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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-18
CHANGE Did Him No Good

Doctor-What you need most Is a
change Of diet.
Dyspeptic-Come again, Doc THAT'S
what made me what I am today.
Doctor-What do you mean?
Dyspeptic-Five different cooks In
as many months.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-18
Conversational Humor.

"Here's another story heard the
other day in Washington"
"Spare me-"
whats the matter?"
Don't you know that the best an.
ecdotes don't reach Washington until
they have Travelled all over the coun-
try T'-Birmingham Age Herald.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-18
Departed GLORY.

"Whnt are these curious inscriptions,
prOfessor?'
"Cuneiform writing Of the ancient
Assyrians."
"Can you read it?" ! +;
"Oh, yes"
us 1t fact or fictIonw
Fiction, nc rule. Now. this block
OF stone bears the proud boast Of
King that his fame will never die, yet
there isn't street or public square
on the face Of tho earth that is named
after him now"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-18

For every man who seeks glory at
the lannon's mouth niuety-nine seek
it at their own mouths.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-18

Some people are so busy criticising
creeds that they have no time left for
practical religion.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-18
Would Spare Her STRENGTH.

did you make this bread, dearjeY'
ayes. love-"
"Well. I'd rather you didn't do any
more work like this, dearest"
"Why not, sweetheart"
IT'S too heavy, angel."--London
Tid-Bits.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-18

The less wife finds out about her
husband the more suspicious she is Of
his actions.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-18

FOX SAIE.-Onc thoroughbred
Jersey Bull Calf n grandson of Sophie
18Th, and nephew OF Sophie Agnes,
both the Worlds Champion Jersey
Cows. Prices reasonable. J, j.
Echols, Lewisburg, w. Va.
The sun., 1919-10-12
Nv.

We find repeated reference to this law
the tendency to follow the path of least
resistanee-in Mr.. Adams's preface to this
new edition of The Emancipation of
Massachusetts,; and herein, it seems to us,
there is a certain inconsistency with his
idea that the universe, after all, is nothing
but a veritable chaos. A chaotic universe
must be a universe in which no law is dis
c~overable; hence if it be a law that all
cognizable activities invariably follow the
line of least resistance, the universe can
not logically be regarded as "a chaos
which admits of reaching no equilibrium
and with which man is doomed e~ternally
and hopelessly to contend" On the con-
trary, IN that event there is still hope for
mankind in the endeavor to make the pat,
which. leads 10 good an easier road to
travel than the path which leads TO evil.
Mr.. Adams seems to assume, however, not
only that man always moves along the
path of least resistance, but also that man
is an automatic animal. If by this he
means to deny all freedom of the will, We
should be compelled to concede that the
The sun., 1919-10-12
A Brother of Henry Adams in the Field

in principle that it is still blazoned on the
walls of orr churches for men and women
to follow. In order to induce the Israelites
to observe it, however, he was repeatedly
compelled to resort to deceptive practices.
sit ~sufices to say shortly" declares Mr.
Adams, shat at every camp he had to sink
to deeper depths of fraud, deception, lying
and crime in order to maintain his credit"
Moses was a visionary, as MI. Adams says
all optimists must be, and his theory YVES
that the universe was the expression of an
infinite mind whose operations conformed
to Law, and which communicated with him
for the benefit of the Jewish people in
their flight from Egypt. In the view of
Mr.. Adams, however, he consciously failed
to live up to the high ideals which he pro-
fessed, but obeyed "the great law of nature
which impelled him to follow the path of
least resistance"
The sun., 1919-10-12

to think that he spoke too severely. 81 do"
be declares, somewhat regret the rather
acrimonious tone which l occasionally
adopted when speaking Of the more con-
sentative Of the clergy. Not that l think
that the Mathers, for example, and their
like, did not deserve all or indeed more
than all I ever said or thought Of them,
but because I conceive that equally effec-
tive structures might have been conveyed
in urbaner language; and as 1 age, l
shrink from anything akin to invective.
even In whst amounts to controversy"
While, therefore, Mr.. Adams might soften
the asperities of The Emancipation of
Massachusetts somewhat if he were to re-
write it to-day, he thinks rather better of
it as a history than he did when It was
first published. The feature which
troubles him is the philosophy of the book.
and his present doubts concerning the
Darwinian doctrines, which he assumed to
be true in 1887, have led him to write the
preface of 1919.
"The last generation" he tells us, sac
cepted almost IS a tenet Of religious faith
the theory that human civilization is a
progressive evolution, moving on the whole
steadily toward perfection from a lower TO
a higher intellectual plane, and as a neces-
sary part of its progress, developing a
higher degree of mental vigor." The adj
vancement of the world in politics and
morals was deemed to hinge upon the great
dogma of evolution In the direction of per-
fiction; and so Brooks Adams assumed,
when writing in 1887, as a fact not to be
denied or questioned, fiat four universe is
an expression of an L iversal law which
the nineteenth century ID discovered and
could formulate" * law of evolution
was the law Of progress toward the ulti-
mate attainment of right and justice for
all mankind.
The sun., 1919-10-12

prospects of the human race were rather
dusky.
On the whole, MI. Brooks Adams's new
book is a highly pessimistic preface to an
old and excellent sketch Of New England
history. The author even finds something
in the writings of the urbane and hopeful
Washington in harmony with his own
f~oreSodin" spirit. "Man can never hope"
he says, 90 change his physical necessi-
ties, and t. rrefore his moral nature must
always rema n the same in essence if not
in form. As Washington truly said, the
motives which predominant most IN human
affairs are self-love and self-interest,' and
nothing binds one country or n State
to another but interest" All of which
leads Us to remark that even Homer was
known to nod. The fact of the matter is
that Mr.. Brooks Adams was right when
he said in 1887, in The Emancipation Of
Massachusetts, "like all phenomena If ma,
ture, the action of the mind is obedient to
law" and he is wrong in 1918, in his new
preface to that work, when he intimates
otherwise.
THE EMANCIPATION OF MASSACHU-
SETS. BY Brooks ADAMS. Boston;
Houghton Miffin Company.
The sun., 1919-10-12

ID EVIEWERS are taking May Sir
IN clair's Mary Olirier: A Life, to DO
autobiography. Her American publishers
wonder how she likes it. Regardless Of
that, every one knows, or should, that
every novel written by an author of Miss
Sinclair's sort and Of her rank is arrived
at autobiographically in a certain sense
IT is true that the process is more or less
oblique. "Get your facts" said Mark
Twain to Kipling, "and then you can dis
tcrt 'em as you like" Whether they are
aware Of it or not, authors resembling
Miss Sinclair look in their hearts for their
facts, and then distort them as circum-
stances dictate. Thus-"I have in me-"
says Emerson, "the capacity for every
crime"
The sun., 1919-10-12
III.

Not thus does Brooks Adams believe to-
day. Startling ms IS the avowal. coming
from such a source, he tells us that he is
inclined to abandon his belief In evolution
for n belief in chaos! During the past
thirty years he has given the subject of
progressive evolution his best attention,
until now he is so far from asserting to
its truth that his mind tends in the oPpo-
site direction. "Each day l live" he says,
81 am less able to Withstand the suspicion
that the universe, far from being an ex-
preston of law originating in a single
primary cause, is a chaos iuhich admits Of
no equilibrium and aith (Which MAJ Is
doomed eterys0Hy and hopelessly TO con-
tend" (The italics are ours.) Ills
emazing conclusion is not the assertion of a
scatter-brained cynic intent upon attract
ing attention to himself by the boldness of
his sp~eculations; but it comes from the
disciplined mind of a trained scholar ae-
customed to logical processes of thought
and evidently only intent upon arriving at
the truth.
In support of his thesis of a chaotic
universe Brooks Adams relies upon the
evidence so abundantly furnished by his
tory of mans inability to overcome his
tendency toward ~sinfulness. "While life
endures the flesh has val which must be
gratiied and which, therefore, take prece-
dence of the ~yearnings of the soul, just as
st. Paul points out was the case with him
self; and herein lies the memorable con
fict between the moral law and the law of
competition ,7Iiich favors the strong and
from whence come a.. the denominations of
s~elfshness, Of violence, of cruelty and
crime" The family system has every
where and always been regarded as the
basis of civilization; vet, says Mr.. Adams,
no restraint on personal liberty has been
more resented by men and women alike.
than the bond of marriage. He further
more declares that this primary obligation
has never been satisfactorily enforced and
+'we are thus led 10 consider the cause in
herent in orr complex nature, which makes
it impossible for US to establish an equilib-
rum between mind and natter
Like St. Paul again, the good that we
would, we do not; while the evil that We
would not, that We do. No historical frag-
ment, in our authors judgment, better
illustrates the ceaseless conflict between
mind and matter than the exodus of the
Jews from Egypt under the worlds first
great optimist, Moses. Mr.. Adams retell9
the story of Moses and the exodus with
admirable skill, but interpreted with
comments which will shock many Of his
religious readers of the old school. He
comedies that Moses possibly at first be-
lieved in the supernatural power under
whose guidance he professtd to act in be-
half of the Israelites.
Tba Mosaic .oda 80 ,Dor-oq- mae On sou,H
The sun., 1919-10-12

The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, was
written to show how Puritan New Eng
land in the long struggle against ecclesias-
teal tyranny slowly fought its way to the
complete attainment of civil and religious
liberty. In such a history it was inevitable
that an author Of Liberal sentiments
should find much to condemn in the con-
duct of many religious leaders; and con-
corning some of these Brooks Adams,
writing now thirty-two years after the
book was originally published, is inclined
The sun., 1919-10-12

elder brethren Mr.. Brooks Adams,
lawyer, scholar and historian, has pro-
duced a notable book-in the guise of
a preface TO an old one-largely express
sive Of his views on mankind in general,
and its weaknesses in particular. The old
book, originally published in 1887. is The
Emancipation of Massachusetts,, which
takes up 366 pages of the present volume;
the new book is the preface thereto, which
is los pages long.
The fourth generation of the Adamses
of MISUNDERSTANDING the genera
tion to which President John Adams be-
longed as the first-has furnished the
country with three remarkable men of let
tiers IN the three sons of Charles Francis
Adams, who was our Minister to England
during the Rebellion, which we have now
become accustomed to call the Civil War.
These are Charles Francis Adams, Jr.,
whose autobiography, published a few
years ago under the editorial supervision
of his friend Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
excited such widespread interest; Henry
Adams, who told the story of his own
life in The Education Of Henry adams,
a volume which has enjoyed the most ex-
tensive circulation of any serious book of
recent date not relating to the great war;
and Brooks Adams, our present .:uthor,
who is credited with having written at
least six important works on political,
social and economical topics, in addition
to The Emancipation of Massachusetts,
which his publishers, on the paper cover
of this new and revised edition, pronounce
a famous book.
The literary Adamses are all more or
less pessimistie in their writings; but their
pessimism is seldom of the kind that
offends. II usually merely excites regret
that so able,a man should think so poorly
of the world and his fellow men; and it is
often relieved by delightful bits of satire
and humor. To those familiar with the
Boston of his day, the hits at Boston So
ciety in the autobiography of Charles
Francis Adams, Jr., were delightful, and
the pungent s~atirical passages in The
Education Of Henry adams were as album
dant as they were amusing. We are not
irritated when he tells US at the beginning
of Grants first term at Washington that
'when he looked around him from the safe
shelter of Mr.. Evarts's roof, where he was
then a guest, he had to admit that nine
tenths of his acquired education was use
less and the other tenth harmful" or that
'the progress of evolution from President
Washington to President Grant was alone
evidence enough to upset Darwin" Brooks
Adams, however, is less acrid in his phi
losOphizing than were his brothers; nor can
we discover that anything is 'set down in
malice in the long preface which ccnsti-
tutes his new book.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-04
,JEsUs OFFERs SALVATION

w Iesus Christ offers saivaton to ali ina,
1sWiJl reVvnt. He never takes into cJusI,J.r
alton wha, "a man or woman nes done ~
what they have been The oniy question ,s
ss"Are they sorry that they ever ala d, =
And DC they look TO me fGr forgiveness OF
kingdom come" And IL means mar
Fwa want the kingdoms OF this ,vorld 10
sstnccme the kingdoms OF our l.ord ana az
s2SyNttst, no matter what IL win corr I'm ,,.,f
ydeMai. W hard work. or IN sacrifice
isIl"Thy Kingdom come II means V. ~, F.,
ffhet Bible translated In every tourno /,
I; means that we want churches ard school
4 Fouses eyerywherc: IL means that we are
k9Hnt sofn6 to shirk oar share OF tho -. .
Z psnse: IL means ss long as there IL a
sssSlnnathsp We arc soing 10 Try and got tn.
t{Jpspe! 10 that hcathcn rrd N means ihn :
'i&as siad ne"s 81 salvation rs going TO be
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-04
rtRE FOOD LAW DOESS'T
KEEP SAND OFT nY SIEtR

Thy Kingdom come And when our
l loS n nav 'ss a ' % no matter how much
dom come" and it YOU have not ia.
spirit OF Christ, you are not his How
can we say We have the spirit Of Christ
Ty.hSn we are not willing 20 pray the prayer
mat .IcSus taught, are not willing to live
the way God wants us TO IIycT
The man who truly prays Thy kingdom
come can't tahe She heart out ~ Ills
prayer BY shrinking measures or hy n"as,,r
iuG goods with sawed off yardsiici[ Ynu
can't do that, no. SIR And /; won't take
me rur" food law To keep him from mn
7 ting chalk in the -four and sand in tba
sugar and ground peanut shells in ,hr
! pepper.
II lac ptayf, Thy kingdom come" +,
| WONT MAKE any difference whether there -
/ a pur" food law or not, no viii 10 puTc ,,r,,
/ TN his business pure, The man who pravs
+ loon without saying cod wha, can =
quick Is ! snow how" "a
/ "h can't get dowr and pray THY tI,c
( dom come, then rush 10 IN. noils ''',h
s"t" IN, q way That viii make heaven Voc,
! hnn heli laugh us Impossible 20 have an,
hinh OF TrliSion o:' y"ur knees in chuYci
J business. " '''''H' OF ii'
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-04

sitting In tho window and every once in q
while ser :he Va. soS Sna all ssS Of
Il s A assss
damned master. they're ~ fraud"
rssP'f SP t tas he sab about S,s
ssa an ffs asaa YIN u aaa e .i sins
,s,s ,r When H., laid my babe away. lie Wa,
III %as AND 1h she T IS: ss az ss
ao sa ass 's Ssu S san ne s .5s S5
This big. bull nseksd. whisEey SOAKED. Dc
No ~ fs Sos fs' ssS
pcs yo y f aSS aiS nor God. sIs
RATHER E EISkS S SSP n Il RR Hia At A..
ss Iqs s.9s ny J,Sss {. ss.fS
ON q, ihs ssRd % s., an% s.. i
make make brick brick. for old rhaSeot have
%BiIl you're good old seoat iS" Yes Yes. s SIR.
away from, The haunts OF man: under Inc
sss s, fs q sSag ron ,.hs go s,sS 5i ~
I'd ~ rather 2 DC ,9rItsd q, Sinner q com:
help in time of need than TO have President
Wilson invite me TO and live with
him In the White HOUSE, million times
over Our Father. Who arc in heaven.
Thy Kingdom come. Thy vii, BIZ done
ON earth az II Ia in heaven
GIVE ns thip day our daily bread
nd forgive MS our trespeSses
As we forgive those that trcspass against
us.
And led .us not into temptation
But deliver uS from, evil
For thine Is tho kingdom, and the power
Md the glory forever Amen.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-04
mt EiY CONS FAVOR
WITH SICREI.S AND DIMES

"GS M" 81 ps"aSE ao On
Annighiy a few nlci,ela and pennies, You are
in m@" ,s % n and b rg1 Up b I" the church
IN We collection plate and wonder why the
don't begrudge YOU your limousine. bu,
IN, ~ sari IN, name don't give God Almighty
'hi1s on on earth OF your ,i1nc and influence
he collection plate il you can afiord TO
"a" ID cents III the eois",ion 10 Ssx put m yos
don't n 1871. ~ NJ, 10 and buy diamonds but
diamonds, All man d,i Vas 10 p ,,n the
''?! !Thv , hs n;9rd made thea
S%n stve niskeis 70 God you'd DO givips
ef your JS1a sGs Sa end SnSss
a lhT ii9rd kesns tab on hos much you give
r ris, 'nh i, ny alins have come up i memo
h" S n NE, Se, nc compeis her 10 ,naninurc
~, ,s' . mms"rs oyer wash board TO yet money
5,o what "a innn gays In church IL no
hin 1st E CONF decent, No MN can pray THY
DC a ioafer in the church and in the World
PUTS FIRE INTO homes
busy s an cry yoa %f XSaF tGH viii T pui
nifSo1n yIur ,a n1nsT il vii, put iron in your
unis, linsiom tha, your frien,is e, vii. h'0 be-
S Sdnr you wnI wear Yourself out and cut
SouF Nv" snort. u VIII haunt you II, your
dreams and MI your waking moments with
lover. YOU VIII have enthusiasm and zeal
7 ,y' Jesus Christ III you praying, "Thy
himrn"in come" and living H.
NAT Is a prayer tina; can arise only from
Z, bIhri mat han been regsncrated by faith
IN Jesus Christ. Thy Kingdom oofnc' III
YOU because II has come 10 me and I want
you 10 have the best In the world bcca uss
l'vc got IL. and ] want you 10 have IL be-
% Do 'aus apfT ds .se sne ( s
othefs n no ~ not saved himself. That he.
ING true and Logical. that caplaina to ,ne
lhn people In tho church are not converted
or they are doing nothing for tho saliva.
ton OF others bccause they hsye never beer
sayed thcmseives! And they don't know
people, because they havc nevsr experienced
rcligion and tho faith OF Jesus Christ.
And thu man who has envy and hetrst
and covctourncW IN his henr:--oh. he sas,
,aih very anc. but ha won't 60 without but
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-04
MEANS LORD GAN COUNT
ON YOU TO EtCE III

Thy kingdom COME" Ths, means. ord
you put through anything you want don.
anu you can count on my share OF the
,;ine and OF the talent and of tho cash
~ means, You can count on mo TO la G,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-04
TURNFD roUARn cor

AIn,Inps Brooks said that prayer in lite
simp'eat hehhttion. in . wish turned tow ard
zoo. Ihath prayer whether IT'S for tho
ssI'sloh or NC foul or whether It's wish
rG i,, blessing, Prayer. in It's simplest def
ht.1n, is wish turned toward God
ny kingdom GOMEZ" Ti1at's what Col
"sn'n Some pacplc sneer ut prayer. Thcy
hay KS myth. there's nothing 10 IT,
My friend aipsy Smith. was travelling IN
a ualn out West and thcrs were four men
hittihs riEht across the aisle playing carda
ana gambling. They had a quart OF whisky
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-04
MEAN IT IN ALI THINGS
OR NOT IN

w Ut y"n pay, Tiny kingdorn co,,c >,
.pG mean II IN everything or you mean - g.,
notiin*- YOU near vow want {, 10 CONF
m vs. ,nc nome IN society, IN busInrss in
po.,li,t' say, " you don moan II =,
Gseritthing you don't mean &; in any,hir,g,'
iW, ,'"h tinEdpn can't como To- ovor,hh
n".y' ~ won come 10 anybody uc 90,
IL IN! ~ com. 10 everybody aud rvcry,vbr. =
N.Y. ny hlhsunin come ana tho tr"a c,,.
III p prhEh ihy Kingdom como" vup', o.,
o.. n's Ii"ach,ng on; % tho hooks n n,t ~
higbnrnws q, ~. Wont Ty - please a faty
ISnt az AL! He won't trv /" 49, ".aHsrh
i" dnnih f.i"Neg and !rt tho sheep stsrys
.,,r,. non ne trays, Thy kingdom c.,,. ;.
be s,irn me- %, son. 'id higher crl,ic aud them
subictt. not ON w ~ fGu hos 10 say on In.
wrin' isprni - the Ri0It ma ~, ~" MI
Wy we 'henilrs unl ,pecuiations y,
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-10

on line of ordinary high tide said blight, whence U.S.L.M. No. 5, bears s g 54 51" E. 77.94 chs, thence N 5o' 59' " 1903 chs, to Cor. No. 2, thence N. 39' 21' E. 1591 chs, to Cor Ne 3 thence g. S9' or F. 695 chs 10 Cor. No 4. NC. on said line af ordinary high tide thence mean ler.as said line CD s. 1' 45' E. 40 chs. (2) N. S40 15' E. 2.3O chs, (33 s 15' v. 1000 chs. (4) s. SS' 15' " 4.7o chs. (5) N. s2' 45' w 1.sO chs (6) s. 70 45' w. 2SO chs, CD : 29' 4s' F. ITO chs, (S) s. 49' 15' ", 2o ehs. (9) N. 40' 45' W, 2,5O chs C1g) N. 39' 15' E. 100 chs,
 i1 Y. 55s 15' ". 100 chs. (12) S. g 2 " 2S1 chs. to Cor. No. 1, the paas of beginning, containing an area of 2O.57 acres. Mag Var. 2S' IT E,
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The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-10

fore the Register and Receiver on July 5, 1919, by said Nordstrom claimant and by the following It. nesses, Erica Spray and Lafe Spray, both of Juneau, Alaska.
 c. B. Walker.
 Register. % F + + + < < + r Having been repeatedly re- 4 F requested to take Music Pupils, ! E am at liberty to teach limited z 1. number. ' F Terms: | ( hours a week $10 a moh.n < F 1 hour or two half hours a week < t- sa00 q month f F No lessons given unless pupil F F has practiced at least, on an aver 4 age one hour a day. + F Mrs. Alexander A. Brindle | < P. o. Box 623. F
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-10

That Valdez is due to get superior steamship service this summer is shown by the sailings scheduled That the steamship companies are doing all in their power to alleviate conditions in Alaska is shown by the placing of larger number of vessels onthe run than is actually need ed to handle the limited tonnage coming to the territory. Despite continual fault-fnding on the part of many persons, it must be conceded in all 's. -ess that Alaska has been we'll served in the past by both companies The boats could have been withdrawn entirely by their owners and qiven more lucrative charters on the Atlantic coast. or to the Orient. Of course it is admitted that the companies have had no desire to aban- don the northern run, for fear of after-war con- ditions but nevertheless very thoughtful citi- zens must admit that Alaska has been served as we'll as could be expected considering the limited population of the territory Miner.
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-10

various reasons, one of which is that the Bolshe- vist will descend to depths of savagery to which the decent citizens in the ninety per cent of the people are incapable of reaching. It is in truth a reign of terror. There have been reigns of terror governed by but one man, or group of half dozen men. There is nothing impossible about the statement that in Russia the power is in the hands of ten per cent of the people, and lowest and mostdegraded at that. But perhaps another six months will see the end of it.
The daily progressive-miner., 1919-04-10

From all reports, the peace makers are worry ing considerable over the restlessnes prevailing in Hungary. But why should they? Why not leave it to the careof theCzecho-Sovoks asRussia was left to the bolshevists. There are only about ten million Czecho-Slovaks, but they appear to be wonders for they do not hesitate to tackle job that scares the great powers. All there is to do is to tell the Czecho-Sovaks to go to it.