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capture and the retention of San Juan hill possible. More than that, his
modest little detachment effectually halted the operating of a formidable
battery that might easily have put many of Shatter’s fieldpieces out of action.
Jn short. Lieutenant Parker showed the military world for the first time
just what the machine gun could be relied upon to do in the hands of capable
men. He anticipated and actually predicted the part that the machine gun
has played in the present struggle in Europe.
Long before the war with Spain Lieutenant Parker grasped the tactical
value of the machine gun, and became so insistently an advocate of the
weapon that he talked about it upon every possible occasion.
He drew up plans for a suitable carriage, so that the machine gun,
ordinarily equipped with only a tripod, might have the fullest mobility and
keep right along with the most advanced troops.
So persistent was Parker in riding his hobby that other army officers
thought him something of a bore and sometimes avoided his company. But
his enthusiasm and theories have been fully justified, first by the work of his
machine-gun detachment in the Spanish-American war, and now, even more
fully, by the developments of the great conflict in Europe.
| VARDANIAN ON “FLUNKIES”
James K. Vardaman, United States
senator from Mississippi, has said
many biting and even bitter things
during his public career, and the other
day he took occasion to pay his re
spects to a certain class of citizens of
Washington, in the course of an elo
quent plea for better citizenship made
before a mass meeting in Alexandria.
“There are more flunkies to the
square inch in Washington than I ever
saw in my life,” declared the senator,
“and 1 verily believe that if you would
stuff a colored laborer’s overalls with
straw and label the effigy ‘congress
man’ or ‘senator,’ you would soon have
half the population crawling to it.”
Senator Vardaman said that a pub
lic office should be honored, but thg.t
the man in that office should be hon
ored in accordance with his worth.
Honest, fearless, patriotic men and
•women are needed at the ballot box
today, Senator Vardaman told his audi-
once, and if mistakes have been made in the past they may be righted in the
future. The speaker expressed the fear that “in thiß nation dollar is the god
»and commerce the religion of too many.”
I DEMOCRATS’ PUBLICITY MAN
small contributions for the campaign from great numbers of people. The
scheme netted the committee more than SIOO,OOO. His excellent publicity work
that year led to his selection for chief of that department in this campaign.
j MADDEN, LONG LOST BROTHER
Martin B. Madden, congressman
from Chicago, is not only wealthy. He
is also quite handsome. Nevertheless
he is not satisfied with his physical
make-up. He would be much better
pleased if he were built along more
original lines. The trouble with him is
that he looks like too many people. He
makes a specialty of being a ringer for
the long-lost brothers.
On an average of once a month he
gets a letter from someone who has
seen his picture and claims him as a
brother thought to have been lost at
sea or strayed from home years and
years ago
One day he heard from a woman,
who said she had a locket with an
“M” on it, and containing a boyhood
picture of her iong-lost brother that
looked exactly like the one of Madden
In a Chicago paper. Madden was
obliged to tell her that his congres
sional duties are too pressing to allow
him any time for being a iong-lost brother this year. This is Oilly a sample
incident, and Mr. Madden is getting somewhat “peeved.”
Surprise and concern were felt
when it was learned that a United
States army machine gun had failed
to work during the raid mads by Villis
tas on Columbus, N. M. Promptly the
war department set about preventing
a repetition of that breakdown by
sending to the border the army's ma
chine-gun expert, Maj. John Henry
Parker of the Twenty-fourth infantry,
variously known in the service as “Gat
ling Gun Parker” or, more intimately,
“John Henry.” Major Parker has a
noteworthy record, because he is the
man who demonstrated the possibili
ties of the machine gun.
This happened 18 years ago, dur
ing Shafter’s campaign, which cul
minated in the fall of Santiago de
Cuba. The man in the street may not
be aware of it, but Lieutenant Parker
—for such he was then —has been
credited with turning the tide of bat
tle at a critical period and making the
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When the joint finance and execu
tive campaign committee of the Demo
cratic national committee selected
Frederick W. Steckman as director of
publicity for the national committee in
the coming presidential campaign, it
picked one of the most experienced
and popular of the newspaper writers
and correspondents in Washington.
Mr. Steckman, who was born in
Princeton, Mo., thirty-six years ago,
first went to Washington about 1904 as
correspondent of the St. Louis Repub
lic. For some years now he has been
a political writer for the Washington
Post and besides has covered the capi
tol and the White House for tho New
Orleans Daily States. However, he be
gan his newspapdV activities when he
was less than ten years old.
In 1912 Mr. Steckman wa3 in
charge of the Chicago headquarters of
the Democratic national committee,
and it was he who devised the plan of
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WEEKS EVENTS
Id a Condensed Form the Happenings of
All Nationalities Are Given
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WEEK’S NEWSJVT A GLANCE
Important Events of the United States
and Particularly in the
South.
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Mexican News
The Carranza government has or
dered 30J000 troops into the region
south of the border to exterminate
bandits.
Officials were inclined to anticipate
a further delay by General Carranza
in dispatching his new note regard
ing the border situation.
Secretary Baker says the Sibley-
Langhorne expedition has not been
withdrawn upon orders from Washing
ton.
Officials in Washington believe the
American forces lost the “hot trail”
of the bandits who raided Glenn
Springs and Boquiilas and retired be
cause their officers thought no good
could be accomplished by remaining
across the border.
Complaint against the action of the
American troops at Ascension in the
Casas Grandes district was received
in Juarez by General Gavira in a tele
gram from the mayor of the town.
The Cairanza government will grant
amnesty to Gen. Inez Salazar, who
recently evaded surveillance in El
Paso and crossed the Rio Grande to
start another revolution, if Salazar
will agree to surrender himself in
Juarez.
Troopers of the Seventh, cavalry
were fired upon near the town of
Temosachio and one was wounded.
The attacks is ascribed to bandits.
After a few shots the Mexicans fled.
A very small group of Mexicans is
falling in behind the American col
umns as they move northward, al
ways keeping out of sight, but telling
the natives that they are chasing the
“gringoes” from Mexican soil.
The supposition is that the Carran
zlstas are trying to give the Amer
can movement of troops northward
the appearance of a retreat. An
other supposition is that the Mexicans
are trying to worry the Americans
by sniping.
Army officials at Marathon, Texas,
are investigating a report brought
from Boquiilas by a truck driver that
Yaqui Indians are in the rear of Ma
jor Langhorne’s cavalry detachment
and in a position to threaten it.
It is stated that Colonel Sibley,
who was leading the advance out of
Mexico, has retraced his steps in or
der to reinforce Langhorne.
Marauders have cut the army tele
graph line between Marathon . nd the
Mexican frontier in three places.
European War
In moving the vote of credit for 30,-
000,000 pounds sterling in the British
house of commons, Premier Asquith
commented that this was the eleventh
vote since the beginning of the war,
and the second for the current fiscal
year.
The Greek steamship Adamantios
Korais, of 2,947 tons gross, was sunk
by the Austrians in the Mediterranean
and the crew is reported to have been
saved.
Hard fighting is in progress between
the Austrians and Italians in the Ty
rol, the French and the Germans in
the region of Verdun and the Ger
mans and British around La Bassee.
The great offensive of the Austrians
against the Italians continues unabat
ed, and the Italians are being thrown
back, with the Austrians having so
far captured 24,000 prisoners and much
equipment.
In the region of Verdun both the
French and Germans claim successes
for their arms at various points.
The French have penetrated Fort
Douaumont northeast of Verdun,
which the Germans stormed and cap
tured in February. The Germans, how
ever, hold the northern part of the
fort.
Heavy losses in men were suffered
by the British when the Germans took
trenches from them over a front of
about a mile and a quarter near Gi
venchy-en-Gohelle.
The British operating in Mesopota
mia are drawing nearer Kut-el-Amara.
The British have been reinforced by
Russian cavalry, and expect in a few
days to rescue the large number of
officers and men who surrendered a
short time ago to the Turks.
Official confirmation has been giv
en of the reports that a sentence of
ten years in prison has been given
in the case of Jeremiah C. Lynch, an
American citizen charged with having
participated in the Irish rebellion.
Petrograd announces that the Rus
sians are keeping up their advance
on Mosul.
After a bold and adventurous ride,
a Russian cavalry force has formed a
junction with the British general, Gor
ringe. on the right bank of the Ti
gris, in the region of Kut-el-Amara,
where only recently a British force,
after a long siege, was forced to sur
render to the Turks.
The situation generally c.. the Rus
sian front remains unchanged.
The Dutch government has decided
to send a strong note to Berlin, say
ing the German version of the tor
pedoing of the Holland steamer Tu
bantie cannot be accepted and holds
Germany responsible for it.
The Germans have retaken the most
of Fort Douaumont after a fearful
loss of life.
The French have recaptured from
the German trenches on the southern
outskirts of the village of Cumieres,
in the Verdun region.
On the Austro-ItaJian front the
Austrians from the Lake Garda region
to the Val Sugana district are keeping
up their violent offensive against the
Italians.
The Italians admit that in effecting
their retreat across the border they
destroyed artillery which it was im
possible to withdraw.
Sir Edward Grey says that it is im
possible to consider terms of peace,
as the Germans are being “fed with
lies” by their ministers, and that be
fore such an agreement or protocol
could be entered into there would
have to be a previous agreement be
tween the allies.
The Germans replied to the terrific
French offensive in the Douaumont re
gion with assault after assault in the
fierce combat northeast and northwest
of Verdun. Heavy masses of German
troops were thrown against the picked
French troops whose successful at
tacks won for them the greater por
tion of Fort Douaumont. ,
Although they were hard held to
the northeast, the Germans would not
be denied at Le Mort Homme and af
ter having been moved down by the
French artillery and machine guns
with sanguinary losses in several at
tacks, finally gained a footing in the
trenches to the west of this much
fought for position. The tenure of
the .trenches was short lived, for the
French in a counter attack immediate
ly drove them out.
The Italian sailing vessel Fabbricot
to F w'as sunk in the Mediterranean.
The British steamer Rhenass, of
285 tons gross, was sunk by a mine,
and seven of her crew were killed.
The Norwegian steamer Tjomo has
been sunk.
The Austrians have transferred to
the Italian front a number of 381 and
420 millimeter guns. The latter can
non have been taken from the battle
ships which have been bottled up in
the harbor of Pola since the begin
ning of the war.
The Italians report that they have
checked the Austrian advance.
Domestic
Judge Emory Speer, in the United
States district court at Macon, Ga.,
has ruled that a case now pending in
the United States court in that divi
sion involved the contsitutionality of
the new Georgia prohibition law and
would have to be heard by three fed
eral jurists before a decision could be
rendered.
New York City dispatches announce
the unusual sight of a foreign steam
ship coming into port with her decks
loaded with boxes and cases contain
ing aeroplanes, hydro-aeroplanes, can
non and other war appliances, valued
at $200,000, belonging to the French
government, which is booty captured
from the Germans. The war parapher
nalia was loaned to be used in a ba
zaar to be held in New’ York for the
benefit of the entente allies.
Nine persons were killed and thir
ty-eight injured at Kemp City, Okla.,
eight miles east of Denison, Texas,
and the town was badly damaged by
a tornado which swept a path three
quarter of a mile wide and five miles
long.
New Orleansw as selected as the
1917 meeting place of the Southern
Baptist convention by the committee
to which the time and place of the
meeting was referred at the annual
convention in Asheville, N. C.
A dog strayed on a neighbor’s porch
at Yamacraw, a suburb of Savananh,
Ga., and started an inter-family row
which resulted in the death of the
head of one family and the serious
stabbing of an eider brother of the
other.
Washington
An elaborate report explaining the
$241,000,000 naval appropriation bill
has been submitted to the house by
the naval committee, and at the same
time the Republican members of the
committee attacked the measure as in
adequate.
No dreadnaughts are included in the
naval program submitted.
The senate judiciary committee vot
ed 10 to 8 to report favorably to the
senate the nomination of Louis D.
Brandeis of Boston to be associate
justice of the Supreme court. It was
strictly a party vote?
In the committee considering the
confirming of Brandeis to be associate
justice of the Supreme court, the find
ings came very near being reported
without any recommendation.
General Funston’s request for more
coast artillery has been refused by
the war department.
War trade has made New York with
in the last year the world’s busiest
port.
President Wilson has completed a
note vigorously renewing the protest
of the United States to Great Britain
against interference with American
mails.
The statistics of cotton consumption
show the continued growth of the cot
ton textile industry of the South.
Only about one hundred and fifty
million dollars in additional revenue
will have to be provided during the
coming year to meet the bill for pre
paredness and other large contemplat
ed expenditures.
It is probable that all of the reve
nue measures, including provisions of
preparedness revenues, a tariff com
mission and the encouragement of the
dyestuffs industry will be included in
an omnibus bill. The president is un
derstood to favor this plan.
ImanoNAL
SUNMIfSQIOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
Sunday School Course of Uk Mooa>
Bible Institute. Chicago.)
(Copyright, ISIS, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR JUNE 4.
THE CALL OF THE WEST.
LESSON TEXT—Acts 15:36; 16:15.
GOLDEN TEXT—Come over into Mace
donia and help us. Acts 16:9.
Following the commission's report
at Antioch of the decision of the Jeru
salem church, Paul and Barnabas and
others continued their evangelism in
that city (ch. 15:35). These leaders
soon felt the need of revisiting the
scenes of their former labors (v. 36),
but when it came to the organization
of their party, Paul refused to accede
to the decision of Barnabas that John
Mark should accompany them (vs. 37,
38, see Acts 14:13). So sharp a con
tention arose that two parties were or
ganized. That Paul later forgave
Mark is evidenced by his tender refer
ences to him.
I. A Closed Door. Ch. 16:1:8. Paul’s
companions for this second mission
ary tour were Silas (15:40), Luke
(see use of word “we,” v. 13), and
Timothy (v. 1-3). The latter came of
good ancestry, had good training and
was of good report, still to avoid con
tention he submitted to the rite of
circumcision. Paul's work was to
promulgate the Jerusalem decree, to
establish or to confirm the churches
and to add to these churches new con
verts. But that did not entirely ful
fill Paul’s commission (9:15). The
word “Asia” (v. 6) means the Roman
province of Asia and, wisely obeying
the Spirit’s direction, Paul passed on
until he came to the seaport town of
Troas. At a": later time Paul spoke
the “word of the Lord Jesus” in Asia
with wonderful effect (19: 1,8, 19,
26, 27). It must have burned within
the bones of Paul thus to be re
strained, but it did not serve as an ex
cuse for him to take a vacation, but
rather to seek new fields wherein to
preach. Thus he came to Troas.
11. The Macedonian Call. v. 9-13.
Paul had several epochmaking vi
sions; on the Damascus road (9:3, 4
and 26:19); in Jerusalem (23:11); at
the time of his shipwreck (27:23),
and the one we are now considering.
A vision is a knowledge of the need
and of the resources at one's com
mand. Grecian beauty, philosophy,
art and culture needed Christ.
Christ as a resource was adequate
and available to supply that need.
This vision Paul saw; through it God
called him to Macedonia. “We”
(the first use of that pronoun in the
book of Acts), Paul and Luke, imme
diately essayed to obey.
111. The Open Door, v. 14, 15. On
what seeming trifles does history
turn! An outcast wandering Jew
coming to help a proud, cultured, in
fluential foreign city, but he bears the
Gospel which alone can be of help
to them. Paul did not wait to “in
vestigate the field” nor to establish
a working organization. He knew
a better point of contact, and that was
to find those in that city who knew
God even though ignorant of Christ.
He began by preaching Jesus, not
comparative religions, nor did he
seek to found “community centers”
with soup kitchens and social uplift.
Paul knew that to elevate the individ
ual by establishing him in the faith of
Christ would soon result in commu
nity uplift. On the other hand a
faith which evaporates in words and
does not give tangible, concrete evi
dence in works may well be chal
lenged as to its being genuine. There
was no supernatural direction as to
what part of Macedonia Paul was to
visit, and exercising his common
sense, Paul went at once to the prin
cipal city. He did not begin at once
to preach the Gospel (v. 12 R. V.),
but waited and watched for an oppor
tunity, doubtless praying much for a
favorable opening (Ch. 13: 14,- 17:2;
18:4).
The “man of Macedonia” seems to
have been a woman unless we consider
the Philippian jailor. This open-air
meeting was one of the most notable
in history. The Lord opened the
heart of pious Lydia and it was the
turning point of the evangelization of
Europe and America and the world.
God must open the hearts of men and
women (John 6:44, 45; Eph. 1:17, 18;
Luke 24:45), and this he is willing
and glad to do. The steps of this
woman's conversion are clearly
marked and present a good type. (1)
She went out to pray (v. 13). (2) She
heard the word (v. 13, 14; see also
John 5:24). (3) She had her heart
opened by the Lord (v. 14). (4) She
"gave heed to the things which were
spoken” (v. 13 and Mark 16:16). (5)
She made public confession of her
newly-found faith by baptism.
(6) She carried with her the whole
household, perhaps children, workers
in her business and servants (v. 31-
33; I Cor. 1:16).
The use of the word “constrained”
in verse 15 indicates a heart hunger
to be helpful by being allowed to
serve.
The Philippian church often helped
Paul subsequently and doubtless Lydia
was a leading spirit in such service.
The history of the Christian church
relates many illustrations of the lead
ership and prominence of women o?
wealth and culture.
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