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The Nome daily nugget., 1917-09-20

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
THE WAR

The Christian Doctrine of War" by the
Bishop of Somerset. 81 am not one of those"
writes the author in his introduction, "who be-
lieve that the primitive Christianity is the real
Christianity Christianity is a growth, de-
veopment, one might almost say or 1t is
nothing. In every age it has triumphed through
its power of adapting itself to its environment,
of modifying itself, as it were, in accordance
with circumstance. And just as we learn to
see the meaning of the seed by looking at the
flower, so we must learn to interpret the Cos
pes in the light of the present instead of trying
to make the present conform to the Gospels.
| say this not in any spirit of dogmatism, but
simply to indicate the method which, by Gods
grace, have tried to the best of my poor pow
ers to apply"
1t may be said at once that the learned au-
thor has proved his case up to the hilt. On
first thoughts there would seem to be some
things in the Gospels which it would be hard
to reconcile with modern warfare, but the
Bishop makes short work of such objections.
Thus, Of the command to turn the other cheek
he writes 1--WE must remember that in all
such utterances we are dealing with the
Oriental mind and due allowance must be made
for the fgurative and hyperbolic language so
dear to the East" And again, Love your
enemies of course means love your enemies, but
Christianity never tells us that we are to love
their sin; we must detest and punish that, even
to the extent of fighting it, and if need be Of
extermnating the sinner. But of course we
must keep on loving him just the same" OF
the saying "They that take the sword shall
perish by the sword" the author says, There
are ample grounds for regarding this as a
later Interpolation by some primitive pacifist.'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

gelist. he reminds one by contrast OF
Billy Sunday. We go to the theatre to
see Mr.. Shaw turn intellectual hand
springs, and on the way home we per-
ceive he has been preaching to us. We
90 to hear Mr.. Sunday preach, and
come home with the realization that ne
has been turning handsprings.
The Wells creed and the Shavlan
creed always sounded plausible enough
in fair weather. What with science
and machinery and intelligence, to say
nothing of an occasional superman, we
might look forward to solving in time
all our problems and eventually inaugu-
rating the golden age. There was no
need whatever for God in such an evo-
lutionary plan.
But when the machines became AZ
centimetre guns and dreadnoughts and
Zeppelins, all spouting death, and sci
ence turned suddenly to the production
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
Books, Common and Preferred
By HAROLD KELLOCK
"YOur Country
Needs IOu.''

f1uenced the thought of the world,
neither of them has hitherto bothered
much about God. In fact, they have
consistently treated the Deity in a
highly cavalier manner. 1t is curious
and significant that the crash of Europe
and the smash-up of the man-made
scheme of things have sent both these
self-suficient thinkers scuttling for ref
age to power wiser and greater than
their superman. 1t is only few weeks
back that Mr.. Wells, while asserting
his belief in an orderly plan in the uni
verse, deprecated the idea of planner;
and Mr.. Shaw, complacently sardonic,
wrote beware of the man whose God
is in the skies"
Mr.. Wells began his writing career
as a pessimist. All his early works
predicated for the human race future
of increasing degradation and despair.
He even suggested, in his detached
manner, the. possibility of some other
form of life Qet us say, sandworm
or a string BEAM, advancing to the
point where it wrested from mankind
the supremacy of the world Later,
however. he conceived the idea of sal
walton by science and machinery, and
he evolved sort of Superman-in-the-
Laboratory, hard working and hard
thinking. who with the discoveries OF
his patient research was to recreate
the earth. Up to the outbreak of the
war Mr.. Wells stuck substantially to
that, though in his later books his SUI
perman became less scientific and more
discursive.
But Mr.. Wells really attached little
significance to the individual. The
great thing was the spirit that drove
the scientist to work for the betterment
of mankind. Through the confusion
something drives, something that is at
once human achievement and the most
inhuman of existing things" says Ed
ward Ponderevo in "Tono-Bungay."
eve are all things that make and pass,
striving upon a hidden mission, out to
the open sea"
In First and Last Things" Mr..
Wells's confession of faith, now ten
years old, he ampliied this idea:
81 assert that ] am important in a
scheme, that we are all important in
that scheme, that the wheel-smashed
frog in the road and the fly drowning
in the milk are important and CORE
lated with me. What the scheme is as
a whole do not know; with my limited
mind | cannot know. | do not
wish to imply schemer, but only or
der and coordination as distinguished
from haphazard."
Socialism and the superman have
been the basis of Mr.. Shaws creed.
Like philosophic stockman of human
ity, he has urged in season and out the
necessity for breeding selected leaders
Of men, intellectual bell-wethers, and
improving the race generally. He has
consistently hated democracy, "rule by
riff-raff," and has voiced his distrust Of
kings, and has insisted on salvation by
intelligence. An incorrigible evan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

of more terrible engines of destruction,
and all the intelligence of Europe was
directed toward organizing murder on
scale hitherto undreamed of, the phllo-
sophical card houses so blithely built
up by Mr.. Shaw and Mr.. Wells were
rudely tumbled, and there was moth
ing left for the two architects except to
90 mad, to commit suicide or to find
another philosophy. Both chose the
last way, and both have arrived appar-
emily at the same goal.
"Why not give Christianity trial."
demanded Mr.. Shaw, shortly after the
war began. In his preface to An
Grocles and the Lion" which is a con-
fession of faith, he says, with a truly
Shavian grimace: 81 am no more
Christian than Plate was, or you, gen
tie reader; and yet, like Plate, great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
REVIEWS
FICTION

The Muscles of the Spirit" by John Laird.
more chops-bloody ones, with gristle,' might
well have been prefiXed as motto to TINS oooK'
From the opening chapters, which describe the
hero's boyhood in his fathers slaughter-house'
until the final episode, narrating the part ne
played in the attack upon Fort Douaumont' the
book is an orgy of bloodshed. Since lola wrote
'Le Debacle" we have not encountered real
ism so unsparing The description OF the
hero's two years service as common hangman
would bring a blush, if not thrill, to the most
blase debutante.
Yet in spite of some excesses Mr.. Lard mas
written powerful and convincing work. he
has handled big subjects in big way. lie
brings us close to life-to life raw, passionate
and palptating. He is not for the over-Sensi-
tive lover of mealy-mouthed romance, but
strong. red-blooded men who admire virillty
and prefer literature with teeth in it Will give
a beefy welcome to this latest work from Mr.
Laird's pen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

natists are producing
worthy of being read
and American poets
are so numerous and
prolific that last year,
probably for the first
time in our history,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

The title of the forthcoming book OF
ESSAYS by H. G.. Wells, as announced by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

the Macmillan COM
pany, is God, the In
visible King" Bernard
Shaw has also been de-
livering a series of lect-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
PEN.WORK
AND
SWORD-PLAY

time in our history,
more new books classified as poetry and
drama were published than books OF nc
tion. In the list of books of the year
given by the Publishers Weekly
books on sociology and economics stood
third. while history was fourth and re-
ligion and theology fifth.
In Great Britain about 200 more
hooks of fiction were published than in
the United States. though the British
total of book production generally Tell
to about a thousand under our total
The number of books published IN
Great Britain declined about 10 per
cent from the figures of 1915, but books
of fiction increased nearly 10 per cent.
Most of the fiction engendered by the
war is scarcely of enduring quality.
So far as books are an indication, the
war has seriously retarded the evolu-
ton of culture and intelligence IN
Europe. Book production has fallen
off, but more serious than the decline
in quantity is the lapse in quality. Inc
production of books on scientific, social
and political subjects has suffered par
ticularly. In parts of Europe-Belglum'
for instance-the practice of the art OF
literature as an art has ceased alto
gether.
In England the quality of works OF
the imagination generally has tumbled
to a low ebb. The productivity OF the
older writer's has been checked, and the
men of the younger school are in the
trenches. According to the Publish
ers' Weekly" the most notable English
novel of the year was William Mcfees
"Casuals of the Sea-" 1t was finished
two years before the war.
Apparently, the theory that big
war creates great books is a sorry err
ror. The sword seems to blunt the
pen. Hatred and systematic slaughter
are poor inspirations for the arts.
The title of the forthcoming book OF
essays by H. G. Wells, as announced by
the Macmillan Com
MR.. WELLS, pany, is God, the In
Mr.. SHAW visible King" Bernard
IND GOTT Shaw has also been de-
livering series Of lect-
ures on God in the hall of the National
Sporting Club, in London. He has been
lamenting that Great Britain has lost
her religion, and fear of Germany has
taken the place of fear Of God" He
has also been saying such things as
"the real king is an artist and philoso-
cher, who fulfls the will of God, while
loyalty to the system which sets up
idol kings (the kings of today IS IN
compatible to the will of God"
Mr.. Wells il now past fifty and Mr..
Shaw over sixty. Though each OF them
has been preaching for many years, and
their PHILOSOPHERS have profoundly in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
BELLES-LETTRES

Little Essays in Courage and Contentment,
by Radiance Hope. The authoress of this sea-
sonable little volume is already well known 10
a small but discerning circle of readers by her
previous work. Living with Glow" The
present essays have all the charm of those
earlier virginia. meditations. There is an elu-
sive quality, an indefnabe something, about
these simple and stimulating essays which it
is easier to appreciate than to describe. The
range of subjects is wide: The Art OF Happl-
ness, The Beauty of Holiness, Living for
Others, The Enchantment of Work, Facing the
Facts. All of these Miss Hope touches with
wisdom and unmitigated optimism. The book
is brimful of pointed and memorable sayings.
few of them carefully selected at random,
will give a taste of her quality. There are
two sorts of courage-physical and moral
"True happiness lies within ourselves" "The
deepest and most lasting satisfaction is that
which comes from Service" "The genuine
religion is dynamic, not static
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-11

In addition to above, bills
unpaid for salaries, rent, etc 391.S2
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-11
GOOD ADVICE

Senator Borah no doubt gives good
advice when he says that we should
endeavor to retain the friendship Of
Russia in this trying time It is pref
ty hard to tell what more the govern
ment can do than it has been doing
though if there is any definite means
of holding Russia in line it should be
adopted The United States declined
to enter into the protest filed by the
allied governments recently in order
that no offense be given. The unoffi-
cial statement that supplies would be
definitely cut off was promptly Off
cially denied. When the Kerensky
and Korniloff factions we're at logger
heads, the government let it be known
that it would not take sides. No Off
cial denunciation of the Bolsheviki
has been voiced.
The whole question bristles with
difficulties Should the Bolsheviki
faction establish a permanent govern
ment, we might readily enough rec
ognize it as the de facto government
OF Russia: but with eleven separate di-
visions each proclamating itself an
independent nation we are presented
with a most complicated diplomatic
tangle. President Pierce once said
that he recognized five different fac
tions as the de facto government OF
Mexico within one year, which was
going some" On the other hand
President Hayes refused recognition
TO President Diaz for more than a
year in Mexico. and withheld recog
milton from President Blanco for g
year and a half in Venezuela, and
President Wilson following the prec
edents, refused recognition to Huerta
altogether.
The Washington administration hsC
trouble with French revolutionists
Citizen Genet almost started a reyolu-
ton here because we did not cooper.
ate as much as he thought we should
with the Girondists, but just as he
was being disciplined properly for his
impertinence and activities, the ia
collins got in control. and cut off his
head, figuratively, while performing
the same grim service for his bosses
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in a literal sense. Perhaps the cir
cumspection that we used in not
throwing ourselves into the arms of
the Girond, may have made our
French relations less strenuous with
it's successors. In spite of our dip
lomacy we got into limited war with
the Directory which succeeded both.
Charles Edward Russell says that
wholesale denunciation of the Boil
shevih in American newspapers has
had bad effect in Russia.
DR.. Frank Bohn, who lectured here
during the Chautauqua says in copy
righted, syndicate articles that the
Bolshevih leaders are all eminent
scholars, thoroughly honest but utter
ly and hopelessly impractical He
predicts their speedy downfall on ac-
count of the fact that their plans can
not be carried out. The wisest pol
icy would, under such circumstances,
seem to be to tolerate their regime
during its brief existence and prepare
to stand in" with its successor.
What effect the precautionary mea-
sures adopted yesterday by Japan and
China may have in Russia is, of course
like everything else problematic they
seem sane but sanity is seldom
at premium in country in the throes
Of revolution and there is a possibil-
ity that the Maximalist orators may
use the invasion as a battle-cry to
rally the masses to them. Their own
practical incompetency to meet the
pressing problems of hunger and cold,
will probably prevent their using any
slogan with permanent effect.
If the senior senator has an effec-
tive plan for keeping on the good
side of the Russian parties, it will no
doubt be welcomed by the admins
tration and by the people
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-11

and gave reasons for the faith that
was in him with detail and vigor.
From the old Farmers Union, which
died of poverty, we have left one good
thing in the local insurance company,
where perfect protection is furnished
at 10 per cent of "old line" cost. Far
mers need a place to learn and to de-
bate; they need the organization for
help on the labor question, the federal
farm loan business, the interest ques-
ton and the management of a farm
sales exchange-and here's where the
professional real estaters got their'n,
as the speaker thought that if this
business was thus managed these
brass-collar gentlemen would be out
picking up spuds, where they belong
ed"
After some others had favored a re-
cess, Mr.. Alworth moved that it be
taken latter some discussion as to
time and place. to Tuesday, December
is, at two p. m. in the Parish hall
This motion finally carried, but
pending action County Agent Mclean
rose and offered to send notices Of
the change to the membership, if de-
sired. This led to an invitation to
say more, which he did very effective
ly. He expressed his great desire to
see the farm bureau kept alive, ex-
planning that under the only law per-
hitting federal aid, it could only be
realized in counties having such an
organization He referred to the fric-
ton in the past only to say, lets for
get about il, get together and make
a grand success for the future"
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-11
HORRORS OFFICIALLY TOLD

The question has often been asked
why the government of the United
States did not publicly report on the
ruthlessness so often charged by UNI
official writer's and speakers This
query is answered by an official re-
port, reviewed elsewhere i'm this is
sue and obtainable on request by
any American. No document could
show forth more completely the aw-
fulness of the campaign carried on
by the soldiers of the kaiser than this
Starvation, deportation, the burning
of peaceful towns, the Smelling of un-
defended villages. the killing of non
combatant men, women and children
in direct violation of the laws of
humanity, of the laws of nations and
of the solemn obligations deliberate
ly entered into by Germany in The
Hague tribunal These things are
shown to have been the result of de-
liberate policy on the part of the
Prussian military leaders and to have
been in line with what such leaders
have long advocated as the proper
method of waging war
In fact, nothing has been recorded
which is not traced home to the heads
of the army of the invasion in Bel
GUM and France Instances of the
deliberate, wholesale cutting off Of
hands of innocent children, of innoc-
ulation of prisoners and non-combat-
ants with tuberculosis germs and OF
emasculation of men are not reported,
probably for the reason that there is
no proof that such things, where they
may have occurred, were the result of
deliberate governmental policy on the
part of Germany, but enough has been
shown to indicate that the rulers of
Germany have lost all sense of hui
mainly and are waging war which
rivals the excuses of the Huns, whose
ferocity the kaiser urged his soldiers
to initiate during the Boxer war in
China.
Every American citizen should Sc
cure a copy of the report and study
its contents, not for the purpose of
urging the emulation of barbarity, but
for the purpose of forming a deter
mination to wage a civilized war un-
til a repetition of such savagry shall
be forever made impossible.
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zeal to accomplish something, l may
have gone too strong
He then enumerated the various
matters in which active interest had
been taken, such as pooling in the
purchase of binder Irvine and sacks
and the sale of wool, and claimed
splendid results. He also referred to
the furnishing daily market reports
and maintaining a clearing house for
labor, concluding with the "canal
proposition" in which he claimed that
we certainly initiated something"
The very effective work of the or
ganization in the Red Cross and Y.
M. c. A. drives was also referred to,
as well as the great opportunity Of
fering for reducing interest rates on
farm loans. The hitch with the coun-
ty commissioners in regard to financ-
es, and with the county agent were
also mentioned-both in terms eX-
planatory and conciliatory, rather
than otherwise But as the president
will doubtless repeat this, in sub
stance, at the adjourned session, we
will not attempt further detail at this
time.
On call for the order of business,
Secretary Edwards read the proceed
ings of the last meeting. This was
followed, later. by a finincial state
ment, in substance as follows:
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-11

The meeting was called to order by
President White at 2:S0 last Saturday
p. m, with regrets for the small at
endance-thought to be a result of
insufficient publicity. In opening the
meeting the president talked at some
length, reviewing the work of the
year past and the situation with which
the organization is now confronted.
In a personal view, the president
said that he had done his best to make
the bureau live organization; that,
i'm starting, it was looking for worlds
to conquer and that, perhaps. in my
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-11
STORM is ABATING
c. ]. MCCORMICK. Prop.

Reports from all parts of the coun-
try today indicate that storm is every
where subsiding. There is much suf-
fering in the east.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-11

Total expenses .................... 2962.77
Mr.. Alworth took the floor and. re-
ferring to the meager attendance, said
he felt like moving postponement
of the election, but would await an
expression from others. He declared
his belief that it would be of great
benefit to keep the organization alive,
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Thrift is the order of the day; eco
nomical food recipes are printed in
the Pure Food section every Tuesday
Read them in the TIMES with profit
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Annual Meeting
Co. Farm Bureau

Election of Officers Postponed TO De-
cember Is, at Parish Hall Receipts
and Expenses Reported and Talks
Made.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-01
WAR MUSEUM |S OPENED IN
 FRANCE
(By United Press)

PARIS, Aug. 31. - Paris now boasts a museum unlike any other in the world. This is the ''Musee de Guerre, :" the war museum of M Henri Leblanc, and contains the most complete col lection of documents relating to the war constituted anywhere The idea of forming war collection first oc- cured to M Leblanc on the last day of July, 1914, before hostilities actual ly broke out. He began with gather ing all the public posters concerning war measures posted in Paris. Today his collectians fill twenty-two rooms Every aspect of the war is here rep resented in documents and pictures. Posters showing the development of American sentiment till the final in tervention, have a prominent place. Every form of paper money issued in France and the colonies is represent ed. There are also countless speci mems of trench craft" and war sou venirs. He has presented the collec- tion to the state.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-01
NEW CHANCELLOR WAS JAP PANESE
 PROFESSOR
(By Associated Press)

TOKYO, Sept 1. - Dr. George Mi chaelis, the new imperial chancellor of Germany, was the man who intro duced into the Japanese school system the idea of military training that every Japanese school boy of today goes through. He was then teacher in the German school in Kanda, Tokio.
 Thirty years ago Dr. Michaelis came out of Japan as young man to be- come principal of the German school. which was supported b the German society of Japan. Among his students were boys who have become promi- nent in the public life of this country, including K. Arimatsu, director of the bureau of legislation in the present cabinet and personal advisor to Count Terauchi. and Professor Mukai. for mer member of the faculty of Keio University.