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Q/T-or- ORDINARY VPegple v J “GATLING GUN” PARKER " ' 1 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 r^r 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 . '* * . m THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. EPITOME OF THE WEEKS EVENTS Id a Condensed Form the Happenings of All Nationalities Are Given For Oar Readers. WEEK’S NEWSJVT A GLANCE Important Events of the United States and Particularly in the South. - - -- + 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. 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