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C. R. CRANE AND HIS MONEY
hero long deceased. Crane noticed that the interior of the memorial was not
eny too artistic in its style of decoration. Being a patron of art, he was greatly
distressed over this. And the story has it that he hunted up the committee in
charge and told them he would pay for all the interior work on the memorial
If they would just kindly let him see to it that it was carried out along strictly
artistic lines. He was afraid that after he had returned home, the thought
of all that poor art would haunt him and depress him, and he preferred to pay
for the project rather than have the recollection of it disturb his peace of
mind.
BRITAIN’S HEAD NURSE
Before the war the staff of mili
tary nurses In Great Britain numbered
298. Today the number of those under
the control of the war office —every
one of whom possesses a certificate
of training of at least three years—
numbers 6,395. And. taking into ac
count those supplied by the Red Cross
and the auxiliary agencies, 30,000 wom
en today are devoting their lives and
energies to the care of the soldiers of
Great Britain.
Miss E. H. Becher, R. R. C„ whose
official title Is that of matron in chief,
is responsible for the army of nearly
7,000 military nurses. From her room
in the war office she controls the en
tire organization and supplies the calls
for nurses that come to her from the
varied regions where British forces
are operating. But one sees no sign 3
of nervous haste or fussiness about
her. Apart from her gray uniform
•with its scarlet braid and row of
service decorations she is the type of well-bred English gentlewoman. She
might be the head of a vast industrial concern employing only women. With
perfect calm she rulea the work of a force of women in number both unex
pected and unprecedented, whose work has perhaps been the finest performed
throughout the war.
the three officers in confinement, unless they gave their parole not to leave
American territory. The state department legal authorities decided that
Cowdin and his mates were not subject to the international regulations, be
cause they came to this country of their own volition, and did not seek an
American port to protect themselves from capture by Germany or her allies.
By an act of congress a commit
tee was established in 1910 to prepare
specifications, receive the proposals
of bidders and to award contracts for
government supplies. This committee
is known as the general supply com
mittee and consists of representatives
from the executive departments and
federal commissions. Dr. O. H. Briggs
was made superintendent of the com
mittee. His duties are detailed and
manifold. He was formerly superin
tendent of supplies at the post office
department.
By means of the committee a
wider range of business is done than
is handled by any other corporation
in any country in the world. One of
the first rules is efficiency, and effi
ciency in their particular line means
economy. Economy for the United
States government means close buy
ing of all its supplies.
During the last five years the gen
eral supply committee has materially assisted Uncle Sam in saving over $2,500,-
000. It is possible for it tg obtain bargains that will enable the country to
make even e greater saving All contract prices range from 10 to 40 per cent
lower than those quoted in the open market.
Buying for 1 ncle Sam is a tremendous task. Supplies include everything
from pickles to automobiles, from sarsaparilla to pumps. The aggregate cost
amounts to several million dollars each year. The general supply committee
contracts for articles by the year, an estimate having first been made as to the
number or quantity of each particular Item needed. In all there are soma
209,000 items.
Charles R. Crane of Chicago is
one of the oddest millionaires America
owns. He finds more funny ways of
spending his money than anyone else
can think of. A young man with am
bitions to be a poet once went to
Crane with a sad story of how he was
obliged to devote himself to mere com
mercial pursuits, when if he only had
an assured income he would write a
really great poem and hand it down
to posterity. Crane was telling a
friend about the incident.
“And did you stake him?’’ the
friend inquired.
"Certainly,’’ replied Crane; "he
didn’t want much —only SSO or S6O a
month and I was afraid to turn him
down for fear he really might have a
good poem in him.’’
Once Mr. Crane was traveling in
Russia and happened to stay over
night in a town where there was being
built an elaborate monument to some
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HE FLIES FOR FRANCE
According to recent advices from
Paris, Sergt. Elliot C. Cowdin of New
York has been transferred from the
reserves to the battleplane squadron
at Verdun. When he received his
orders he exclaimed:
“Thank heaven! I am going
where there’s something doing. What’s
the use of being a French army avia
tor if you can’t be in the biggest scrap
the war has produced?”
Cowdin la well known in New
York society. A graduate of Harvard,
ho is a polo player and an all around
sportsman. He has distinguished him
self in the French army flying corps,
having won promotion and the war
cross. When Cowdin, Second Lieu
tenant William Thaw and Sergt.
Norman Prince returned to New Y'ork
on leave to spend last Christmas,
German sympathizers told Secretary
of State Lansing he would violate
American neutrality if he did not hold
BUYS FOR UNCLE SAM
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
EPITOME OF THE
EVENTS
In a Condensed Form the Happenings of
All Nationalities Are Gives
For Our Readers.
WEEK’S NEWSJIT A GLANCE
Important Events of the United Btatoa
and Particularly in the
South.
Mexican News
Claiming that the words and pro
tests of the United States have been
entirely contradiction of their acts,
and that in spite of protests not to
intervene in the affairs of Mexico,
soldiers of the United States are in
Mexico without the consent of the
Mexican government and in violation
of Mexico’s sovereignty, the Mexican
government now asks for the imme
diate withdrawal of those troops. Re
quest is made in a 12,000-word note
made public at the foreign office in
Mexico City.
The Mexican note is interpreted by
many in Washington to mean “that
the United States troops will have to
get out of Mexico or fight.”
The Mexican note was presented to
the department of state by Eliseo Ar
redondo, the Mexican ambassador des
ignate.
It is stated in Washington that the
president will personally prepare the
answer to Carranza’s note.
Ten machine guns, 380 rifles and a
quantity of ammunition discovered in
Villa cache near Namiquipa, Mexico,
were taken to American headquarters.
American army intelligence officers
are centering their efforts on seeking
further hiding places of weapons and
amunition, realizing that the cleaning
of northern Chihuahua of such caches
is vital should Villa or any of his ad
herents reorganize and attempt to op
erate in that region.
On the eve of the receipt of Gen
eral Carranza’s note which officials be
lieve will renew the demand for with
drawal of American troops from Mex*
ico, and with another conference be
tween American and Mexican military
commanders about to begin, a protect
has been received in Washington re
porting serious difficulties between
American oil operators at Tampico
and the Mexican authorities.
It is stated that the Mexicans in
Tampico are promulgating decrees de
signed to make it impossible for any
American to do business in that coun
try, and it is stated that an Amer
ican has been imprisoned for three
hours because he refused to pay his
employees wages fixed by the author
ities in excess of terms previously
agreed upon with the men.
Candlaria Cervantes and Juan Beau
como were buried without religious
ceremony at Columbus, N. M. These
two bandits have caused as much trou
ble on the border as Villa himseir,
or nearly as much. There were no
flowered carts in the funeral proces
sion, followed by a few Mexicans
wrapped in dirty blankets.
European War
The French troops northwest of Ver
dun, in the region of Le Mort Homme,
have turned on the offensive against
the Germans, and have captured a very
strongly organized position on the
slopes southwest of Le Mort Homme.
Seven machine guns and 225 prison
ers were taken in the attack.
The town of Avocourt and Hill 304
in the Verdun vicinity are under a
heavy bombardment and shells of
large caliber are being made. Bom
bardments are in progress north of
Verdun.
The British casualties in the month
of May are reported to have been 1,-
767 officers and 28,470 men.
French positions on a front of ap
proximately two miles, extending from
the southern ridge of Le Mort Homine
to the Cumieres village, northwest of
Verdun, have been captured by the
Germans. In addition the Teutons
have again pressed forward in the
Thiaumont wood, northeast of Verdun,
and added their line in the eastern
part of it.
Around Le Mort Homme and Cu
mieres a violent bombardment is still
in progress, but there has been a dim
inution in the intensity of the fire of
the big guns northeast of Verdun.
The Verdun region and southern Ty
rol continue the theaters where the
most sanguinary battles are taking
place. While the Italians are holding
back, the Austrians are forming fur
ther advances and inflicting heavy
losess on them in counter attacks in
Tyrol, their German allies having been
able to make another gain in the cap
ture of about three hundred meters
of French trenches northwest of the
village of Cumieres on the left bank
of the Meuse near Verdun.
Minor successes have been obtained
by the Russians over the Turks in the
Rivandouza region of the Caucasus
front.
In the German reichstag Gustave
Noske, Socialist, protested against the
speech of Herr Hirsch, National Lib
eral of Essen, which, he declared, was
calculated to prevent the neutral pow
ers from mediating in behalf of peace.
He said: “There is no disposition
among the German people to hazard
the lives of further hundreds of thou
sands for fantastic plans of conquest.”
Except for a report from Petrograd
that the Germans have repeatedly
bombarded the railway line to the east
of Riga, no operation of moment has
taken place on the Russian front.
After crossing the Aegean sea with
out !«nrgr the an army in full
strength now has been landed at Sal
onika according to a wireless dispatch
in Paris.
DoY ,e «tic
The lower house of the Louisiana
legislature passed a bill which would
make Columbus Day—October 12 a
legal holiday in that state.
A pocket knife was thrown at Colo
nel Roosevelt in Kansas City, Mo.,
which struck the arm of John W. Mc-
Grath, the former president’s secre
tary, and fell to the running board
of the car. Colonel Roosevelt says it
was a trivial incident, and that he had
a “bully” time.
Four persons were killed and a
score injured at Dallas, Texas, when a
wooden awning, suspended by chains
in front of a store in the business
district, collapsed under the weight
of spectators viewing a demonstration
for preparedness.
Five hundred thousand rabbits for
consumption by the British army in
France comprises part of the cargo
of the British steamer Cumberland,
which put in at Norfolk, Va., for coal.
Seaboard train No. 5 ran into an
automobile containing six persons and
killed four and injured two, two miles
south of Statham, Ga. The party tried
to cross the track in an automobile
in front of the train, when the auto
mobile engine stuck on the track.
James J. Hill, railroad builder, cap
italist and most widely known figure
of the Northwest, died at his home
in St. Paul, Minn. He was uncon
scious for nearly twelve hours before
he died. He was probably worth in
the neighborhood of $250,000,000.
A declaration that he wishes no ap
peal in his behalf was contained in a
statement issued from his cell in the
Tombs in New York City by Dr. Ar
thur Warren Waite, convicted of the
murder of his father-in-law, John E.
Peck, of Grand Rapids.
It is estimated that the liquor con
fiscated at Girard, Ala., up to date has
a total value of $1,250,000. But this
is not all. There is still some $250,-
000 worth of whiskey stored under
ground and other places in Girard.
The assertion is made in Alabama
that the town of Girard will be under
martial law for perhaps a year -while
the question of disposing of the con
fiscated property is being threshed out
in the courts. It will probably be car
ried to the United States Supreme
£ourt for final settlement.
Lieut. Clrence Alvin Richards, com
mander of the destroyer Fanning, was
instantly killed by an electric shock
in the station of the Sag Harbor (L. I.)
Light and Power company. The night
watchman says it was undoubtedly sui
cide.
A standard street dress for women
was endorsed by two thousand wom
en, delegates, alternates and visiting
club members of the thirteenth bien
nial session of the Federation of
Women’s Clubs at an open conference
of the home economics committee of
the federation in New Y’ork City.
Washington
A dispatch announces that Lieut.
Sir Ernest Shackleford, the English
Antarctic explorer, has arrived safely
at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. The
whole party were in very good health,
but in a condition which demanded
quick relief.
Amendments to the naval appropri
ation bill to provide for a $11,000,000
government armor plate plant for $3,-
500,000 instead of $2,000,000 worth of
aeroplanes, for 2,730 additional sailors
and for a bonus system to encourage
the speedy private construction of war
ships were adopted by the house sit
ting as a committee of the whole. Par
ty lines were broken down on every
vote.
President Wilson delivered the Me
morial Day address at Arlington Na
tional cemetery in which he defined
the spirit of America, warning citi
zens of foreign birth not to set them
selves against the purposes of the
nation and calling upon the young
men to perform military service. He
defended his recent suggestion for an
alliance of nations to preserve peace.
President Wilson says the United
States is ready at any time to be
come a partner in any alliance of the
nations “which would guarantee pub
lic right against selfish aggression.”
President Wilson, in his Memorial
Day address, said: “I shall never my
self consent to an entangling alliance,
but would gladly assent to a disen
tangling alliance, an alliance which
would disentagle the peoples of the
world from those combinations in
which they seek their own separate
and private interests.”
Col. John S. Mosby, famous Confed
erate raider of the Civil war, is dead
at a Washington hospital. Death was
due to old age. He dared death over
fifty years ago when at the head or
a band of a few hundred Confederate
raiders he rode up and down the Shen
andoah valley, capturing outposts, de
stroying supply trains and cutting off
means of communication.
Prices of staple foods in the United
States increased on an average of one
per cent from February 15 to Marcn
15 last.
Taxes on whiskey, beer, cigar, ci
garettes and tobacco for the fiscal
year amount to $303,000,000.
Figures made public by the depart
ment of labor show that all meat prices
have increased, as did the price of
sugar, since March 1, 1915.
Half a billion dollars will be the
government’s internal revenue tax
toll for the fiscal year ending June
30 next, according to a statement is
sued by Secretary McAdoo.
Taxes on the incomes of individuals
and corporations for the fiscal year
1915-16 amount to $11,500,000.
tofiMnONAL
SUJWSOIOOL
Lesson
(By E O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
tne Sunday School Course In the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago./
(Copyright by Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR JUNE 11
SOWING AND REAPING (TEMPER
ANCE LESSON.)
LESSON TEXT—Galatians 6.
GOLDEN TEXT—God is not mocked;
for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap.—Gal. 6:7.
We turn aside today to consider the
second temperance lesson for the
year. Paul’s letter to the churches
of Galatia strongly contrasts law and
grace. It’s key verse Is ch. 2:16, and
its most prominent word Is “law.”
many claim verse one of Chapter 5
as its golden verse. This final chap
ter is a most practical one and rich in
suggestion regarding our social rela
tions. Let each member come pre
pared to give a temperance applica
tion or to ask a temperance question.
I, “Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens”
(vv. 1-5). If a man trespass, be sur
prised in a sin, be caught in the very
act, or surprised into committing a
sin, “ye which are spiritual” (literal
ly, guided and governed by the spirit;
ch. 5:16-25) are t 6 restore such a
one. This is to be done, not by cut
ting off or casting aside the erring
one, but as a dislocated limb is re
stored to its place, so we are to “re
store” that one to his place as a be
liever; each believer being a member
of the body of Christ (I Cor. 12:12,
14, 27); one who falls Into sin is a dis
located limb or member, and the
stronger ones are to restore him to
his proper place. This must be done,
however, not with any sense of our
own infallibility, but in meekness,
gentleness and with great tenderness.
(See II Tim. 2:24-26). Paul's reason
for this, “lest thou also be tempted”
should lay low the pride any of us
who have not fallen might feel (v. 1;
Math. 7:2-5; Jas. 2:13). Instead of
exclaiming, “I could never have done
any such act,” we ought rather to
say, “But for the grace of God I might
have done even worse than that.” (I
Cor. 10:13). The burdens (v. 2) or
weights which we are to bear are not
the unnecessary details of the Mosaic
law (Math. 23:4; Acts 15:10) but rath
er they are the temptations, weak
nesses and failures of others. The
master “came not to be ministered
unto but to minister”'and was “tempt
ed in all points,” “touched with a feel
ing of our infirmities” and in our thus
sharing with each other we but follow
in his steps (Ch. 5:4; John 13:34,
15:12; Romans 15:3). This is the “law
of Christ,” not onerous, not a grievous
burden, not necessarily an obligation,
but a “law” because he, our “file lead
er,” fully and perfectly exemplifies It
(Phil. 2:5-8). It is chiefly self-conceit
and spiritual pride (v. 3) which stands
in the way of gentle forbearance in
dealing with our erring brothers. Such
pride does not usually deceive others
(Jas. 1:22-24) and he who is so con
trolled, “deceiveth himself.”
11. “Whatsoever a Man Soweth”
vv. 6-8. While each must so bear his
burden, yet those who are taught are
to help those who teach to bear their
burdens by contributing “in all good
things” (Rom. 15:27; I Cor. 9:11-14).
Paul sounds a solemn warning to
those who refuse thus to help forward
the work of righteousness, those who
fall to support others and think that
their selfishness will accrue to their
advantage (v. 7). The natural world
has many illustrations of this immut
able law. Men may mock (sneer at)
this law, but find eventually that there
is no escape from its operation. This
law has many applications. The one
in the context is, first, a physical one
(v. 8), a most familiar one to us all.
The same is true spiritually, and has
been repeatedly illustrated throughout
the history of the Christian church.
(II Cor. 9:56; Prov. 11:24). In all
of our actions, physical, mental, moral,
social and spiritual, we reap what we
sow; like in kind, sown sparingly we
reap sparingly; abundantly, and we
reap in abundance.
111. “We Shall Reap, If We Faint
Not” vv. 9-18. Paul now proceeds to
make the practical application. If we
act under the leadership of the Spirit
(See ch. 5:16-25) we avoid carnal
mindedness, and we are sowing to the
Spirit and of the Spirit (who is life
John 6:63; II Cor. 3:6), we shall reap
“life eternal,” i. e., life which is end
less in duration and divine in its es
sence. There must be, however, per
sistence. We must not withhold the
good seed nor refrain from sowing
it if we are to reap the reward sug
gested in verses nine and ten. If we
do so withhold, or should we sow
ought but the “good seed,” we will
surely reap the awful harvest sug
gested In verses 7 and 8. Tem
poral weariness or discouragement
will not excuse us for any negligence.
Nor are we to be impatient, for "in
due season,” in God’s time (I Tim.
6:14, 15) we shall reap; not perhaps
immediately. bSt the issue Is certain.
Some fail to reap because of laxity;
others continue cultivation too long;
still others, by overlooking their “op
portunity” to do good (v. 10) and
hence having not sown, they cannot
reap.
Paul suggests fv. 12) that the sow
ing of which he speaks is not for
any outward show, nor for conformity
to the edicts and regulations of men
in order to avoid persecution, (v. 12
R. V.).
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