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The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-07-24
II Is Like Mustard Seed-Like
Leaven

II has small beginnings but il
spreads nightly. Beginning in an
obscure Manager. in a forgotten inn,
it soon reaches out over empires.
Like leaven it changes, it trans
forms by contact. Men who were
sinners through its power become
men Of sanity lives. Selfish men
become unselfish, the proud become
lovers of their fellow men.
National currents of thought -
ancient. racial customs. usages, as
old as history, 49, give way before
its Transforming influence.
II is the creator of new and world
wide sentiment.
It comes not with observation,
with strict watching. II is not
labeled. It's seed is hidden deep in
the heart.
Paul says it is not meat and drink,
not observance of religious rites,
of baptism. of sacraments, of doing
religious things. and meeting eccle-
siastical requirements.
Else had the Pharisees with their
tithes of mint, anise, and cummin,
their scrupulous observance Of
multiplied detail
Else would the monks Of the mid
die age - with their prayers and
HASTINGS, their penances and masses,
have brought the kingdom of God TO
earth.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-07-24
BRINGING IN GODS KINGDOM
CONTINUED From Page one)

Christ says it is like a treasure
hid.
Men who know Spiritual values
will sell all that they have to pos
sess it. For this Moses forsook the
Court Of Egypt and refused career
of Princely power. For this Daniel
refused to denle himself with deli
cacies from the Kings table. Saul
the Pharisee seeking for this King
dom suffered the loss of all things
that he might become a preacher
of the Christ whom once he perse-
cufpd.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-07-24
MUST APOLOGIZE
TO AMERICAN FLAG
MEN READY TO ACT IF ORDERS
ARE ReJecTGD-FIRM ON
AMENDS BY cARRANzA.

Arrest Of All Offenders Is Sought In
capital-President Considering Ae-
ton BY congress-Daniels Orders
Complete Report OF Robbery.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-07-24
1t Comes Not With Scientific
Discovery

Science with all its discoveries,
its mastery of earth, the realms OF
the air, and of The sea, its great ad-
vances into the secret of nature has
not yet brought to light the secret
of happiness. Through its perver-
sion and the misuse Of knowledge.
it has added to the horrors of war.
the poison gas, the submarine, -
the aerial bombing of hospitals. 1t
taught US that intelligence and Sci
entilic discovery, the greatest of the
gifts of God, through their misuse
may add immeasurably TO the sum
total of misery. Science has not
brought in the Kingdom of God.
But misused. brought the world
nearer ia hell
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-07-24
Not Through Social Uplift


The Kingdom of God comes not
through social uplift yet invari-
ably it means the uplift of society
on every line. II will not come
by better housing; for from
many howell the song of praise and
JOY in God has assembled heaven
ward. Yet the Kingdom Of God will
bring better housing.
II will not come through santa
tlon: for from many a foul dungeon
of The inquisitiOn, from the prisons
and jails of Europe have shone
forth the spirit of Christ.
Education will not bring it. Wit
ness Germany.
But wherever the Kingdom OF
God is planted there we find the
conditions Of humanity made better.
The slave is set free, vice dimin-
ishes and man comes nearer TO his
own.
Its Source Is Spiritual, Not Material
II is from GOd-but comes only
with the choice of men. They may
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-07-24
II Comes Not By Wealth

Wealth may procure royal ban
quets, feasts that are supplied from
the four corners of the earth with
every delicacy known to human
taste, yet from these banquets men
arise weary and stated, ready for
deeds of cruelty and oppression.
Wealth may procure palaces, and
build them with marble. ivory and
gold, it may crafty every sense, but
wealth excludes but one evil, that
is poverty. II cannot exclude dis
ease, it cannot detain the foOt-step
Of death, il will not comfort the
mOurner nor will il purchase hap
piness.
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cullnc minds. On this point, though
absolutely inexpert, men show a sur
prlsing snobbishncss. A dress of
the latest style appeals to them. In
capable of having opinions of their
own on what constitutes real grace
or true elegance, they feel treasured
only in the presence of that which
bears the stamp of fashion. Almost
certain that they cannot 20 wrong in
the case Of woman whose prestice
IS established by her dressmaker.
their approval fixes on her, and moth
ing can be more neglected or pass
more unnoticed than a poor little
creature whose appearance shows
that she has not given all her pre-
occupations to the clothes she wears.
Octavie's plan is heroic.
She selects to wear at the dinner
party gown which she has had for
tour years and in which she looks
about ten years older than she
really is.
-Four years leave gown cxtrav-
agantly out of date. So when she
enters the salon the shock of sur
prise is followed by painful silence.
The women say:
That poor little creature hasn't a
sou left"
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wife wisely, because he was odiously
jealous Of her.
People pretend - and perhaps
plausibly-that there can be no true
love without jealousy. But that de-
pends on the form jealousy takes.
With Freteur the form was most ex-
asperating.
Suspicious and prying, he spied on
octavie's goings and comings, al
ways putting the worst possible in
terpretatlon on them. This hus-
band was ever on his guard. Oc-
tavie's tenderness, sincerity and
sweetness calmed him only for brief
periods. On the slightest pretext
Freteur would show himself again
dlstrustful and would persecutc the
unfortunate woman with absurd
illusions and singing comments.
Octavie, loving her husband with
all her heart, thought only Of dis
arming him by gcntleness. She even
considered herself exceptionally
happy because she was beloved in
this tyrannical and harshly proprie-
tary manner.
30, on certain evening the green
monster had been unusually active.
The Freteurs were to dine with
their friends, the Gilbcrts, a big af-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
HEROISM-Bv Perre Vadaan

turn away his glances from the wife
who has given him the greatest
proof of love, perhaps, that woman
can give?
The Freuteurs are home again.
Octavie, happy and full of affection,
throws her arms about her husbands
neck
"Well? Are you satisfied with
me? Has your evening been a tor
ment, as you were afraid it would
be? Did you notice that discovered
the best means of discouraging other
men from paying court to me?"
Freteur looks at her with an ex-
preston at once gloomy and furious.
He holds her off, examines her.
smiles bitterly and shrugs his shoul-
ders. Then he bursts out:
Il must admit, my poor Octavie.
that when you set out to have orig
lnal ideas you succeed beyond all ex-
pectations. What get-up yours
was! You were really ridiculous.
AT gathering at which thought
| was going to be proud Of you you
must confess that you hardly did
me honor. God knows that / don't
like Nine. Jacquard. God knows
that l care nothing for Nine. Gouce-
lin. But they took pains to dress an
propriately. I admit that was
somewhat ashamed Of you. Please
spare me such humiliation in the
future. Just think of It'll Valentin
dc Mougle, who Is ordinarily so taken
with you, hardly talked to YOU at
ALL"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

tar, at which many prominent men
and an equal number Of elegant and
attractive women were to be present
Since morning Alfred had been
in the dumps. He had responded to
his wife's anxious questions by
avowlng his apprehensions:
An, my dear, I almost wish that
you were horrible monster, beauti-
tul only in my eyes! At this dinner
you will appear a hundred times
more charming than all the other
women who will be there. You will
attract everybody's attention, Oc-
tavle! The men will pay court to
you! Especially that Valentin de
Mougle, whom detest and whom I
fear, because he has a manner of
conversation which is very seduc-
tive. My evening will be one long
torment"
You are a big goose, but I love
you,' Octavie had answered. "As
to the dinner, I don't want it to be y
torment to you. have an idea. Let
me try it out"
Octavie's idea was simple. Since
she lacked neither observation nor
Intelligence, she knew we'll enough
the enormous Importance which n
woman's toilette possesses in mas
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His Development
Further along one reads:

Further along one reads:
"Alexander Stirling Calder, the son
of sculptor of note, started life with
the gifts of inheritance and environ
ment. What a chance is a nursery in a
studio, and a lump of clay as a play
thing!
"Calder senior saw that the plav
thing was there, and before the days
when Froebel's kindergarten was en-
tablished in this country the young
sculptor was using his fingers and
learning his technique under a parents
watchful eye. However, the lads real
ambition was to be a soldier, but West
Point being impracticable he drifted, at
first alphabetically, into sculpture. The
pennsylvania Academy was but a
stones throw from his fathers work
shop, and on leaving school he was
put there under that arch disciple of
anatomical form, Thomas Eakins. After
four years in the institution he went
to Paris. There for two years he
studied under the sculptors Chapu
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

and Falguiere. On his return his
first commission was a portrait of the
great anatomist, DR.. Sameul Gross, of
Philadelphia, a subject which his
earlier master, Eskins, had painted
in life size surrounded by his students
at clinic.
"This success was quickly followed
by other portrait commissions, and the
new man might have spent his days
in complacently making living at
portraiture but for the promptings
toward the ideal which the nature of
sculpture aroused, this, coupled with
an interest in design and its applica-
tion to architecture, an avenue opening
to a much larger field
"Such originality was first evoked
in fountain donated to the univer-
sity by the class of '92, which for a
man in his twenties was most credit
able performance, but the promising
touch of genius must be found in the
pair of drinking cups, the handles of
which show an athlete doubled into a
handspring upon the cups bottom.
"In the period which followed, and
before that great opportunity came
which is the gilded Mecca to the
sculptors outlook - the international
Exposition, Calder was busy with
many themes, developing himself along
as many lines, but always in his own
way, seeking within rather than with
out, and seeing opportunity in the
humblest as we'll as the loftiest offer
ing"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

The men think, without looking at
her twice:
"Mme. Freteur is very badly
dressed"
She is, indeed, very badly dressed.
She seems insignificant, uncomfort-
able, awkward in her movements.
Worse than that, her hair is ar
ranged most unbecomingly. She
looks like some nice little woman
from the Notwithstanding more.
10 keep in her role she also effaces
herself in the conversation and
utters only banalities, although she
is usually capable Of a certain drv.
malicious humor.
Octavie Freteur suffers a little. It
is not without some chagrin that she
sees the honors Of the evening going
to the insupportable Nine. Goucelin
and the stupid Nine. jacquard. But
she consoles herself by gazing at her
husband, who ought to be able to
sec that she is neglected and that all
the attentions Of the men are law
ished on those other women who are
striving most eagerly to please.
Why, then, doesn't Alfred Freteur
smile at her2 Why don he wear
that air of inQulotuda and purposelv
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
III. LOU LOCKER

CHE Was aUelJ knoiUn IN town.
~ Eren the nice aUomen knew her
By sight
And hated her.
She didn't blame them,
And she felt rather sorry
Because some Of their husbands
came to her.
She toos quite good-heorted and gay,
But she had been born without
morals
As guinea pigs are born without
tails.
Then Wor came.
War whose greed for men scas
greater than hers;
War Whose poaOer over men wos
greater than hers;
Mems feet marched away from her.
She 1cent to an army camp,
BIT they found her out
And sent her array.
She acandered from place to place
But there acre no men.
She hated War.
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III. MRS. DICK RATHBURN

~ VERY evening she 1caited for
IL him at the 1oindoao.
He acould aUaUe his paper gayly
And bound up the steps three at a
time.
She would tell him,
Signing contentedly against his
shoulders,
Your homecoming is the best part
of the day."
And one evening,
When he ,oaved his paper as gayly
as erer,
He did not know that Wor 1cas lurk-
ing IN its pages.
Var the misogynist--
War who grinds the hearts of
acomen
"A corn IN q MILL
In the slime ridden, blood soaked
trenches
He thought of her
Her image famed IN his soul.
znvalided home
He found her faithless.
81 acos lonely" she said.
'There acas no one to 4Uoit for IN
the evenings."
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vi. MRS. SKACCS

II EFORE her baby a0as born she
IL had been very sick;
And he had said to his pals IN, the
corner saloon,
"My old a0oman is going to kick the
bucket-IW get her insa4r-
0nce."
The old aOoman, aoho aUas eighteen,
Had her baby, and got aveU.
He deserted her,
And she hadn't seen him for twelve
months,
Ercept for the night he came to her
sisters aUake-
The1, he only stayed an hour.
She hadn't minded so much his not
supporting her,
# he had only shoaved some interest
IN the baby.
Then War came
War, the prostitute, acho acants all
IN the paper she saw his name
among those drafted.
Because she had her marriage cer-
tifcate
He acas forced to aUot her half his
pGy;
And the government gaze her an
allowance.
To her, Var meant Justice
And getting evem.
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old exhibition hall of the West Tenth
Street studio building where a genera
ton or more ago as a student | visited
the late William NJ. Chase. He had
just arrived from Munich with a flour
ish Of trumpets, and had set up in the
largest Of New York studios. Ones
knock was then answered by a negro
in a red fez; the door as it opened
automatically gave forth music from
stringed instrument which died away
in the screech of macaws and parrots;
a greyhound stretched himself from a
polar rug; in each corner were cano-
pied dvans; the whole great apartment
was a riot Of color.
"To-day it was difficult to realize
that one stood at the same threshold.
The walls, tinted in high key, confront
ed the visitor with a severe formality
a classic quietude reigned. Statues
in clay and plaster stood with a certain
mute disdain for the intruder who
would call from his work the master
Of the place.
ut was natural sequence of thought
that prompted a comparison of the
present and the former occupant-the
painter and the sculptor-a pleasant
opportunity for applying the Plutarch-
ian balances.
81 we'll remember how Chase, small
of statue and bristlng with enthusiasm.
had walked up and down this sumpt-
uous apartment declaring that he had
secured a big place because he wanted
to do big compositions; but they never
came. Chase was too much of a tech
nlclan Tor big enterprises. His mind
was more closely focused on the how
than the what of art, and this easy
mastery of the way of putting on paint
was more absorbing to Chase, the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
~. BENJAMIN THOMAS

IN HIS thin, undersized bodu
Vas the soul Of cave man.
He 0ould alaoays be bramdishing O.
club
Or ~'eiding a boyonet.
War ,tcas has favorite Mistress
And Var, the beautiful, came to
him. e
War a0ith its flying bomners,
Like beckoning fingers;
War aoith its Turing laughter and
red kisses.
He tried every branch of the ser-
vice and failed.
He soid the doctors socre DANA, fools
Because they uouidn't take him,
He stopped speakdmg to his friends
Who Weye oGicers--
And gveD thinner and wJ,itcr.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
War;:
How 1t Affected Our Town
By Margretta Scott
IN "The Touchstone"

And life 1Uould begin.
The acaiting 1Uas an imterlude-
And she spent the interlude taking
an seacing
And studying nursing at night.
When War came she felt little
trailing glov of aUarmth go
through her,
As though hot hand had passed
over her body.
She stopped se10i71g
And devoted all her time to 1ursino.
Finally she Wds sent ouer there
And acas awarded a medal for stay
ing at her post under fire.
And fell IN Iove 1Uith q soldier.
Her door had opened-ond her door
aUas War.
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Z 7HEREVER Alfred Freteur
" and his young wife, Octavie,
appeared there was a flut

appeared there was a hut-
ter of sympathy. This sympathy
went out to them because they
adored each other and we're not
afraid to let it be known.
In contrast with so many other
households, where things go only
$3.50, that of the Freteurs appeared
to be distinguished by complete
understanding, unfailing considera-
tion and mutual attachment.
The example which they set caused
frequent recriminations between
couples who knew them. Such and
such wife took them for a text on
which to apostrophize her spouse.
"See how M. Freteur loves his
wife! Why didn't have the luck to
get such husband?"
And such and such q husband
said to his wife:
"Why aren't you like that charm
ing Nine. Freteur, who puts herself
out SO to please the man she loves?"
We have said that Alfred and Oc~
tavle adored each other. But since
every felicity must be paid for in
one shape or another, we must ad-
NIT that this love, absolute and COM
plete as it was, did not create for
either of them perfect happiness.
AS my female readers will at once
conclude, it was all the husbands
fault
10 love is easy enough. But TO
love wisely Ia much moro difficult.
Now, Alfred Fr6teur didn't love his
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

painter, than anything that paint might
represent.
"But the West Tenth Street studio
was destined in time to bring forth
great compositions, all of Calder's con-
ceptions of heroic size for the San
Francisco Exposition being designed
here.
Enthusiasm, which with Chase was
perennial fountain, always overflow
ing its rim, is shared in full degree by
Calder, but one feels that with the
latter it is locked up in reservoir,
and when the vent is found it manfests
itself like the rapids of Niagara"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
VII. PAUL GREGORY

~ E HATED to see qUomen's eyes
4 Il groav soft
Whe1, they looked at him;
He hated their hands eager to help,
Their voices of pity.
He cursed has grotesque shado,v on
the ground,
And the pilest song IN his ears
Was the tap-tap of his cratch.
Then War came
War 1Vho leaves IN its qUake mana
grotesque hunan shadoaus.
He heard stories of the "basket
Woatnded"--
Men Without arms on legs, brought
home N, baskets.
He aUould be more aUhole than mann: ::
Women's eyes aUould no longer oroav
soft
When they looked at hint
He aVould forget the vile song IN his
ears.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
I. TOM WORTHINCTON

~ = "'""a ":rs,.,:':: ':''::'''' for
- n He acas forty-fve - and
hated 1t;
He 1Core purple shirts and aUonem
adored him.
He altoays began by standing close
to them, holding their hands,
And looking do1un at thena-smiling.
Perhaps he hated aoomen-
But they qcere as necessary to him
As drink to a drunkard
He a0ould hare said, as man in
book said,
a day is long acithout caresses."
He aDas impudent and charming and
kind
And he hurt Uithout avonting to
hurt.
With the achip that drove hin,
He drove others.
When War came he kissed oftener,
And forgot auhom he kissed more
quickly.
The marching men passing his aUin-
doW,
With 'their straight backs and strong
legs,
Aacukened sick envy ,0ithin him.
Enuy for their youth,
And because habit had not fastened
its cla1Us into their flesh
Envy because War had givem them
q purpose, a meaning.
To them day aCas not long aOithout
cdreSSeS.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

NTIRLING CALDER contrib
~ uted enormously to the ar
tlstic success of the Panama
Pacific Exposition at San
Francisco. This is not strictly
news; but it is fact emphasized
by Henry Rankin Poore, in an ar
tlcle on the famous sculptor, which
appears in the April number of
The International Studio" And
1T is legitimately emphasized, be-
cause Mr.. Calder proved, as chief
of construction in sculpture. his
wealth of enthusiasm, his great
vlgor, his many-sidedness. Calder.
the writer says:
was eminently fitted for his task. for
his work had ever been directed bv
the appeal of subject; aud what had
interested him had won his effort. And
so 1t had comprised range from the
architectural adornment of q garden to
the group decorative, and the portrait
statue"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

And from her aOindoU she qvatched
the troops go Swinging By.
Later she read IN the paper loug
list of casualties
And saa0 picture of battlefield
piled high aUith dead,
Men lying on top of each other, thei.
arms flung olt grotesquely,
Her face contracted and her loose
lips t1'embled
"Wdr is acdste," she said.
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Who, aVith one move, tooh his o,alu
son;
With another gaze him success
And made him rich man.
lie moved into larger store
And acquired q partner.
HIS aOite no longer called him "poor
SdmueL"
He lay aaOahe at nights thinking
about his son,
And has blue eyes qcateycd at Ger
man atrocities.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
V. MARY STEELE

CHE a0ent through her days woit-
~ ing far a door TO open;
Hmd when the door opened, shs
vould rush out, her hair blosc-
fnO,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
The Vanished Red Fez

Mr.. Poore recently paid the
sculptor visit, and the prelimina-
ries are thus described:
Il found the artist installed in the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

When she qOas older and kept house
for her tavo sisters
The neighbors said she could make
q penny 90 mile.
She auas fond of reading cook books
With recipes for leftover vegetables.
AS an old a0onaam she kept the paper
from around packages,
And had q large collection of odd
bits Of string.
War came
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
VIII. SAMUEL SMITH

IT E WAS little and gentle und
4 failure.
HIS aOife alavays spoke of him as
"poor Sdmauel."
He aUas IN the leather business
And a0as always on tho verge of
bankruptcy.
War came
Var the checker player,
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translated by William L. Mcpherson
Copyright, 1919, New York Tribune Inc.

Curgn ewYmkT
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04

{. T HAS been given to few poets to
ENJOY supremacy equal to Ten
nyson's- During his reign Of welln.gh
half century he was the national poet
Iennyson's foibles were all on the sur
face and masked a deep humanity be-
meath superficial misanthropy. His
hatred of being observed or intruded
on was notorious, and, as many who
understood him imperfectly believed.
was carried to laughable lengths. As
matter Of fact, no poet ever laid out
his life better in the interests of has
work
Like his elder brother, who lived -
well over ninety, Alfred was man Of
colossal physical strength; over six
feet in height and squarcly built, he
had, as Carlyle noted, the figure OF a
guardsman' and muscles of iron.
Iennyson was one Of the most book
ish of poets, as the late Professor
Churton Collins brought out in an cs-
say which Tennyson is said to have re-
sented; yet the truth is he often sat
too closely over his books in the attic
OF Farringford or in the study at Aid
worth, with its sups b view over the
North Downs. And then. as Sir Henry
Iayior's Autobiography reveals. he
would become the prey of uneasy
gloom and shattered nerves. and moth
ing less than a walk of six or eight
miles in storm would bring him back
to some sort of strength and hardi-
hoodIs"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-04
GeniuS:
How 1t Does Its Work

IN "PEARSON's" for April one
discovers an interesting ar
ticle which satisfies a very