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Martinsburg Church OF Christ

WITT 6'HS"U' Sr'UIC' VI OT'T TS0
The Missionary society Of the Mar
tinsburg Church of Christ met Thurs
day with Mrs. T.. II. Funk and enjoy
ed a program. Twelve members were
present and three new ones were Sc.
cured.
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Affirmative vas furthered by isadore
who took up the cxpedi
enc7 Of seG-gGvefnmcnt and upheld
II 7ith arguments TO the effect that
II develops the principles OF self-goy.
eminent in tho Individual for later
life, thereby making good citizens;
that II makes for better cooperation
between teacher and pupil; that II
teaches the pupil self-reliance and
that II srouses in the student sense
Of civic pride.
Miss Claire Sweeney upheld the ar
gument Of The negative By bringing
Into her speech, as second speaker
on the negative, the impracticabillty
Of the plan. Miss Sweeney's argu.
nent was based on the contentious
that student seligUernmcnt would
add 10 Americas kad through bad
citizenship, destroy the efficiency and
authority Of the teacher and destroy
the efficiency OF the pupil by taking
up time after school hours which or
dinarDy would be spent IN study
Miss Sweeney also maintained that
the personal influence OF the teacher
over the pupils would be lost and bad
habits would be formed By the latter
which would cling 10 them, further
Ing her argument OF the plan being
conducive TO bad citizenship
hokEY.sAvlNo PLAN
Charnock Wilson. upholding the
plan as third speaker Of the afIirma-
tive, declared for the practicability
Of student self.goyernment. using as
his argument that it was the next
logical step in the evolution of educa.
tion not revolutionary move-that
1t has worked out successfully in
many places and that il is economi.
cal. school the size of Mt Vernon
being able TO save from $4,000 to
$4,000 annually. This closed the con.
structlye argument Tor the afIirma-
tive.
Ending the constructive argument
for the. negative, Robert W. Eastman
came forward, maintaining in favor
Of the present form of administration
that the proposed plan would be det-
rimental. Mr.. Eastman's argument
was based ON one contention. name
Is, that it would produce arrogance
In the individual student which
would make for division of the
school and later the nation into many
factions, all grating as much as the
present ones are alleged TO graft to
control elections, thereby making for
poor citizenship. through teaching
cheap politics.
With the close of the constructive
arguments, the rebuttals of five min
utes each opened the negative lead
ing with the same lineup as in their
ten-minute speeches and the affirma.
tive following the same plan.
FINE REsUTTAL WORK
Mt Vernon outclassed Newark on
rebuttal5 all through, producing tan
gible evidence while the Newark de-
baters produced only theories.
The two blows which probably won
the debate unanimously for Mt. Yer
non were struck by Miss Sweeney
Ind Mr.. Eastman Miss Sweeney
brought forth the statement from
the principal Of the Hamilton high
school in which he said that student
eli-government, as in operation
there, was absolutely detrimental 10
the students and teachers.
,Mr. Eastman struck the second
blow in showing up a fallacy in the
constructive argument Ci the New
ark aggregation In that all OF the eyi-
dence and testimony they had obtain
ed from principals in favor of stu
dent self-government" was in reality
In reference not to student self-gov.
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Marriage Licenses

Marriage Licenses
c. Howard Pratt, salesman. Akron.
and Mabel Mitchell French, Mt. Yer
non. Rev. L. G. Anderson.
o
Deeds Filed
Thomas ID. Wade to Dale Cochran,
parcel in Pleasant. $4,000.
Winslow Howard to Budd McPeck,
city property, 81.
Florence Knox to jay Il. Harmon, so
acres in Miller, 81.
c. w. Shultz TO Lydia Mckay, city
property, 81.
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Sale Ordered

An order Of public sale has been
issued by the probate court in the
matter of Banner NJ. Allen, admins
TRAITOR of the estate of II. H. Greer
against Robert Nj. Greer and others.
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MAJOR OGG PLACED
In COMMAND OF THE
u. 5. DENTAL CORPS

Mr.. and Mrs. L. W. Ogg OF West
Vine street have received word that
their son, Major Lester. c. Ogg, has
been placed in command of the dem
tal 0rps at Camp Beauregard at Ar
eXs 1ria, La.
Major Ogg will be located at Camp
Beauregard, having his Offices there.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1918-03-12

Miss Margaret Mitchell Of Cleyer
land has arrived in Lock for visit
with her parents, Nj. and Mrs. Tor
renee Mitchell.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1918-03-12

George Lazear made business
trip to Kilbuck Friday
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1918-03-12
Deeds Filed

Heirs of Benjamin r. Smith to W.
A. SilcCtt, cemetery lot S25.
Louis s. Cullison to Charles David,
son, So acres in Jackson, $500.
Mamma l.. Singrey to Nina b. Sin
grey, city property, $1,000,
Frank Waddel to Elizabeth Rob,
erts, city property. 81.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
a HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of Men i'm
Americas Fighting Service

Struck down, an innocent bystander,
while watching men being recruited
Tor the militia, was the fate of Chief
Boatswain Harry Chester Gum. II. s.
N. No man in the service ever died
IN a manner more ironically tragical.
Inc tragedy occurred in Brook
lyn where Gum, in civilian
clothes, h a stopped at the
edge of crowd with some friends.
Several men grabbed the officer, in
s1sting that he come forward and
enlist. Witnesses tell how men finally
caught hold of him, he protesting that
he was already in the service. Sud
denly he was struck in the face, fall
ing heavily and striking his head on
the curb. A fractured skull resulted
and he died without speaking. At the
time Gum was the officer in charge of
the Recruit the wooden battleship
in New York city. He was buried with
full military honorS, the flag-covered
casket being followed to the grave by
his sorrowing crew. Gum was born
in Massachusetts in 1872. He was ap-
pointed July 80, 1908, from New York
state, and the date of his rank as
chief boatswain being July so, 1909.
His previous service in the navy as an
enlisted man was fifteen years and
eight months. Gum retired from the
navy in 1910 and took UP aviation. At
the outbreak of the present war, he
returned to active service and was
placed on duty at Bridgeport, Conn.
He was preparing to take charge of a
mine-sweeping ship when his death
came.
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= once more the government has felt
called upon to rescue those who still
believe that it is possible to get some
thing for nothing, from the conse-
uuences of their own ignorance and
folly. The federal authorities have
called a big mail order house onto the
carpet The firm is accused of ad-
vertising sugar at a price below cost,
the purchaser, however, being re-
uuired to include a number of other
articles in his order. The scheme IS
an old one and has been worked prob
ably by some retailers in every town
of considerable size in the country
What would become of the people If
they did not have a government ready
and willing to keep them from MAX
ing foo1 of themselves, by removing
temptation so to do from their path
ways2 AS fast as one trap for the
gullible is destroyed another is set to
take its place and always there are
persons ready and waiting to take
the bait. The public should learn that
one merchant cannot and will not
persistently sell his wares cheaper
than another. When anything is sold
at a loss that loss must be made up
somewhere or else if such selling be
persisted in bankruptcy will follow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
DINNER STORIES

They say Boggs is crazy ON the
subject of golf and his wife is equally
crazy over auction sales"
Yes, and the funny part of it In
they both talk in their Sleep The
other night a ledger in the next flat
heard Boggs snort Forer and i'm
mediately Mrs. Boggs yelled -Four
and a quarteri'
1t was dull day in the trenches
and bunch of Tommies had gather
ed and were discussing events. After
a while the talk turned on a big boche
who had been captured the night be-
fore.
He was scared stiff" said one
Tommy.
Did he rum" asked another -
RUM" replied the first why. IL
that boche had just one feather in
his hand he'd "a flew"
A New York bride and groom began
their honeymoon by making a trip to
one of the southern ports by a coast
wise steamer.
The young BRIDE who took a lively
interest in the passengers, said one
day to her husband.
did you notice the great apDe-
tite of that stout man opposite us 1t
dinner2''
Yes" said her husband He must
be what they call stowaway-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08

his dim1nutive partner with a look
half amused, half bored. He was not
young like the rest Of them. he
might easily have been as old as Ann
herself. Ann looked, and figuratively
speaking, rubbed her eyes Where
had she seen that man before? And
then it came to her in flash of joy
Gus memory. In fact, it opened the
| locked door of the most treasured
memory of all. Back in her early
school days she had known that man.
He had been a boy then. with shy
brown eyes that were filled with
alteration for her, Ann Douglas. They
| had walked home from school together,
coasted together, rowed and picnicked
together. He had taken her to her
very first dance, he had paid the very
/ first compliment that brought a flush
to her cheeks. And then, the years
had drifted between, he had gone
away to college, to medical school.
Would he remember her? And what
was he doing here at this children's
party? AIMS heart beat quickly with
something more than expectancy. She
wanted him to see her, and yet she
was afraid. She turned her eyes away
lest he should see her staring.
But it was only minute later that
May Carberry's shrill voice sounded
quite close, and Ann was conscious of
tall presence beside her
Mother, this is DR.. Gibbons. And
Miss Douglas, one of our chaper
ones
His brown eyes were not shy any
longer, but there was something else
in them which had survived the years
between, something which had never
looked upon Ann from other eyes than
his. He looked at her a minute be-
fore he spoke.
Ann Douglas!" he exclaimed at
length. How did you come here? 1
didn't know you were in Edgedale."
Nnr 7 Io
| I'm only here for a few days, my
young cousin brought me to this party.
Do you still dance, Ann?''
Ann turned an anxious eye to-
ward Mrs. Carberry. DO chaperones
dancer" she asked.
"Oh, yes" nodded that lady induI-
| gently, that is-if they can
1t was not until he had whiled her
away and out on the cool veranda that
they had chance to talk things over
| He had written letters that she never
received, he had waited, thinking per-
maps to hear, some day. And best of
| all he had kept place for her in his
| heart, her place.
Gould you marry me now, Ann
after SO many years? 1t isn't as if
we were strangers. 1 want it to be
now, tomorrow
she cried with a little catch in her
voice. I'D want to get some
things q,
| Things? Dresses? Well it won't
: TAKE a week, will it? Why not three
days?''
| ON. Very well, three days"
And get some more pink things
| like that dress you have on, Ann. 1t
makes you look just about Is years
Old
| And thought looked 35v,
One of the children think if was
! Mary Acknowledgement to step ont
on the veranda a little later and see
| the chaperone with a mans arms
| about her us
winch goes to show, perhaps, that
Ann was not a fit person to chaperone
ABut then, she possessed decided nos
siollIt1es for another kind of career.
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are more .self-conscious-sex-
scious, he calls it-than men. This
accounts for their tinIidity before men
in general and their temerity with
man in particular. In their desire to
attract the latter they make clothes
their greatest ally. Hence, says this
observing employer. the woman who
is better dressed than her neighbors
is always self-conscious and therefore
less efficient, and the same is true of
the woman who is not as we'll dressed
as the others. The only way out of
this difficulty is to insist upon a uni
form.
The uniform, of course. is the
greatest safeguard against industrial
accidents, but it also makes the fac
tory safe for efficiency. There is
nothing like a plain blue uniform of
some unfadable material to keep
peace In the factory. The women may
object to it in the beginning, but 'it is
a popularity of feminine psychology
that women will accept any ruling
however disagreeable. provided it is
enforced lmpartia1ly and no favoritism
snoWn,f is the interesting conclusion
or this urer-psychologist.
mere Is difference of opinion
concerning this point however for
another employer came forward with
the statement that women are not as
Jealous as men, if there is lust rea-
son for the favoritism shown Thus
wnen the management OF his factory
learned that one of the women work
ers was attempting t. support a para
Iyzed husband and three children and
gave her more remunerative job
the other women did not object at
all, hut congratulated the manage
ment.
But from this it may be seen that
there is a wide difference in the
Psychology of the male and female
worker difference that must be
taken into account By all employers.
Some even go SO far as to assert that
there is difference between women
ard women, the masculine type of
woman being much harder to deal
with than the feminine type. Still,
these difficulties encountered in the
employment of women do not appear
to be insurmountable. if one may
| judge from the ever-increasing num-
Der of women handling industrial
| jobs.
Questions on the above or any sub
| ject upon which the reader desires in
Formation, should be addressed the
Topeka State Journal Information
Bureau, Frederic j. Haskin, Director
Washington, d. c., with a Scent
stamp enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
WHERE THERE is REAL SAVING

The national war savings commit
tee has sent out a statement on the
progress of the campaign for disposing
of war savings stamps and thrift
stamps, calculated to impress upon the
minds of the people the great value of
the proceeds from these stamps in sup
porting the war preparations of the
government. Up to February q the
receipts of the treasury from this
source amounted to S70,0O0.000 and
promised to amount to $40, 100000 for
that month alone. T-,ey were then
coming in at the rate of $2,000,0OO a
day This is stated to be equal to the
cost Of running the government ten
years ago, double the present daily
receipts of the postoffice department.
and more than double the customs re-
ceipts before the war.
The amount received daily, it is
said, is enough to build more than TO-
900 tons of shipping, and what had
been received at that date would sup
ply funds for building "a ships of s.
900 tons each.
1t is desired to extend the system
for disposing of the stamps and multi
plying the receipts by forming war
savings societies all over the country
which may be connected with govern
ment and business offices. clubs,
churches and all manner of social or
CARNATIONS. Judging by the way re-
ceipts were increasing in the last
month, it is said that there should be
no difficulty in attaining the $2,O00,-
100000 goal set by congress fer the
years campaign.
What would this signify? Not sim
ply that this great sum would be con-
tributed to the government expenses
to be returned with interest in time,
but that it would be done without pay
ing taxes on any property or business
process, or drawing capital or profit
away from productive operations
Mostly, if not entirely. this great fund
would come from what would other
wise be spent uselessly or wastefully
and possibly injuriously.
To save and invest the money in
this way would tend to form a useful
habit, says the New York Journal of
Commerce, and to stimulate interest
in public service and patriotic sem
timent in supporting the government
in the great cause of freedom and
safety for nations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
IS GERMAN COLLAPSE NEAR?

In the Magazine Section of last Sun
days New York Times an article ap-
peared from the pen of Doctor Ladd,
the emeritus professor of philosophy
at Yale university, under the title,
Germany Not Far From Collapse"
He declares that Germany is Sin des-
perate condition, is in fact on the
verge of a. total collapse" and pro-
ceeds to give his reasons for this con-
clusion.
Evidences are given of German des-
peration in the methods it has pur-
sued ever since the failure of its first
thrust, when it was in full strength
and those whom it made enemies were
utterly unprepared.
The strong and highly trained army
of four years ago has been greatly
depleted and renewed with material of
depreciating quality and subdued spi-
rit. 1t has nothing like the vigor and
confident or reckless courage of Aug
ust and September, 1914. There are
many indications of that, and that the
ruling power has lost much of its abil-
ity to keep up equipment and supplies
and take care of the people at home.
The government is loaded with debt
and the people exhausted by taxation.
All the means of production and dis
tribution are greatly impaired without
capacity for renewal.
During this process the outrages
committed and the betrayal of every
principle of honor or fairness or of
justice have destroyed all confidence,
incurred utter distrust and intensi-
fled enmity. Still, the old methods
of dealing are kept up and the same
ambition is cherished in varied form
The design for controlling Belgium,
Holland and northern France with q
view to domination over the Atlantic
was utterly defeated. Then the en-
ergy was directed to carrying out that
of a middle Europe power extending
eastward tc gain control and increase
possession in southern Asia and in
Africa. Notwithstanding much lack
in the resistance on that line all hope
of success seemed for the time being
to be abandoned.
Then came another turn. One of
the bars to domination was the en-
| pre- OF Russia; out, largely thru secret
propaganda and subtle influence over
discordant elements, the power of that
nation was undermined in order tina.
the course of Teutonic expansion
might take a northern route to a new
destination. This appears 20 Doctor
Ladd as "a sign of present desperation
and the presage of colossal blunder in
the future
Germany. he declares. sis not grow
| ing stronger and more to be feared as
| it loads itself to lower depths with this
intolerable burden But, perhaps,
the most immediate and threatening
form of Germany's rapidly increasing
spirit of desperation he says, .'con-
Germs its obvious inferiority to it's enc
mics in all manner of supplies neces-
sary to the successful conduct of war;
He finds it, in food, in finance, in mu-
nitions of every kind and in numbers,
morale and quality of it's fighting
force, NOW distinctly inferior to the
entente allies" while the gap Between
them is widening with every day of
| the continuance of the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.I

GFrom the Atchison Globe.]
1t will be quite spell before a
cigar is named after Trotzky.
So often a man who is well off gets
married and then finds that he isn't.
Most jokes are played on persons
who like to joke but don like to
take q joke.
Year in and year out the PEOPLE in
this country get as much liberty as
any people is entitled to.
People seem to delight in strange
noises. That is why there are so
many crazy automobile horns.
Perhaps your prayers are unan-
swered because when you pray for
rain you mention only your own gar
den.
An Atchison family moves so fire.
quently that the citizens have become
involved in a row. About half of the
citizens take the view that the fam
lily never pays rent. while the other
half adheres to the opinion that the
family would rather move than clean
house
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nations need as have the men with
money we might have been able to
make more advance than we have.
In no instance, it is believed. has cap
ital struck for higher returns. 1t
might have done so when bonds were
offered at Y but it did not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08

The world may never produce an
other Napoleon, but if one should ap-
pear now he would find a job ready to
his hand in Russia. Aside from few
loud mouthed anarchists of the Boil
sheviki type, Russia doubtless would
welcome the return of a monarchy of
the constitutional sort. And who can
say that the thing is impossible :?
There are those who believe that the
Grand Duke Nicholas could turn the
trick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
Lifting by Rising.

TerSe Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
Peoples Observation-Disclosures En-
deavor, Etc.-For March To-:
Making the Most of Ourselves -
Eph. 4:11-16.
We sing of broken and empty
vessels" and it is a glorious truth that
when our best is only a broken and
empty offering God receives it and
uses it. But too many lazy Christians
have justified their uselessness on this
principle When we have it in our
we dishonor Him if we lay at His feet
a broken offering of clay. He desires
and deserves both the best that we
are and have and the best that We can
be and obtain. Anything short of our
highest abilities cannot be an accept
able offering to our Heavenly Father.
who gave the best that Heaven held to
US who deserved nothing.
The gospel stimulates ambition. 1t
lays upon every convert the obliga-
ton to be an excellent man or woman
When the spirit of Christ possesses a
person it fills him with longing to be
the best and to do the most possible.
The entrance ef Christ into a life or
a nation inevitably means the growth
of that life or nation toward the most
desirable things.
Honorable ambition is the lever by
which the world is lifted upward. A
fair criticism of these times might
be that there is too little ambition, or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08

1t now appears that Germany has
been sinking ships faster than the
remainder of the world could build
them. Japan, one of the great ship
building countries among the allies,
has been forced to suspend work in
her yards almost entirely because the
United States has refused to furnish
her steel for which she holds con-
tracts. Our embargo on steel ship
ments to Japan is not due to our
lack of a surplus. Japan has an ex-
PLANTATION that is far from creditable
to this country. What is ours?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08

Having failed in several attempts to
become president of the United States,
Bryan has become president of fed
GRAFTON of prohibition societies. This
may prove a step toward becoming
the candidate of the new National
party in 1920.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
The Table.

Veal Loaf-Three pounds veal,
one-quarter pound pork, one egg, one
pint cracker crumbs, butter size of
an egg, four tablespoons sweet milk,
salt and pepper to taste.
Cheap Molasses Cookies-Place can
of Orleans molasses in oven until
warm enough to flow. Take one CLIP
of this warm molasses. one cup sugar,
one small cup shortening, one cup
water or sweet milk, three heaping
teaspoons baking powder. Stiffen
with half graham flour and half white
flour (winter wheat). Makes four
dozen very delicious cookies at small
cost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-08

The, Huns continue to wage war
on Russia, regardless of the signing
Of treaty of peace. This has led
Ensign Krylenko. commander in chief
of the Russian forces, to ask the Ger
man commanders if they have taken
the measures necessary to call off the
dogs of war. The inquiry may be
classed as foolish question No
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