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THE LAGRANGE REPORTER.
American Opin- New Life
ion and the War Before Peace
If the outcome of this war could be There can be no peace, no true
decided here in America, the~vote peace, by any skilful redrawing and
would >ro against the Germans—at recoloring of the map of Europe,
least so I gather from the newspa- The map as it was is not the crime,
pers, from discussions in the clubs, The map as K may be will not be the
from street-comer debates and talk cure. There must come a new spirit
overheard in the subway. It is not if there is to be a new life. That new
because the molders of public opinion life must create a regenerated Eu-
have been bribed. It is not because rope. For that regenerated Europe
the tide of battle seems to be going there must be a new States system,
afrainst the Germans. It is not be- In that new States system a place
cause of “White Papers." It goes far must be made, a place and a posi-
back of the time when the Austrian tion and a prestige, for the little
Prince was shot in the unpronounce- people as well as for the great race,
able capital of Bosnia. We do not for the little kingdom as well as for
want to see the world Germanized, the great empire, for the Slav as well
The governmental forms, the political as for the Teuton. The national
life, of Germany are so opposed to jealousies and racial enmities of Eu-
what we are used to and to the bet- rope must end. There can be no re-
ter things we dream of that we find turn to the status quo. So much as
it hard to understand how Germans that at least must be insisted on, not
can be “loyal.” by the Allies alone, but by all the
And what might be called the of- shocked and suffering world: insisted
ficial German doctrine—'the ideas not on most of all by America. It must
only of the Government and the army be Peace for All or Peace foi None,
but also of the universities and of And one thing more mutft be required:
many writes and speakers—is defi- j n the name of Peace the thing gust
nitely distasteful to us. Even at the be taken away that makes for Vi ar.
risk of being ourselves called hypo- That thing, the colossal folly of these
crites, we assert our dislike for the forty years, is this make-believe nien-
theory that might makes right. Per- ace ca lled Armed Peace. Let us have
haps some of our “rights” have no done w ith this humbug. Germany
better foundation, but, if so, we are an d the German Emperor have in
sorry for it. We know that there are this thing been the chief sinners
many things which we are strong am ong the nations. The kniser 8
enough to take, some of which we j n f a mous maxim, “In Peace prepare
want, which we leave alone because f or War,” has been adopted by every
they arc not ours. It is one of the ot her military-mad war-lord and war-
aspirations of our struggling democ- pose r the world over. To all but
racy to eliminate those who make Egomaniacs like the Kaiser this
might their only boast. We are fight- boary fallacy is disproved in the hide-
ing such ruthless people in our in-1 0U s discovery of the past month: the
tornal politics: we like them no bet- na ti 0 ns in Peace prepared for what
ter abroad. , | they now are getting—War. 1 his
If this war should chance to result dread world-scourge will not have
in a nefV Bonaparte in France, we will wr0U ght its purpose unless nnd until
hope for his defeat. If it helps the mouth of them that speak this
brutally domineering type of Rus-j^e is stopped forever,
sians into the European saddle, we And stopped. too, must he all
private and personal interest in the
“The Twilight
Sleep 5
“Let Them Fight
It Out Alone”
will be against them. And in so far
as the British Empire uses its im
mense power for oppression, we are
s'/airjpt it. Rut it looks to most of
US today as if this glorification of
force, this deification of hitting pow
er, is most exuberant in Germany. If
the Herr Dokter Eucken is right in
saying that this is the ethical concep
tion back of “German culture”—and,
as that is his specialty, he ought to
know—why. Germany needs a lick
ing. Whether it is for her own good
or not, it certainly will be good for
the peace of mind of the world.
We are neutrals in this war. We
nre glad we can be. for we do not
like to fight and we intend to do our
utmost to preserve our neutrality. But
if we had to fight, we would choose
for an enemy the partisans of this
theory that might makes right.
This—as near as T can gather—is
the way Americans look on this war.
—Arthur Bullard in The Outlook.
In Need of New
Declaration
There is need for a new Declara
tion— a worldwide Declaration of In
terdependence. There is still place
for the spirit of independence—there
will always be. But what the world
waits for today is a realization of in
terdependence. It is a small woml.
So closely are we bound together by
the ties of common interest that to
disturb conditions on one continent
is to disturb the order of the world.
How the war is illustrating that fact
as it has never before been illustrat
ed! The threads of commerce, of
kinship, of mutual dependencies, make
a network that encompasses the
globe. Georgraphy is trivial. Boun
dary-lines are for a day. And we are
all brothers, here for much the same
purpose, and bound for the same
harbor on the shoreless seas. Where
fore why should we redden the waters
with our brothers’ blood, and with
carnage and ruin make desolate the
fair face of the earth? The langu
age of sorrow is a universal language.
The crv of little children is the same
beneath every flag. And when others
suffer we must suffer with them.
There is no perfect independence.
No nation liveth unto itself, and no
nation dieth unto itself. Humanity is
of more moment than the lines upon
a map. And some day the dreamers
dreams will come true, and a Decla
ration of Interdependence will be
backed by a Parliament of tne World.
—Homer Hoch in The Fra.
promotion and financing and expan
sion of the armament business. II
war-weapons and war-equipment, and
war-ships must be manufactured, let.
it be done, not by private concerns I
with their eye on big business nnd!
big dividends, but by the responsible
national Governments. The arm
ament lobbyists in ParlinmCPt and
the armorplate newspapers hnve been
denounced in Britain as the shame of
the nation and the perpetual menace
to peace. France is no better.Germany;
is worse. Who will answer for the.
United States? Who for Canada?
What a lurid light is now cast back
ward on the machinations of the in
ternational armament combine that
only last year included firms in Eng
land, in France, in Russia, and in Ger
many! And what a Nemesis this
slaughter is on the trail of the
“Krupp-cum-Kaiser” alliance. All this
diabolical playing fast and loose with
the interests of humanity must be
made impossible in every country;
private dividends in armaments must
be treated as the blood-money of the
nations; each nation may police its
own borders, but no nation arm for
war: anything less will be a betrayal
of world-peace. When this war has
exhausted the combatants, there will
come Peace for All or Peace for
None.—.1. A. Macdonald, Editor
Toronto “Globe.”
The use of scopolamine in connec
tion with morphine as an anaesthetic
in childbirth is not new; it has been
known for about twelve years. Recent
publication of magazine articles
about the “twilight sleep,” and es
pecially as it has been practiced at.
Freiburg, Germany, by Dr. Kroenig
and Dr. Karl Gauss, has aroused ex
traordinary interest in the subject. It
is claimed that scopolamine is supe
rior to chloroform or ether, which
have long been employed in difficult
causes, in that scopolnmine induces
an unconsciousness like that of sleep
and the patient "awakes” without
consciousness of pain—although some
physicians say that what happens is
that the drug renders the mind un
conscious so that no recollection of
the pain actually felt exists. One in
vestigator says that the “twilight
sleep" is really “a subconscious con
dition in which the patient considers
herself absolutely sound asleep and
unconscious, when she is in reality in
a hypnotic condition, entirely sus
ceptible to suggestions from the doc- j
tor.” i
Is the new method safe? On this
point there is a difference of opinion
among medical authorities. We no
tice a tendency among advocates of
the system to argue (as was done in
the Friedmann matter) that doctors
are temperamentally opposed to medi
cal discoveries—a totally false gene
ralization, as all will say wlm remem
ber how the discoveries of Koch and
Pasteur and others have been applied.
It is right that new' medical methods
should be thoroughly tested before
they are herealed ns near-miracles;
and testing is a matter of special
skill and often requires a long itime. |
It is well to be on guard against teo
ready acceptance of such discoveries
lest incalculable harm be done and
hopes cruelly disappointed.
The "Ladies’ Home Journal” is to
he praised, therefore, for accompany
ing an exceedingly interesting article
on the treatment at Freiburg, which
includes interviews with American
mothers who have undergone the
“twilight sleep,” by expressions of
opinion from five eminent physicians.
Their joint verdict is not favorable.
Dr. Vaughan, president of the Ameri
can Medical Association, says: “Up to
the present time the profession is not
convinced that this drug, either alone
or combined with morphine, is free
from danger either to mother or child,
or both.” Dr. Green, Professor of
But we continue to wish that those
kaisers and czars and emperors would
leave out God. We hate their im
perial familiarity with the Creator of
this universe. To assume that God
came to the rescue of one set of
human wholesale murderers as
against another is impious and in
famous to our minds. It is making
of Giod, who is love, a butcher stand
ing at the shambles where legs are
blown off, hearts punctured and
brains blown out for the sport of
rulers who play with “subjects” as
old men play chess.
When God “brilliantly supported”
one of the generals who are now' lead
ing men into human butcheries, the
world received a shock—but, for
tunately, most of us will be able to
laugh at the assumption.
Let them fight it out, let them
butcher each other until one or the
other side is exhausted—though the
pity of it!—but let them stop drag
ging God into their miserable busi
ness.—Lafe Young in The Fra.
Obstetrics at Harvard, says he has
tried the method without satisfactory
results, but proposes to give it fur
ther trial. Dr. Hirst, of the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, believes that as
first used it was dangerous, that as
now used it is partly psychological.
Dr. De Lee, of the Northwestern
University, studied the mdthod at
Freiburg and formed decidedly un
favorable impressions, adding that
he found that the famous maternities
of Berlin, Vienna, Munich, and Heidel
berg had tried and discarded the plan.
On the other hand, newspapers state
that the Jewish Maternity Hospital
of New York has tried scopolamine in
one hundred and twenty-five cases
with great success and proposes to
extend the treatment.
In view of all these facts, it seems
only right to caution the general
public against reaching final con
clusions, hnstily, and especially to cau
tion any would-be patient against
acting without Ithe best possible medi
cal advice from an unprejudiced
physician.—The Outlook.
Dr. N. C. Doss, of Atlanta, was the
guest of friends here. Sunday.
Mrs. J. W. Dunford of Atlanta,
spent Saturday in LaGrange.
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Germany as
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Must Come to
the Rescue
It is our hope—and it seems to us
well founded—that the European war
will be comparatively brief. In any
case, it seerml safe to say that before
spring the war should be over, and
the survivors of the present strug
gle ready to resume their wonted oc
cupations. While all the nations will
suffer heavily in money as well aH in
men, the people will have to be cloth
ed—and cotton will continue to be
the cheapest clothing folks can wear.
While for a few weeks, therefore,
the cotton trade will be seriously up-
get—both by reason of the deranged
commerce of Europe and by reason of
the fact that European ships will not
be available for carrying our cotton
abroad—the hopeful fact is that with
in a few months, anyhow, the world
must have our present 1914 cotton
crop, and must pay a fair price for
it.
The only question is as to whom
the world will pay—the farmer os
the speculator. At present it seem-,
certain that a golden harvest is go
ing into the hands of the speculator!
unless something is done.
Until the war is settled, cotton, if
marketed in the usual early-autumn
quantities, will certainly be a drag
on the market and will not bring
anywhere near its worth. The pro
blem is as to whether our farmers are
going to be forced to sell under such
conditions and literally hand over to
the speculative classes millions of
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