The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-01-04

That the mark of the beast" is
upon all the earth is evident to all
as we enter upon the New Year
1t is upon every home, every in
dustry, every individual, not only in
| Arkansas, but in every community
and nation under the SUM- There is
no escape from his contamination.
That the kaiser is a mad man
many students of history and psy-
chology are agreed. Col George Ca
ruth of Little Rock. former u. S.
Ambassador to Portugal asserts pos
itively that the kaiser is a mad man.
"Wilmhelm was born with one of
the greatest brains that modern
Europe has known" said Col Caruth.
THE ego was developed in him
stronger than in any other character
of history. He actually believes that
he has inherited all the great quail
ties of Frederick the Great, and to
those he has added the character
istics of Antilla and Napoleon. and
Alexander, and other conquerors, I'M
til he really believes that he is the
vice-regent of the Almighty on earth.
He has lost the power of mental CO.
ordination, or the normal equipoise,
and insanity is nothing more than
that. He is concentered upon one
idea, that of world domination He
is most remarkable example of
megalomania, which Webster defines
as "a form of mental alienation in
which the patient has grandoise de-
lusions concerning himself To this
add his hallucination of world power,
his doctrine that might alone makes
right, that any means is justified by
the desired end, that war is natural
expression of national conscience,
and that treaty obligations, however
solemn, are merely scraps of paper,
and the world has a combination that
has deluged the world in blood and
ravaged it with ferocity which
would have shamed Antilla's Huns or
the red Indians of America
But out of it all must come good
for the world. 1t will be purified by
the scourge, and democracy must
triumph over autocracy, right must
gain the ascendency over right, and
wars must cease. The readjustment
will not come in one day, for there
must be reorganization of nations
and governments. 1t will be slow
process, for the rehabilitation of the
ravaged countries will require all
the man power and resources of
many years. In the process of eter-
nifty. however, it is a small matter,
for the things that are great to us
are infinitesimal to the All-Power
that rules the universe"
There has been an inventor visit
ing in Little Rock who has a device
that may yet be heard from in the
winning of the world war. 1t is
combination motor cycle and flying
machine and that it successfully per-
forms both functions has been prac-
tically demonstrated to a number of
Little Rock citizens who have wit
messed its performances.
1t has conventional motor cycle
body, with wing attachments, which
are folded up while the machine is
running along the ground. When
the driver gets in close quarters, the
wings can be opened, and the vehicle
becomes flying machine. With a
light machine gun carried on the
front, it readily appears that it would
be a most formidable engine of Of
fensive warfare.
One of the higher officers of the
former Arkansas Guard, now station
ed at Camp Beauregard, writing to
an official of the Guard in little
Rock, gives some important and
hitherto unpublished Information, all
about conditions there that should
be known to all the people of Ark
ansas. He says in part:
Now as to the health of the
camp 1t is very good OF course