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vision swept the certainty of kingli-
ness and the appeal was instantly
answered by Him who had always
welcomed faith wherever He had
found it. The third cross was that of
sacrifice. 1t was born for the sin of
others and Jesus had no need to die
that was except as He welcomed it
as means of rescuing world. And
because He gave Himself there the
world has crowned Him King and
Lord and has made the cross a SYM
Dol of salvation. Sin, sorrow and
sacrifice, and the greatest of these
was sacrifice.
THE ECHOING WORDS
The constant attitude of Jesus was
never shown more clearly than at
the moment when his whole weight
sunk upon the torn wounds and the
matchless prayer of forgiveness in
cluded an excuse for their act. Even
in His agony His mind was trying to
find an explanation for them rather
than one for Himself. "Otners first"
was His constant position. His char
ity covered the prayer that sought
to sootbe the Fathers hurt and hide
the horrors of their brutality.
Then before any other thing should
come Mary must be cared for and
Johns devotion that had brought him
to the side of his suffering Lord was
rewarded in wondrous fashion by
providing a second mother for the
boy. There may have been the fear
that the boys who had rejected Jesus
might not properly provide for Mary
after her accompanying Him to such
an end, "For neither did His brethren
believe in Him" Under the shadows
there were other sentences wrung
from those pallid lips proclaiming the
thrall of the Scripture over the mind
that might well reel in the torment:
that proclaimed His human relation
ship in pain; that announced the
finishing of the task that had held
Him steady in the way of the cross,
that quietly as babe sinks to slum-
Der breathed the hushed whisper of
committal into His Fathers ear and
with full strength took His Spirit out
Of the wrenched form. The tragedy
was ended. Jerusalem had sealed
her doom. The body was rescued by
two Of the rulers and the Sabbath
stiffness settled where jest and scorn
and sorrow and faith and love had
each swept the summit of the hill.
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Luke 23:33-46.
Read Matt. 27:32-56; Mark 15:21-41;
John 1861.
He that spared not his own Son but delivered
him up for ALL how shall he not also
with him freely give all things Rom
ans S:23.
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in the San Joaquin Valley. In 1921
he became president and general
manager of the Rice Growers As
sociation, bringing the rice industry
from depression and chaos to sub
stantial success and profit.
In January, 1928. Mr.. Merritt be-
came president and managing director
of the Sun-Maid Raisin Growers, re-
organizing the raisin industry and
assuming the responsibility for re-
building of the raisin industry OF
California. Today the Sun-Maid
Raisin Growers of California repre-
sent the largest cooperative market
ing organization in the world. which
markets it's own products under its
own brand through its own world
wide selling agencies. In addition to
operating large farming interests and
carrying responsibilities of the Sum
Maid Raisin Growers and Rice
Growers Associations, he is regent Of
the University OF California, director
of the California Development As
sociation and active in many State
matters.
lifelong experience in agricul-
tural experiment station and chemis-
try work in many sections of the
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Thatcher was given three degrees,
including the honorary degree of doc
tor OF agriculture in 1923, in recog-
milton of his scientific work.
Before and while attending college
he managed his fathers S0O-acre
Nebraska farm. After being gradu-
ated from his regular college course
he was made assistapt chemist at the
Nebraska Experiment Station, a posi-
tion which he held for two years be-
fore going to the State of Washing
ton. where in 1907 he was made df-
rector of the experiment station
From superintendent OF farmers in
stitutes in Washington. Thatcher was
promoted to the head of the agri-
cultural department, and in 1913 was
called to the University OF Minnesota
and placed in charge of the division
of agricultural chemistry.
In 1917 DR.. Thatcher held tho posi-
ton of dean of the agricultural de-
partment and head Of the experiment
station. His next move was across
the eastern half of the United States
to New York where today he is di-
rector of the experiment station at
Geneva and head of the agricultural
station under Cornell University.
Not long ago some individual had
his doubts about the agricultural con-
nections of C. S. Barrett, president
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within and without Italy. Misin-
depreciation of Mussolini and his mo-
tiVes In other nations vary with the
misunderstanding of his motives and
the motives of the italian people who
have made Mussolini possible. For
without the peoples support Mussolini
could not have retained his position
Tor the more than two years that he
has been in power. Likewise. mis-
Interpretation Of Mussolini varies in
o1ner nations as the desires and
political schemes of these nations
have been frustrated by Mussolini.
whatever his methods, no matter
how they may appear to be arbitrary
and In violation of many of the more
democratic tenants of western Roy-
ernments, Mussolini is the epitome.
the living representation, of that
seething cauidron of ambition born
in the hearts and minds of the new
Italy, created by the young Italy, and
as such will seek no quarters and
give none. AS he continues to pursue
this policy respect for him within
Italy will grow.
Whatever strictly political deyelop-
ments in the next few days, there is
every indication that Mussolint will
retain his power and the preponderant
vote of the people of Italy will be
registered for fascismo in the new
elections.
Mussolini is far from his own
political sunset.
But should the unexpected transpire
there stands the erect form of the
Duke of Avsta, as strong a character
and as determined to see Italy's
destinies realized.
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Ohio State University. In those two
capacities he served a total of 25
years. For 27 years he was a breeder
and exhibitor of pure-bred Aberdeen
Angus cattle and produced some of
the most notable animals Of this
breed in America
Mr. Bradfute was one Of the orig
inal committee Of nine that organized
the International Livestock Exposi-
ton more than 25 years ago and still
serves in this body. During that
quarter century it has grown to the
greatest show of it's kind in the
world.
Bradfute was born in Green County,
Ohio. on a farm which members OF
his family have owned and operated
for a century, rare occurrence in
this country of shifting land owner
ship and retired farmers. Today his
sons are running the home place and
will continue to do SO, for the Brad
flutes make the boast that they are
financially Interested in nothing but
the products of the soil.
When the farm bureau got its start
in 1918, Bradfute was one of the pio-
neer organizers and served thrte
years as first president Of the Ohso
State organization. He also acted
as chairman Of the organization CORE
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of successful cooperation to be built
up. Even if Mr.. Wilson had never
advocated his fourteenth point. per-
haps SOME machinery would have
been improvised for the acute situa-
tions which were bound TO follow the
war. Perhaps the settlement in Up
per Silesia and in Memel. perhaps
even the financial restoration in Aus
tria, could have been undertaken by
some sort of supreme council or con-
ference of ambassadors. And ar
rangements might have been included
IN the treaties of peace themselves
which would have discharged in some
way the functions of the league in
connection with the protection of mi
norities, the supervision of the man
dates and even tho administration OF
Dansig and the Saar.
But the record contains much more.
1t Is long story of an effort to in
troduce law and order into a compli-
Gated world suddenly dwindled by in
vention and industry into a series of
communities which for many purposes
constitute a single unit. Such ac-
tivities of the league as the registra-
tion and publication of 500 interna-
tional treaties, the organization of
intellectual cooperation, and the ex-
tension of international labor legisla-
ton indicate the degree to which the
existence of a world community has
been taken account of.
Aided Many Settlements.
For a period there was danger that
the league would be shelved. Out
standing problems left over by the
war eclipsed the Importance of it's
earlier activities. But in its most
spectacular function-that of handling
international disputes-scope has not
been denied to 1t during these five
years. The Aaland Islands dispute,
the Wilma dispute. the Corfu dispute,
the Memel dispute, the MosuI dispute
these are only the outstanding cases
in a long line of settlements aided.
The capital fact today is that in
spite of the dissatisfaction with the
peace treaties, in spite of the made
Quateness of the covenant, in spite of
the discouragements of the postwar
situation and in spite Of the uncer-
ta-inties of the future, the league
lives and grows. For SIS peoples of the
world it is a symbol of peace and
understanding and cooperation The
momentum already achieved cannot
fail to keep 1t going for years to
come. If the experiment can go on
for a quarter of a century, If the Per-
manent Court of International Jus
tive canN continue to build a cumu-
lating case-law, If the tradition and
habit of International conference can
be kept alive by the annual meetings
of the assembly and the International
Labor Conference and by the quar-
terly meetings of the council, IL the
secretariat and the permanent com
mittees can continue even part of
their activities OF the past five years.
It may not be too ,sanguine for us to
hope that the future will find in the
League of Nations some compensation
for the nightmare which our genera
tion calls the war.
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time his headquarters have been in
Columbus, but he was too securely
anchored as a farmer and continues
to follow progress in the home place.
Taber was just Z years old when
he began milking cows and he has
since been closely associated with the
dairy development in his State. When
he was married to farm girl the
father Of the young woman presented
her with a young Jersey calf, an ami
NAL which has produced three gold
medal descendants and several silver
medal winners. This cow has helped
make daily history on the Taber
farm.
Taber has devoted 25 years of his
life to the furthering of the organiza-
ton which has rewarded him with
the highest honor in its gift. First
as a county deputy organizer, then
as national deputy. then as lecturer
for the Ohio organization, Taber has
worked In the association from the
ground up For eight years he was
master Of the Ohio Grange and is
now serving his second term as ma
tional leader. During the time he
was lecturer in Ohio the grange IN
creased in membership from $4,000
to more than 10000 He was a mem
Der of the wheat price committee
during the World War, as we'll as
on the Ohio State Council for De-
fense and the State Food Administra-
ton. =. -
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noldlngs and operations are, he has
found time to devote to valuable as
sistance in livestock association
work
with members of his family Bixby
moved to the present California
ranch when he was two years of age
and has been actively operating it
curing the greater part of his life
time. On the extensive ranch of 15.-
600 acres a wide variety of crops are
grown including 3,7OO acres of sugar
beets. 200 acres of oranges and sub
stantlal crops of hay and grains.
oeans and all kinds of vegetables
Besides serving his third year as
head of the national livestock as
ISOLATION, Bixby has served terms as
president OF the California Cattle
mems Association. At present he Is
president of the Alamitos Land Co.
In California, and is on the board of
directors of the Long Beach Branch
OF the Security Trust and Savings
Bank of Los Angeles These contacts
have enabled him to closely study
agricultural land DEVELOPMENT as
well as finance.
x x X
A close association with the live
stock industry and particular at
tention to sheep had been the forte
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ing charges that he governs by dictator
ship alone. Mussolini feels that at heart
the nation is with him, and would much
rather have a semblance of Dictatorship
in national affairs than resort to the
old method of government by timid
cliQues that merely permitted Italy to
drift, not forward, but into unchartable
courses.
The opposition is wagine a tre-
mendous fight against Mussolini,
having made the murder of Deputy
Giacomo Matteotti signal for con-
certed offensive against the Mussolini
regime.
When Mussolini first came into
power he refused to proceed against
his political enemies and exterminate
them, as has been the case in prac-
tically all other European revolu-
tions. He pursued a course of trying
to win them over on the principle
that bye-gones are bye-gones, and if
Italy was to assume her new place in
the sun, this policy necessarily would
have to be pursued. His enemies,
however, hailed his temporizing as
weakness. A vast section of the
italian people, even Fascist them
selves, DeSan TO suspect tnat THIS
strong man was no longer strong,
and as he kept his peace and refused
to act against the opposition with the
vigor marking his seizure of govern
ment, this feeling grew. When 1t
appeared that the opposition was
gaining force, the open break Of for
mer Premier Salandra marking the
moment, Mussolini appeared in the
chamber of deputies, and in forceful
terms declared his Willingness to as
sumo responsibility for every crime
charged against the Fascist, and,
furthermore, would end within "a
hours the intolerable political situa-
ton that had arisen and which was
menacing the permanency Of the gov
ernment. Mussolini kept his word.
Throughout the length and breadth
of Italy the Fascist came into play,
and within a short time opposition
organizations were disrupted, their
newspaper mouthpieces suppressed
and arrests were general. Signifi-
cantly with this show of force re-
turned the old confidence in Musso-
lini, returned many of the doubters.
and general became the belief that
after all the Italian people had not,
misplaced their confidence.
Notwithstanding, Mussolini con-
tinues to be a target for enemies, both
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| of Nations was begun have failed to
| materialize. Lacunae will exist in
| any written instrument and some
| minds will hold back from any ex-
| pertinent thus begun because its
charter fails to provide for possible
| but remote contingencies. The de-
bates at the time of the adoption of
| the Constitution of the United States
were replete with such indications
and the Constitution is oonspicuously
incomplete with respect to many
| needs of our national life. Thus It
| is constitutionalIy possible for Presi-
dent Coolidge to choose all the men,
bers of his cabinet from his own
State Of Massachusetts,; yet this pos
sibility does not worry the people of
Texas or of California because of
| their confidence that good sense and
good faith will be exercised by the
President and that any President will
take account of political necessities
not covered by legal restraint. Such
processes are familiar to the peoples
of most other countries. Yet, when
the covenant of the League of Nations
was being debated scant allowance
was made for them in some quarters
and the covenant was thought by
some to be defective merely because
of remote contingencies which it's
provisions failed to cover. In FIVE
years, however, none of the lacunae
in the covenant has given very
serious trouble. A few attempts
have been made to fill in the gaps
and several amendments have come
into effect during the past year.
But, in the main, the meaning has
been given precision only as affairs
have necessitated it. Practice and
procedure have been established as
the good faith and good sense OF the
hour dictated. In Ave years expert
ence. the covenant has proved to
have been more adequately drafted
| than one would have expected of the
war-weary world of 1919.
Curb ON War.
In one important respect, however,
| opinion has gone beyond the cove
nant during this interim, and it's
| march has been taken into account
during the past year in the drafting
of new instrument designed to sup
plement and in some particulars to
| supersede the covenants provisions
The trainers of the covenant went be-
yond any precedent in providing that
each member of the league should
agree that every dispute should be
| submitted to peaceful procedure
and that it would in no case resort
| to war until three months after the
| award by the arbitrators or the re-
port by the council" The step would
have been deemed chimerical by the
delegates at either of The Hague
| conferences. Yet events seem to have
! shown that it did not go far enough
And at the fifth assembly, in 1924
the delegates of 4S states collaborat-
ed in drafting a new protocol. which
/! is a much more thoroughgoing at
| tempt to outlaw war. Though it has
| now been signed by II states, this
protocol may never come into effect
But in any case 1T will, have fur
nished a new starting point for fu-
| ture effort, and it seems likely that
on this basis some further progress
will be made toward putting war
outside the pale of law.
Five years are a short period in
| human affairs. But they have been
siong enough foF. q. voluminous record
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| aid OF Christs. In spite OF his fear
| lessness, he drew multitudes to him,
even to his wilderness haunts. Jesus
Christs ministry was ushered in by
one who sought to be nothing more
than voice and articulate express
sion of Him who. coming after, was
to be the Light of the world"
Every age, indeed every movement,
has had to have its interpreter. No
great forward movement, no reforma-
tion, no advance toward better condi-
ton. but has had its bold and self
less forerunners. Some mighty voice
has dared to express a truth far in
advance of its common recognition by
the people. He's ahead of his time"
is the oft-repeated observation Of the
unthinklng and undlscriminating. The
shallow and colorless periods are
those that lack men of vision and of
unfettered tongues. Nothing is easier
than silence, and in times of stress
or emergency nothing Is cheaper.
Our Christian religion has been
challenged and its principles and pre-
cepfs questioned in every age. In
deed 1t has witnessed It's greatest
triumphs when II has experienced it's
sternest difficulties. Jesus did not
give to men an easy way OF salvation.
We lean too hard upon that much
abused term, comfortable gospel"
The finest heroisms the world has
witnessed have been exhibited by
those who have dared to stand for
deep and unfailins religious convic-
tions. Here I stand; I can do. no
other, so help me God" was the def
ant utterance OF him who stood be-
fore kings and rulers.
The application of Christs teach
ings to the common things of life is
at the bar of public opinion today.
Those who believe in His spver-
eighty and power are challenged by
an age that would live loosely and
without recognition of those disci-
plines and restraints that His pre-
cepts call for. There Is no difficulty
experienced in drawing to His stand
ard those who would simply worship
Him according to convenience and
without abandonment of habits and
practices that are selfish. Our
churches might be thronKed with
eager and reverent muItitudes of such
folk. There is an appeal in the emo
tional and esthetic in religion. Its
pageantry and soulful music are quite
irresistible. To be more than a silent
II irreverent, worshiper calls for finer
qualities and more heroic attributes
To be the voice of Him, proclaim
ing in every place and under all con-
ditions His sovereignty and the su-
premacy of His teachings; to he fear
less in defending His cause when II
Is tnconvenient to do so, calls for
courage and loyalty and the willing
ness to be sacrificed, II need be, for
what one believes.
An "inarticulate religion" was what
Donald Harkey found in the British
army, but an articulate religion is
the only kind that will meet the chal-
lenge of our age and win new laurels
for its standards
Copyright, 1921
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cess in fitting Shrohpshire sheen for
show. After serving as caretaker of
the herds at the University of H.
linois, he entered the teaching pro-
fession and was promptly dubbed "the
overalls professor He was gradu-
ated from the Illinois College of
Agriculture in 1906 and received his
matters degree in 1909. During the
same year he Travelled widely in
Great Britain and Europe where he
had frst-hand opportunity of study
ing the foreign livestock situation.
He won particular note several years
ago as q breeder of Rambouillet
sheep, one ram which he raised at
the University of Illinois having sold
for the extremely high price of 1880
President Taft in 1911 appointed
Coffee to the Federal Tariff Board.
and In a study of the cost of pro-
ducing wool and mutton he visited
every Western State and came in
contact with hundreds of sheep
farmers.
During the Is years that Coffee was
associated with the University of IL
linois he won a national reputation
as an expert in sheep husbandry and
wrote a valuable text book on the
subject which is now used in schools
and colleges. He went to the Uni
versity of Minnesota In 1891 to be-
come dean of the department of agri-
culture. This department as con-
stituted today comprises the college
of agriculture, three schools for in
struction OF sub-colleg1ate rank, and
the experiment station work, consist
ing Of a central station and eight
branches. A Total OF 400 persons are
under the personal direction of
Coffee in his present work.
X X x
l. j. Taber, master of the National
Grange, has more than a legitimate
claim to being a farmer in all its
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in 1907. From boyhood he lived on
cattle ranches and shortly after grad
uation from tho university returned
to became vice president and gen.
eral manager of Miller & Lux, one
of the largest land-owning and cat
tle-raising organization in the West.
In 1912 in response to the request of
the regents of the university he re-
turned to that institution to reor-
ganize its business and financial af-
fairs, at the same time keeping in
close touch with agricultural matters
and operating farming properties.
In 1917, at the outbreak OF the
World War, Merritt was appointed
by the governor of California to or
gani5e the draft, and was then ap
pointed by the President as Federal
food administrator for California. He
also headed the Pacific division of
the Food Purchase Board, buying all
food supplies for the Army, Nayy
and Allies from the Pacific coast for
overseas use.
+ After the war Merritt returned to
farming, developing large properties