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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25
Centenary Campaigners Give Aid
To Government and Offer Service
OF Vast Organizc5si'ora For Loan
Patriotism Makes Many Vital
Changes in Plans of Meth
odist Episcopal Church for
It's $iO5,O0O,OOO Financial
Drive

Patriotism has made vital changes
n the plans of Methodist Episcopal
church leaders for the Centenary
:ampaign and both the spiritual and
financial programs outlined will be
made 10 harmonic with plans of the
government announced after the Gen.
enary schedule had been made out.
The Centenary financial campaign
or $1O5,OO0,0O0 fund to back the
iye-year program Of home and for
ign missionary work was scheduled
months ago to open on April II and
each its climax on May 4. Last
month plans for the Victory Loan
campaign were announced and Sec
etary Carter Glass of the. treasury
department. requested that the Cen
enary financial drive be postponed.
st a meeting in Columbus of the
executives OF the Centenary commit
.ees it was decided to open the
financial campaign on May IS:
Without the spur of war TO drive
hem on it was feared that the splen-
lid campaign organization built up
~ Liberty Loan workers might have
)ecome weakened. Again the Meth
,dists rallied to the government and
t was decided to offer to Secretary
1lass the $4,000 Minute Men or
sanized for the Centenary and the
lid of the Methodist press and the
Centenary publicity department in
prosecuting the loan campaign.
every detail of our plans that
might in the least detract from the
:orce of the loan campaign has been
made to harmonize," declared Dr..
Appleton Bash, executive secretary of
the Centenary in the Pittsburgh area.
During the loan campaign no con-
Hicting general conventions will be
held and wherever special or regular
Centenary meetings are held the loan
campaign will be pushed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25
FOX TROTS ON
LIBERTY LEGS
Limbs Blown Off by Shell, But
This Man Continues to Trip
Light, Fantastic Toe to Jazz
Accompaniment.

Lillard Evans is a colored soldier
BOY who had both legs blown off il
action. He lives for the present at
Letterman General Hospital at the
Preside in San Francisco. He can
and does dance fox trots and one
steps. How? Why?
OF course to dance a fox trot or
one-step fellow has to have legs
good legs. Well, Evans has them
not his own legs of flesh and bone,
but his own willow legs with joints
and everything. He is going to leave
Letterman pretty soon and go back to
work and make his living and prob
ably get married and raise children.
That's the how.
The why of it is-the government
of the United States has gone in for
leg and arm making. 1t is giving a
( specially built leg or arm or hand or
a pair of legs OF arms or hands to ev-
cry soldier who lost his legs or arms
in the war. At Letterman in particu-
lar L0Sy are udhluS LIDoiIy 1859 "AAN
arms and hands in their own work
shop. They are making them because
they have hit upon better artificial
limb than some manufacturers were
turning out
This is one phase Of the reconstruc'
ton work that Uncle Sam is quietly
carrying on. 1t is one of the least ex'
pensive. but it is costing hundreds OF
thousands OF dollars. Remember that
when Uncle Sam comes a-knocking at
your door with the Victory Liberty
Loan. Much of the money you will
lend is going to regenerate these
men who gave of their flesh and blood
for their country.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25
Brave Rescue of Comrade.

Hearing a cry for help, James Rob
ertson McGregor, fireman, third class.
attached to the training station at
Newport, r. l., jumped into the bay
without waiting to remove his cloth
ing and, Notwithstanding darkness had
set in, succeeded in rescuing an ap-
prentice seaman who was in the water
in an unconscious condition. McGregor
has been in the service since last May,
when he enlisted at Albany, n. Y.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25
SAVING BEATS EARNING:
TOO BAD ESAU DIDN'T
LIVE TO ENJOY 1T ALL.

If Esau and Jacob who lived
some six thousand years ago,
were still alive, and if Esau had
earned SO every day, and had
saved it all, he would have
S21,9OO.O00. On the other hand,
if Jacob had deposited 81 at l
per cent. interest, compounded
every 100 years, he would have
today sN6,46o,752,3O3,4 25, 4SS.
Can anyone figure out how
much Jacob would have had had
he purchased one SIS War Saw
ing Stamp then, which pays in
terest at the rate Of 4 per cent,
compounded four times every
year? There is an idea in all
this: How much would every
child have if its parents should
start it out with q S. stamp, and
: then encourage the youngsters
to save?
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25

youth Of this sum a considerable
amount will be spent on educationa
work in our own United States.
Of the foreign-born white people
In this country more than twelve pei
cent are illiterate; of the Negroes
over thirty per cent; Of the Chinese
over fifteen per cent; of the Japanese.
over nine per cent, and of the North
American Indians, over forty-fve pei
cent. Inmany cases, especiallyin that OF
the older foreign-born, the Church can
teach these people to speak English
to read and write, and to understand
American customs and laws, when
the public school does not reach
them.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25
Ereddv's HpoIiShH

Freddy lived next door to some new
" landed Poles who had boy his age.
One day Fred's mother heard him
mumbling some unintelligible stuff to
the foreign boy and said, what on
earth are you talking like that to that
boy for?"
'"Cause," said Freddy, she can't
talk English, so l have to talk Polish
to him."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25

Another change made in the Cen
tenary program is extension of the
celebration at Columbus of the hun.
dredth anniversary of the mission
work by the Methodists. The Ohio
state fair grounds were engaged fol
an immense exposition, to be staged
by missionaries and natives from all
parts of the world. The dates orig
inally set were from June 20 to
July 7, but so imperative were the
demands that more time be allowed
that it was decided to continue the
celebration to July Is.
Speakers of international promi.
nence will add to the attractiyeness
of the celebration and the hall where
they will speak will be an attraction
in itself for it is pronounced sec
ond to none in America in it's ac-
coustic properties. 1t will seal
10000 persons and those in the
farthest part or the hall can hear
a speaker of only ordinary strength.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25
Liberty Loan Levity

Let the nation go dry, said Bill
Clancy,
Who was fond Of his drink-plaln or
fancy.
Twice the price Of round
Makes a payment, I've found,
On a bond--and there's no row with
Nancy.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25
METHODIST CHURCHES
EXCEEDING CENTENARY
j QUOTAS BEFORE drive

Three Methodist churches in the
Pittsburgh area have exceeded thei1
Centenary quotas before the financial
drive for s1O5,OOO,OGO for the five
year Centenary program has been Of
fcially opened The campaign viii
not begin until May Is yet the
churches at ToWnyille, and Polk in
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25

Fifty-three thousand young men and
women are being recruited and
trained for social and religious work
at home and abroad, the biggest sin
gle project Of the kind in the his
tory of Christianity, it. was an.
nounced here today at the offices Of
the Missionary Centenary Movement
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25

of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
This army of trained workers Will
be needed to handle skillfully the
world missionary program, for VIII CD
$120,000,00O is being raised by the
church. Extension Of schools, hos
pitfalls and churches in many Coun
tries is being n1@rned.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-25

Mention Recorder in answering advs
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02

company of National Guards in his home town and had served with them in Mexico. His friends in Kirkville and Macon always address him as Jim Rieger.''
 Just before the great battle in which his battalion was destined to suffer so severely, and which action caused his promotion by General Pershing on the battlefield, Major Rieger wrote vile:
 Front Lines, Oct, 21, 1918.
 Just Before the Battle.
 The long, long night marches had ended the dragging of weary fec through mud and debris was over. The groping through rain and black ness, made doubly so by dense forest, was done and now, concealed in the forest of the Argonne by day, the army of attack quietly rested.
 The order of battle was handed me and I read it to my assembled battal- ion. The day for which the long training, danger and hardships had been incurred had come at last. We were to attack the hill where 10000 French soldiers had fallen in defeat two years before; but death was there, artillery, machine guns. mines, wire, trenches, tunnels, q mighty stronghold We were to be ably supported I told my men all.
 The order was received in silence: their faces took on a, determined look, but no fear was there. I noticed them later; all wore smiles, for the hour of vindication had come: soon was heard
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02

came and opened a dry goods store there and my father practiced his pro- fession.
 "I heard the debate between Lincoln and Douglas ill the town of Freeport, sitting on Lincolns lap while Douglas spoke and on DougL .s's lap while Lin coin spoke. l recollect only that one man was tall and the other short, and that the short man irritated me by batting the top of my lead"
 Few men are so ready for self-con- demnation for what they regard as faults or mistakes as is Vice President Marshall. He furnished historic in stance of this unusual and amiable trait at the dedication of the Altar c Liberty in Madison Square. New York city, on September 28 last.
 "I came here," he said, partly to make an apology, an apology for my attitude during almost two years and half of the fateful conflict; an apology that a C"d-fearing man in the twentieth century of civilization could have dreamed that any nation, any people or any man could be neutral when right was fighting with wrong.
 For five years last past I have been wondering what it profited a man to gain the vice presidency if he lost himself; for I have been one of those who believed in the individual, who thought that he constituted .he unit of civilization, and I still so believe:
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02

and l here and now aVOW my faith that the world is only to be made safe for democracy when every man will search his soul and prove himself worthy to be a democrat.
 Six months before, during the cen tennial celebration of the Royal Arch MasOns at Wilmington, Del, speaking of the participation of the United States in the war Mir Marshall said:
 The time has come when man can no longer answer God with Gains old cry, Am I my brothers keeper?' For 5000 years men have made this an swer. Thank God that the American people have had the courage to an swer to that cry, Yes, under God, we are brOtherS' *
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02

gether were the notes of love and protection of mother and Jesus-an others were forgotten.
 Later I heard those same voices when in the attack; not now the soft voice of song, but the shout of combat a mighty roar! The voice of the people Is not the voice of God but the mighty voice of soldier men. Seaing before them those who had nil1aped and murdered and burned and an. Si8Neo' they became as the avengers Of God and spoke with His voice and acted with His power. Never will forget their look, their voice! We swept everything before us. capturing and Wounding and killing the enemy ln the lace of artillery and machine guns worked with desperate speed.
 heard voices again, now subdued- they were of mother and Jesus still 1 heard the WOunded-not a cry, just a song, strong for mother as the wounded one felt the earth strong he meath him, but a sort of farewell to her who bore him and a clinging to an unseen hand of power as life slowly slipped away.
 Mother, you are honored above the king, the president, the general. the great of earth. The song of heroes fs of you. Could you ask more than to be first and last by those whom the liberty-loving world delights to honor? Your name and that of Jesus bound together in a hero's life and death. Mother behold thy son; son, behold thy mother"
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02

or WHAT does a soldier think the night before he goes into battle?
 In the Luxembourg, Paris, is a mas terpiece of E6ouard Detaille entitled The Dream" It shows long line of French soldiers sleeping near their stacked muskets. Sleeping with them are their dogs. In the clouds above is a vision of 0 victorious army charg- ing beneath the banners, cheering as they move onward
 According to the painter of dra. maIc scenes. ''victory' was the thing or the soldiers mind the night before the battle
 1t happened that a Missouri soldier in France wrote to his wife just before the battle after which he was pro- noted from major to lieutenant colonel for Gallantry in action. Major j. E. Rieger of I<irkville, Mo- led into at tack on the Argonne forest a battalion of 1000 men, of which only 400 came out uninjured. A machine-gun bullet broke Major Rieger's field glasses and he was struck by a piece of shrapnel. He commanded the Second Battalion, 139th Regiment, Thirty-tifth Division, A. E. F., in the Argonne battle.
 Major Rieger is a lawyer, we'll known in the Second Judicial Circuit of Missouri. He is a tall slender man, with peculiarly keen eyes and is quick Of movement. He speaks with a mu- sical draWl and in manner is as gentle as a woman. For many years before the war he drilled and commanded 8
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02
Secret Diplomacy

"AVhen this war is over we may not have what we had when the war be- gan; we may lose some of our tradi- tions. When the American people know what the right is they stand for the right. Patriotism from now on is going to consist of a determinat ton to make any sacrifice that the country's honor may be maintained. Don't talk of your rights. What counts is your willingness to make sacrifice"
 One of the objects which he said he hoped the war would attain was the abolition of secret treaties. "I want this fight to go on to the end" he said.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02
In the Legal Profession

1t was the e!Oquence of these law yers that decided young Marshall to choose the legal profession. "For," be says, it was while listening to them that l thought a lawyer had the Oppor- tunity O. doing as much good in the yet. No lawyer will Sly that 1 ever did a mean act during my twoscore years at the bar of Indiana or that I took advantage of the law or was in different to my cath as a sworn off cer of the court. I make no boast; I simply want it understood that my early ideals of the profession were practicable and that I made an honest attempt to live up to them under all circumstances"
 Even before his school days MT. Marshall delighted in listening to de- bates, and interesting in this connec- ton is the story he tells of the Lin coln- Douglas debate which he at tended.
 When 1 was two years old" he said, my mother being ill with a malady of the lungs. we lett Indiana and moved west in a covered wagon. My father, who was q very competent physician, said that life in the open was good for cOnsumptives. We stopped at Champaign, III. My uncles
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02
"7sf Before he Bate'-ReveZatio of Soldiers Heart

the songs about mother, short stanzas of baby songs, cradle rhymes, lullabies of mother. Manly voices, harsh, un- trained, unmusical, became sweet with melody; each his own hearts deepest longing was giving express sion. Wife, sister, friend-al forgot ten-just mother. Then, as the truth came to them that some might not re- turn, long-fOrgOtten songs of religion, learned in days gone by. were heard songs of the Lord. And mingled to-
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02

ernor . the Democratic ticket in 1908 dis wife was with hip on all his cam, paign tours. He said afterward:
 It was reported that Mrs. Marshall was a committee of one appointed by my campaign managers to see to it that kept sober. This, of course. was bit Of pleasantly gotten up for political effect; for as a matter of fact, l never drink any kind of. liquor. not even at banquets."
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02

No compromise. No secret treaty. 1 want the Senate of the United States to remove the ban of secrecy from the discussion of peace questions so that this people may know what their rep resentatives propose to do. I want this peace, when it is made to repre- sent the high ideals. the lofty aspira- tiOns and the sacrifcial spirit of the whole American people"
 Many years before, Mr. Marshall as Governor, in a message to the Legis lature of Indiana clearly indicated his abhOrrence of secrecy in diplomacy. It had not then, however, taken the con- crete form into which the war has caused it to be crystallized in his mind in regard to secret treaties. He said to the legislators:
 Tt is not unlawful for you to hold private conferences, but it Is inexpedi- ent. If you are wise you will avoid the appearance of evil.
 Beware of the man who wishes to show you good time the day after he has been introduced to you. He has an ax to grind, and he intends to chop his own wood with it.
 There is no money in honest public service He who flies high in public office has some one holding the strings of his kite. Beware of the hightiier.
 "By way of warning let me suggest that your constitutional immunity from arrest does not mean that brib- cry will go unpunished. If personal interest be permitted to thWart the public will. you must be justly con- demned. If log-rolling and swapping votes be allowed to pass pet measures, you will be charged very justly with being spoilsmen rather than leSisla- tors. Your success or failure will be measured by the standard of whether you wisely enact legislation for the interests of the whole citizenship of this State.'
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02
Satire for Corruption

ATr. Marshall is serving his second term as Vice President. He was elected the first time as MT. Wilson's running mate. in 1912, and again i'll 1916 He has always been the cham pion of absolute honesty in public as well as private life; and has endeared himself by the dry humor of the satire with which he cauterizes corruption and injustice of every kind.
 When MT. Marshall was sworn in for his second term of the vice presi' dency, March ,, 1917, this country was on the verge of going to war. AS MT. Marshall's tendencies had been out spokenly neutral, he could not very gracefully give vent, in his inaugural address, to sentiments of belligerent nature, nor would 1t have been tact full at that time to say anything that might have savored of a desire to halt the trend of circumstances, which were decidedly warlike. His inaugural address may therefore be regarded as a masterpiece of adroitness. Its brevity, too, was record-breaking for that species of speeches.
 "Everywhere ill America" he said, 'are clanant and strident voices pro- claiming the essential clements of patriotism. He who seeks out of them all to select one clear note of love for country may fail. l conceive it to be far more important to examine myself than to cross-examine another May
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02
Educated at W ab ash

MT. NIarsnalls fondness for talking is the result of early training as we'll as of natural disposition.
 Tt was believed at Wabash College, where I studied four years," he said. that, as Lord Bacon puts it. reading rate man and talking a ready man. I
New Britain herald., 1919-01-02

II fors any reasl l x H. 6arise on the part of President, " NJ n eo perform the duties of his office those duties automatically devolve upon the Vice President. The Constitution pro. vides for this.
 Under ordinary circumstances a Vice Presidents chief obligation appears to be sefeffacement There probably is no other public functionary in the country whose badge of office is so closely and completely linked with a modest oblivion.
 And now. all of sudden, the spot. light is turned upon him. For the question has been raised by no less distinguished q jurist than George w. Wickersham, former United States At torney General. whether the courts might not even proceed to man damus" Vice President Marshall to perform the presidential duties by rea- son of the mere fact that President Wilson is out of the country. Although the consensus of opinion among other distinguished lawyers is that President Wilson's absence from the country is in full accord With his threefold capacity as treaty maker and 
 commaL der -in-chief of the army and of the navy. and that therefore the ina bility," contemplated by the Constitu- tion does not apply, nevertheless the fact remains that the question has been mooted, and Vice President Marshall himself has declared that, if ordered by competent tribunal. he would, as a law-abiding citizen, acquiesce, and take seat in the presidential chair Il Am a Fatalist" Meanwhile, however, be it known. Mir. Marshall is not allowing this dis cussion to interfere with his slumbers. He is firm believer il the doctrine and what will be will be. Shortly after his election as Governor of h. diana i'll 1910, he said in an interview;
 T am. in a measure, fatalist. In my law practice and everything else do all that | can while l am in the fight: but l never worry about the outcome. | am not responsible for re- suits. If my client is accused of crime and the jury is out I so to bed and to sleep and get the news after break fast in the morning. What is to be will be, and staying awake won't change it..
 Vice President Marshall, born March I4, 1854, at North Manchester, Ind, is & scion of the Virginia family of Mar. shalls, one of whom, his granduncle. was the world-famous John Marshall. Chief Justice of the United States. And on his mothers side he is a descendant of Charles Carroll of Carrolton, sianer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence..
 In 1873, when he was nineteen, MT, Marshall was graduated from Wabash College with the degree of bachelor of arts. The reputation which he estab- lished for himself in scholarship at college has never been rivaled there.
 On his twenty-frst birthday anniver- sary he was admitted to the Indiana bar and soon became known as one of the ablest lawyers in that State.
 Tn 1893 he was appointed special Judge of the Circuit Court at Angola, Ind. The deputy clerk of this court was Miss Lois Kimsey, the daughter of the chief clerk. Her wit, vivacity, brilliant conversational powers and