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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-20

Webster defines fear as "(Script) The apprehen-
sion of lncurrlng, or soicitude to avoid, Gods
wrath" The wise man of Holy Scripture says:
prov. 24:l1 Happy is the man that feareth
Away but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall
unto mischief" Jesus said: Luke 12:5) But | will
forewarn whom We shall fear: Fear him who after
he has killed hath power to cast into hell" Again
says Holy Writ: "The fear of the Lord is the be-
ginning of wisdom" and fear is true attitude
toward God, toward sin, toward disease, and
everything which should be revered or Stunned.
The man who says he is not afraid is in danger.
He is not awakened to shun some noxious thing
that may do him hurt. That man who does not
fear his God, will offend him. The man who does
not fear influenza may expose himself and those
who are dear to him. Fear is a rightful frame of
mind towards much that is good and much that
is evil in the world Not to fear God is to offend
God to offend God is to endanger the life and
soul.
In the light of these eternal truths, it may be
asked, where prayer and faith come in? A def
milton of prayer may throw light on the subject.
Prayer is the earnest plea of the human heart
that the will of man may be conformed to the
Divine will. Rebellion and sefishness are deeply
imbedded in the soul of man. This truth will
surely be accepted by all men after that which we
have witnessed in the enemy during this cruel
war. And as far as that is concerned, no human
heart is free from selfishness and sin. Prayer is
the cry of helpless man for conformity to his
Gods will. But that is but one view of prayer:
The other side of prayer is that the Father may
grant unto his child that for which the child has
need. All this is to be according to the will of
God. That there are higher laws than we now
know, cannot be questioned, and that the will of
God is that his child should pray unto him, is
sure. But it may be said to a certainty, that God
does not contravene his own law or laws All
must be in accordance to his will. "Neverthe-
less not my will but thine be done" was the pray
er of Jesus when he was drinking the cup of NOR
tai SIM
We therefore conclude that the laws of health,
which man has discovered, are Gods laws, and
in the obedience of his laws, is health. And since
the city and the council of defense, acting in con-
formity with the preventive measures have
asked us to close the churches, to do so is good
sense, good religion and good patriotism. sane
world my masters:
Signed: J.W. Abel, Meade ,Dutt,
G.. w. Kerr l. S. Barton
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27
new YEAR BELLS
Custom of Ringing Them Origi-
mated in the Dim Past.
Believed to Have Been First Used
About 400 A. D.-chimes Thouuht
to Be Possessed of Supernat-
ural Power.

a LWAYS, everywhere in our land,
~ we look to the ringing of bells
to announce the death of the old
year and the birth of the new. Not
until we actually hear the bells ringing
from the church steeples, somehow, do
we really turn to each other and ex-
claim Happy New Year,"
All of which brings us to the ques-
ton Of why people ring bells. They
seem to have figured in the life of
man way, way back in the dim and
distant years. And they have been
used to convey messages of various
sorts to those within sound of their
alarm.
Among the ancient Greeks those
who made the nightly rounds of the
camps and garrisOns used to ring C
bell at each sentinel box to make sure
that the soldier ON duty within was
awake. They also put bells upon the
necks of criminals to warn all people
to avoid them. The Romans used bells
TO announce the hour of the bath.
1t is believed that bells were first
used in churches about 400 years after
the birth of Christ. And by the twelfth
century they were in common use in
churches all over Europe. Most of
these, however, were hand bells, made
of thin plates of hammered iron, bent
into fOur-sided shape and fastened
with rivets and bronzed. Then gradu-
ally, as people began to hang the bells
in steeples and belfries, they became
larger.
In 1874 huge bell was cast in Mos
cow, Russia. 1t is over twenty-one feet
In height and diameter and weighs 1913
tons. The largest bell in America is in
the Cathedral of Notre Dame, at Mon
treal, and weighs 29,400 pounds.
In all ages and all countries, the
material most used in the manufac
ture Of bells has been a mixture of
two parts of copper to one of tin,
called bronze. At present about thir-
teen parts of copper are used to four
of tin. Bells have been made of iron,
steel, gold, silver, brass and even of
glass, though when made of glass they
have been found too fragile for prac-
teal use.
Back in the old days, the people be-
ieved that bells possessed supernat-
ural power; by ringing them at certain
times, they believed storms, pestilence
and famine could be averteds
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27
Master of Languages.

Flatbush-His wife speaks four Ian
guages and he only speaks one.
Bensonhurst-I suppose the only
one he speaks is English.
"That's right, but his wife speaks
English, Spanish, French and Italian"
"But what good would it do him TO
learn the 9th ar languages? She
wouldn't give him a chance to use
EN-"
"No, know it, but she don't want
to be talking all the time to him and
he not know what she's talking about"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27
AMONG NEW YEARS RICHES
Trials and Suffering Part of Rich
Heritage God Gives to Each of
His Children.

Part OF the rich heritage that God
has planned for you in the New Year
is suffering. He will permit in the
life Of each child of his a portion
just the right portion-of difficulty
and trial and temptation. What we
see in those trials and temptations
will largely determine the riches that
will be ours in this year. A Christian
layman recently wrote to friend:
"How fine it would be to go out In
the opening year SO yielded that
every fresh circumstance or trial or
temptation would prove to have the
sweet face of Christ concealed in it,
through some rift in the cloud and
filling with radiance our uplifted
faces; so that each new obedience
should be but the parting Of the cur
tain, ushering us into new wonders
and experiences Of his ineXhaustible
riches and fullness. Old things would
then be continually passing away, all
things constantly becoming new"
What glories of Astounding grace
that the worst Satan can do against
the child of God in this New Year
only furnishes a fresh opportunity for
God to pour out the treasures of his
unspeakable Gift! The promise TO
supply every need Of ours accord
ing to his riches in glory in Christ
Jesus" is not a promise for the life
tO come when all sorrow and sick
ness and temptation to evil will be at
an end, but it is a promise made in
full view of every trial and tempta-
ton that we shall meet today. Let us
then count it all joy when we fall into
our difficulties and trials, confidently
remembering that along with each
of them we have-JesuS.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27
THE NEW YEAR.

The New Year-where 1t leads and whom
concerning
We cannot see,
We scan the path and full our hearts of
yearning
And mystery
What will it yield, this lane of sudden
turning,
To you and me?
Grant we may find our share of sunlight
streaming
Come tears-come mirth;
Where faith in man shall make life's good
deeds seeming
OF noble worth;
Give days our tell and give our night
sweet dreaming,
God OF the earth.
Give US the heart to tread this way, not
knowing
A vale or height;
Give US cheer that God, his grace be-
slowing,
May guide us right;
Grant we may love the others with us
going
Old Year-Good- Night!
Edith Livingston Smith, in Wisconsin
Agriculturist.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27
NATURE SETS GOOD EXAMPLE
Discard Things That Hinder and Re-
tain Only That Which Is Helpful
at Dawn of New Year.

Once again the New Year opens its
door for us to enter in. The old year
is leaving us, and if we are wise we
will let him take with him all the I'M
pedimenta that has handicapped us
during his reign. We will dismiss, the
old mistakes and troubles and grudges,
and entering blithely into the New
Year, we will begin all over again.
Mother nature has set us an exam
pie which we will do well to follow.
All the good golden grain, the ripe
fruit and all other precious gifts she
has permitted us to garner and retain.
And then she proceeded to do away
with the rubbish. She put her spell
upon it and it withered and died, was
plowed under, and became the needful
fertilizer FOR another rear.
And so all the good and sweet and
beautiful things that the old year has
given us we are permitted to keep.
We may hold onto our successes, our
helpful experiences, our beautiful mem
cries and the new friendships which
have come to us as the gift of the old
year, and let go of all the rubbish that
might hinder our endeavor in the year
that is just opening its door into ne"
and untried ways.
Let us cast off our old garments OF
doubt and disappointment and failure,
and put on the shining garments or
hope and faith and courage. Let US
draw on all the undreamed of sources
within us for a broader outlook, a
more determined endeavor and great
er accomplishment. Let US possess
ourselves of higher ideals Of life and
its privileges and responsibilities, and
a determination to live up TO the best
there is in us during the days or the
coming year. And above all, let US
hold fast to our faith in the goodness
OF God, for so shall we be enabled TO
go forward, hopeful and unafraid into
the unknown and untried ways OF the
New Year.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27
Birth of Standard Time.

1t was 80 years ago that standard
time was born in the United States.
Before this date travellers from Bos-
ton and Washington needed to change
their watches five times to keep up
to date. There were over half hun
dred standards used in the United
States and Canada, between the At
lantic and the Pacific. AT noon on
November 10, 1883, there was a uni
versal resetting of clocks in all parts
of the United States and Canada, and
the four great time zones into which
the American continent is divided
came into existence.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27
CANADA'S new
DEVELOPMENT
After the War a Period of Pros
perity.

IT is evident that the Government Oh
the Dominion in it's programme OF re-
construction and development Is I'M
dertaking a work of tremendous im-
portance. There will be available the
labor for work that has been sllent
since 1914, and the rehabilitation OF
this labor will entail the thought ana
energy of most capable heads. The
transition period from war to peace
will be rapid and thorough, and, In"
stead of Canada sinking into state
of lethargy, there will be continued
period of vakefulnesS that will give
employment 20 the unemployed, and
render to the capitalist and producer
ample return for his money, effort
and enterprise.
The agricultural potentialities OF
the great Canadian West possess illim-
table acres of the best of soil, capable
of producing millions of bushels or
the best of grain. The cost of grow
ing this is lower than any place ON
the continent There will be greater
demand than ever for these lands, the
consequent production will be heavier
and the profits attractive. Cattle
industry will be one of the CHER De-
velopments, and the encouragement OF
it will y. in the continued high prices
that beef products will bring. Euro
pean countries have been depleted OF
cattle, a. the demand for beef, cattle
and dairy products will tax the effort"
of the producer for years to come.
Western Canada offers unequaled
opportunities for development in this
line
In the Canadian West plans are be
Ing laid for the development of cleo
tricf. power which can be produced
cheap.y There is an abundance or
coal and water power that could be
used in developing this useful energy.
What cheap power produced in this
way will mean to the farmer and de-
velopment of industrial enterprises
cannot be estimated in figures.
More extensive development of the
water power at Niagara, on the St
Lawrence and at waterfalls all over
Tic COuAlIyy 10 ACdOy " OC
Peace will see new mine fields
opened up, and it is equally certain
that shipbuilding, railway equipment.
steel production, and many of the In
dustries will go forward with
bound.
Canadian industries will be required
in the reconstruction of Europe, and
already the Canadian Government has
sent across the seas a commission for
the purpose of securing orders. Can
ada took an early and prominent part
In the war, and in the days of peace
will be found equally active. She feels
that by the valor and loyalty Of her
people she has earned a large share
Of the business and prosperity that
will follow the war period, and she
proposes to get Acknowledgement.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27
Making a New Year.

The virtue of New Year is not in
it's change of name. The first days Of
January are so exactly like the last
days of December that we have to
make a conscious and continued effort
to write the proper date on our letters.
If this is to be New Year indeed,
we must make it so ourselves, putting
into it new hopes and ambitions, new
resolutions and effect. The virtue Of
the New Year is in the new aspiration
and persistence we bring to it.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27

whenever / am starting OUT
Upon a fresh new year
I always stop to think about
The one no longer here,
The year that's dead 1 travel back
And let my memory run
In contemplation through the stack
OF things I could have done.
l check the deeds l meant to do
With those I did, and find
That I neglected quite a few
Real chances to be kind.
I learn the words 1 meant to say
To comfort and to cheer,
And yet postponed them for day,
I didn't speak that year.
And then to my disgrace l find
That had 1 paused to smile
And do those little actions kind
I'd not have lost a mile.
learn now that the chance has gone
That / have missed a lot,
For all those deeds l could have done
AS easily as not.
And when at last life is through
And all my course Is run,
In deep regret 1 shall review
The deeds I could have done.
And shall wish 1 had to tell
Where nothing may he hid
The many things 1 could as we'll
Have done, vet never did.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27
Not Quite as Exnected.

"Was l rude this afternoon?" a lit
tie girl asked her mother.
'T hope not, my dear" said the moth
er.
Little Glrl-Well. my teacher was
examining us in poetry-"Casabianca,"
and she asked why did the boy stand
on the burning deck, and said be-
cause ii was too hot for him to- sit
down; and she made me stand in the
corner.-Stfay Stories.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27
Cuticura for Sore Hands.

Soak hands on retiring in the hot suds
OF Cuticura Soap, dry and rub in Gu
ticurO Ointment. Remove surplus
Ointment with soft tissue paper. For
free samples address, "Cuticura, Dept.
x, Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap Is, Ointment S5 and 50.-Adv.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27

These returned prisoners from Ger
many are mocking the German goose
step for the benefit of their comrades
at the North Falls Meadow camp,
Dover, to which they have returned
after many hardships in the German
prisons. They are seen with their
German souvenir helmets on their
heads, enjoying their own imitation as
much as the other men.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27

The Japanese have a prescription
for peace by the abolition of money.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-12-27

What children need is more models
and fewer critics.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-06
HONOR OUR HEROES

In memorian to the first three sol
Tiers of the American army who fell
II action on November 3. 1917, a
monument consisting of a tall granite
olumn designed by Louis Majorelle
will be erected at rBattlement, located
the sector where the heroes fell
One side of the shaft will be en-
;raved with the following inscrip-
ion.
Sons of their great and glorious
country, they fought for right, for
liberty and civilization against Ger
man Imperialism, the scourge of the
human race. They died on the field
If honor
On another side will be inscribed
he names of the heroes as follow:
Corporal j. b. Gresham. Danville,
" Private Thomas p. Enright, Pitts
purgh Private Merle Hay, Glidden."
The cross of Lorraine is sculptured
n another side 1t is encircled in a
ymhC lical wreath The cross bears
he ;n"ription, France United States
lYi?; from Lorraine to the United
States.
Bathelemont was in the direct line
If fire in the operation in which the
hree Americans participated 1t has
lot been thought appropriate to
>rrect the column of the exact spot
where the heroes fell. The work of
providing the recognition was super
used by NJ. Mirman, project of the
department Meurthe-et-M oselle, where
Bethelemont is located.
A reproduction of the monument
will be placed in Nancy a facsimile
sent to William C. Sharp, the United
States ambassador to France.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-06

What have you done towards the
establishment of the sweet potato
drying house that would do so much
towards giving the farmers of the
community a market for their crops
If there was a large capacity storage
house in Cordele, there would be
buyers here to pay the cash for the
Jotatoes in the field as they are dug.
Somebody ought to be on the move
With this new and promising enter
)rise. The Dispatch is no potato far
ner, but the drying house ought to
'e put in.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-06

We are going to need some show
of strong loyalty next week when the
bond campaign starts. This com
munity is not going to lag with it's
assessment and we must be ready to
do all that we can do from the very
first moment This will be much
better than to let the campaign drag
so as to make the committees have to
work later and longer. We want thu
county to come in on the first day
with the full amount. We must have
that quarter million.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-06

cerned. With the Steady Increase IN
the United States az forces IN France
the enemy is due for increasing de-
feat-if past performances count for
anything.
The work of several pursuit squad
rllas is controlled from an opera.
lions office" located at flying field
not far from the front. At rude wood
en- tables sit enlisted men engaged
always in making new maps that
shall show just where the enemy Is,
where his aerdromes are located,
tables of past performances, wind
charts and the like. The officer in
charge is youthful lieutenant wise
with air here.
In the corner is field telephone
operated by an officer who can speak
French.
Sooner or later the inevitable warn
ing arrives.
Enemy machine observed over at
four thousand meters, headed south"
it may say.
The young lieutenant refers to
Fbig map on his desk, locates the point
mentioned in the warning and tele-
phones the warning to a squadrilla
with orders to go and hunt out the
enemy plane.
Three, five, seven minutes later the
lieutenant's telephone rings again,
and he turns to his visitor with the re
assuring words, Three Nieuports are
gone after him" Then he explains:
whenever it is possible, we send
out for defensive purposes one more
machine than there are enemy air
planes reported That's, we send
two for one, three for two, four for
three etc. That is not always pos
|sible however Many new pursuit
squadrons are in the making, and oc-
a lone flier must go out
against one German. He is as fire.
quently successful as when groops
have gone up together"
The warning is repeated many
times daily. A similar proceeding
is going on on the German side of
the line, for the American aviators
like the British and French, are the
aggressoous and persistently carry the
lighting into German held territory.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-06
AMERICAN AVIATION

American aviation in France has
gone head rapidly of late. Men who
few months ago were still in civil
Ian life in the United States have
been trained and formed into ever-in-
creasing pursuit squadrillas to harry
the army American bombing aviators
are now almost daily harrassing the
military and railway establishments
of the Germans. Every day almost
brings the news OF fresh victories in
the air.
The Germans certainly have not the
mastery of the air-often claimed by
them-where the Americans are con-
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-06

Don't spend your Sunday worrying
about the cotton market. Give a bit
more time to planning crop for the
next year that will not involve you
in the condition of the marked The
world is crying for more food crops
9nd while you cannot make fortunes
in new crops without careful plan
ming, you can do better than to put
all your time into a most unsatisfac.
tory cotton crop.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-06
PROPER PUNISHMENT

From the Macon Telegraph.
Richard e. Edmonds, writing in the
Manufacturers Record, presents an
indictment against Germany that
bristles with demands that the pun
ishment fit the cries committed. Sum-
ned up, he recommends the following
conditions be imposed upon Turkey,
fermany, Austria and Bulgaria:
Unconditional surrender of armies
and navies
The death penalty inflicted upon
the Kaise ande very male member of
the Hohenzollern and Hapsburg fami-
lies who have been parties to this
war, and every military and political
leader responsible for bringing on
:his world crime.
Full payment in ships or in money
for every ship sunk by the German
submarines.
The restoration in money or ma
erials of every product-whether of
art or machinery, or foodstuffs, or
Jaw material, or jewelry, or cars, or
| locomotives, or securities, or money
If which Germany has looted other
countries.
A financial indemnity to the fam
| ly of every soldier who has been
murdered of permanently invalided in
the armies of America and our Allies,
and similar pension or payment to
| every man and woman from the over
run countries who have been enslay-
/ VI by Germany and made to work on
It's farms or in its factories.
The reputation or confiscation of
every dollar of bonded indebtedne IS
If every kind outstanding against
Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bull
gari and held by any of the citizens
of these countries. the total amount
of these bonds to be used toward the
payment of the cost of the war to
the Allies. To this should be adj
ded an additional indemnity suffi-
Gent to cover all the expenditure
=ade by America and our Allies in
carrying on the war.
Turkey forever banished from Eu-
rope
Any suggestion of "neurotic sym
pathy" for such unspeakable crimi-
nails would show flabbiness of NOR
| al strength, weakness of moral
! backbone" said Mr.. Edwards,
which for centuries to come would
lessen the moral standard of AL the
world"
The significant thing about this
view is that more and more people
are coming to see things as MIR Ed
monds sees them" says the Indiana
polls News. The longer the war
lasts, the greater will be the Cebt
that Germany and her associates
must pay TO the civilized world
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-06

We have heard the first from the
little sub chasers. They possibly
have been doing much good work be.
fore now, but the news slipped past
the censor and we are told that one
of them got two subs at a single meal
Friday. iU ttt
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-06

Word comes from the Bulgarian
front that the armies of that barbar-
ic nation have been worse murder
ers than the Huns. They must have
committed terrible crimes.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-06

If it be true that best of the Ger
man fighting forces are now going
into battle in their efforts to hold the
lines, there is better day ahead for
the allies.