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A FOREGONE CONCLUSION

TN Washington (after the an
Il nouncement of unrestricted
German submarine Warfare) it
was being taken for granted"
that a break of relations was in
evitable
In Wall Street the market
opened with a flood of selling
orders under which even U. S.
Steel common staggered, while the
rest of the list was plunged for
an hour or two into a complete
decentralization" amounting almost
to a panic.
Not until later in the day did
the more long-headed spectators,
with sounder appreciation of The
effect of war on stock prices, come
heavily into the market to arrest
the decline.
When the Cabinet gathered for
its regular Friday meeting, it was,
according to Secretary Redfleld,
with "a certain sense of relief
that we need hesitate no longer
and that the matter was settled
by forces whose weight was be-
yond all doubt"
Secretary Lane thought it was
simply a case of Germany's being
about Ito turn mad dog again"
Secretary Houston felt that the
note, especially the part about one
American ship being allowed to
sail under a checkerboard flag,
was the last word of a mad
war-lord-the farthest limit of
dictation."
At the Capitol that afternoon
the President held another con-
ference with the leading Demo-
cratic Senators, but it can hardly
have been of much Importance,
since no one troubled to close the
doors, and the reporters in the
corridor could watch the group as
1T talked. Everywhere the break
was foregone conclusion.
That same evening, on the 9TH
er hand, a crowd of 5000 men and
women we're making Madison
Square Garden rock with their
applause as Mr.. Bryan cried that
the United States should never
get down and wallow in the mire
of human blood" The papers
which reported Mr.. Bryan's speech
next morning also carried the an
nouncement that President Will
son would address the two Houses
Of Congress at o'clock that aft
ernoon, Saturday, Feb. 8.
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Times Books

IF you can imagine man who was combination
l. Dwight Moody, Brigham Young and I,enin with
touch of successful business man thrown in YOU NAV
get rough idea of John Humphrey Moves founder
OF the famous Oneida Community
Robert Allerton Parker recies Noyes' biography in
"A Yankee Saint" and reveals the man as one of
the most remarkable Americans that ever lived
putnam; S3.75D
Noyes was an evangelist who preached that
human beings could attain state of perfect free
dom from sin
He was also a species of Socialist who grouped
some scores of people together in the Oneida Com
munity on a basis of strict communism
In addition, he was seXologist who sold his con-
Verts on plan of complete sexual communism and
who actually put into practice scheme of eugenic
breeding for human beings
ON top of all this, he was genius enough to keen
" the freaks and crankS out Of his community and
to make solid business success out of it so that
1t endured and prospered for full quarter century
That he scandalized the pious of his day-the
middle OF the nineteenth century-goes without say
ing. But the Oneida Community such a finan-
clal success and its members were so orderly indus
trlous and quiet that the enraged clercs were never
able to do much about it.
Not until advanced age loosened Noyes' grip did
the community begin to dissolve.
Mr.. Parker has written fine book about the
man. handling its delicate features with schoI-
arship and good taste by Bruce CattonO
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The Coed Book Differs

T AM curious to know how long it is since Prof
l. Machen has read the book he processes to teach
He might, for instance turn to the nineteenth chap
ter of the Gospel according to St Matthew and read
about a certain rich man. He had kept ali the law
and followed the rule of the prophets He had great
possessions.
Now, according to the economic theology of j.
Gresham Machen, it should have been the first duty
of the state to protect this admirable young fellow in
his property rights and to him that no matter
how great the distress about him his wealth
would be kept inviOate lest class distinctions be di-
minished. If j. Gresham Machen had into
the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan that day he
would have sent the young man away rejoicing But
it was another who preached in Palestine, and the
young man went away SorroWful, for Jesus said Go
and sell that thou hast and give to the poor"
remember the parable of another vineyard of
which it was said And those that came at the
eleventh hour every man received penny
And so trust that there is some one in authority
at Westminster Seminary to point out to the young
theological students that they must make their
choice between the words of Jesus Christ and those
Of j. Gresham Machen.
Copyright 1880.
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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

XXTHEN your voice gets hard and husky you are
w likely to suspect that you catching cold
and probably most of the time you will be right But
there are many other causes of hoarSenesS, and If
the huskineSs persists you should have an examina-
ton to find out whether any other factor may be the
cause.
The habit Of talking in a we'll modulated voice
with proper information and emphasis represents in
many cases training and proper study of the use of
the voice. soft voice with suitable emphasis when
required is most valuable factor in gaining worldly
success
HoarSenesS may come on any time in life A baby
may become hoarse almost Immediately after birth
due to some congental infection.
A the child gets older, sudden hoarseness may
N be brought about by diphtheria or other in
fectious diseases, and may also be associated with
small groWthS which may develop the vocal cords
HoarSeneSS may oCur in girls in association with
historical symptoms and after laryngtis.
Adults most frequently get hoarse following pro-
longed use of the voice. This follows particularly
speaking for long periods of time.
When the vocal cords are examined under such
circumstances, they are usually found to be thick
ened and congested. A rest will give the cords
chance to return to normal.
THE most serious causes of hoarseness are cancer
Il and tuberculosis of the vocal cords hoarse-
ness which persists demands an immediate eXamina-
ton as to the presence of one or both of these con-
ditons.
Seen early, the cancer may be removed sureicallv
or treated with radum and in many instances with
success tuberculosis of the throat if seen arlv NAV
be amenable to the usual method of treatment of
tuoercuoSlS and sometimes may be cured by the
oHect appHcatlon OF the ultraviolet rays.
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LA FOLLETTE's FILIBUsTER

nut there was another Senator
- who also believed in peace,
and who saw that with the armed
ship bill the final crisis had come.
AS the bill was reported out
that Tuesday evening, Senator
La Toilette launched his one
man "hlibuster" to prevent It's
passage before the sessions end.
Next day, Wednesday, the 18th,
the Administration leaders pro-
fessed themselves confident that
the measure would pass, but Mr..
La Toilette was still grimly throw
ing every available parliamentary
obstacle into its path. S5s8
The Republicans suddenly be-
gan to realize that it might now
be unnecessary for them to fill
buster the supply bills in order to
force an extra session; the bitter
pacifst from Wisconsin was doing
the work for them-and saving
them from the onuS of it.
But Mr.. Polk at the State De-
partment knew of the waiting
bombshell so kindly supplied by
MIR. Balfour. The Zimmerman
telegram, he believed, would pro-
duce a blast of popular emotion
that would sweep the armed ship
bill through against everything.
So did Col House, who had now
seen the text, and who was urging
the President to publish it to-
morrow" So, no doubt, did the
President-to whom it must have
been plain enough that the first
effect of Senator La Follette's
pacifsm would be to deliver Mr..
Wilson himself into the hands of
the intransigents. On Tuesday.
March l, the headlines were
shouting from the morning pa
pers: GERMANY SEEKS AN
ALLIANCE AGAINST US; ASKS
JAPAN AND MEXICO TO JOIN
HER; FULL TEXT OF PROPO-
SAILS MADE PUBLIC"
1t was a stupendous sensation.
The telegram was everywhere
seized upon as final proof of the
complete and fathomless treach-
cry of the German.
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WHEELS OF WAR TURN ON
TINE wheels of the great engine

TINE wheels of the great engine
a of preparedness were turning
already of their own motion, as
lesser officials within the govern
ment or enthusiasts outside it
sprang to demonstrate their read
mess in the hour of need.
At the War College the experts
were putting in 16 hours a day to
meet the influx of requests for
recommendations from the Secre-
tary and the Chief of Staff"
just before the crisis Gen.
Pershing had at last been ordered
out of Mexico. There were still
some $4,000 National Guardsmen
on the border, but the Mexican
menace was now forgotten, and
as these troops were brought home,
that possible embarrassment to
the prosecution of a major war in
Europe seemed finally liquidated.
At Washington, the military
men were drafting the bill to es-
tablish universal service" thus
making possible land therefore,
inevitably the raising and dis
patch of a conscTipt mass army to
Europe.
On Feb Is, the House voted 353
to % for the largest naval appro-
priation bill in the nations his
tory. On the same day Secretary
Lane, as a member of the Council
of National Defense, was galvan-
izing the in0ustrialists of its Ad-
visory Commission into instant
activity, urging them to plan for
the mobilization of all our national
industries and resources" and
helping to set up the nationwide
committees of business men from
which the dollar-a-year people
were later to be recruited.
Count Bernstorf and his EN-
bassy staff at last left Washington
on Feb. IA and sailed from New
York next day - 'inexpressibly
sad" as the ambassador wrote in
his farewell letter to Colonel
House. So that link was broken.
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What of the Christmas Shirt?

I DO not know the precise faith to which j. Gresh-
am Machen holds. The parting of the name sug-
geStS an ear for cadence found generally within the
Established Church, And yet there is note of
serner doctrine in the hint that half the JOY of thrift
consists IN placid reception of the music orchestrated
from out the murmurS of the miserable.
And yet j. Gresham Machen is no doubt benevo-
lent even though he would rebuke the salesgir for
failing to amass her pennies against a rainy day.
after the manner of Miss Barbara Hutton. But still
l seem to see the kindly cleric in SNUG surplices
beaming upon the Daughters of the King while they
prepare mixed pickles for the poor Christmas.
/ have said that it seemed to extraordinary
thing that any Christian minister should oppose
the principle Of social security legislation and bride
even at the mild form which it has taken under the
present Administration. But chiefly my wonder was
aroused by the words which stood at the bottom of
this remarkable letter. l read in amazement -
Gresham Machen, Professor of New Testament in
Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia"
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NOT WAR-NOT YET

1T gathered an enormous crowd.
l. Long before 2 o'clock the cor
ridors of the Capitol were damned
with people importuning Congress-
men for admission to galleries al
ready overlooking.
Briefly the President rehearsed
his note of April 10, 1916, with its
declaration that unless unre-
stricted submarine war was aban-
dcned, the United States could
have no choice but to sever dip
lomatic relations with the Ger
man empire"
He read the answering pledge
of May 4, and the firm interpre-
tation which he had put upon it
in his reply of May 8 and to
which, as he stated, Germany
had made no answer. He then
read the recent note.
Il think you will agree with
me-" he said, that, in view of
this declaration. which suddenly
and without prior intimation of
any kind deliberately withdraws
the solemn aSsurance-of the 4th
of May, 1916, this government has
no alternative but to take the
course which in its note of 18th
Of April, 1916, it announced that
1t would take. I have, there
fore, directed the Secretary of
State to announce to his excel
lency the German ambassador
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Mr.. urges RecOnsiders

THE umpire seen to snort two streams Of
l. smoke and ashes and lava poured out of his
ears as he stood his ground grabbing his right wrist
with his left hand to hold it back He was losing
control of his evil nature and cranking his famous
right swing to the eye when urges with excellent
tmlng and better discretion, decided to abandon
the issue and preserve his health
Otherwise the umpire who terrifies Cubs in his
mighty moods managed to keep himself inconspicu-
Gus throughout a comparatively brief ball game
Prof Ernie Quigey the learned historian and pig
1ancler of st. Marys, Kas. in frequent trouble
but blamed man
His cap was flicked from his nude and cleaning
scalp in the first inning, when Rowe took short
throw from owen to catch runner His somber
blue pants were busted with dirt in the second as
Cavarretta of the Cubs slid into first in brave
but futile dive to beat throw And in the fourth
he slipped in a puddle and like to bust his neck
falling into the Tigers dugout as he reeled around
gazing skyward to referee urges high foul which
landed in the trench
The people realized that regardless of the out
come they were taking their last squint at the Cubs
and formal baseball until next spring They did
not seem depressed by the idea for this is foot
ball country and the weather has been football
weather for several days.
Copyright. 1895. by United Syndicate 1ncJ
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LONDON is ELATED

IN London that Saturday eve
l. ming the enthusiasm could
but with difficulty be restrained.
Mr.. Page and his staff had been
waiting anXiously all day in the
Embassy.
Not until o'clock did the first
news arrive, when Admiral Hall,
the head of the British Naval In
telligence, came dashing in. An
aid met him; he stopped abrupt
ly and uttered just two words:
Thank God!" So then they
knew. The admiral hurried in to
the ambassador and laid before
him a code message from Capt.
Guy Gaunt:
"Bernstorff has just been given
his passports. l shall probably
get drunk tonight
The news was at Berlin with
the noon papers on Sunday. Herr
Stresemann, who had always been
bitter against the United States,
was finishing speech before
conservative gathering in which
he had argued that America
would take no action, when some
one arose in the audience with
the newspaper in his hand.
A police guard was promptly
furnished for the Embassy, but
there were no disturbances. On
Tuesday afternoon Mr.. Gerard
went alone for a lonk walk
through the Berlin streets-was
it to take a regretful farewell Of
the city in which, on the whole.
he had mad such a gorgeous time?
and no one offered to modest
him.
In Berlin there were some en-
barraSsments, it is true; hut
when Mr.. Gerard was finally
ready to leave he had "a pleas
ant farewell talk" with both the
chancellor and zimmerman.
1t was on Feb. 10 that he got
off at last from the Potsdammer
station with his flock of over 100
diplomatic and consular officials
and American citizens. The for
eign Office sent down four Of its
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A MAJOR DISASTER

WHAT made it particularly
w shocking, of course, was the
suggestion that the japanese
with whom we we're about to be-
come allied should be invited into
the American continent, or that
the principle upon which many
Americans had demanded the
restoration of Alsace-Lorraine (be-
cause they had been acquired by
force) should be applied to Cali
fornia and Texas, which We had
forcibly detached from Mexico.
The zimmerman telegram be-
came a major German disaster.
Not its least useful aspect, more
over, was the fact that it gave the
northeastern flre-eaters their first
direct lever upon the pacific senti-
ment of the Southwest.
If a German triumph threat
ened the annexation of California
and Texas to Mexico! Even be-
fore the editorial repercussions
had time to roll in, the House, on
that same Thursday afternoon,
passed the armed ship bill with a
vote of 403 to Is.
In the Senate Mr.. Lodge had
seen at once that the telegram
would be of almost unlimited use
in forcing the situation One
would think that note would make
the whole country demand war"
Senator La Toilette. however, had
not been made to demand war by
the zimmerman telegram and on
Friday, March ?, he was again
able to block the armed ship reso-
luton. The Senate paused to vote
the enormous naval appropriation
bill, and then went on with the de-
bate.
Only a few more hours of the
session remained, and that night
they sat late under crowded GAL
leries and in an intense excite
ment.
Tomorrow-The drive toward
war.
Copyright. Mcclure Newspaper syndicateD
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campaign. In the moral satisfac-
ton of bringing retribution down
upon the faithleSs Teuton, few
had paid much attention to the
submarine itself. 1t was widely
assumed that the Germans had
resorted to the U-boat either from
sheer lunacy or merely to graft
fly their innate lust for crime;
and the SOLDERING thought that
they might also have taken it up
because it was militarily power
full instrument occurred to almost
no one.
In January, the last month of
the restricted war, the Germans
sank $4,000 tons; in February
they destroyed $4,000, and the
figures were to rise all through
March and April.
British merchant ships and
crews continued to sail with stolid
courage; but worse than the ac-
tual sinkings was the fact that in
the first weeks, at least, neutral
shipping was terrOrized from the
seas, just as the Germans had
hoped.
The short session of Congress
would reach its end on the 4th of
March. Normally, the new Con-
gress would not meet until De-
cember, and Mr.. Wilson would
thus be free for nine months from
the interference of the legisla-
tive branch and from the uses
which partisan politics knew only
too we'll how to make of it.
Some of the vital appropriations
bills. however, were still tagging,
and if they should fail to pass
in the ensuing week Mr.. Wilson
would be compelled to summon an
extra session The Republicans,
who were now belaboring the
President for his refusal to arm
the merchant ships, we're also
maneuvering to block these bills,
and so chain him to his Congress.
This Republican threat to force
an extra session upon him was
doubtless to have something to do
with the Presidents sudden deci-
sion to yield on the armed ship
issue. In the country at large
the situation, as Spring Rice re-
ported that day, was much that
of a soda water bottle with the
wires cut but the cork unexplod-
ed" But on Saturday, the oath,
the British themselves were able
to supply something spectacular"
Mr.. Balfour deity gave the I'M
exploded cork a push.
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Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ .


HUNDREDS of years ago, before the white man
l. had entered the Middle West house in what
is now Illinois caught fire AS result archeologiss
now know that the Indian mound builders were
fairly proficient at the art of building houses
Parts of the wall and roof of the house. partially
consumed by fire. were found by members of the
University OF Chicago party which has been explor-
ing the Kincaid mounds near Metropolis, Ill
hR. THORNE DEUEL., research associate of the
- university's department of anthropoogy, head
ed the expedition which consisted of IS members
Ten weeks were spent in excavating the mounds.
With the aid of the new find, as we'll as previous
ones, Dr. Deuel. has reconstructed a picture of the
typical houses OF the Kincaid region which was prob
aoIy one OF the most important centers of Indian
trace IN the upper Mississippi Valley before the COM
ing Of the white man.
- ALTERS, cut with stone axes supported the
roof, which was composed of a thatch of
woven REEDS and rough grasses. Ropes of vegetable
hber tied the rafterS together
Wltnm the house, there a fireplace and stor-
age pits Benches fianked the walls
Inc klncaid mounds are located on the north
sloe OF the Ohio River, eight miles above Paducah
ny. Ihey have long been known as one of the rich
est archaeological sites in the region
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BY WALTER MILLS

people to see them off, and a
couple of army officers were de-
tailed as a formal escort to the
border.
The ambassador had ordered
plenty of champagne and cigars
to be put on the train" for the
entertainment of these gentle
men; and so they all rolled pleas
antly down to Switzerland.
At the frontier the ambassador
gave to each escort a gold cigaret
case engraved with the recipients
name. They shook hands, and
Mr.. Gerard passed out of Ger
many, his role in world history
hCnorably and jntelllgently full
filled.
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damning text was then given in
English translation:
we intend to begin on the 1st
Of February unrestricted subma-
rine warfare. We shall endeavor
in spite of this to keep the United
States of America neutral. Ii tnc
event Of this not succeeding We
make Mexico a proposal of alli-
ance on the following basis:
Make war together. make peace
together, generous financial sup
port and an understanding on our
part that Mexico is TO reconquer
the lost territory in Texas. New
Mexico and Arizona. You will in
form the (MeXican) president of
the above most secretly as soon
as the outbreak of war with the
United States is certain and add
the suggestion that he should. on
his own initiative, invite Japan
to immediate adherence.
The cable arrived on Saturday
evening. 1t was some time on
Sunday that President Wilson
abruptly concluded that an appeal
to Congress for authority at least
to arm American merchant ships
was unavoidable. On Monday he
went again before the joint
houses of Congress.
In the gray seas off the south
west of Ireland, only a few hours
before the President arose to
speak, a German submarine had
fired torpedo without warning
into the Cunard liner Laconia.
Twelve lives only were lost (out
of nearly 80 on boarO but among
them were those of two American
women, Mrs. Mary Hoy and her
daughter, who died of exposure
in the small boats on the way into
Bantry Bay.
The news blazed in the same
headlines which announced the
Presidents appeal for authority
The President let it be known that
he regarded the Laconia sinking
as the covert act" for which he
had been waiting; the armed ship
bill was revised in more explicit
terms, and Senator Stone, who
still believed in peace but who re-
garded it as his duty to support
the President, reported it out OF
the Foreign Relations Committee
with a heavy heart.
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Literary Notes

Still another book on Ethiopia, which brings the
total on the fall lists up to Dozen has been &C
cepted by Robert NJ. Mcbride 1t is called Slaves
in Ivory IN Abyssinia" and is by Major Henry OAR
ling, who used to be a British agent in Abyssina.
Tom Tippett whose novel Horse Shoe Bottoms"
has just been published by Harpers, has returned
New York from Madison, Wis. where he has been
teaching the university summer school.
Karl Capek, whose biography of President Mas
aryk was recently published, and who has novel
called Meteor" on the Putnam list for publication
Oct 16 will be married on Oct 18 to Madame Olga
Scheinphugova of The Prague National Theater Co.