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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-15
From Another Point OF VieD
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So much strikes the lingo newspaper
as treason" these days, we feel like sug-
gesting to them that the first thing they
know they'll have treason in the majority.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-15

Now they are wondering down tina
way whether the Ohio river this sprin
is going to be any higher on account o
the war.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-15

c. T. s.-what do YOU know about Bel.
gian hares NJ X
Practically nothing. Why?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-15

Hell put you right In a
jiffy." he said.
The same evening ne found
Benjamin lying curled M In
the stables. kicking his legs
about In agony.
Halo. Benny Haven't yoa
been 10 the doctor ?"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-15
REVERSE ENGLISH

Circular letter, issued by the Steenth Nstlons
Bank--~Oear sir; We respectfully solicit re
quest for you for loan. Any old inoorser vii
do Around the date % nsturity will senc
you a notice that you need not pay H."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

realities of war, as Germany has manifested
both before and since the outbreak of this
world catastrophe. A reader of German news
papers and tracts gets at last feeling of
nausea at the very words 'Wir Deutsche,
followed by the eternal Holden (heroes),
'Heldenthum,' 'Heldenthat,' and is inclined
to thank God if he indeed belong to nation
sane enough to be composed of Handler
(hucksters)."
He sums up his theory thus:
"The war proceeded out of rivalry for en-
pire between all the great powers in every
part of the world. The contention between
France and Germany for the control of Moroc-
co, the contention between Russia and Aus
tria for the control of the Balkans, the con-
tention between Germany and the other pow
ers for the control of Turkey-these were
the causes of the war. And this contention
for control is prompted at once by the desire
for power and the desire for wealth. In prac-
tice the two motives are found conjoined.
But to different minds they appeal in differ
ent proportions. There is such thing as the
love of power for its own sake. 1t is known
in individuals and it is known in states, and
it is the most disastrous, il not the most evil,
of the human passions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

neous whole, which, even to the casual OBJ
server, conveys the impression that it
does full justice to the Importance Of the
site it occupies and the business which is
conducted within its walls.
Appropriate devices have been adopted
to enhance the interest of the design. The
projecting doorways, though rough in gen.
eral outline, are treated with great refine
ment in the porticos, and the heavy arched
windows to the ground floor further tend
to enhance the finished simplicity of the
ether parts of the building. The carving
is not only decorative, but will possess an
increasing historical interest, seeing that
the subjects selected draw attention to the
period of war during which the building
has been erected. The shields on the
friezes in the pierhead elevation bear
rpon them the arms of countries allied in
the great war. They are England and
France, Russia and Italy, Japan and Bel
GUM, Serbia and Montenegro, while at the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
A Telegram That Made the
"A War Inevitable

"The generous dream was not to be real
lied. French chauvinism fell into the trap
Bismarck had prepared for it. Yet even at
the last moment his war would have escaped
him had he not recaptured it by fraud. The
publication Of the Ems telegram made the
conflict inevitable and one of the most hide
Gus and sinister scenes in all history is that
in which the three conspirators, Bismarck,
Moltke and Room, suddenly recovered their
pleasure in eating and drinking because by
publishing a lie they had secured the certain
death in battle Of hundreds of thousands Of
young men.
1.-THE spirit Of Bismarck has infected the
whole public life Of Germany and Of Europe.
II has given a new lease 10 the political
philosophy Of Machiayelli and made OF every
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

four angles of the building is the shield of
the Cunard Company supported on great
eagle.
On the heads of the third floor windows
looking toward the river are the arms of
the principal ports in the United Kingdom,
and on the north and south sides the an
cient emblems of the signs of the zodiac,
while over the doorways and on. the pro-
jecting base are to be found Storm and
Neptune, Peace and War, Britannia and
typical faces of the dominions beyond the
seas.
The general disposition of the building
is absolutely simple, for entrance door
ways in the centre of the two sides give
access to broad corridor, from which all
the offices are approached, the upper ones
by means of six passenger lifts and one
goods lift.
The Cunard Company has it's public Of
fees on the ground floor at the river end
of the building.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

, Spain is passing through another
crisis. A railroad strike, folloUed
BIZ q declaration of martial laa0, pro-
uoked, last Week, riots and rigorous
measures of suppression by the mill
tary IN Barcelona, MADRID and other
cities. While the Spanish crisis IS
matched Nth general interest, many
regarding 1t as the eliminating
point IN the modern history of
Spain, the going King Alfonso
seems to be confident of the sltua-
ton. In an interUie'O aCith the cor
respondent of "The London Daily
Express" he recently expressed
some Uery interesting gieacs. This
is the correspondents account Of the
interrie1U:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Q ometimes Avowed and
~ Sometimes Disclaimed

Sometimes the masters Of the craft, like
Catherine de Medici or Napoleon, have
ayowed IL; sometimes, like Frederick the
Great they have disclaimed it. But always
they have practised IT. They could not, in
deed, practise anything else. For it is as true
Of an aggregation Of states as Of an aggre-
cation OF individuals that, whatever moral
sentiments may prevail, If there is no com
mon law and common force the best in
tentions will be defeated by lack of conf
dence and security.
Mutual fear and mutual suspicion, agrees
sion nssquerading as defence and defence
masquerading as aggression, will be the pro-
tagonists in the bloody drama; and there
will be, what Hobbies truly asserted to be
the essence Of such situation, chronic
state OF war, open or yelled. For peace itself
will be latent war; and the more the states
arm 20 prevent conflict the more certainly
will It be provoked, since TO one or another
IL will always seem better chance 20 have
II now than 20 have IL on worse conditions
later. Some one state at any moment may
b. the immediate offender but the main and
perrnsnent offence IL common 20 all states.
/, IL the anarchy which they are all respon-
able for perpetusting"
The most interesting chapter in the book
"a the one on Germany. Previously the au-
thor has discussed the ambitions Of various
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
+ establishing for Germans the
L. Prestige of Force and Fraud

whether it could have been accomplished
otherwise is matter of speculation. That it
was accomplished so is fact, and a fact Of
tragic significance. For it established among
Germans the prestige of force and fraud and
gave them as their national hero the man
whose most Characteristic act was the falsi-
fication of the Ems telegram.
"Tf the unifcation could have been achieved
in 1S4S instead of in 1870, if the free and
generous idealism of that epoch could have
triumphed, as it deserved 10, if Germans had
rot bartered away their souls for the sake
of the kingdom of this world, we might have
been spared this last and most terrible act
in the bloody drama of European history.
If even, after 1866, 1870 had not been pro-
voked the catastrophe that is destroying Eu-
rope before our eyes might never have over
whelmed us. In the crisis Of 1870 the French
minister who fought so long and with such
tenacity for peace saw and expressed, with
the lucidity of his nation. what the real issue
was for Germany and for Europe:
"'There exists, il is true, barbarous
Germany, greedy of battles and conquest,
the Germany of the country squires;
there exists q Germany pharisaic and
iniquitous, the Germany of all the unin-
tel!igble pedants whose empty lucubra-
tions and microscopic researches have
been so unduly Wanted. But these two
Ceramics are not the great Germany,
that of the artists, the poets, the think
ers, that Of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven,
Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Leibnitz, Kant.
Hegel Liebig. This latter Germany is
good generous, humane, pacific; it finds
expression in the touching phrase of
Goethe, who when asked 20 write against
us replied that he could not find it in his
heart to hate the French. If we do not
oppose the natural movement of German
unity. if we allow it to complete itself
quietly by successive stages, it will not
give supremacy to the barbarous and
sophistical Germany, it will assure it to
the Germany of intellect and culture.
War, on the other hand, would establish,
during a time impossible 20 calculate, the
domination of the Germany of the squres
and the pedants.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
THE NEW CUNARD BUILDING
The Main Entrance

CuuanB IS sit
Thni
qdurbltyr ell from
Noun
thai
dof
tt uhchh eancP
did that uhch aArus
hevan of CnrnaT
sbenro neHh Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

"a ACK of all the antagonisms OF COM
~ merce, behind all the hidden am
billions of ministries, the swollen
egotism of kings and the sudden thrust
of democracies to defined themselves, is
the lonely figure of one man. He stands
far back on the path of time, he is hidden
by the dust of a moving world, but his
words still can be heard, and they have
still sinister ring to a world that appears
to have grown somewhat in honesty In
these intervening years. The man IS
Machiavelli, and it is G. Loves Dickinson,
an English essayist, who points to him as
the progenitor of to-day's conflict in new
book, illuminatingly called 'The European
Anarchy"
II is startling to be confronted with the
op;nion that the man who is so largely re-
sponsible for the modern idea of "the
state" with its subordination of the indi-
vidual, was finally an anarchist. The
states he devised have been like individuals
in state of anarchy, rarely-if ever-de-
voting themselves to the common cause of
sll. Out of that ceaseless chicane, the
shrewd playing Of diplomats for territory,
the never ending resort to the sword when
the game failed to award the desired end,
has come this final war, inconceivable in
the light of present morality; inevitable
when it is found that it is a morality to
which only individuals but never states
conform. The writer puts it clearly in his
first few paragraphs:
an the great and tragic history Of Europe
there is turning point that marks the de-
feat of the ideal Of a world-order and the
definite acceptance Of international anarchy.
That turning point is the emergence Of the
sovereign state at the end Of the fifteenth
century. And it is symbolical of all that
was 20 follow that at that point stands, look
ing down the vista Of the centuries, the brill
liant and sinister figure Of Machiavelli. From
that date onward international policy has
meant Machsvellianism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

has been a motive of state. Power has been
the fetch of kings and emperors from the
beginning of political history, and it remains
to be seen whether it will not continue to
inspire democraces.
"The passion for empire ruined the Athen-
ian democracy, no less than the Spartan or
the Venetian oligarchy, or the Spain of Philip
II. or the France of the Monarchy and the En-
pire. But it still makes its appeal to the ro-
mantle Imagination. It's ntoxication has lain
behind this war, and it will prompt many
others if it survives, when the war is over,
either in the defeated or the conquering ma
tions.
at is not only the jingosm of Germany
that Europe has to fear. 1t is the jingoism
that success may make supreme in any coun-
try that may be victorious"
Of the moral to be drawn, Mr.. Dickinson
says that nations first must change their
belief that the enemy is unique in his
wickedness, and adds that behind war
''lies great complex of feeling, prejudice,
tradition, false theory, in which all ma
tions and all individuals of all nations are
involved"
And as for the way out-that lies in
bringing all nations to submission to law
and right in the settlement of disputes and
TO the reservation of force only as a means
to coerce the lawbreaker. The lawbreaker
chall be one who appeals to force himself
to settle disputes instead of appealing to
the law that must from now on govern ma
tons, as in the past it has more or less
governed individuals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

sloping, rusticated base built of rough
big stones from the Roach quarries Of
Portland. The large, plain wall surfaces
are broken only by the rusticated angles
and the windows of the first floor. The
fourth floor windows are absolutely
square and devoid of decoration, to en-
phasize the greater elaboration of the
parts above and below them. Above is a
highly decorated frieze, with heavy pro-
jecting cornice, surmounted by plain
wall. The building thus forms homoge-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
"The European Anarchy %

parts of Europe, the desire of France and
England to maintain the balance of power
because they were the greatest colonizing
nations in Europe and had much to lose,
little to gain, by war. Then comes Ger
many:
Germany, as a great power, is creation
of the last fifty years. Before 1866 there
was a loose confederation of German states;
after 1870 there was an empire of the Ger
mans. The transformation was the work Of
Bismarck, and it was accomplished by blood
and IRON
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
THE Self-Adoration of Ge
i Is So Naive

German imperialism, then, while it in
wolves the same intellectual presuppositions,
the same confusions, the same erroneous
arguments, the same shortsighted ambitions
as the Imperialism of other countries, ex-
hibits them all in extreme degree. All
peoples admire themselves. But the self
alteration of Germans is so naive, so frank,
so unqualified as TO seem sheerly ridiculous
TO more experienced nations. The English
and the French. too, believe their civilization
TO be the best in the world. But English
common sense and French sanity would pre-
vent them from announcing to other peoples
that they proposed to conquer them, morally
or materially. for their good. All Jingoes
admire and desire war.
"But nowhere else in the modern world is
TO be found such debauch of romantic en-
thusissm, such a wilful blindness to all the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
A Passion. However. Not
y Peculiar to Germans

"The modern German philosophy Of the
state turns almost exclusively upon this idea;
and here, as elsewhere, by giving to passion
an intellectual form the Germans have mag
nifed its force and enhanced its monstrosity
But the passion itself is not peculiar to Ger
mans, nor is it only they'to whom it is and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

E new headquarters
of the Cunard Line
in Liverpool is a
sumptuous domicile.
This building is the
third series of head
offices which the line
has occupied since its
organization in 1910.
The building itself
stands on a strong,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

budding statesman and historian a solemn
or a cynical defender of the gospel of force.
But, though this be true, we have no right
therefore 20 assume that there is some Pc
culiar wickedness which marks off German
policy from that Of all other nations. Mach
iavellianism is the common heritage of Eu-
rope. 1t is the translation into idea Of the
fact of international anarchy. Germans have
been more candid and brutal than others in
their expression and application Of it, but
statesmen. politicians, publicists and his
torians in every nation accept it under
thicker or thinner veil of plausible sophisms.
1t is everywhere the iron hand within the
silken glove. 1t is the great European ira
diton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
The Part Spain Played
And Is Playing

"Tell me-" asked the King, what do
you want to know"
"The readers of The Daily Express
answered, "desire to know the part Spain
will play in the war, and the part she has
played in the past, and is playing now
what we have been doing in the past is
well known, and / believe it needs no ex.
PLANTATION" replied the King, and contin.
ued "Our part at present and in the fut-
ure will be that of neutrals. We ought not
to enter the war; we must remain neutral
to the end. We want to remain neutral"
he exclaimed emphatically, "till we are at
tackled l cannot believe that any offence
would be committed against my people"
| asked the King for an explanation of
the crisis through which Spain is now
passing.
Spain" the King answered, "is not only
beginning to feel the effects of war, but also
is suffering from what may call financial
indigestion. Although there are many who
are making considerable profits as a result
of the war, the majority have been made to
suffer by it. This has resulted in the suf-
fering of certain rich commercial classes
of Spain. OF course, the rich suffer only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
King Alfonso Speaks.

from slight inconvenience. They Dc.
great difficulty in buying their autor'
biles, while the poor must pay higher Ts's
for their garments. But the war "a
raised the. salaries of certain worknG
Unfortunately, however, there y
many industries which have been eonpfs
ly ruined by the war. In others the sazn
of workingmen have remained the al
since the latter industries have been sr1
ed by the war neither favorably nor u-f
vorably. Thus three-quarters Of me slr
ish working class is dissatisfied VIII z
situation, which became more compA71
by the patriotic movement OF the arm ,
string to see to it that the money vote y
Parliament be spent in the best way Pa'
Bile and that the Spanish military sys-
be modernized.
"But it would be absolutely false % y
that the discipline and the loyalty d y
army have not remained intact. Ano7s
complication was added by the mOvsnts
in Catalina. Some of the Cataluhlan' q
mand a kind of Home Rule Iney
mand that the local affairs be dean VI
in Barcelona. That is all Of sepsfs'~
there is in the recent movement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
All Moderate Requests
Will Be Granted

"What measures does your mslesV :
tend to take for the settlement Of tbs q'"
t;on?"
"My government is willing to discus !
friendly manner every demand msU :,
a. legal way. It hopes to see Catalun' -
Barcelona more prosperous than ever -,
"And in regard TO the rest OF span
asked again. :. =,
"The present government in'en',
grant all moderate requests and to y
the others the absurdity OF their Gems :,
But the crisis cannot be completely ~"
before the end of the war" ~
I asked the King to explain 70 I's
character of the entire Spanish reVOi''
sry movement. He replied, smiling =,
"You came here, l believe, mag. :.
that there was a revolution. Did you :"
look to the future with full connoen'. =.
am grieved by the fact that year a -. I
reformlSts were pro-monarChI'''' "A
present they place themselves al wv
of the revolutionists." I'D
The King then said that IN all Cum !.
the governments are tending towafu ~
cial state similar to that in Engiano. =,
King preferred not to discuss the nD =.
revolution, but admitted that II hSu -
siderable influence on the MINDS 0i -
in Spain. Isl
Zone more question, your ms''s~ q {
said. THE general opinion Is thS' " .
come out with the first note IN i's -,s
peace transactions. Perhaps you ess
some statement in regard to tha'' a,s
81 believe the war will continue ~
long time. But peace must come pAl
or later, and the earlier the better I'D
think that after the declarations " ...;as
George and Ribot it would be i'np ,;.,x
for me TO offer my services as = M
am always ready, however, 70 WV
humanity"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

THE most impressive thing about
the King is his vigorous personality
and his extraordinary knowledge
of political men both in Spain and in other
countries. Although serious in appear
ance, his fascinating smile never leaves his
face, and during our conversation / re-
called the remark made to me once by an
eminent New York financier, who, after an
audience with the King, said: "If the King
were determined to give up his position we
should be glad to have him with US in Wall
Street" But his opinion was that the King
was not disposed to quit his position. His
great knowledge of affairs is wonderful,
and was manifested to me while he spoke
of the commercial relations between the
Allies and Spain. His majesty is evidently
capable of conducting the Spanish ship of
state and gliding the nation to safety. -. E.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-05
Some Real Bargains

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-05
POULTRY AND PETS
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-05
LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING ROOMS
FOR RENT

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3ll Enst tth
FURNISHED light housekeeping rooms.
23 W 7th Maple 1921
TWO rooms. first floor furnished for
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