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crease your profits so per cent.
3tf Botsford Lumber Co.
IL is reported that Mark Woodward
has sold his residence property in the
northeast part OF town.
Our big vault is a good place for
your Liberty Bonds and valuable pa
pers Citizens State Bank.
Mrs. Ella Clodfelter, of Huron, ar
rived in the city Wednesday, for a
short visit with friends.
Paints, oil, varnish, muresco, Jap
a-Lac, t%urpentine. Scofelds'.
Mrs Fred Coleman and Mrs. Hugh
| Snodgrass made a short trip to HUI
ron Saturday evening.
Banks, public schools and public
Libraries use for their wall finish.
| Muresco. Sold by Scofields'.
Mrs. w. S. Thomas spent a few days
last week visiting with friends and
relatives at Rec Heights.
Red and slate roof paints for any
kind of roof. Guaranteed as abso-
lutely fireproof. Botsford Lumber Co.
Chas. Schriver returned Monday
noon from Sioux City, Ia, where he
attended to business matters.
Just received a complete line of
Easter novelties and jewelry at Col
Inns Drug Store.
Word was received the first OF the
week that Thomas Collins had landed
in New York from overseas.
Better than wall paper; cheaper
than fiat paint Muresco. Sold by
Scoields'.
Rev. T J. Simons wen to Huron
Tuesday evening to attend the Pres
bytery held there this week.
Keen Kutter pocket knives, razors,
shears, saws, axes. Scofields'.
John Kuper arrived in the city last
week, having just returned from sew
eral months of service in France.
Muresco, the real wall finish.
ScofeIds'.
The banquet held by the Eastern
Stars on Friday was very well at
tended, about $50 being present.
A $500 shipment of Aluminium re-
ceived Saturday. Now on sale. !
Scofelds'.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Campbell, of I
Pleasant Valley township, report the I
birth of a son on Wednesday, April 9. !
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Churchill N !
baby, OF Washington, were in the city J
Wednesday, visiting relatives and 5
friends. )
When you buy Superlative Flour (
YOU buy a -four that is made from I
wheat grown in Hand County and \
made in Miller.
w. S. Thomas departed Monday
noon for Pierre, where he will tran )
sact business, connected with Hand !
county roads. I
Anker-Holth cream separator for
sale at The Miller Creamery.
r. Anderson. .
Mrs G. G. Briggs departed Monday
noon for Gettysburg, where she will
transact business connected with the !
Lyceum course. !
Goodyear castings. Scofields.
The Standard Bearer girls will hold
a food sale on Saturday, April 19 in
Scoield's Hardware Store on East
Side Broadway.
A $500 shipment OF Aluminium re-
ceived Saturday. Now on sale.
Scofields'.
IL. S. Downs, G. A Dornberger. Milt
Ulrich and James Burke have all
started excavations, preparatory to
erecting residences.
We have a special price on tin pals
Scofelds'.
Ralph Erb returned Saturday night
from San Diego, Calf, where he had
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deprecate appeals to national feeling.
The movement toward patriotism
was subsequently reinforced by the
multiplication Of anarchistic' elements
in our population and by an increas-
ingly bold anarchistic propaganda.
The war has clarified much thinking,
and the patriotism that was only
latent, not extinguished, will not for
some time again be openly called in
question by any considerable number
of responsible Americans Most of us
now expect and we shall continue to
expect the American to be unequivo-
cally patriotic Whether he was burn
here or brought here or came here Of
his own volition, we expect him to
understand that all citizens of the
United States are sharers in common
opportunities, common perils and COM
mon destinies, and that we look upon
the man who is willing to take his
share Of our good luck without as
Stunning his share of our common re-
sponsibility or doing his part of our
common work as human object that
it is impossible to respect, and who
may as we'll expect scant considera-
ton
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play. Tie door at the right is thro,on
aUide open; first enter t1Uo men gdrbed
from head to foot IN red 1vool--in
1Ooollen surplices, girdles, shoes and caps
--a0ith electric torches IN their hands;
behind them, four men IN purple red
'gA-l. bearing upon board similarly
coDered, holy scroll aoith aOhite q0oollen
covcr; behind, tho other men IN rcd
scool, acith electric torches in their hands.
A last, the Uool merchant himself comes
IN, dressed IN White Wool and ivea1-ing
a achite girdle that sparkles NTH dia-
monds. The procession crosses the green
path to the holy ark. The organ plays q
medley of synagogue, church and Chas-
sidic music. The merchant at first moUes
Nth sloaO dance gestures and soon gives
himself up to the dance of devotional
ECSTASY. The audience is ast0uNded
looking on Nth mouths agope and auith
a suppressed, "Oh" NoD they look at
one another Nth signs Of stupefaction
and soon must struggle to restrain their
laughter. Here and there may be heard
tho explosion of aW-con tanned merrincnt.
The men bearing the holy scroll mount
the steps of the altar aud remain stand
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Know What
We Want

1t is safe then to say that large
majority of US at the present moment
demand an Americanism that pro-
duccs Americans whose patriotism,
good citizenship, neighborliness, de-
cency, self-reliancc and efficiency are
outstanding.
And this agreement upon the sub
stantal essentials Of good American
ism is supplemented, fortunately, by
measure of agreement upon the ex-
pedicnt ways Of selecting and foster
ing them. We share certain common
sense notions as to how Americans ex-
hibiting desirable qualities have been
hitherto and can now and always be
reared. We know something, that is,
about the Amcrcansm that We want
on the side Of ita methods as we'll as
on the side Of it's aims.
We have tried various experiments
in patriotism and VIC have arrived at
minimum requirements which are ire
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| now am?
WIFE-Who, then, should have made
you what you now are?
MERCHANT-Is that an answer?
SON-You alone made yourself what
you are to-day. You're a self made man.
MERCHANT-I never expected got
to be able to recognize true divinity.
MOTHERHOOD. God has made you
what you are to-day.
MERCHANT (sarcasticaUy) - God!
Which God? I'm now fifty years Old
Where was that God of WHOM you pirate
and whom you always have in mind,
where was he up to ten years ago? How
much did I not suffer up to ten years
ago? What didn't l go through? / was
born in poverty, of parents who insisted
upon making rabbi Of me.
MOTHER Would to God you had
really become one.
MERCHANT-But I didn't. I wan
dered from one religious academy to the
other, ate at strangers tables and
worked myself up to be teacher Of
Hebrew. Then l left home and came to
America, worked in a shop as q green
horn," became contractor in boys
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that all men are created equal in all
things. The dogma of the Declaration
of independence has doubtless served
useful purpose when wisely used in
awakening and strengthening the emo
tons of political democracy, but also
it has done much mischief when mis-
used. BY demagogues and their men
tally 1ndolent followers it has been
perverted into the shibboleth that all
men are created equal, not only in po-
litical rights, but also in political ca
pacity, which is not true. Thomas
Paines phrasing is accurate, and
should have been used in the decla-
ration: "Men are born and always con-
tinue free and equal in respect of
their rights" The perversion of the
doctrine with which we are familiar
has worked out practically in political
antagonism to men exceptionally quail
flied by character, talents and educa-
ton for public service, and to the
benefit of ignorant and vicious office
seekers who have played upon the al
legged democracy Of rotation in Office,
and the distribution of spoils to par
tisan victors. This sort of thing is
not Americanism, and should be
fought uncompromisingly by all
Americans who believe in character
and political ability. Instead of Il
perverse dogma Of capacity equality
we need to stress the Importance of
equality of obligation, Of duty and Of
service
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benches; he moves his lips as if deliver-
ing speech. Enter the organist The
merchant turns to him. 1t gets better
with each rehearsal. If l only had more
time I'd work it out still better. But
what's the difference? The first time
they'll laugh, anyway, no matter how
we'll I do it. Later, they'll all dance
with me. | said, "To- day" Then, to-day
it shall be. To-day l reveal myself; to-
day I declare myself. Go now to the
organ and hold yourself in readiness.
Your music certainly will be success.
/ only hope that my dance will meet
with the same favor Go now and send
the butler in to me.
ORGANIST-( Bowing) The best of
luck to you. (Erit through the door at
the right.)
MERCHANT - (Agaim assumes his
serious, stiff attitude and begins to move
his hps.)
THE BUTLER - enters from tho
door at the right.)
MERCHANT - (Descends from tho
affair." We are to begin at once. I am
going to dress. Let the guests enter,
(Exit through the right hand door,
BUTLER-(Opens the left hand door
and announces): You are invited to
enter. There enter at first severol
ashers, followed by the guests. All are
dressed an fine array, at their head the
aoool merchants avife, his mother, his
SON and daughter. After oil the guests
haze come IN the butler closes the door,
crossing to the right door and standing
guard over IL. The ushers shoao the
guests to their seats and take their
places upon either side, forward. The
a0ife, the mother, the son and the dauqh-
ter are seated at the left, IN the front
ron. All gaze around in beavilderment.)
VOICES -A synagogue! A temple!
A holy ark! An organ! And every
thing covered with wool!
A GUEST 49, behind the 1Uool mer-
chants aoife.) What can all this mean :?
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out for himself, to earn his way, and
be diligent, to bring up his children to
look out for themselves and to earn
their way. Also we expected him to
have initiative. I suppose that more
Americans would have agreed upon
this sturdy trait of Americanism than
upon any other one, not excepting pa
triotism, for we had among US, un.
happily, both pacifists and internation-
alists.
The insistence upon Individual ade-
quacy and efficiency had been strength
ening, but not to the entire neglect Of
other requirements. The rapid growth
Of our towns and cities had forced
upon our attention the difficulties and
the shortcomings Of municipal admin
istration, and the necessity Of foster
ing a collective civic responsibility.
We had, therefore, begun to expect the
good American to be an alert citizen,
Interested in HIS village, town or city,
believing in it and ever ready to help
maintain a lawful and efficient admin
istration.
Between the qualifications of the
American as seif-supporting indi-
vidual and his qualifications as a citi-
zen there were further qualifications
always demanded in our local communi-
lies from the earliest days. 1t was in
sisted that the American should be a
decent man, living sobcrly, respecting
the common moralitics and observing
the elementary courtesies Of civiliza .
ton. He was expected to be good
rneighbor, not mcddlesome, but friend.
ly, helpful and ready to cooperate on
occasion.
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people whom we call primitive and wild
knew this. They were nearer to nature
and, therefore, knew it. The gods re-
vealed themselves to these primitive
folk. Jewish mysticism, too had
glimpse of this. But it was too greatly
influenced by the belief in a single Jew
ish God, hence did not attain to the real
truth
MOTHER-Woe is me. What words
are these?
MERCHANT-I was brought up to
believe that everything has its protector
in heaven. The truth is, however, that
everything has its own god. I have
served many god in my time and none
of them desired or was able to help
me. Not the god of religious study
and not the god of teaching; neither
the god of boys trousers nor the god
of petticoats. But when I turned to the
wool god, he helped me at once. In ten
years he made me a multi millionaire.
(RaisiNg his voice and acith remark
able expression IN has eyes.) He took
me under his protection. He carried me as
on wings, higher and higher, higher and
even higher
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supplement English, but no other will
be permitted to substitute for it..
In citizenship, as in patriotism, we
have tried experiments and we know
that there is only one way to make
good citizen. He must be interested in
the everyday life and in the good name
of his local community. 1t is a thing
to be thankful for that we have awak-
ened to the Importance of community
spirit and community welfare, but we
need to go further in effort than we
have yet gone even under the enthusi-
asm of war. Boosting is a good thing,
but it isn't the only thing. Going over
the top in raising funds is good thing,
but a number of other good things also
are necessary. Community spirit must
manifest itself as we'll in responsibility
for maintaining decent and wholesome
conditions. If we expect to have good
citizenship, the American slum must
so. 1t must manifest itself in help
fulness. We can't let returning SOL
diers or incoming aliens wander about
looking for jobs, unobserved, unen-
couraged, unassisted, and sinking into
disorderly habits. 1t must manifest
itself in serious educational effort
Our schools are better than they were:
they must be made immensely better
than they are. Community spirit must
manifest itself also and, perhaps, above
all, in much more serious attention
than has been given hitherto to es-
thetic and intellectual matters
To make Americans self-reliant, de-
cent and neighborly we have relied
hitherto on the home, the church and
the school. To-day large part OF the
American population is wholly unstim-
ulated and wholly undisc iplined by
home influences, and unreachsj by the
Church. Apparently one OF the i'm
perative duties of the school is either
to rebuild the home, if it can, or to take
over its moral as it long since took
over its intellectual functions.
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ing IN the centre; t,co Of the torch bear
ers stand at either side of the stage.
The merchant noaU assumes his stiff
posture and Advances slolcly up the
steps. The organ stops playing; the
merchant faces the audience with an
o"stere, rigid mien; many of the guests
are holding their palms across their
mouths; the aoife, the mother, the
daughter and the SON sit in dum-
founded perplerity)
MERCHANT-Ladies and gentlemen
l have assembled you to behold new
religion, which l myself have estab-
lished to worship the God that made
me-who made me what l now am.
SON I'm aOhisper) -Comedy.
MERCHANT-(C Closes has eyes, as If
from the pain of the insult, and then
opens them, assuming stern counte-
ncnce.) Who has made me what I now
am? Answer: Who has made me what
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trousers, then changed over to petticoats
and a: last began to deal in wool. Then
who made me what l am to-day?
(Silence.)
DAUGHTER (difidently THE wool?
MERCHANT - (Thunders forth, in
erdttation.) The wool! Stands motion
less, his eyes CLASSY; soon closes them
and lolcers his head as if IN prayer.
Then he opens his eyes and vieacs his
audience with high-spi,ited content
msnt; he speaks IN soft toned ave.
The wool! The wool-God! "A gasp of
horror rises from his hearers. The aoife,
the mother, the daughter and fe,c
other aoomen bring their hands to their
faces. The men look at each other)
Why do you all sit there so frightened :?
You imagine that I'm wandering in my
speech. You haven't yet understood me-
| knew that you would not understand
me. I'll explain myself. Know, then,
that everything has its own god. The
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MOTHER - That's right! Ridicule
your father!
WIFE-(Arises, and is about to an
proach the butler)
AN USHER-(bars her qvou) kindly
be seated. No moving about.
WIFE-But am
USHER know. Nevertheless, you
will be so kind as to remain seated.
W1FE-Where Is your master?
USHER--I do not know.
WHEELS he soon coming in?
USHER-I do not know. HE force.
her back to her seat)
WlFE-(angrily) "Do not know! Do
not know" Takes her seot.) Very soon
we'll all know. So you may as we'll tell
us now!
USHER-Do not know
SON-1'll take you by the collar and
give you such shaking out.
(Suddenly the organ commences to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Patriotic
Growth

The war has not in any wise or in
any degree set aside these basic fac
tors Of Americanism. II has added the
immediate and overshadowing require
ment Of patriotism.
The Spanish War stimulated Ameri-
can patriotism. 1t also provoked re-
actions against it, inasmuch as our
behavior was not approved by every
body, and It offered opportunity to
such mr. were npprehcnsive that we
were about TO become imperialistic to
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surprise to me. TO think that he's
built a synagogue of his own in his
very house-holy ark, sacred scrolls and
all. And here was l, thinking what
pity it had been to spend SO much effort,
from his earliest days, to make pious
Jew of him.
GUEST-But look, an organ; a re-
formed synagogue. hs'
MOTHFR-That makes no difference.
Now l know that there will be son
to pray for my soul.
SON-Only let him not ask me to go
to the synagogue.
MOTHER - Will it be such a long
journey? The synagogue has come to
you.
DAUGHTER-Now, mother, you nay
expect US to have kosher meals once
again.
GUEST-Where is he now?
WIFE, don't know any better than
you. He must be behind the door where
the butler is standing guard. He is
surely not through yet with his dress
ing.
SON-He'll enter in a prayer shawl,
most likely.
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"MuSf Be
Tolerant"

The American patriot, we need not
argue, must be tolerant. Americans
are of many origins. Americans have
welcomed every nationality and creed,
and they will continue to welcome;
but this means among other things
that those who are welcomed must be
tolerant and show decent regard for
the opinions and the institutions of
those who welcome them.
And, finally, the American patriot
must speak the English language.
That language we are going to have
taught in every public school OF the
United States. Other languages may
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Bad
IdeaIisn7

We have had in america rather too
much idealism Of various kinds that
should go into the discard with unde-
sirable citizens. We have had
great deal of impracticable idealism,
crazy schemes in religion, in finance,
and in politics. We have had in our
political life and elsewhere a voluble
and voluminous rhetorical idealism,
and in our religious, educational and
philanthropic life we have had, say
it with profound regret, humliating
instances of commercialized idealism,
or uplifting for hire. For the rest, our
idealism has been almost wholly
moral idealism, too often richer in
zeal than in wisdom. What we have
not had too much of and what we now
above all things need is that intel
lectual or intellectualized idealism
without which no people, however
energetic, however resourceful, can
attain true distinction as creators of
civilization.
Intellectual idealism is identical with
that spirituality of mind. spirituality in
the French rather than the English
meaning Of the word, which is not
supernatural nor mystical but psyche
logically concrete. 1t is certain
sensitiveness to the finer values of life.
These include intellectual sincerity. a
fearless outlook upon truth, intellectual
clarity, and taste. which think is be-
described as distaste for vulgarity,
distortion, exaggeration, and brag.
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ducible. The American patriot may
admire as many other nations and
governments as he likes and he may
believe that a millennium is on the
way, wherein the lambs Of gentleness
shall lie unframed outside the jaws
things as they may, he must yield an
undivided loyalty to the one govern
ment under which he lives, and that is
the government of the United States
of America.
The American must be law abiding
If in his inward parts he responds tc
the philosophy Of anarchsm he must
nevertheless observe the rule of the
road when he goes on the street He
must understand that American liberty
is lawful liberty; and that in
America we amend law not by violence
but by due process of law. The
American, therefore, may not say with
out qualification, as the more radical
among US have been asserting, that
"self-g government at it's worst is better
than autocratic government at its
best" Self-govcrnmcnt is an oppor
tunity without which individual self
control and public responsibility can
not arise, much less develop; but unless
they do arise and develop, self-govern-
mcnt, so far from being better than
autocracy at it's best is quite as bad as
autocracy at its worst. When self
government degencrates into violence
or any other sort of lawlessncss it is
as despicable, outrageous and destruc-
tive as any other tyranny. Murder by
lynching mob is no better than
murder by the secretly instructed
agent of a car. Looting, burning and
manning by bands of Reds, calling
themselves the people, is not ethically
preferable to like acts perpetrated in
the name Of divine right.
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A New
Liberty

But the intellectual life is itself a
product 1t thrives only under pecu-
liar conditions, and one of the indis-
pensable conditions is freedom. The
intellectual life can prosper only where
liberty of conscience and of thinking
are cherished. 1t has seemed to some
among US that of late our American life
has drifted too strongly toward pater-
nalism. Possibly this drift has been
caused in part by the inconvenience
and dangers of social disorder. and
anarchistic propaganda. But let US not
in our war upon these perils forget
that, while they may violently destroy,
paternalism will inevitably stifie and
in time will kill all spontaneity and
outreaching of the human intellect.
Americanism then at last comes down
to this. We want an Americanism that
Will produce men and women that are
not only self-reliant in the practical
sense, but who also are self reliant.
strong, outreaching, fearless, creative
in the spiritual sense, and such men
and women can live and do their part
IN the world if we have a particular
kind of law and particular kind of
liberty, liberty making law and a law
abiding liberty. Like the Pilgrims and
the Turitans who created our insti-
tutlons, like the patriots who Made
us an independent nation, like thu o,en
who saved and consolidated our Usdon,
and like the men who now have given
their lives to save the whole fabric OF
civilization, we must continue TO mako
and to safeguard such law and such
! liberty a.