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John’s college. Doctor Maclaurin spent ten months in the United States in
1896 and 1897, studying and visiting educational institutions, and then returned
to England, this time to study law. He was appointed in 1898 professor of
mathematics of the University of New Zealand, became a trustee of the uni
versity and to* k an active part in the organization of technical education in
the colony. He was dean cf the faculty of law in the university for four years.
In 1907 he was invited to Columbia university as professor of mathematical
physics, and a year later was made head of the department of physics. On
November 23, UK'S, Doctor Maclaurin was appointed by the Corporation of
Technology to bo president of the institute.
SKAFFROTH BOOSTS SUFFRAGE
If the women of America ever
have an opportunity to vote for Sena
tor Shafforth of Colorado, his oppon
ent is likely tc bo snowed under, for
he has made himself mighty popular
with the equal suffragists. Urging tho
adoption of the Susan B. Anthony
amendment in the senate recently, ho
delivered seme hard blows at the tyr
anny of tho male sex.
In tho formation of tho republic,
he declared, new principles of govern
ment wero put forth, one of which was
that all men were created equal in
rights and that man was entitled to
life, liberty and tho pursuit of happi
ness as inalienable rights.
“While men of our republic ac
knowledge these principles of govern
ment,” he said, “as applicable to all
men, many refuse to recognize them
as applicable to women. They cling
to their power like the monarchs and
the aristocracy clung to theirs. They
invoke divine right of sex as the monarchs asserted divine right of kings.
“The arrogance with which men assert that women have a sphere to which
they should he confined must be irritating to women of thought and action.
Who gave man the right to determine woman’s sphere without even consult
ing her?"
FRIEND OF WAR CHILDREN
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at home and abroad, King Leopold II cf Belgium bestowing especial honors
upon him. As the editor and publisher of the only polyglot journal in existence
Mr. Appleton spent much time in foreign travel, and his gifted daughter is
conversant \vith the languages of most of the European countries, speaking
even the difficult Serbian tongue with fluency,
To aid her work financially she has transcribed and published seme of tho
beautiful folk songs of Serbia. This has never before been done, as the songs
of the people of that land are not written down, but are passed on vocally from
one generation to another.
WHEN DODD DEFIED 4,000
Col. George A. Dodd, the leader of
the cavalry detachment which rode 55
miles in 17 hours and smashed Villa’s
command near Guerrero, gave New
York city, back in 1897, a glimpse of
his determined character. A military
carnival had been arranged and the
government consented to send to it
Troop F of the Third U. S. cavalry,
famous for its startling feats of horse
manship, which was commanded by
Captain Dodd. General Miles ordered
Captain Dodd to proceed to Madison
Square garden with his men from their
quarters at Fort Ethan Allen.
But as soon as public announce
ment was made that Captain Dodd
would be accorded a public reception
on Sunday with a miiitary escort, the
Society for the Observance of the Sab
bath Law protested, holding that the
state law prohibited parades on Sun
day.
General Carroll telegraphed to
Captain Dodd that the police might interfere with his troop's parading.
“How many policemen are there in town?” Captain Dodd wired to General
Carroll.
“Four thousand,” was the telegraphic response.
“We have 62 men in Troop F,” was the answering telegram of Captain
Dodd. “We will report in Madison Square garden on Sunday morning.”
And they did.
President Richard Cockburn Mac
laurin, about whcfm the dedication ex
ercises of the new buildings of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
on June 12, 13 and 14 will center, has
the distinction which will be appre
ciated by businesslike Americans that
he has financed the construction of the
new edifices. This means that he has
secured gifts of about nine million dol
lars and at the same time has carried
forward the educational prograqa of
the institute without departure from
its high standards.
President Maclaurin was born in
Edinburgh in 1870. His early boyhood
was spent in New Zealand, whence he
returned to England to complete his
preliminary education. In 1892 he
entered the University of Cambridge,
taking two degrees, B. A. and M. A.,
the thesis work for the latter being
most advanced mathematics. On grad
uation he was elected a fellow of St. j
A young woman stood in a large
drawing room in Washington and
talked to a group of men and women
about a work for which she asked
their aid. She looked very girlish to
be deeply engrossed in a great inter
national welfare movement.
This young woman was Miss Caro
line Dawes Appleton of Massachusetts
and New York and Paris, and she is
the founder of the international society
of the Friends of Childhood, whose mis
sion is to help those who have become
impoverished by the European war. As
the name betokens, children are the
chief object of relief, but the welfare
of children in many cases involves
help for an entire family. Miss Apple
ton intends to make Washington the
permanent headquarters of her w-ork.
Miss Appleton is the daughter of
the late Alanscn Stew-art Appleton, lit
terateur, editor and publisher, who
earned distinction for his work both
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS. GEORGIA.
EPITOME OF THE
WEEK’S EVENTS
In a Condensed Form the Happenings of
All Nationalities Are Given
For Our Readers.
WEEK’S NEWS AT A GLANCE
important Events of the United States
and Particularly in the
South.
Mexican News
Major Langhorne and two troops of
cavalry surrounded the Mexican ban
dits who raided Glenn Springs,, about
125 miles from the border, killing six
and capturing seventy-five according
to a truck driver arriving from Boquil
las.
United States soldiers have res
cued Jesse Deemer, th< American
storekeeper captured by Mexican raid
ers on Glenn SpriDgs and Boquillas.
General Obregon entered the re
cent conference with Generals Scott
and Punston w’ith much apprehension,
as, in Mexican eyes, he said, it seem
ed as' though a great force armed with
cannon and all the impedimenta of
war could not be moving in pursuit
merely of one bandit chieftain and his
handful of followers. Undoubtedly he
reflected the fears felt in Mexico, dis
patches announce.
The war department at Washington
has been advised that Obregon has
been convinced and, through him, Car
ranza, that President Wilson’s an
nouncement of the expedition told the
whole story; that its mission was only
to disperse or capture the bandits.
From field headquarters in Mexico
General Funston has received news
that Villa has recovered from his re
cent wounds and is endeavoring to
raise a new army in the state of Du
rango.
Cavalrymen are riding hard on the
trail of small bands of bandits in the
vicinity of Rubio range, 20 miles from
the American expedition, where three
bandits were slain by an American
forage detachment. There were fifty
in the band.
General Funston has completed his
plans for the reorganization of the
border patrol, and in only a short
time the safety of border citizens will
be guaranteed.
The territory along the internation
al boundary will be divided into three
divisions, with Brig. Gen. James Par
ker, Brig. Gen. William A. Mann and
Brig. Gen. Harry a Greene acting as
district commanders.
General Funston now’ has fifty thou
sand armed and disciplined troops un
der his direct control.
Two hundred Mexicans residing in
San Benito and other border towns
in the vicinity of Brownsville, Texas,
have expressed a desire to form a bat
talion to fight for the United States,
and will hold themselves in readiness
to answer a call for volunteers by the
United States government.
Army posts and stations along the
border are on guard against incendia
ries as a result of two fires at Fort
Bliss, where flames of unknown ori
gin destroyed a storehouse, three cav
alry stables, three horses and some
tents.
European War
A British official communication ad
mits the loss of a small monitor as a
result of the tire of Turkish batteries.
The monitor was reported as having
been set on fire and sunk in a Turk
ish official statement.
American aviators lined up with
France against the Germanic allies
flew over the German lines for the
first time as a separate unit, and sus
tained particularly heavy shelling, but
landed safely.
The pinch of war has caused Italy
to put an embargo on the export of
macaroni, one of her chief food prod
ucts. It will remain in force for an
indefinite period according to advices
from Genoa
From Rome, Italy, it is reported that
Austrian air raiders attempted to at
tack a train on which were Queen
Helena and the children of the royal
household. The attack failed.
Progress for the Austrians against
the Italians in southern Tyrol and on
the Lower Isonzo is reported from Vi
enna.
The Russian advance through Kur
destan toward Mosul, the Russian ob
jective being the Bagdad railway, is
reported by Petrograd to be succeed
ing beyond expectation.
A Tink attack against the Russians
around Diarbekr, was repulsed.
An outbreak among Austrian pris
oners of war in the interment camp
at Kapuskasing, Canada, in the prov
ince of Ontario, was quelled by the
military authorities after one of the
prisoners had been killed, nine seri
ously wounded, several fatally and,
four slightly injured, is the new-s dis
patched from Cochrane, Ont.
On the Russian front bombard
ments alone are in progress.
Petrograd reports that the Russian
force which recently drove out the
Turks from the Rowanduz region is
continuing its progress westward to
ward Mosul and the Tigris river re
gion.
Sir Roger Casement, knighted by
the English king in 1911 for services
to the British government, and Dan
iel Julian Bailey, an Irish private sol
dier, have placed on the docket of the
Bow street police court in London for
preliminary examination on the seri
ous charge of high treason. The main
attack of the prosecution is directed
against Casement.
. From the Tonale pass region, in
western Trentino, to Monfalcone, a
short distance from the head of the
Gulf of Trieste, the Austrians are vig
orously on the offensive against the
Italians
In Tyrol to the south of Trent heavy
infantry attacks to the east of the
Adige river have forced the Italians
again to abandon some of their ad
vanced positions and resulted in the
capture by the Austrians of an ag
gregate of 141 officers and 6,200 men.
On the line in France and Belgium
the fighting for several days has con
sisted mainly of artillery duels, most
severe to the northw r est of Verdun.
Fighting of minor importance only
is reported on the Russian front for
tw’O or three w’eeks.
The Turks are reported to have as
sumed the offensive around Diarbekr
in the Asiatic arena.
Domestic
The Confederate reunion will be
held next year in Washington, D. C.,
and will then be reviewed by the pres
ident of the United States.
Gen, George P. Harrison, comman
der of the Alabama division, was elect
ed commander-in-chief of the United
Confederate Veterans.
Gen. John P. Hickman w’as elect
ed commander of the department of
the Army of Tennessee, U. C. V.
Gen. K. M. Van Zandt of Texas was
re-elected commander of the Trans-
Mississippi Department, U C. V
Gen. John Thompson Brown of Vir
ginia was elected commander of the
Army of Virginia, U. C. V.
Gen. Benentt Young of Kentucky
refused to stand for re-election as
commander-in-chief of the United Con
federate Veterans.
Girard, Ala., across the river from
Columbus, Ga., is under martial law,
and officers on the Georgia side are
guarding the bridges leading into that
place. The Alabama soldiery captur
ed three-quarters of a million dollars'
worth of whiskey and beer, and will
send it to Montgomery on five freight
cars.
Both the United Confederates and
the Sons of Veterans adopted resolu
tions at their meetings, pledging lives,
fortunes and honor to the government
of the United States should it become
necessary for the defense Of the coun
try. The resolutions were adopted at
Birmingham, where the reunion was
held, and telegraphed to President
Wilson.
At the plant of the Du-
Pont Powder company,near Gibbstown,
N. J., fourteen men were killed and
about thirty injured in a terriffic ex
plosion. The assistant superintend
ent of the plan was among the killed.
Washington
President Wilson has made public
a frank and intimate review of his
three years in the white house and his
impressions of foreign and domestic
problems, delivered confidentially be
fore Washington correspondents gath
ered at the National Press Club; he
spoke of the difficulties of the presi
dency and particularly of the motives
which have guided him in handling the
European situation.
The president says the United States
is for peace because she loves peace
and believes the present war has car
ried the nations engaged so far that
they cannot be held to ordinary stand
ards of responsibility.
In the opinion of President Wilson,
the United States has grown to be
one of the great nations of the world
and therefore must act more or less
from the point of view of the rest of
the w’orld.
The president says he will use force
in the European situation if necessary
by using the paraphrase that “for the
sake of a man's soul I have got to
occasionally knock him down.’’
President Wilson has lain awake
at night considering the European sit
uation, because there might come a
time when the United States would
be compelled to do what it did not de
sire to do, and the great burden on
his spirit has been that it has been
up to him to choose when that time
came.
In a public statement the president
frankly criticises a number of promi
nent men in Washington political life
by saying that some have grown and
some have “swelled.”
Germany, in a note presented to Sec
retary Lansing by von Bernstorff,
warns neutral governments that mer
chant ships flying neutral flags must
obey the provisions of international
law in regard to their conduct when
stopped by a German submarine, and
that they incur danger if they turn
their ships in the direction of a sub
marine.
An optimistic view of the Mexican
border situation was laid before Pres
ident Wilson and his cabinet by Sec
retary Baker, after a long conference
with Major General Scott, chief of
staff. General Carranza and his ad
visers now understand the motives
of the Washington government more
fully than ever before as a result of
the conference at El Paso between
Generals Scott and Funston and Obre
gon.
A phase of interference with mails
which will be made the subject of spe
cial protest in the next note to Great
Britain is the custom of taking neu
tral ships into British ports for in
spection and then removing the mails
and sometimes subjecting them to
long delays.
The Glass rural credits bill, pro
viding for a federal farm loan board
and a system of twelve land hanks,
passed the house by a vote of 295
to 10. A similar measure had al
ready passed the senate, with few
minor differences, which will be ad
justed by a conference committee.
Murom
SUNMTSOIOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute. Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1916. Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR MAY 28
THE COUNCIL AT JERUSALEM.
LESSON TEXT-Acts 15:1-35.
GOLDEN TEXT—For freedom did
Christ set us free.—Gal. 5:1.
The events of this lesson are out
standing in Christian history. Paul's
appeal to the Gentiles and the large
number of them who accepted the Gos
pel made most acute the question,
“Must Gentile believers become Jew
ish proselytes upon accepting the
Christian faith and be governed by
Jewish law and customs?” It would
be exceedingly interesting to divide
a class and let them debate this con
troversy stated as follows: “Resolved,
That the Mosaic law should not have
been imposed upon Gentile Chris
tians.” The date of this council was
A. D. 50 or 51, and the scene is laid
first in Antioch of Syria and then in
Jerusalem.
I. A Division of Opinion (vv. 1-6).
Luke does not name these who agi
tated and precipitated this contro
versy, but clearly indicates how the
Holy Spirit dealt with the situation.
“Is a man justified by fath, or by the
works of the law?” is a similar ques
tion with modern application. The
Holy Spirit, to avoid a rupture in the
yet weak church, directs that Paul,
Barnabas, Titus (Gal. 2:1) and “cr
tain others” who are not named,
should carry the question to the apos
tles and elders in Jerusalem. Those
to whom they went were “of reputa
tion” (Gal. 2:2), the “pillars” Gal.
2:9) and they received the delegation
from Antioch in public (15:4), also
heard Paul in private (Gal. 2:2).
11. The Argument, (vv. 6-1 S). It
will not do to be harsh in condemn
ing Paul’s accusers. The Pharisees
felt deeply their position. As God’s
chosen people they were marked by
circumcision. Jesus, the promised Mes
siah, w r as a Jew. Social, religious,
and racial differences are hard to rec
oncile in one church today. But little
was asked of the Gentiles in contrast
with all they received. Entrance to
church membership would not be too
easy if circumcision were imposed as
a test of their sincerity. Peter brought
forward the plea before the council
that God had given the Holy Spirit to
the uncircumcized Christians, “and put
no difference between us and them,
purifying their hearts by faith” (vv.
8,9). God bears the same witness
today to those who refuse to be bound
b» Mosaic traditions as regards the
seventh day and other such details.
Paul’s argument was that God had
wrought signs and wonders among
the Gentiles and thus set his seal
upon his preaching of salvation as
apart from legalistic works (v. 12).
Read in this connection Gal. 2:16, Ti
tus 3:20, 8:3, 10:4, and Phil. 3:9.
The apostle James presented the third
argument in connection with the ver
dict he pronounced. It was that it
is according to Old Testament Scrip
ture that God will take a people for
his name from among the uncircum
sized Gentiles as well as from among
the law-keeping Jews (vs. 13-17).
With Paul this wms a vital question,
and we can at least imagine his feel
ings as he puts forth a life-and-death
struggle for the truth. As Peter re
minded the people of the occasion
when “the Holy Spirit came upon Cor
nelius and his household” he caused
them to keep silence.
111. A Wise Decision (vv. 19-29). It
was James the Just, brother of our
Lord, the writer of the epistle and
the bishop overseer of the church at
Jerusalem, who rendered the decision.
In his argument (vs. 13-18) he saw
in these Gentile converts reported by
Barnabas and Saul a fulfillment of
the prophecy of Amos, and to use the
language of today he “made a mo
tion,” viz., that these Gentiles be not
disturbed except in such matters as
would tend to more fully separate
them from the heathen idolatry they
had just left, (a) “Pollution of idols,”
i. e., flesh offered in the sacrifices (b)
“from fornication,” the immorality
connected with the pagan worship of
Aphrodite and Cybele which actually
consecrated vice, and (c) “from things
strangled,” for the heathen did not,
as the Jews did, look upon the blood
as life, the seat of the soul. The
church readily agreed to this motion
and took such precautions as were
needed that no misrepresentations of
their decision be carried back to Anti
och. This consisted of a spirit-led
choice of messengers and in a written
statement of their decision (vs. 22, 23).
IV. The Result in Antioch (vv. 30-35).
Great joy greeted the conclusion of
this question.
It produced pleasant harmony in
place of discord and in place of the
irksome bondage of the law it gave tho
joyous liberty of the Gospel.
Jewish legalism gave way to Chris
tian liberty. Judas and Silas, Spirit
filled, gave much profitable exhorta
tion and instruction.
Silas after reporting to the Jeru
salem church (v • 32 ) seems to have
returned to his new-found friends
(v. 34) and later became, along with
Paul, a missionary (v. 40).
Thus the evil Paul's enemies
thought to accomplish worked out to
the good of all (Rom. 8:28).
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