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1ssaied that make war possible, but rather
greed, ambition, selfshness and injustice.
To Him, not only as the Son of the
Father, but as a man, war was the most alb
horrent result of sin in the hearts of men.
But He realized, however, that it is at times
a necessary evil, that it must needs be that
offences come" and that in an uplifting cause
the soldier who, in the sublimest sacrifice Of
the human soul, accepts battle as stern, ter
rible duty, makes for peace more surely than
he who spouts it from the housetops
HARRY f. TAYLOR.
Ridgewood, n. J., Aug 81, 1917
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Another Door Opened

It is frankly need and not any abstract
consideration of Justice that has won for
women their latest gain in opportunity and
rrivilege-the opening of the Harvard
University Medical School to women stu
dents. The officers see dangerous short
age of medical men and medical students,
ewing to the war needs. They propose to
meet that shortage by admitting women for
the first time in the history of the institu
ton. Our own College of Physicians and
Surgeons had already yielded to the de
mand. With the accession of Harvard, the
most conspicuous outstanding resister of
change is removed.
Those women who have made an uphill
fight for years TO gain privileges for their
sex in postgraduate schools may be par
doned a moment of amusement at the
fashion in which the reform has at last
come. Where eloquent pleas Of right and
fairness failed, community interest has
succeeded. Yet that is the way Of most
social and political changes as a matter
of fact. What seems an unthinkable and
horrible piece of radicalism when the vol
rntary offering of reforpers slips down
without effort when times alter and eco
nomic and social needs give a new back
ground.
The basis of women's advanced posi-
zion in England to-day is precisely this
broad transformation of national outlook.
Without women England could scarcely
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Brutal Perhdy

So the plan they conceived was put into
execution On July l the imperial govern
ment sent to the Rumanian government the
now famous ultimatum, the brutality OF which
is equalled only by It's perhdy. II was the hrS'
document of a correspondence with which the
revelations of General Iliesco in the "Matln'
have made US acquainted - revelations COM
pleted by the publication Of Count Czernin's
last report in the Austrian Red Book, and
Loyalty confirmed by the men Of the new
regime in Russia. Nothing is more distress
ing than the reading of this correspondence.
On one side the constant reminders of
promises, the despairing remonstrances; on
the other the naughty, sometimes even in
furious, tone, the feigred assurance. Now or
rever." says the Russian ultimatum which
forced Rumania into the war, "for it must not
he hoped that we shall again permit the
Rumanian army later on to make military
promenade and enter Austro Hungarian terri
tory in triumph"
II was impossible for the Rumanian Gen
eral Staff to resist the imperious orders of
their powerful neighbor, especially as at that
moment no help could be hoped for from
England or France, both distant and both en-
tlrely absorbed by the Battle of the Somme.
Despite their heroic efforts and their daily
successes, the British and French armies had
not yet succeeded in their principal object,
the relief OF Verdun, against which linden
burg was at that moment preparing his last
attack with formidable forces. 1t was i'm
possible to hope that under these circum-
stances, France and England would oppose
the wishes of the Russian Government, espe-
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ask what were the reasons which determined
the Rumanian government to declare war IN
spite Of the unpreparedness Of the army.
This has long been an enigma to the military
writer's of all countries, who for the most
part have not spared their criticisms OF the
Rumanian government. It appeared incom-
prehensble how NJ. Bratinno, whom the press
increasingly attacked for his evasions, should
have suddenly decided to throw into the fight
an army unprovided- could not but know
with the necessary material Of war. The
general astonishment was increased still more
when the statesman who had never ceased to
put the Allies on their guard against Bull
garian duplicity was seen TO approve plan
Of campaign which appeared to imply conii-
dence in the assurances of peace which came
from Sofia
From the Russian Upheaval
To-day, thanks to the upheaval at Petro-
grad, many documents destined to remain for
ever hidden among the secret archives have
come to light. The explanations they furnish
are as unexpected as they are valuable.
Public opinion, up to then ignorant of the
lTuLU, Hhu dCCtDlcu TIC HipoN h"SNA"' N''P''''%
ton and had attributed the two capital faults
TO the government Of Bucharest, hut now, to
the general stupefaction and indignation, 1t
became evident that, far from being guilty Of
carelessness and want of foresight, Rumania
was the victim of terrible plot Matched IN
Berlin in concert with the men of the old
regime at Petrograd, enemies of the cause
. he, ,vora caIIod unnn IN defend
Irrefutable evidence shows that the date Of
the declaration of war and the plan of cam
paign were forced upon Rumania by the gov
ernment of Petrograd, presided over by
Messrs. Sturmer and Protopopof. 1t is super
abundanty proved that these men, who came
I'D against the gentle obstinacy of Nicholas IL
every time they tried to convince him OF the
necessity of concluding "a separate peace
had no other object in view than to put their
country into the position Of being forced to
do So
The check of the Rumanian intervention
on which many fine hopes were founded
seemed to serve their purpose to perfection.
It has been proved now that the offensive
Of Brusiloff had come to full stop at the
beginning of August And, still more, ms
srmies were running the risk of being out
nanked Arrested at the passes which de-
bouched into the Hungarian plain by the
army of Koewess, General Brusiloff had been
obliged to turn the front of his armies to the
northwest-toward LemberG-thus exposing
his flank to the divisions which Hindenburg
was bringing up against him. A complete
dafeot of the Russian armies for which they
would have been responsible to the Emperor
to Russia and TO Allies, would not have suited
these men. The defeat of Rumania, when
they could impute to the ineffclency OF ner
army, would lead equally to the same emo
without compromising their personal prestige.
At any price it was necessary to turn away
from the Galician front the storm which was
threatening.
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The Benson signal., 1917-02-17
WASHINGTON.

Raymond T. Baker of Nevada was
nominated by President Wilson as di-
rector of the mint.
Germany has initiated overtures to
the United States to avert war be-
tween the two nations.
Secretary Daniels urged immediate
appropriation of $25O,OOO to extend
coast guard telephone lines.
A 100000 appropriation to pay ex-
penses of the newly created tariff
commission for the next fiscal year
was requested of Congress by Secre-
tary McAdoo.
The Senate military committee re-
ported favorably a bill framed by a
subcommittee creating a military and
naval citizen force based on univer-
sal training and service.
Wolf Won Igl, who was indicted in
connection with the German conspira-
cies in~this country, has been given
passport by the State Department and
is listed to sail with Count Won Berns-
torff.
Application will soon be made to
the Supreme Court, it was reported,
for rehearing of the so-called Diggs
Caminetti white slave cases.
The Benson signal., 1917-02-17
SPORT.

University of Illinois defeated the
University of Minnesota, 18 to II, in a
Western conference basketball game
at Urbana, Ill.
Twelve hundred Denver basketball
fans saw the University of Denver bas-
ketball team defeat the Colorado Col
lege quintet by score of 81 to 80 in
the university gymnasium in Denver.
Eric S. Winston of the Harvard club
defeated his clubmate, Anderson Dana,
in three straight games in the final
round of the National Squash Tennis
association championship tournament
at the Yale club in New York.
Entries to the forty-third Kentucky
derby, the feature of the spring meet
ing at Churchill Downs park, Louis
vile, number seventy-five, which is in.
The stake is for 3-year-olds at dis
tance of a mile and a quarter, and car
ries an added money value of $4,000.
Clad in heavy sweaters and snow
resisting leather coats, and with feet
encased in elkhide moccasins, eighteen
Denver young women, with three from
Kansas City, with fourteen Denver
men, left Denver to take part in sew.
en-day frolic in the snow-clad Rock
les, it being the occasion of the second
annual midwinter sports carnival un-
der the auspices of the Estes Park
Outdoor club.
The Benson signal., 1917-02-17
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

British forces retain their hold on
the new positions east of Sailly-Sail-
lisel, on the Somme front in France,
despite German attacks.
COnstantinople reports that in re-
cent attacks on the Turks near Kut-
El-Amara, the British lost 1000, aside
from men made prisoners.
German artillery halted French at
tempt to attack Hill 304, and minor
attack by the French on Pepper ridge
north of Verdun was repulsed
South of Kut-el-Amara, in Mesopo-
tamia, British troops have taken ad-
ditional trenches from the Turks.
Only artillery engagements are re-
ported from the other war theaters.
British troops captured German
trenches on front of more than three
quarters of mile on the Somme line,
constituting what is characterized as
strong system" lying north of Beau
mont-Hamel.
Bulgaria has warned the United
States that she will support Germany
IN any eventuality," according to the
Berlin correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette, quoted in dispatches received
at Amsterdam.
Four British and three Norwegian
steamers were sunk Saturday, London
announces. Total number of vessels
destroyed since unrestricted U-boat
warfare began is said to be eighty
nine, of which twenty-one were neu-
trail Ships During that period, British
state, more than 1,10O vessels arrived
at or sailed Saturday unharmed from
allied ports. One of the ships sunk
Saturday had twenty-five white Amer
ican muleteers on board.
"You must stop sinking vessels in
violation of international law before
discussing with America ways of
avoiding war;" will be President Will
sons reply to the latest German move,
according to official Washington. A
note, expressing desire on the part
OF the Kaiser's government to avert
war, is understood to be on it's way to
the capital. Swiss government, it is
said, is acting as intermediary be-
tween this country and Germany.
The Benson signal., 1917-02-17
MEXICO ASKS AN EMBARGO.
Carranza Agent Delivers Memorial to
Neutral Nations.


Washington.-Susp that Ger
man agents are prompting activities
in Mexico which might develop into
a flank move against the United
States if this nation becomes involved
in war with Germany was increased
Monday. The Mexican governments
representative, R. P. de Negri, deliv-
cred to Secretary of State Lansing
memorial to the neutral nations of the
world by General Carranza, proposing
mediation between the European bel
ligerents and, if this fails, an embargo
by all neutrals Of the export of war
munitions and food. CarranZa offers
the plan as a means Of starving the
belligerents into peace.
Inasmuch as such an embargo
would aid Germany and injure the al
lies and, as Germany once urged the
United States to impose such an en-
barge, the action of Carranza aroused
the suspicion that he has yielded to
German influence.
1t was suggested that Carranza may
contemplate shutting off the supply Of
Mexican oil to the British warship.
The Benson signal., 1917-02-17
GENE RAJ.

In excellent health, Thomas A. Edi-
son celebrated his SEVENTEEN birthday.
More than 1000 men of the three
battalions of state naval militia of
New York became federal volunteers,
subject to the Presidents call by TAX
ing the government oath.
At request from Secretary Daniels,
the House rules committee receded
from it's determination not to report a
special rule to expedite emergency
amendments to the annual naval bill
providing authority to commander
shipyards and munitions plans and
appropriating $1,000,000 for purchase
of the basic patents Of aircrafts.
A New York dispatch says the first
American ship to clear for the barred
zone" since the German blockade was
declared, left Erie basin Friday. She
is the Orleans, a 5,000-ton freighter,
laden with contraband for Bordeaux
She sails, unarmed, unstriped, flying
the American flag, and owned, Off
cered and in large part operated by
Americans.
Saturday, Feb. IT, is the twentieth
anniversary of the birth of the Ma
tional Congress of Mothers. In 1897
it was founded by Mrs. Theodore Bir
ney and small band of mothers. To
day it numbers 100000 men and WON
en-.
The steamship Frederick VIII, sail
ing Wednesday, Feb. IA, was given
permission by it's owners in Copen-
hagen to convey former Ambassador
Won Bernstorff and his suite to a Scan.
dinaivian port, according to a cable.
gram to the Scandinavian-America
offices in New York.
The Benson signal., 1917-02-17
SYRUP Of FIGS FOR :
A CH|LD'S BOWELS
1t is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form of
physic simply don't realize what they
do The children's revolt is well-found.
ed Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" It's
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle
Of California Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv. :.
The Benson signal., 1917-02-17
FOREIGN.

The Chinese cabinet has indorsed
the American action against Germany
on the submarine campaign.
Official and unofficial reports con-
t1nue to indicate growth of the anti
government movement in Mexico.
Switzerland has taken over German
interests in Japan which were cared
for by the United States before it's
breach with Germany.
Clearings of San Juan, Porto Rico,
banks for the year 1916 we're $685.
332.63, the largest on record and an in
crease of more than $33,0O0,OOO over
the previous year.
Solemn public prayers will be Of
fered throughout Lent through the ac-
ton of Cardinal Lucon, archbishop of
Rheims, and Cardinal Annette, arch
bishop of Paris.
The Russian foreign office has is.
sued statement saying that the "ac.
ton of the United States will call
forth new courage and consolidate
their conviction of a necessity of fin.
ishing forever with German militarism
and it's atrocities"
1t is announced that Germany has
notified Norway of her intention to
pay damages for loss Of life on Nor,
wegian boats torpedoed in the Arctic
ocean, and also for those killed when
two Norwegian boats were sunk in the
North sea last fall.
A Reuters dispatch from The Hague
says that the Ford peace bureau, es.
tablished by Henry Ford, the Ameri
can manufacturer, will be closed on
March 1, on account of the hyeach of
diplomatic relations between the
United States and Germany.
Germany was satisfied in advance
that the European neutrals would not
take action of radical nature against
her because of the launching of her
new submarine campaign, according tc
statement attributed by the Vossichc
Zeitung of Berlin to Count Tisza, the
Hungarian premier.
The American ambassador, James
w. Gerard, arrived at the Swiss boun-
dary, at Schaffhousen, Sunday after.
noon. He was met by the American
minister to Switzerland, Pleasant A.
Stovall, and representatives of the
Swiss army. He was accompanied by
his staff and a party of 10 refugees.
Although the people of Vienna view
the German-American crisis calmly,
the press is inclined to assume a rad
ical attitude, as is shown by the &C
ton by the censor in striking out
many editorials attacking the Amer
ican government. One newspaper has
been suspended for rabid attacks on
President Wilson.
The Benson signal., 1917-02-17
WESTERN

Baroness Anna Van Schelle, wife Of
the head of the Belgian Red Cross,
died in New York.
Several lives, possibly as many as
fifteen, were lost when fire destroyed
the Kenwood hotel, a three-story brick
structure in Minneapolis.
The people of Ell Paso, Tex, pre-
sented silver service to Maj. Gen.
]. J. Pershing at banquet in his hon.
Or in appreciation of his work with the
American punitive expedition in Mex
leo.
The growing use of the jimson weed
for narcotic drink by the Indians of
Arizona and southern California has
come to the attention of the federal
authorities and Investigations have
been started to put stop to the prac-
tice.
Trouble among Chinese tongs,
smouldering for days on the Pacific
coast, flared up at Seattle, Wash,
when Harry Wong, "a years old, promi-
nent in the Chinese colony, was shot
dead on the street. The police ar
rested a Chinese who gave his name
as Jack Lee.
The *fightingest tar" in the navy
sought to re-enlist at the recruiting
station in Chicago. He is Jack Har-
vey, 63, who retired in 1904 after thir-
ty-two years of continuous service. He
served on thirty-two ships and was
with Fighting Bob Evans in the Span
ish-American war and in the Boxer
uprising in China.
The Benson signal., 1917-02-17
TEXT OF WILSON NOTE
REFUSING TO "TALK OVER" CRl,
SIS IN UNDERSEA WAR.
President Declares Germany Must OBJ
serve Pledges Given in Reply to
His Ultimatum In Sussex Case.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE Presi-
dents reply to the German request
for an exchange of views follows:
I'm view of the appearance in the
newspapers of Feb. IL of report that
Germany was initiating negotiations
with the United States in regard to
submarine warfare, the Department Of
State makes the following statement:
"a suggestion was made orally to
the Department of State late Satur-
day afternoon by the minister OF
Switzerland that the German govern
ment is willing to negotiate with the
United States, provided that the COM
mercial blockade against England
would not be interfered with.
"At the request of the secretary OF
state this suggestion was made in
writing and presented to him by the
Swiss minister Sunday night.
''This memorandum was given i'm
mediate consideration and the follow
ing reply was dispatched Monday:
MY DSdI O1A AO
quested by the President to say to
you, on acknowledging the memoran-
dunn which you were kind enough to
send to me on the 18th inst, that the
government of the United States
would gladly discuss with the German
government any questions it might
propose for discussion were it to with
draw it's proposition of the 31st of
January, in which, suddenly, and
without previous intimation of any
kind, it cancelled the assurances
which it had given this government
on the 4th of May last; but that it
does not feel that it can enter into
any discussion with the German gov
ernment concerning the policy of sub
marine warfare against neutrals
which it is now pursuing unless and
until the German government re-
news it's assurances Of the 4th of May
and acts upon the assurance
"No other interchange on this sub
ject has take~ place between this gov
ernment and any other government or
person"
The Benson signal., 1917-02-17
THE COMMISSION BILL FAILS.
Senate Passes Bill Prohibiting All
Games and Devices for Money.

Phoenix. proposed constitu-
tional amendment to take from the
corporation commission the power
conferred upon it of absolute control
of corporations and public utilities
and place the commission under the
direction of the Legislature and the
people, by initiated legislation, failed
in the Senate by vote of Is to 8.
The Senate passed the anti-gam-
bling bill which prohibits all known
equivalent. 1t defeated in the COM
mittee of the whole bill appropriate
ing 100000 for the completion of tie
capitol building and set itself against
aid in bridge building except where
that is incident to the improvement
of state highways.
The more important new bills in
troduced were:
BY Claridge of Graham, combining
the offices of city and county asses
sors and collectors of taxes, doing
away with the offices of city collec-
tor and treasurer.
BY Winsor of Yuma, an irrigation
measure authorizing the state to take
advantage of the federal law provid-
ing for the inclusion of entered or
non-entered public lands in state irri-
cation projects; to take advantage Of
the pending Smith Cumberland bill
and providing for the establishment
of irrigation districts within federal
reclamation projects.
BY Getchell of Yavapai, for the
licensing of stock brokers on the pay
ment of fee of 5000 annually and
furnishing a bond in the sum of $5,-
900.
Among the new measures intro
duced were the following:
By Mallory of Pima, to prevent
trust companies and banks from act
ing as administrators, executors or
guardians of estates.
By Goodwin of Maricopa, an old age
and mothers pension law, giving to
supervisors of counties the power to
appropriate funds to pay SIS month
to helpless persons who had lived in
the state for fifteen. and in the coun-
ty five years, and to such children as
they may have under the age of six
teen years, Sc a month.
By Mallory, preventing the practice
of law for fees by unlicensed attor-
neys.
A resolution expressing confidence
and extending answering support to
President Wilson in the face of inter-
national complications was adopted by
unanimous vote in the House of Rep
resentatives.
A bill was introduced in each House
of the Legislature for state smelter,
under the provisions of an act en-
abling the state to engage in indus
trial pursuits. 1t is proposed that the
smelter shall cost $750,0O0, and an
initial appropriation of $50O,OO0 is
proposed.