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VOL. IIL. NO. 41,
Administration to Publish Note in
Which Nebraskan Said Balti
more Plank Was Merely -an
Expression of Policy.
Members of Congress Likely to
Drag Second-Term Matter Into
Debate Since President's Let
ter Has Reopened Discussion.
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 A letter
fully as astonishing as the letter from
President Wilson to A. Mitchell Pal
mer idd'ng against the applicat n
of the third-term plank to himself, is
one written by William Jennings
Bryan on the same top and to the
same general oYecot
President Wilson's political advis
ers expect to use this letter against
Mr. Bryan if the latter, as has been
intimated. seeks to make any issue of
a second term for Mr. Wilson
This letter was written by Mr
Bryan back in 1913, when a resolu
tion was pending before Congress
limiting the Presidency to a single
term Mr. Bryan wrote to a member
of Congress that the one-term plank
was intended merely as a declaration
of policy and should not be binding
on any individual until legislation had
been passed, and it applied to all par
ties alike
This notwithstanding the plain
wording of the plank, which loses
with tne words: “"We pledge the can
didate of this convention to this prin
eciple.”
Information of this Bryan letter
followed the making public of a let
tar in which the President cites the
rule by which he will be guided in de
¢lding whether or not he shall run
again. This is the way the President
puts it
“1 shall most cheerfully abide by
the judgment of my party and the
public as to whether I shall be a can
didate for the Presidency again in
1916 1 absolutely pledge myself to
resort to nothing but public opinion
to decide that question.”
Shows Willingness to Run. |
The President's willingness to run
again, provided he is satisfled that the
party and the public want him is dis«
closed in a letter which he wrote to
ex-Representative A. Mitchell Palmer,
of Pennsylvania, a few weeks before
the presidential inauguration in 1913
This letter also was written while the
resolution was pending before Con
gress to limit the Presidency to a sin
gle term in accordance with the
pledge in the Baltimore platform
Mr. Wilson's letter prevented the
passage of that resolution, and no at
tempt has been made since to revive
it. The general tenor of that com
munication has been Kknown ever
since it was written to Mr. Palmer,
but the full text had not been made
public before. |
As to the test which Mr. Wilson has
prescribed for himself in regard to
running for a second term, his ad
visers contend that It already has
been fulfilled and that both the party
and the public have given satisfac
tory evidence of their desire that Mr.
Wilson become a candidate again.
From the President himself, however,
there has come no expression on this
point, but it is assumed he would not
permit his advisers to go ahead with
their plans for 1916 unless he intend
ed to run again. The likelihood is
that the President will continue to
remain silent on the question, leaving
it for the party to act in State con-|
ventions and primaries. ‘
Bryan to Fight Wilson.
The understanding here now is that
‘he President will encounter the op
position of W. J. Bryan in his effort’
o be renominated, notwithstanding
he Bryan letter. Mr, Bryan feels that
there has been no serious effort on
the President’s part to live up to the|
spirit of the one-term plamg, and he
will attack him on that score. ‘
The single-térm plank of the Balti
more platform reads: |
“We favor a single presidential
term, and to that end urge the adop
tion @f an amendment to the Consti
tution making the President of the
United States ineligible to re-election,
and we pledge the candidate of this
‘onvention to this principle.” 1
Republicans point out that jthe]
President has not publicly mbntioned}
he single-term plank or single-term
legislation since he has Dbeen in thc'
White House.
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Here's Latest Brain
Test. Can You Pass?
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Looks Like & Bacen Cryptegram or
Pos Detective Story Neote, but
It's Simple—Try It Out
Here's the latest brain test. It looks
ke & Bacon eryptogram or an Edgar
Allan Poe Mm‘ story note, but 1t
is simple. Try it
It was devised by Samuel C. Kohs,
who runs the paychological bureau in
the men's department at the Hride
well, Chicago's city prison. He uses
it all the time in testing the mental
capacity of men and boys, and finds
it & very accurate measure
The plan is simple. Five letters are
chosen, haphaszard, from the alpha
bet, and each is given a figure to rep
resent it. A table is handed the stu
dent with the five numerals arranged
in & square, ten each way, or 100 fig
ures. The test is to see how long It
takes to write over each of the 100
figures the letter it represents,
The normal persons will write the
hundred in about three minutes; the
slower mentalities take sometimes as
long as twenty minues. Now, take
your own measure.
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changing the order of the letters over
the five numerals,
120-Ft. Flag to Grace
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Bilboa'slnauguration
; JACKSON, MISS., Jan. 15.—~The big
gest city-owned American flag in the
country will be a feature of the Inaugu-
Lrl(mn of Theodore G. Bilbo as Gov
’ernnr of Mississippi on January 18
| The flag. 60 by 120 feet, which welghs
300 pounds, cost SSOO and was sewed
|by the patriotlc women of Ohio, wiil
be sent from Canton, Ohlo, the city that
lowns the emblem. The flag is in the
it‘unmdy of the Canton Chamber of Com
merce, which loaned it to the Young
’.\len‘n Business Club of Jackson for the
occasion & P
} The plan is to have all of the young
men's business clubs in the State send
delegates who will assist in carrying
the emblem through the streets In the
inaugural parade. The flag also will
be stretched on the capitol lawn when
Bilboa takes the oath of office. |
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Glass of Hot Water
Is His Daily ‘Meal’
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| WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 15.—.1.‘
Ray Adams, clerk of the Senate Com
‘mittee on Woman Suflra.\js trying to!
cure himself of indigestion by fasting.
‘He has just completed his twenty-fifth
day of going without food. ‘
~ Mr. Adams shows no ill effects of the‘
fasting. He looks as if he never missed
'a meal. He has lost eight or nine
pounds, however, ‘
I haven't eaten so much as a crumb
of bread since I began my fast,” Mr.
Adams said. “Every morning I take
a large glass of hot water and that is
all I take during the day. For the
first few days I felt the effect of the
lack of food, but that soon passed, and
now I am convinced that I can be cured
by the fasting."”
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Municipal Movie Is |
Florida Town's Plan
APOPKA, FLA., Jan. 15.—Movies to
raise money for public improvement is
the plan adopted by the local municipal
government, and Apopka now claims to
be the first in the United States to hi!‘
upon such a plan.
After long and mature deliberation
the town Council has decided to install
a moving picture machine in the agw
ditorium of the Town Hall. After the
movies have paid for the machine and
their cost all net proceeds are to be de
voted to public improvements. It is
agreed ‘‘that sald pictures shall be of
a high order,” and that they shall be
shown on “Friday night of each week,
and oftener if agreed upon.”
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Chaplin Hat Adorns
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Vanished Bassi Bust|
CHICAGO, Jan, 15.—Amadee Hassi,i
grand opera star, thought it would]
please the public to see a statue ‘of
himself in the foyer of the Auditorlum]
Theater. So he put one there.
The next night the statue was de(-or»]
ated with a Charley Chaplin hat; the
night afterward the statue was re-l
moved.
«“What if every member of the opera
company place his or her statue in the
foyer,”” cried Maestro Campanini tol
Bassi's complaint; ‘‘the public couldn’t
get into the theater.”
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WIFE SULLIED OWN HONOR
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Society of Three Cities Stirred
by Domestic Tragedy Stranger {
Than Fiction.
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CHICAGO, Jan, 15.—A burst of rhet- |
oric, a hush of voices and the curtain
was drawn on one of the most re
markable court tragedies in the his
tory of American jJurisprudence
Charles W, Glllett's fight to have his
children bear his name.
The end came with startiing ab
ruptness. Judge Frederick A. Smith
decided Mrs. Harold J. Bryant should
retain the custody of her two children
and restore to them the name of Gil-
Jett, and that Charles W. Gillett, her
former husband, should be allowed to
see them once a week for the present
and oftener when he had rehabilitated
the love of his children for him.
| Mr. Gillett's claims of four years of
abstinence from intoxicants and of
;"rr!nrrmu!un" also were upheid by he
court, who accredited him with tem
perate habits and as being a capaiie
‘and fit father
' In the opinion, carefully worded, the
court vindicated both Mwms Bryant
and Mr. Gilett, the former of any
misconduct and the latter as gulltless
of any attempt to biacken her nam»?
Both Claim Victory.
Both sides claimed, victory Mrs
Bryant smiled happily and sald
“It is complete vindication. | want
my children to love their father. |
think Judge Smith is a perfect dear.”
| Mr. Gillett, surrounded by friends,
was visibly moved by the decision
“There is nothing now that can pre
vent me from winning back the love
of my children. | am satisfied,” he
;uid.
| The desire to transmit an honorable
| name to his two children transformed
’(‘harh‘s W. Gillett, wealthy poiv
| player and automobilist, from a
‘drunku.rd to a teetotaler When he
found that the wife who had Ji
vorced him and remarried called them
by the name of her second husband, he
brought suit to obtain their contro!
Mrs. Harold J. Bryant, Gillett's for
mer wife; her second husband and
Gillett as well are known in New York
Boston and Chicago soclety. Bryant,
like Gillett, is a pflo enthusiast. Both |
have followed the sport from Now- |
port to Onwentsia. The fight n-.wr‘
custody of the children, consequently, |
has been followed with deep interest
in three cities. |
Wife “Confessed” Wrongdoing. 1
The dramatic climax came a few
minutes before testimony was fin- |
ished. Gillett, to the astonishment of
his counsel and (ue entire court, ad
mitted that he had never believed a
“confession” his wife had written of
intimacy with other men. She herself
had sworn that she signed it m«rely:
to silence the jealous recriminatious
of her husband.
Gillett declared the honor of his
former wife was absolutely unsullied.
In the stories, written as across lhei
pages of an open book, there are all
the characters and all the elements
of tense tragedy. But, like Thack
eray’'s “Vanity Fair,” the whole drama
is one that strangely lacks a hero.
Gillett, of course, is the aggressive
figure. He appears in the roll of a
man who, during the last few years,
has been torn by two of the most in
harmonious passions—llove for his two |
children and love for drink. And pa
ternal love has won the battle, he ::I—!
leges, for when he took the oath on|
the witness stand he added, grauu.—'
tously: ,
“And | swear | have not touch a
drop of liquor since 1911.” l
Then, there is his former wife. She
is young, pretty, vivacious and sur—l
charged with mother love. She up
pears in_the role of the woman Whu,
left her hue:band after his habits be- |
came unendurable to her. l
The Strange Interlude.
There is an interlude in her life
in which she signs (falsely, she main
tains), a™note confessing intimacy
with three prominent Chlcago men.l
This note is in Gillett's possession.
After she had divorced Gillett for
drunkenness, love crept again into
her life. Just one year and three
days after her decree had been sign
ed, she was married to Harold J.
Bryant, promiment in the aristocratic
social life of Lake Forest, the la.sh—!
ionable suburb.
And the motive of the drama being
unfolded, the seed from which the
present suit springs, is centered in
this simple fact:
Seven-year-old Charles W. Gillett,
Continued on Page 2, Coiumn 1.
ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 196
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Harding Develops
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~ Bug-Proof Cotton
Financier Mepes to Foll Bell Weevil
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Asafostide.
WASHINGTON, Jan 15 -—"People
in Washington regard W. P. G. Hard
ing. of the Reserve Hoard, as a finan
cler,” saild an Alabama cotton planter
here to-night, “but down around Hir.
mingham we think he is a second
Luther Burbank. He has propagated
a cotton plant which smells so strong
of asafoetida that 3!l insects avold it
as though 1t were a plague, and yeot
the cotton is apparedtly not changed
otherwise in the slightest degree. We
are hoping that he has solved the cot
ton boll weevil problem by depriving
Mr. Weevil of his only food,
About four years ago, according to
this planter, Mr. Harding conceived
the idea of making the cotton bolls
unpalatable to the weevil. In a small
section of his back yard in Birming
ham he set out a few cotton plants
From the eariiest stages he constant
ly ancinted them with nux vomica.
When the buds appeared he sprinkied
them with the drug, so with the blos,
som, and finaily the bolis of cotten
At the end of the season he carefully
preserved the seed from these planis
and planted them the next spring
That season he repeated the work of
the summer before, continuing his
sprinkling with nux vomica. When
the seed of the second crop sprouted,
the tiny plants had a decided odor of
asafoetida, without any sprinkiing
whatever, though apparently this
smell was the only change which had
been produced. ™
Then, said the planter, came the big
disappointment. While it was noticed |
that all other insects avolded the
plants, there were no boll weevils that
far north that season, 8o no test could
be made as to whether the weevils
would eat the smelly plants or not.
About that time Mr. Harding was
appointed to the Reserve Board and
‘cavo up his experiments with cotton,
the climate of Washington not being
conducive to the best resnlts in rals
ing this staple. But before leaving
Alabama he turned over his work
and the precious seed which produced
the smelly plants to the Alabama De
partment of Agriculture, which is
now working on the idea
Marion Harland,
arion Harland, 85,
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~ Has Birthday Fete
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l NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Mrs. Ed
ward Payson Terhune (Marion Har
;h\nd. writer of forty books) was the
recipient at the Hotel McAlpin of a
'belated birthday luncheon It was in
honor of the eighty-fifth anniversary
of her birth, which fell in December.
Judging by the brightness of her face
as she sat at the head of the xue-t“
table the difference in dates made no
difference to her, but as Edwin .\lark-]
ham observed in his speech time
stands still anyhow for Marion Har
land.
There were more than a hundred |
guests, including a delegation of 30 |
members of the Jersey City \\'oman‘sl
Club, led by Mrs. A. J. Newberry, ex
president of the organization. Part
of Mrs. Terhune's long life was spent
in New Jersey.
Went Buttonless 13
Years, He Tells Court
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PITTSBURG, Jan. 15.—Buttonless
coats, buttonless shirts—in fact, all of
his wearing apparel buttonless—ruined
the social career of J. Dallas Stewart,
a prosperous resident of exclusive Se
wickley, according to the story he told
Judge Kennefly in Desertion Court,
Stewarf™ was arrested on his wife's
charge of desertion.
“In thirteen years she only sewed
three buttons on my clothes,” said
Stewart, telling his woes to the court
“How could a man Keep up appearances
when he had to use togthpicks, matches,
safety pins, lead pencils and bits of
string to hold his trousers up and his
garments together?"”
“Pay your wife $lO a week and get
patent steel buttons in the future,” was
Judge Kennedy's solution. |
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Prunes Delicacy at l
Waldorf, Says Ca,rusol
NEW YORR, Jan. 15.—Enrico ,'('uruml
was engaged in his favorite pastime of
sketching the prettiest woman near him
while lunching at the Waldorf-Astoria
The head waiter, Frank Tosatti, ap
proached. The great tenor paused, pen
cil in air.
“Frank,” he sald, impressively, "Il
have come to the Waldorf for a dell- !
cacy. There are none better thanl
here.” !
The head waliter coughed apprecia
tively.
“You will have, sir?”
“Prunes,” said Caruso.
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Farrar Has Grip; '
Engine Warms Car|
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ST. LOUIS, Jan. 15.—Geraldine Far-‘
rar, who was to have appeared in a
concert here, but whose engagement
was canceled because she was suflerlng\
from grip, spent the day in her private
car in the railroaa yards. A locomo
tive was coupled to the car to keep it
warm.
Grim Business of War Makes
Far-Reaching Change in the
Natigna! Character.
ALL CREEDS MAKE BIG GAINS
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Anti-Militarism Has Been Killed,
but Practical Socialism Has
Received Great Impetus.
~ By C. F. BERTELL),
Sta¥ Correspondent of the Interna.
tional News Service.
HEAIQUARTERS opF THR
FRANCO-BRELGIAN ARMY IN
FLANDERS, Jan. 15.-—Political theo
ries, In fact. abstract ideas, have no!
official existence among this natl nl
in arms, but in the course of my (o ul
of the front 1 have had many --;1-.-{-4
tunities of ascertaining that, con- |
fronted hourly by death and the ('nn'
Ihulifl'-h of killing for national pro
tection, these millions of citizen sol
diers have undergone a gradual trans
formation in thelr idealistic convic
tions.
This wonderfu! change is of far
reaching importance for the future
of French national life Genera'ly
| speaking, advanced socialisti ideas |
|h.n'- been badly hit by the ‘ur'-‘
i!”nl! 1
On the other hand, Roman Catho l
cism, which previous to the war was
almost a dead letter In France, has|
made wonderful strides The same
must be sald of other religions,
though the change in this case is .-1;
minimum importance apart from the
tendency which it {llustrates, because
of the small percentage of worship
ers outside of the aCtholic pale
Blow to Marxian Theory,
Such are the absoiute facts sus
tained by all the evidence of my tour
They are confirmed and suppiement
ed, not only by priests and Catholl
|n!ll.r!~s_ but also by officers of the
fighting force and intellectual soldiers
serving in the ranks who can not Le
, suspected of blas.
i' Before the war these men, who
could be counted by the wndred
; thousands, were the strongest sSup
';-:-rwrs in Europe of the Marxian pol
':r\ of no internationa! frontlers anl
promotion of the brotherhood of na-
I’('..n~ They were prepared to lead
' Europe in an anti-war strike on the
i"\" of any conflict |
i But actual experience has convinced
' them that their plan, however de
'sirable theoretically, is unworkable,
Brought face to face with the starn
necessity of defending their own
homes and families against Invasion,
and later brought into immediate con
tact with the unspeakable horrors
of invasion, they reallize n\o-rwhvl‘n-l
ingly that the utopla was a mere fan
tastical dream. '
Such was the description of their
conversion to patriotism supplied to
me near the battle line by one of
their most prominent leaders, whose
name I am not permitted to give ove
cause of official anonymity of ‘‘he
army .
“Only Theories,” Says Convert.
“This. man, who began the war as
a private,” his colonel told me, “Is
now an officer of such keenness and
(~.'lan-_\ that I have attached him
to. my personal staff. Although mis
life has been spent in combating
armament, he has distinguished him
self so often for acts of exemplary
courage that he has won the military
medal and the war cross.
“] asked him the other day w .n‘
he thought of his old theories,
“They were only theories,’ he r-w-‘
plied, ‘and after the war the majority |
of those who shared my views will
have a very different story to tell"”
The general opinion pn-\';\llin':'
among thinkers at the front is vh:nt;
the war, while it has killed anti-|
militarism, has given tremendousg im- |
petus to practical Socialism. 'l':n~.|
say more Socialist measures hu\ut
been introduced all over Europe since |
the beginning of the conflict than dur ‘
ing the whole period hefore the ‘-\.u‘,‘
and they foresee a wonderful era :‘f’
constructive Socialism which, indeed,
will be absolutely necessary for the
solution of antebellum problems.
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‘Me Bawth, Jailer!' To
Be Cry in Evanston|
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CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—"Jaller, prepare |
me bawth!" ‘
This command may soon be heard|
mornings at the I-l‘anslnn jail, whwe'
tubs, showers, soap and towels have|
been ordered for the use of prisoners,
Moreover, pillows and bedding have
been ordered for the bunks.
All this extra comfort has followed
the report of a Northwestern University
student who got himself locked up one
night just to test the prison accommo
dations, and then made his experience
publie.
Society Queen Once Immigrant
War Widow May Join Movies
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Hon. Mrs. Henry Lyndhurst Bruce Comes
Second Time to America.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—1 n the ar
rival here on board the Adriatic, of
the White Star Line, of the Hon
orable Mrs. Henry Lyndhurst Bruce,
widow of the son of the Baron of
Aberdare of Wales, who was ki'led
It Ypres a vear ago last December,
'nnolher episode in the romantic <a
reer of the woman who rose from a
servant’s position was marked.
For Mrs. Bruce, who lifted herself
‘by the sheer t»m- of her beauty and
her ability ffom the humble call
ing of a malid )n Boston to the )o
sition of mistress of one of the finest
estates in Great Britain, as the wife
of the heir to a barony, is here to
enter the "movies,” if, as she says,
“she is tempted enough.”
For the present, however, she has
come to this country to rest and to
visit friends, some of them in Bos
ton, whom she left in 1902 as a chorus
girl, to be heard of later as Camille
Clifford, “the Gibson girl,” who be
came the talk of London and sup
planted Edna May as the star of the
“Belle of Mayfair.”
Immigrant in '99.
It was in 1899 that Camille Otter
son, a Norweglan girl, 15 years old
of wonderful beauty, took passage
on board the Pavonia, of the Tu
nard Line, for the land of promises
and dreams. On board the vessel her
beauty fascinated the passengers, and
she made the trip in the first-class
cabing, although she had started in
more modest quarters. The change
was due to the desire of many Kindly,
admiring women to have the beautiful
girl near them.
Arrived in Boston, Camille Otter
son, independent, heautiful and ir
reproachable, went her way, and it 'ed
her to a place as a maid | house
hold. How long she keptmt posi
tion is a matter of conjecture, but
three years later she applied for a
place as a chorus girl in “The Prince
of Pilsdn” company being formed in
Boston by Henry Savage. Her statu
esque beauty and grace easily asgsurced
her a place, and it was not long re
fore Camille Clifford, as she Dbe
came known, was carving a niche for
herself in the land behind the foot
lights.
~ Ten years ago she went to London
with “The Prince of Pilsen” com
pany, and because she was tall and
resembled in type the pictures Charles
Dana Gibsor. was drawing she was
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Ncmu 1918, h/,
| chosen as the “Gibson Gir!” and
became famous overnight. Nearly
everyone remembers “Why Do They
C'all Me the Gibson Girl?" She sang
it, and sang it so well in “The Belle
of Mayfair” that Edna May left the
company. |
All this took place within s!x years
after the 16-year-old Nopweglan girl
wandered into Boston. Within g vear
and a half after wer arrival in Lon
don she was married to the Hon.
Henry Lyndhurst Bruce, son and heir
of Baron Aberdare of Wales. The
baronial! father objected and said his
son must make his way, which the
son did, opening a garage that was
profitable. '
Widowed at Ypres.
Then the father forgave the (~nupl9l
and they went to live with him. The
Hon., Mrs. Bruce was as successful |
a wife as she was an aciress. Bul'
the war came and her husband, u‘
captain in the Royal Scot Guards,
donned his uniform and went away.‘
At Ypres he was killed. |
Now the widow is back in Amerlcu!
the second time, but the loom of the
time has spun her a different ba:k-‘
ground from the one she had on her‘
first arrival here. In her suite in the
Vanderbilt Hotel she dismissed Iler‘
maid and said her present arrange
ments were indefinitey A jewel glis
tened here and there, and she spov(e“
with a gentle British drawl. |
“I may go into the movies,” she
sald. ‘They have been tempting me,\
but they will have to tempt me \'eryi
hard. l)?ght now I've come just to;
rest and visit friends in Boston. Rel
atives? I have no relatives any
where.”
And the girl whose beauty and
pluck carried her to the high waves
of success professionally and social
ly dismissed the idea with a graceful
sweep of her hands. l
SIO,OOO Is Donated _
For Cornell Cadets
ITHACA, Jan. 15.—The first gift to an
American university for military pur
poses was announced at Founders’ Day |
‘exvrcises by President Coonell. ‘
| He sald Willard D. Straight, of New
I\.’ork, an alumnus, had given $10,(00 to
establish a summer camp for the Corneil
cadet corps.
Famous Engineer Declares United
States Is Pre-eminently Or
dained to Lead Neutral Nations
in League to Enforce Peace.
Opposes Huge Armaments, but
Admits, Under Present Condi
tions, Pieed of Adequate Pre
paredness Is Very Obvious.
By JOHN HAYS HAMMOND.
i spite f this most ternble Lrag
edy n the history f civilization
w has all but uprocted the Chria
tinn faith that is In us ol us nct
espalr We have not gone back 1o
arbarisn notwithsiar ng the a 8
sortions of those of littie fait
; Lot us take renewed courage in the
t. and there is incontrovert
‘l ) ide eto that effect—that the
. r ethical standards are higher
|' e cardinal virtues more niversa
| than ever before in the record of hu
manity
i There is to-day more eligious
| free n more allowance for racial
| differences. more earnest desire for a
| better nderstanding and for com
| munity f interest than ever before
‘ ternational relations
| Wars the past did not excite the
i worror that is to-day niversal evel
among noncombatant nations War
g general 5 past NAS Vaged con
Cune f 1 iy vedls for con
[ To-da ars are waged by
| profess at least, f 1 righteous
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! Unspeakable Atrocities.
Fo-da 2 desire for the respect of
t} fe W eings T jOes ever
varrir nations to make earnest ef
forts to vindicate each its cause, for
! special reason that there is such
i ntrast between the enormity of
war and the gh ethical standards of
the age in which we ve
Atrocities unspeakable in characte:
| have been committed This is, un
fortunately, true, but these are the
sporadic outbursts of that latent sav
Lgery vhich is aroused and made
manifest by war, rather than in con
| formity with condoned practice
The science of war has been assid
uously developed the sclence of
peace has been woefully neglected
God-given genius has prostituted its
inventive faculty to the destructive
processes of war, while only medi
ocrity has characterized efforts to
prevent war
Methods Unintelligent.
The present unspeakable conflict
has brought with it a vivid realiza
tion of how unintelligent our present
methods are, how pitifully we lack in
the field of Internationalwrelations the
most elementary machinery for the
redress of grievances and for the
avoidance of conflict such as is pro
vided in the internal organization of
the State
. The individual is safeguarded, the
nation defenseless, w!’.o‘ “might be
| comes right.”
1 From war we learn many lessons
| No nation has a monopoly of patriot
}hm or of courage. Men of all classea
have responded promptly and zeal
| ously to the call of their respective
‘rulvr’\ to defend, as was represented
} to them, the integrity of their beloved
countries With what undaunted
| courage do we see the soldiers, men
of every race and creed, vying for the
‘Ill\llll;‘h of that cause to which they
ihw\.\ consecrated their lives
| Interdependence of !_\Jationl. !
‘ From the war we learn also the in
terdependence of the nations of the
i\-vm! and how inextricably thefr
vital material interests are inter
-1 woven &
| Kvery civilized nation suffers from
the evils of a great war.. The highe‘
‘rhv civilization, the more intense and
the more widespread the suffering en
tailed. Neither political neutrality
nor geographic isolation gives ex
emption from economic loss—llosses
threatening national bankruptey.
The maintenance of peace is, there
fore, a problem vital in import and
world-wide in extent—a problem not
‘only for the present but for the future
generations, for wags of to-day mort
gage posterity.
L For this reason, let me digress for a
moment to say that, however much
| we incline to shrink from the horrors
‘M the battle field, I believe it is our
duty to impress these very hon‘o!‘g
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. Continued on Page 2, Celumn 4.