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FORESAW VALUE OF SUBMARINE
out upon a nation and a world that holds the submarine in the highest respect
und refrains from saying, “'I told you so.”
He was the first officer of the navy to make a report on the submarine as
a warcraft following actual service in one beneath the surface. In many
respects he may he termed the father of the submarine. And yet he declines
to boast.
Hear Admiral Lowe was born in Liverpool, England, and migrated with
his family to Columbus, O. lie enlisted in the Union army, was wounded at
Bull Hun and on recovery entered the naval service as an engineer otficer.
He was a member of the Greeley relief expedition, and did valiant service In
the Spanish-Amerlcan war.
WHEN PERSHING WAS A BOY
In Linn county, Missouri, where he
was born, John Joseph Pershing is re
vered clear up to the limit. He is the
apple of the eye of the countryside.
Residents of Laclede, Pershing’s
home town, tingle and glow at the men
tion of his name. Those who knew him
as a boy bask in the reflection of his
distinction. To have known Pershing
—to have gone to school with him —is
enough.
Pershing’s seatmute in school, C. C.
Rigger, a lawyer, says John —they all
call him John —had almost white hair
until he was nearly grown, and that he
was nicknamed “tow heud.”
“His complexion was almost as fair
as a girl’s,” Mr. Bigger contributes.
“I’ve had many a fight with him and I
always could whip him because I was
bigger, but he was always ready to
keep right on fighting. Whip him one
day and he would be right back to
tackle you the next. When he took his
examination for West Point with others who were trying for the appointment
to be given by Congressman Burrough my brother was on the examining board.
The United States came near losing a great soldier right there because John
was only One point ahead of the next man, a fellow named Higginbotham. The
wrong answer to one question would have sent the other man to West Point,
and Pershing would have been a lawyer, because he always inclined that way.”
figure of the cavalryman. A fearless erectness of the heud, a cool, steady
glance out of clean, clear blue eyes that are set in a maze of tiny wrinkles; a
square, stern jaw, a close-clipped light brown mustache over an Irish mouth —
these are tilings that impress the observer.
There is a deliberateness of manner and speech about him that betoken
the man of poise, strength, determination and bravery. He looks like one who
is afraid of nothing on earth.
QUEEN OF PITCAIRN ISLAND
Queen Emily McCoy of Pitcairn
island recently started back from the
United States to her tropical kingdom
of the South Pacific, where sin is un
known and the simple life is led. She
is the daughter of John It. McCoy, the
present ruler of the island.
Queen Emily, who has been in this
country for the last eight years
studying economies, nursing, medicine,
dentistry, music and the other arts of
modern civilization in order to perfect
herself as ruler of her 175 subjects,
returns to her home unmarried. She
says that everything is “up to” the
ruler. In view of this statement Queen
Emily was asked if she didn't need a
Btrong man to share her royal burdens.
"Aren’t you looking for a prince con
sort?” was the question put directly to
her.
“Well, 1 haven’t made such an an
nouncement yet,” she replied, “for that
is to be.” Then as an arch smile
lighted up her features, which give a hint of her Polynesian ancestry. Queen
Emily continued: “If the right prince consort should come along I might be
very glad to have his advice. He must be a teetotaller, however, as alcohol is
unknown among my people and I am not going to tolerate its introduction.”
“The facts recorded in this report
prove, beyond shadow of doubt, that
submarine vessels are a distinct prac
ticability and that, therefore, subma
rine warfare is capable and worthy of
development.”
This sentence is from a report to
the navy department written in 1898 by
Captain and Chief Engineer John Lowe,
U. S. N., on the submarine Holland.
It was the deliberate judgment of
an experienced veteran of three naval
wars, then sixty years old, who, when
he wrote the report knew well that lie
was calling down upon his head the
contemptuous assertion of many so
called authorities that “Lowe is a
senile old fool who bus been carried
away by this toy.”
And now the writer of the report,
Rear Admiral John Lowe, U. S. N. (re
tired), vigorous, good nutured, keen
and active, from his summer home at
Fortunes Rock, Biddeford, Me., looks
DUVAL WEST
President Wilson’s later policy in
dealing with Mexico is attributed, by
those who know, to the information
supplied to him by Duval West of San
Antonio, Tex. Mr. West is one of the
leading lawyers of Texas. He knows
Mexico and the Mexicans intimately,
closely. He is learned in international
law. He has no axes to grind. He is
not a politician. But he is an intense
ly practical, hard-headed lawyer who
knows how to get at the root of any
thing he undertakes to investigate.
He investigated Mexico and its
factional leaders and he reported to the
president his findings, his estimates of
the men who are to the front there, and
his conclusions. Ills report Is a con
fidential document in the hands of the
president. But that it is to have a
tremendous bearing on the future of
Mexico is admitted by ail who have
knowledge of the facts.
A slender, erect,- small-boned figure
he has; not tall, neither short, but the
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
EPITOME OF THE
| EVENTS
in a Condensed Form the Happenings of
Ail Nationalities Are Given
For Our Readers.
WEEK'S NEWS AT A GLANCE
Important Events of the United States
and Particularly In the
South.
Domestic
A collector of ancient curios in Kan
sas City, resenting attempts to eject
him from his apartment, shot and kill
ed two policemen, fatally wounded two
■other policemen and slightly wounded
Mrs. Maude Echord, living in a nearby
apartment. Larkin was killed.
A carload of food and clothing was
shipped to the Mud river valley, West
Virginia, following the receipt of ad
vices that more than one hundred
families were in destitute circum
stances as a result of the recent flood.
More than thirty negroes taken to
Wyandotte, Mich., from Alabama have
been told they cannot remain in that
city, and were given twenty-four hours
to make their get away.
Receiver for the Boston and Maine
railroad has been applied for in the
federal court at Boston.
Eight persons were killed and a
number of others are reported missing
as the result of an explosion at Jack
son, Tenn., at the plant of the Har
lan Morris Stove company. The boil
ers gave way and the shock was felt
throughout the city.
Thirteen persons were killed and
property valued at approximately two
million dollars was destroyed in the
storm which struck Corpus Christi
and swept ten adjacent counties in
south Texas.
The Texas storm-stricken area ex
tends along about one hundred and
fifty miles of the lower gulf coast
from Corpus Christi to Brownsville,
reaching inland from thirty to fifty
miles.
Seizure of $25,000 worth of jewels
and the arrest of a man who said his
name was Hans Edward Thompson in
New York City, led customs officials
to believe they were about to uncover
a big smuggling conspiracy. Thomp
son returned from abroad July 11 as a
steerage passenger and smuggled the
jewels ashore. More arrests are ex
pected.
Blowing at seventy miles an hour
a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mex
ico hit the Texas coast at Corpus
Christ at Brownsville and on the in
termediate points.
In the tropical storm at Corpus
Christi, the wooden buildings of the
lowa National Guard were blown
down, the Illinois camp was under
water, the horses of the Illinois Guard
suffered greatly from exposure, some
were lost and the roads rendered im
passable.
At Fort Sam Houston the Texas
tropical storm blew down the tents
of the New York National Guard, as
also at Llane Grande, Mercedes and
Mission.
Thirty thousand soldiers are sleep
ing in public buildings at Fort Sam
Houston as a result of the tropical
storm on the Texas coast.
The tropical storm was accompanied
by a deluge of rain, four and a half
inches being registered at many
points.
Washington
Secretay Lansing announces that
Secretary of the Interior Lane, Judge
George Gray of Wilmington, Del., and
Dr. John R. Mott of New York City
will compose the joint commission to
settle the differences of this country
with Mexico.
The United States has sent repre
sentations to the Turkish porte ask
ing that the Turkish amy be more
considerate with the Armenians, and
that useless taking of life be dispensed
with.
It is stated in official circles that
American residents along the inter
national line between Mexico and the
United States are enjoying peace and
security.
There is no doubt that the National
Guard will be retained on the Mexican
border until it can be withdrawn
without endanging American lives and
property.
Secretary Baker says the training
the enlisted men are receiving under
supervision of regular army officers
will fit them to act in time of war
or other emergency as a supporting
arm, or second line, for the regular
army, furnishing a valuable asset to
national preparedness that could not
be otherwise obtained.
The story of a Villa chief with his
own hands cutting off the ears of 20
prisoners, who later were shot, is told
by a rescued prisoner in El Demo
crata of Chihuahua City, Mexico, cop
ies of which have been forwarded to
Washington.
Investigation of reports from Pan
ama that a sixty thousand-acre tract
of land at the Atlantic end of the ca
nal is being sought by a Spaniard
• named Fernandez, presumably for Jap
anese interests, has been ordered by
Secretary Lansing. The announce
ment is significant, although the sec
retary of state refuses to discuss the
report.
State department officials do not at
tempt to disguise their chagrin over
the premature publication of General
Funston’s latest recommendation of
withdrawing the troops from Mexico.
The railroad problem brought on by
the 8-hour demand of railroad employ
ees is considered here the most im
portant question ever presented in the
industrial history of the country.
It is evident here that most of the
railroad executives have come to be
lieve that there can be only one way
of preventing a strike and that is by
accepting the 8-hour day plan. The
chief effort now is to arrive at a so
lution of the additional expense in
volved.
General Pershing, in a telegram to
the war department., says that Villa’s
prestige in Mexico has been destroyed
and will never be revived again.
Reports from army officers are to
the effect that Villa and his few re
maining followers are secluded in the
mountains southwest of Chihuahua.
Senate leaders say that they would
be willing to adjourn if the house
could be prevailed upon to accept the
amended revenue bill without a con
troversy.
General Funston has sent a recom
mendation to the war department that
the troops now in Mexico be with
drawn.
The world’s production of crude pe
troleum in 1915 was 426,892,673 bar
rels, the greatest in the history of
the industtry. Russia was second, the
United States leading all countries.
European War
Leads of the Liberal (or the Veni
zelist party) in Greece are organizing
volunteers to aid the Greek command
er at Seres in resisting the Bulgari
ans.
The Deutschland, the merchant sub
marine vessel which crossed the At
lantic, has arrived at the mouth of
the Weser, it is announced in Ber
lin. The vessel left Baltimore on Au
gust 1 and made the return trip in
23 days, which is considered a good
record, in view of the obstacles which
were met and overcome.
A dispatch from Rotterdam, Hol
land, says the American steamer Os
wego was fired upon by a German sub
marine off the Isle of Wight, but sus
tained no damage. After the ship’s
papers were examined, she was per
mitted to go on her way.
The Bulgars have been driven from
a series of height at the entrance to
Vardar valley.
Both allied wing on the Saloniki
front have been bent back by the Bul
garians.
The Serbians in the fighting in the
advance from Saloniki have been the
heaviest losers.
The advancing British in the allied
movement from Saloniki who crossed
the Struma towards the Bulgarian
frontier, were forced back on the riv
er.
The Russians are landing troops at
Saloniki to assist in the fighting in
the Balkans.
The arrival of Russian soldiers at
Saloniki has created a deep impres
sion on the Greeks, even among the
most extreme royalists. It appears
to the Greeks that the dream of a
Greater Greece has been crushed in
its incipiency.
A dispatch from London announces
that a British submarine has sunk a
German battleship.
The opening of the allied offensive
at Saloniki, it is stated, is the signal
for the entrance of Roumania with
the allies.
It is stated in Berlin that there
is a possibility that Roumania has
granted permission to Russia to send
an army through Roumania to fight
the Teutonic allies.
Serious loss of life is feared as the
result of the explosion of a munitions
plant in Yorkshire, England. No fig
ures on the casualties have been giv
en out.
On the western front the French
continue to press forward in the neigh
borhood of Guillemont, and Paris re
ports the capture of a strongly forti
fied wood between that town and Mau
repa3.
In the Verdun sector the Germans
are fiercely counter attacking in an
effort to regain Fleury, the loss of
which they concede.
The British report the repulse of a
German counter attack and the cap
ture of a portion of trenches north of
Bazentin-le-Petit.
In the east the Russians are ap
parently centering their efforts on
their new drive toward Kovel.
Fierce fighting continues on the
Crest of the Carpathians, where the
Russians are battling within sight of
the Hungarian plains.
The offensive on the Saloniki front
is slowly developing and the fighting
is growing in intensity on the 150-
mile battle line from Lake Presba to
Lake Dairan.
An interesting feature of the fight
ing in the Balkans is the advance of
Bulgarian detachments toward the
Greek seaport of Kavala.
Two British light cruisers, the Not
tingham and Falmouth, were sunk in
the North sea by German submarines,
while the vessels were searching for
the German high sea fleet. One Ger
man submarine was destroyed by the
British in the scrap.
Berlin admits that the Russians have
crossed the Stokhod river at one point
and Petrograd says that the Russians
have pushed on beyond the river and
captured a series of heights on the
road to Kovel.
Reports from British lookout squad
rons in the North sea show consid
erable activity.
The report that Crown Prince Fred
erick William is wounded at Verdun
is denied in Berlin and Paris.
Assaults of British and French
forces north of the Somme in France
have resulted in the gaining of addi
tional ground by the attackers.
INIIMIONAL
SINMTSOIOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS. Acting Director of
the Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute, Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1916, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR SEPT. 3
PAUL, THE HERO.
LESSON TEXT—II Cor. 11:21-12:10.
GOLDEN TEXT—My grace is sufficient
for thee; for my power is made perfect
in weakness.—ll Cor. 12:9.
This letter raises interesting ques
tions for research and discussion, such
as:
1. What is the difference between
Paul's heroism and that of a soldier?
2. Is war essential to the development
of heroism? 3. Which courage is high
er, moral or physical?
I.Paul,the Hero (11:21-22). To a man
of a sensitive nature, craving perfec
tion, sarcasm stirs up the deepest bit
terness of the soul. We do not believe
Paul primarily desired to refuse these
false charges—they were unworthy o«
him—but the knowledge of his suffer
ings for the cause of Christ and the
truth of the gospel would augment his
power to serve the church. For the
sake of those whom he had reclaimed
from heathenism he was willing to
seem to be boasting. Literally he
says: “I speak by way of disparage
ment (of myself) as though we had
been weak,” yet he adds: “Whereinso
ever any is bold, I am bold also.” Paul
had as much to boast of as any one
of his Jewish opponents (v. 21). “Are
they Hebrew's? (Of the purest blood,
of one nation and language?) So am
I.” Are they Israelites, worshiping
only one God? Are they of the seed of
Abraham, inheritors of the ministry of
the promise and the Messianic hope
and the kingdom of God? Are they
ministers of the Messiah, seeking to
bring all men into his kingdom? “I
speak as a fool. I speak as one beside
himself. I am more.” In labors he
was more abundant; he had occupied
a larger field with greater results. In
stripes above measure —those inflicted
by the heathen were not limited to
forty blows —besides other beatings re
ferred to in this list. In prisons oft
(Acts 16:23). Frequently exposed to
death and to the perils of robbers by
land and sea (v. 24). “Five times I
received forty stripes, save one, from
the Jews” (v. 25). “Thrice was I
beaten with rods; once was I stoned”
(Acts. 14:19). “Thrice I suffered ship
wreck,” evidently not recorded in Acts,
for his shipwreck on the way to Rome
was later. “A night and a day in the
deep,” this not otiierwise recorded.
“In journeyings often,” suffering from
the perils of hard travel, often on foot
in uncivilized regions. “In perils of
water,” literally “in rivers.” Bridges
were rare, and floods sudden and fre
quent. “In perils of robbers.” Every
road in Asia Minor then as now was
infested with robbers. “In perils of
his own countrymen“ln perils by
the Gentiles“ln perils in the city
“In perils in the wilderness;” “In per
ils in the sea” from storms, rocks, pi
lates; “In perils among false breth
ren” —Judaising teachers who were
self-seeking instead of making the gos
pel first (Gal. 2:4; II Cor., 11:13). “In
weariness and painfmness,” literally in
labor and travail; “In watchings oft
en ;” repeated nights of sleeplessness
due to anxiety or pain. “In hunger and
thirst, in fastings often,” hunger un
satisfied for a long time. “In cold and
nakedness;” in the mountain passes
badly shod and badly clothed. Besides
these things which were without, in
numerable other trials such as the
care of or anxiety over the churches
(vv. 32, 33).
11. God’s Sustaining Grace (12:1-10).
To Paul God gave one of the greatest
tasks over committed to man, viz., the
planting of the gospel in heathen
lands; founding churches; teaching
them the gospel truths of the Lord Je
sus. He wrote to these churches two
fifths of the New Testament, thirteen
of its twenty-seven books, and this
work was accomplished under the
greatest difficulty, trials and suffering.
To sustain and guide, the Lord gave
him “visions and revelations” (v. 1).
These revelations came to him from
the very beginning of his Christian life
and continued in every great crisis.
The first was given at his conversion,
twenty years before this letter was
written, when he saw Jesus in His
glory and received his marching or
ders. Again (vv. 2-4), fourteen years
before, or about A. D. 43, when he was
in Antioch and first entered upon his
foreign missionary work. He obtained
his gospel directly from the Lord. Sub
sequently he had other visions to sus
tain and guide him.
Teachers ought to study this entire
section, beginning at chapter 10. Paul
says that as an apostle he did not la
bor in the fields of others (10:14-15).
He was not much concerned by what
his enemies might say.
As to his opinion of them, read
chapter 10. Ashamed to boast, yet for
their sakes he meets their foolish
charges by giving us this record.
Because of these sufferings (v. 10) he
takes pleasure in infirmities, reproach
es and persecutions; “For when I am
weak” (in my own strength) then I
am strong through Christ who
strengthens me.”
He may be a fool in glorying, com
pelled to as he had been, yet his work
had been accompanied by the signs of
an apostle, and he was not to be be
hind the very ehiefest, although him
self he was nothing.
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