
beloved country is being irighttully
misrulcd and they would he thankful
Ia see every llohenzolleu hanged to
the lamp posts" lie also said III /
were to speak thus openly. even IA
this. your great city, So far from
Berlin, should not be alive by to-
morrow sunset.
1t is very generally believed here
that our declaration of war Is arlead,
written and ready 10 be sent AT mo
ment, notice. guess that poor di>
iraught man IN the lronN. whose wife
and one child 1.-TWO were saved
thinks that the overt act has already
been committed All our bridges and
other buildings are being guarded
today Betty and | saw the soldier,
stop man, On brooklyn Bridge, who
was carrying paste-bonrd box. lie
looked innocent enough. but We are
taking no chances. Wires are being
stretched across the mouth of the
harbor 1" protect New York from
submarines. No, We haven't though of
leaving home, even IN ease of war
We should stay and take care of our
property and work for our men. No.
body seems frightened, not even the
women with sons.
OF course, We are all waiting aud
anxious, eager for the morning auj
evening papers inaction i, AWAY
difficult.
Meanwhile, We hang ont our flag
each day (only q four by six foot
but beautiful and bright aud refrain
from all criticism of the president
he hat, done the right thing at last
rs DR. Hill, said IN his sermon last
sunday evening, at is latc--but bet.
ter late than never and then he wa.
interrupted nv tremendous applause
wish You could have heard DR. Hills
Newell Dwight lecture last night
II was on England and her economi,
ana moral reasons for pushing TIA,
war 10 finish" Among other thius.
he sand that England had anticipate,
this great submarine action. and foi
two years past had been building an,
storing huge granaries in every cor
ner of her island; that each year
from Canada alone she got 800. 00l
bushel, of wheat. That stores oi
every necessary kind have poure.
INTO her treasure boxes; that in Tia,
last eleven days, in spite of the sub
marine ring around her 100 mer
chant ships have safely entered he
ports that a number of Plymouth
Church members lately returned iron
England, saw with his own eyes &,
German submarines captured al,
held ia British ports and heard tina
there have been thirty in all, cap
tured.
We had fully 1000 people last nigh
next Sunday the subject is to b.
Germany - What She l. Fightin,
For" and wager the church ron'
accommodate the crowd that c,g Q.
OF this lecture she says, wa
amazed at DIR. Hills moderation
considering the intensity Of his feel
ings, but he said he'd been 'sittin,
on the lid so long that he was almos
at the point of being able 10 complete
" control his tongue.
Every seat, even in the second gal
lery, was filed. When | arrived.
couldn't get through the crowds d
the main aisles. Fully 2200 peopl
were seated and many standing a
through the enc and three quartz
hours service.
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