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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-07-13


e.cse &c re tae oec1gi7e 1f-<c- ia tza
Great War The best judges are Of
the opinion that the submarine Will
not end the war, that the food short
age viii not end thu war. that the
present colossal conflict on the west.
era front may not end the war With
France past her maximum OF men,
with England rapidly approaching her
maximum and with Germany perhaps
still some distance TO go before her
maximum Is reached. II atands TO rea-
son that this county must prepare
quickly 10 supply not only food. ships.
and munitions and materials Of war.
but trained effectives in huge num-
bers. perhaps in millions.
Military men admit that until the
United States entered the great con-
'ict there was no decisive factor in
sight
How quickly. then. or how slowly.
the United States meets these enor-
nous obligations is the answer to the
question OF the wars length.
Aside from the question of shorten
Ing the war there are life-and death
reasons why the United States should
speed preparations for tho great con
hict. There are possible and even
probable contingencies which migh.
cause the United States TO bear tho
brunt OF the fighting on her own
shores:
II Russia should collapse.
II the British feet should be over
come.
II the food situation should brins
cur allies to their knees.
II great reveraals should be mot on
the western front. 90
n the submarine menace be noI
checked.
The impossible has happened 90
often In this war that any one o
these contingencies in not impossible
The Germans should hsvs gotter
through NJ the Marne and captured
Paris and Calais. and established con
troll of the Channel. The English Zee
should have arnihilated the German
feet NJ Juiiand The Central Power
Should have been starved before tn
last harvest.
H9GtHAt N+HAAIatAf to- y
suited in the destruction of 1900 o0l
tons Of shipping during the month";
OF February. March and April. Coin
eidcni with this enormous decrease o
the worlds ocean-goinK mercantile
marine have come increased demand
upon shipping and the two eombini
To make this enc OF tho most impof
.ant and ruost Threatening aspects o
the war situation to-day.
The worldwide food shortage {
making itseif felt hardest upon Ger
many. next upon certain OF the Tn
tente countries and lastly upon m
neutral countries. especially Scard
rnvia and Spain. The effect of thi
shortage may soon be felt here.
/ This. then. makes IL highly inapo'
tant that the United States aulckl
mobilize It's entire forces IN order L
bring about decision before tn
brunt Of the nght WIN be shifted 1
America.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-07-13

war IS hell. is the way one
-r;,er outs il. II that is true. it
|. also true that tbs way the
sb;te people murdered. burnt.
s,.gcd the homes OF deienceless
~o,o a n women and children
I East St. Louis, ehis week is
afse than rhclis
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-07-13

PRESENT conditions indicate that .
great crisis 10 approaching In the war
situation and that II Is probable the
united efforts OF America on pro-
dtgious scale will be called for In the
very near future. This means that
the people must be stirred TO a sense
OF their individual responsibilities In
order that their whole-hearted COOP
GRAFTON may be secured. This spirit
and this cooperation can be obtained
simultaneously throughout the cou--
try by means Of properly directed
national campaign Of information I'M
der strong and intelligent headship.
The campaign thoxld be considered
es absolutely apart from routine press
publicity matter and the ordinary out,
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-07-13

Fine Strawberries. L ettu c. e.
h sets. Onions. Beans and New
POTATOES Friday night for Satur
|aay morning. at the Grand Lead
|sr Cafe.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-07-13

fIiCo flSu CNCtt Jay a. buS
Grand Leader Cafe.
Mrs Parthenia Dixon. OF Pad
ucah, KY, was down on business
Tuesday.
Ontrue Cowper, carried his
uncle Alfred to Paducah. Satur-
day TO have his eyes treated.
Just how any country could ex-
pect race of people to feel justi-
fed in giving up their lii for the
freedom OF others. when life. ib-
erty and the pursuit happiness is
denied to the people who fight
Tor their country's flag and honor
and then that same country and
flag fail to afford protection.
we fail to understand it.
Mrs. Birdie Iiopson. OF Cham
paign. arrived Monday for a
visit with parents. Mr.. aad Mrs.
Green Hodge.
Lonnie Lyous. came home Sun
day from East St. Louis. where
he was at the time OF the rioiing
Mrs. Jen.ie Woods. OF East
St. Louis, came home Saturday.
She had all of her clothes destroy
ed by fire during the recent riot.
She was fortunate to save her life.
II looks TO a man up tree that
the state authorities OF lllin ois
and the East St. Louis and St.
Clair county officials are juggling
the Investigation and the punish
ment of those murderers with
a few high sou nding phrases and
me aningless words This is a
time Tor action. Gov. Lowden.
has a splendid opportunity to
prove that he is governor OF all
people by bringing thestrong arm
OF the law TO bear upon those saw
ages and outlaws. We will watch
and see what will be done by
those in authority.
1t is a crime in America TO be
black.
Rev. Berry Thomas was down
at Mermet, Sunday.
Rev. Geo. Crippens. went to
Choat. Sunday.
Rev. /. S. Stone. baptized 4
Sunday in the Ohio
river.
Any man or set OF men who
disregards the lives OF human be-
ings. be they ever so humble. and
DEFY the law OF the country, s.
a traitor TO his government.
Ex-president Theodore Roose-
welt, did not mice words, in ex-
pressing himself on the recent
mas acre of innocent and de-
fenceless Negro men, women and
in East St. Louis, last
week He is what we style a
man, expressing the courage OF
his conviction.
Rev w. w. Stewart. OF Kan
sas City, Mo-. filled the pulpit at
Ist Baptist church Sunday.
The members OF Unity Baptist
chur, h b ok port. will celebrate
the Emancipation Proclamation.
Aug 9th in the park back OF the
church. Watch for the bills.
Mr.. Chas. Cowper. OF New
Liberty was buried the 5th. He
was a highly respected citizen
and a we'll 10 do farmer.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-07-13

THE main obstruction 20 speed IL
the failure Of ths people 70 appre-
eists the fact that we are AZ war "'The
failure OF the people 10 realize the
gravity Of the situation amaIed me-
said an English publicisi. "nnd re-
fnembered how slowly our own people
came 20 this realization"
The same fallacies that beae; Eng.
land are TO be overcoIne In tho United
States. England. too. thought II would
be short war. sir months NJ most.
England. too. though, II would be n
small Job. England. too. thought that
there wasn't anything special for the
individual 10 10. that the government
would do the work
II In felt thai an urgent need exists
for precisely the same kind OF cam
psign OF national education and infor-
nation as thar conducted by the Eng
Itch government when II came TO the
realization OF what the war really
meant The campaign was immensely
successful In aronsing the entire PEG
pie OF England 10 an understanding
Of the war and TO the obligation OF
personal service which Il placed upon
each individual citizen.
SEVEN urgent matters must be
made clear TO the people n we are
to get that unified action which Is
necessary TO hasten our war activity:
1. That the banks cannot take care
of the bonds. The bonds must be
bought by individuals
2. That CONSUMPTION does not car
ny with II anything OF disgrace. II ia
us patriotic aud much more effective
than the medieval system OF volun-
teering.
Q. That labor must be readjusted
on a large scale. II must be made
more productive. and IFS varied prob
lens carefully considered.
4. That food administration win
necessarily be repressive. but IL in
the interest OF all
s. That there r. . false and a prop
sr national economy. business In war
time Is not ''as usual"
6. That the intelligent cooperation
of women IN both direct and Indirect
brsnche of war effort liz absolutely
essential
7. That there should be a central
ired control for the systematic sup
port OF the families Of those who go
to war. This should be through the
cooperation Of the govern.
ment. local organizations and en-
ployers.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-12

Commerce has applications from peo-
pie who want to come out and help,
who want employment. Now the time
has come when it behooves the farm
ers of this country and the town peo-
pie to cooperate and make this
better and greater state to live in.
This being the 4th of July, and we
have here with US this afternoon
gentleman to make a patriotic speech,
so ! am not going to take up any
more of your time listening to me,
and ! hope that before many more
months roll around that the Society of
Equity will have an opportunity to
talk to all the farmers Of this state.
could go into it and tell you what
the Society of Equity has done in
the last few years, but there is not
a citizen who has lived in North Da-
kota two years but who knows what
has been done and the obstacles we
have been up against, and what was
accomplished, and we would have had
a cooperative institution that would
market the products Of this country,
that would be credit to every man,
woman and child who lives IN this
state. Now we hope that you will
take some pains to get together and
study some of these problems that we
have been trying to work out. Get
together and study these problems
and help US to accomplish that thing
which we so much want, and make a
better state to live in and educate our
children.
/ thank you.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-12
Address by M. P. Johnson at Minot
Ju1v Ath

Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
After having seen the exercises
given by the little ones here, and the
lesson taught, it makes it easy to
think of the subject upon which l am
to speak-that of cooperation.
When we think back to the begin
ming Of the celebration of the 4th of
July, and usually we celebrate the 4th
Of July with a great deal of pleasure
and merrymaking. People go out to
celebrate, apparently to enjoy them
selves; and | believe that very few
people in these last few years think
seriously of why the 4th Of July is
celebrated as it is. When we think
back one hundred and forty-one years
to the Declaration of independence,
and we have celebrated all these years
the independence Of the American peo-
pie, and we realize now that we are
gathering up our forces again to do it
over, in measure, that which was
done by our forefathers. 1t brings to
us a realization that our struggles
seem never to be ended; that we must
join ourselves together to. protect our
selves from all manners Of oppression;
we must now mobilize our forces
again to protect, and that brings us to
a realization Of cooperation. That our
armies are cooperative bodies; our
schools are cooperative bodies; and
that political cooperation is absolute
ly necessary to the well being of all
civilized people. ..
When we think Of cooperating in a
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-12

to the extent that the producers out
here, the farmers, can live better and
educate their children better, and
make better homes; and the wage
workers in the city can educate their
families, own their own homes and
have better surroundings; and ! think
no one who has such a disposition
would live so as not to be advantage
eous to their fellow men.
| sometimes think Of these so-called
businessmen in these small towns as
being not very much of businessmen,
and only five per cent ever get so they
can live. comfortably. They have had
the opportunity Of buying the goods
they sell, at fixed price, and they
fix the price at which they sell.
l want to tell you where there is a
real businessman. A man that can go
out on these prairies and build up a
home, send his children to school, and
always have the price on the articles
he sells fixed for him, and the price
fixed on the articles he buys.
What is necessary in order to pro-
duce? Now that takes some kind of a
businessman to carry on that kind OF
business and bring up his family IN
reasonably good manner That is done
all over this country, People have
prospered all over this country, built
good roads, telephone lines, schools
and churches; the farmers have actu-
ally done that Now how have they
done it? They have done it by work
ing overtime, that: is how these things
have been done. By over-work, by
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-12

business way, or in manner OF self
protection and self-preservation, it
does not make any difference which
creed we belong to or to which ma
tionality we belong, but we cooperate
in a time when it seems that our liber-
ties are being taken from us.
In business way Of cooperation,
in the economic cooperation we find
that there are rules to economic ques..
tons. People have different ideas of
how to cooperate, and to what extent
they shall cooperate until it comes to
the protection Of liberties and the pro-
lection of our homes, and it seems that
the American people have no idea as
to how they are to cooperate and
join together quickly.
The city and the country people for
many years have been trying to CO.
operate and very little understand
what cooperation means in the eco
nomic field. The city people have one
idea and the country people have an
other idea Of how to cooperate in the
economic fields for the betterment of
their own conditions in their immed-
late surroundings, thinking very lit
tie Of anyone who lives across the
river or across the waters, or across
the county line; and it seems that a
city wishes to cooperate and build up
that particular city, and a farming
community wishes to cooperate and
build up that particular community,
and lose sight Of the fact that they
are only individuals.
In order to cooperate so as the
city and country people are to have
the benefit Of the cooperation, we
must be broader, we must be co-op-
erative, mobolize all our forces, get
them all together and make it nation
wide. Of what use would it be to
mobilize few troops in North Da-
kota ifsno other states took hold Of it?
1t we are going to draw line around
ourselves in North Dakota and only CO.
operate statewide, what would we ac-
complish What we want is general
cooperation and education along the
cooperative line. We are endeavor-
ing political way to cooperate
different parties who have different
ideas Of what legisla ton will best as
sist them to cooperate and better the
conditions Of the whole country. The
wage workers have several different
organizations. Each class has it's
own labor union, and could, if all CO.
operated, make their organizations eff
fective. It is just the last year or so
that it has become national question
of cooperating and affiliating the ag-
ricultural producers and the labor or
CARNATIONS in order to bring the
fruits Of agriculture to the great cities
and eliminate great horde Of middle
men and spectators. The American
Society of Equity, the co-operators
unions, the Changers and those farm
organizations are attempting to bring
the product of their labor and to elm
mate those unnecessary middlemen
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-07-12
The Good Old Ways.

Synthcsis is said to have produced
potato. May be all right, but we'd as
soon take a chance on the well-known
methods Of the ten-acre lot and the
garden patch. Times.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-16
GIVE ME THY LIPS

In the cry of the wounded or dying sol
der for his mother lies one of life s few ele-
mentary facts. 1t is absolutely true that no
woman can ever fill the place of mother to
man, and, although man may and does
give up his mother for his wife, it is the
wifc's tragedy that there lies region of
her husband S life in which she must always
play a subordinate part.
The core of all nature is double-it is
destruction and creation. And these two
agents go side by side just as do laughter
and tears, misery and joy, love and hate 1t
has been said that if woman hates man
he my have hopes of her loving him. This
is because the two are twin emotions. And
so it is OF destruction and creation. When
we have devastation, storms of pain and of
dcSoation, the mind turns instnctively to
the forces of creation. In war we have, then,
first, the environment that prepares the mind
OF the human unit, that puts it EN- rapport
with the creative force that is symbolzed as
motherhood
But there enters now in this slbconscious
groundwork of the mind of man another
primitive factor. Back in the dawn of the
race the father cared little for the child and
had few responsibilities. 1t was the mother
who looked after herself before the baby was
born and who protected it against the perils
OF the wild until it could shift for itself. It
wa" VIC iholhef WHO Iound ana prepared the
lar where the prowling beast could not enter,
and who, beside keeping her own life going.
had to keep, too, life going in her cub. In
her life the father was incidental the main
tenance of herself and her children was the
main thing. And this went on for centuries
upon centuries, and even when man became
dominant in government, when the matri.
Archaic fell, when women were protected
during maternity, it was still the mother
who was the life giver, the food giver, and
the trouble bearer of the child.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-16
"MOTHER, GIVE ME- THY
BLESSING"

portant, because it gives the modern woman 3
view of what the French professor l have
quoted tells in the terms of science
There are three great loves in the world
They arc the greatest loves. the loves SUI
preme because they are unselfsh. They are
the love OF man for his country, the love of
a man for his friend and the love of mother
for her child. Analyze every other kind of
love you know and it's asks something for it.
self. 1t is tinged with sefishncsS. But the
three supreme loves give and ask nothing
Strongest in its self abncgation is the love Of
a mother for her child.
''The child learns this Not at first. There
is truth some truth at least, in the theory
that child in the first twelve years of his
life is little savage, mere bundle of
animalsm. He clcaves to his mother because
she feeds and bathcs him, administers to his
we'll being. But it is not until the stress and
struggle with the world begin and his aching
heart cries out for friend that he realizes
what his mother means in his life Then he
loves her. She is far the best friend he will
ever know
His wife may love him, but the love is
limited. She asks from him. The tingc of
selfishness colors her love- In times of cx
tremty, in the sharp, painful, sometimes
dreadful, extremes of life, he cries out for his
God and his mother, his best spiritual and his
best earthly friend. The painting of the sol
der, his back against the wall of trench,
the death agony in his face, calling with his
last breath, Mothern is a true exposition of
life!
. do not seek to undcrvalue the wife. But
looking upon the world Of humanity, which is
the color, his imagination being the brush, with
which the artist paints his pictures of life, l
can but conclude that while twenty five of
every hundred married women are good wives,
ninety-nine Of every hundred mothers are
good mothers.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-16

"And these long ages of dependence, trust
and love have ingrained into man S heart
fibre which no wife, however loving or how
ever loved, can eradicate. And it is a fibre
which in time of stress and danger domin-
atcs all Of mans heart
''Therc comes next a third factor which
is as much of to-day as it is primitive. 1t is
psychological fact that in times of stress
the latest acquired tendencies in man vanish
disease known as amnesia or aphasa, it is
the later things that disappear first from tho
mind. In cases where man loses his word
sense, the first to go are the latest acquired.
Gin the light Of all this the answer to why
men in misfortune turn more to their moth
ers than to their wives becomes plain The
disintegrating effect of pain and shock and
the approach of death throws the memory
and the mind back to the oldest things of the
mind all the primitive instincts, the habits
and what have called the motherhood tex
ture' in the heart becomes stimulated and
vocal The man becomes babe, 81 child,
again, literally
One reason for the enormous success of
"The Wanderer," the Biblical play based
upon the parable of the Prodigal Son is this
same primitive and compelling appeal of
motherhood "The Wanderers after he has
been stripped of everything has been be-
traycd by tho woman he loved, crawls back,
broken, to the one heart that instinct has
told him will hold sympathy, understanding
and help for him.
And it is tribute to David Bclasco's great
genius that all through the play one sees the
mark of his comprehension of this eternal
truth
Miss Nance O'Neil, who takes the part of
the mother in this great drama, understands
the truth. also, and it is this that enables her
to treat the part so compellingly What Miss
o'Nell had to say to me regarding this is i'm
= 1917, by the Star Company. Great Britain Rights
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-16
By DR.. w. II. Ballou

THE picture that created the most COM
ment and interest in the last Royal
Academy was that Of Philip Whar-
ton called Mother! Mothcr!' \ copy Of
this painting is shown here. 1t is that of a
section of an advanced trench into which a
gas shell has found it's way With his dead
companions scattered around him. alone III
the midst of desolaton and horror, rain of
hellish projectilcs about him, the young Off
Ger, nearing his own death, is seen crying like
a child for the arms that held him when he
was a baby. 1t is not Heaven that he sees
opening before him, nor is it any religious
vision which has been told, no cry for the
girl he left behind--it is the human throw
back Of the boy in trouble who runs in
stlnchvely to the soft and understanding
heart which for so many years understood
and helped him in his troubles
In the painting Wharton has simply taken
artistic cognizance of one Of the most touch
ing and yet to be expected phenomena of
the present war. Soldiers have told and have
written OF the cries for 'mothcr' that have
come from the CHASTITY No Man S Land where
the wounded lie; of the same cry on the hos
pital beds of agony. But not one story has
been told Of men in the last extremity CRYING
for their wives Why is it then that these
soldiers close to death turn instinctively to
their mothers instead of to their mates or
sweethearts or to religion?
Science which has found in the great war
the richest field for investigation that if has
ever known, and which has plucked many a
flower OF wisdom from the miro of misery.
has advanced plausible explanation from
Professor Henri Bertholet one of the fore
most psychologists Of France Professor
Bertholet, after calling attention to the fact.
goes on to explain it as follows: