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“He Thatrmprashelh to Pieces Is Come Up Betore Thy Face: Keep the Munition, Watch the Way, Make Thy Loins Strong, Fortify Thy Power Mightily.” —NAHUB{»E;E*_
% -TRUTH,JUSTICE %
Attend the Theater
Regularly and Pay War
.
Tax, to Help Win War
Second only in importance to taking care of our boys ‘‘over there’’ is
the necessity for maintaining a healthful, normal viewpoint on life ‘‘over
here.’’
Our stage is a national institution, because it entertains while portray
ing and reflecting life. It gives you new viewpoint. It gives you thought,
shading from laughter to tears. It is a vital element in living; just as vital
as bread and meat. |
The men who have written the plays which have lived invariably have
been the greatest students of life. Their work in turn has given the public
at large an insight into life, \
Their work is balanced between the grave and the gay, giving to all 1
who hear and see something tangible outside of themselves, and helping
them in their own lives to that balance of the grave and the gay which is
_normal.
™ Never in all history has the world so much needed such help to keep
normal as right now. Never has the stage been more truly bread and meat
to, the mind of the public than right now.
Yet there is reported a decrease in attendance at the theaters. It is di
rectly traceable to the war tax, for it affects most seriously the best produc
tions; least of all the plays at popular prices.
The United States Government has levied this tax to care for our hoys
“‘over there,’’ so that the war can result in no other way than the right to
live ‘‘over here’’ as free men.
The Government in no sense has decreed that the stage and other forms
. of amusement are needless luxuries. The contrary is true. Those in au
thority, representing the people, have expressed the greatest confidence in
those ‘‘over here’’ in making this levy. They believe that the great throng
of devotees to the stage know what real value they get from the stage—the
lifting of themselves out of themselves. They believe that this very intelli
gence is ample proof that this same throng can afford to pay a few cents
more into the war chests, which means sure victory. The representatives
of the people have put their people to the test of intelligence.
A nation at war must have normal amusement to maintain sanity.
Suppose for a moment that the great producers & photoplays in this
country had held the smaller viewpoint. Suppose that they had deliberately
curtailed the supply of normal amusement. And these men are men of suf
ficient wealth so that they easily could afford to halt production for a time,
did they not have the confidence that the public would recognize the vital
necessity of thinking at times of other things than war.
These men are men of imagination enough to make possible, instead,
the greatest year of motion pictures in the time of its greatest need.
Remember, then, that every cent of war tax brings victory just so much
nearer,
~ Remember that every time you go to the theater you are taking care
of our boys ‘‘over there,”’ and maintaining a greater tourage in living ‘‘over -
here."’ y
The war tax is levied by our representatives. Let no one curtail his
custom of theater attendance lest it defeat the very idea of our represen
tatives, and in just that measure delay the ultimate victory.
‘Wh ¥ 1% J
yDo You Want to Kill
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Germans With Dynamite?’
Mr. Ben Etle writes:
Worthy Editor: :
As I understand from your editorials, you are of the same opinion
as President Wilson, that we are friends of the German people. If this
is 80, why do you advoecate that the U. 8. should send 25,000 flyers to kill
the German pedple? BEN ETLE.
This newspaper, like the President and all good Americans, would like
to be a friend of the German PEOPLE. But, unfortunately, the German
mle, at least the Prussian brand, are still apparently in favor of their
er’s plans for bloodshed and conquest—which means that these Prussian
Germans are not good friends of OURS,
This newspaper advises ‘‘sending 25,000 flyers to kill the Prussian Ger,
man people’’ and then 25,000 more, because sending them will be a great
saver to those people and to the whole world.
: For their own good and the good of the world, the Prussians must be
~ made to BELIEVE that peace is desirable. .
DYNAMITE WILL MAKE THEM BELIEVE.
. The Prussian Kaiser unfortunately has hypnotized his subjects, as well
as himself, and many of them share his insane conviction that he and Ger
many, one of the nations LEAST civilized and MOST RECENTLY civilized,
should rule all the civilized world.
Dynamite dropped at regular intervals through the roofs of houses and
particularly through the roofs of pigsties, frightening the Prussians and kill
ing the pigs, would help to cure the Prussians of the impression that they are
dmt: to rule the world. Dynamite talks the langunage that a Prussian un
erstands.
The Prussians have been too peaceful inside of their well.-managed
trenches. Dynamite dropped from the sky and by the United States is the
best.pouible and probably the ONLY possible cure for their conceit, their
stupid following of their Kaiser in his idiotic notion that such as he and his
armed Prussians could ever rule this globe.
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There is a man in your department who you fear is going to get vour position
' and the thought is keeping you from doing many things which you would do other
- wise: thilmgs which would make you more valuable to the firm and also to yourseif.
, This thought is ki'ling your initiative.
So afraid are you of making a mistake that you are losing confidence in yourself.
b) As a result, you keep pegging away, same old rut, day after day, and one of these
- times a more aggressive man is going to supercede you.
It may be the man you fear. or it may be some other man.
Brief consideration ought to show you that the course you are pursuing is a
foolish one.
More to your credit to have three or four failures and half a dozen successes
_ than never to have made any progress. e
| Striké out in original lines once in a. while.
- % Do things in a different way.
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THE MOTHER OF THE REVOLUTION
WOULD like personally to know
I Madame Breshkovsky, of Rus
sia. She must be one of those
singularly outstanding women of his
tory who seemed "
fired with a vision :\\;\Q\Q\" ‘“&&g
and a zeal whi¢h |3 N
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strength can nev- R v«\
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We have heard {3 %\*fig\\\
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her lately as ome \}g\\ w&\
of the principal | \i\‘%*
movers in the so- |Jg &WS
called revolution, W ;.-'-"s__\‘»-:
which deposed a SN
Czar and made | ?‘?
Russia free fromi C‘s
the rule, or mis- R
rule, of man-or- S
dained Kkings.
There are those who call her even
the Mother of the Revolution. I have
been interested lately in reading
something of her remarkable story,
and in wondering what such a wo
man would do if placed in the more
protaic, peaceful environments of
America,
She was just such a girl in her
younger days as hundreds of our
young society women, raised in lux
ury, and with no reason to think of
anything beyond the sphere of the
day’'s pleasures. She early bec{xme
the wife of a wealthy landowner of
Russia, and it was in her own home,
surrounded by every comfort that
money could buy, that she saw the
first vision that was destined to trans
form her life. This was her human
visioning of the needs of the serfs
and peasants of her husband, who,
as such, were hardly above the ani
mals on the vast estate. She began
teaching them to master the rudi
ments of education, that they might
learn to- see for themselves their
possibilities as ‘men and women in
the great world around them.
Under the regime of the Czar, such
a course was almost traitorous to the
Tuesday, November 27, 1917
Government. She was first repri
manded, and then, when she contin
ued, arrested, tried, and condemned
to Siberia. We have heard much of
the rigors of Siberia in romance, but
few of us are able to appreciate any
thing of the awful horrors which this
vast ice=and snow prison must have
for a sensitive woman, used to the
shelter and warmth of costly furs
whenever she ventured into the open
air,
To such an environment was the
young and sensitive Madame Bresh
kovsky sentenced—torn away from
hér husband and her home and her
luxuries to take her place ing the
manacled line of weary prisoners,
marching to a frozen exile. But her
spirit could not be broken even hy
such an experience. She began again
her teachings, among her fellow
prisoners, and in the end tried a des
perate escape. But she was recap
tured and brought back to a worse
punishment even “than before, and
sentenced to four years of hard la
bor in the mines of Kara and forty
blows of the lash.
Think of it! A sensitive, refined,
woman, forced to bare her back to
the whip of the public executioner
because she had dared to do her bit
in pointing the way to freedom to
her oppressed and more. unfortunate
neighbors. This was nearly forty
years ago. Today we hear of this
heroiné of Darkest Russia again on
the firing line in the great crisis,
~which has freed her native land of
the last vestige of the Romanoffs,
and has established, at- least, the
first breaking down for the oppress
ed serfs who for centuries have bent
their backs to the iron heels of their
masters.
She is now an old, white-haired
woman with only a few years more
to live. She is looking out from the
eyes of old age onto a new country
and new opportunities and new pos
sibilities, such as she had only
dreamed as a girl. Russia has come
into her own at last—thanks to such
martyrs as she. And it is a tribute
to the~woman of the world that in
the awakening of Russia and in the
last great strike for freedom it has
been the women who have played so
conscpicuous a part on the stage of
the great world fdrama:
The women of America can un
derstand and appreciate such a wo
man as Madame Breshkovsky, even
if it is difficult for them to glimpse
the almost insurmountable obstacles
which she faced and conquered. They
were born in a far different environ
ment, and in far more advanced con
ditions. Their heritage wds secured
to them before they came into the
world. It took no effort of theirs to
make it more secure. But heroism
such as that of this Joan of Arc
of down-trodden Russia echoes
around the globe and into the hearts
of huinanity wherever they beat for
the cause of the weary and oppress
ed. The world needs more women
like her—not like those misguided
fanatics of Socialism and Suffragism
who imposed on themselves the self
constituted duty of so-called “picket
ing” of the White House grounds, in
a theatrical attempt to demonstrate
the new pesition of women politic
ally, but in the sane, intelligent ways
of service, which the women of the
new America are everywhere adopt
ing for the solution of the world cri
sis, now upon us: -
Women will come into their own
by needs—not by melodramatic at
tempts to force themselves upon an
already overburdened government,
harassed to the utmost of human
endurance. Madame Breshkovsky, of
Russia, did not confront the condi
tions which her sisters of America
face today. Her carcer is a st}mulus
and an inspiration—but it will not
be duplicated by overzealous fanat
icism, emphasizing a sex selfishness
in a crisis which should lower old
barriers and not create new ones.
The women ‘of America can learn
much from the life of such a wo
man, but they will not emulate it
by absurd theatricals of petty pol
itics, nor by playing at a _game to
which other women have given al
most their lives.
(Copyright, 1917, by The Bell Syndi
cate, Inc.)
w > PUBLIC SERVICE %
The Discourses of a i
Scientist |
e e et b e Ao el
By Edgar Lucien Larkin.
HE Kkinetic laws are that mole-
T cules, atoms and electrons move
incessantly. How many mil
llons, billions or centrillions of years
they have Deen prm e Tha
moving is un- 5 0 G
known, and n | b |
trace of knowl | : ;
edge us to how| P& . - 9
long they will | FEqENs aN 4
move in the fu- |{& '3” i
ture has beel | % &‘ i
gained. But al ]| 7 e g‘
within the aren o | “&f @« figfi
the universe so fa: | M % <::,
explored by th Ao
microscope, tele
scope, speotro. |t b
Bcope, electro § L
scopes, induetion “\ o 1 :’\'/‘
balanee and a hos, \HW‘."‘;
of othar eomplex
instrumenta, all things from suns to
the minutest-positive nucleus of atoms
move, i ‘
Buppese that wcales be made sensi
tive to the extreme limit of weighing
matter, down to milllonths of a grain,
These weighings would be as weigh
ing a carload in comparison with the
minute scales to millionths with the
weighing of one electron to the mil
lionths of a grain, For units of elec
tricity can be measured and welighed,
far and away beyond all hope of
welghing matter, merely because they
are electricity. ;
Thus they emit light upon impact*
in high vacuum tubes and therefore
can be seen. And the action of units
of electricity from that of any as
signed units of matter upon adjacent
units. Thus, now, electrons can be
located and handled easily even where
the presence of*far larger, units of
matter could not be discovered. And
this fact of being able to handle elec
trons, atoms and molecules, this capi
tal and startling fact has already
opened the doors of labyrint¥ deep
within the beauttful temple of nature,
whose existence were not even sus
pected on January 1, 1200.
* * -
The discoveries since made have al
‘ready surpassed the bounds of imag
ination. The diameter of an atom 'of
helium, for instance, is known witn
more accuracy than the length of a
board measured by carpenter. And
a row side by.side in contact, one inch
long, would contain 127,000,000 The
atoms of hydrogen are a little less in
diameter and of oxygen a little larger.
But Millikan, their measurer, could
not measure the len\gth of a stick or
diameter of a stone with any such
precision. Ong of the most remark
able facts now before the advance of
science is electrical induction. A page
of the Georgian, printed in fine tvpe
could possibly convey to the mind o“
the reader the at present known mys
teries of induction, a force exerted on
self and upon adjacent charged bodies
by electricity. But this can be meas
ured with accuracy. And inertia also.
Using these, the laws they obey have
been discovered. And one of the most
impressive and startling of all works
of human minds and hands is the so
lution of equations based on these stu
rendous and simply amazing laws.
These lead to the positive nucleus
of an atom: the central sun around
which the negative electrons revolve.
Tie a string to a stone, revolve it
around the hand, and if the speed is
high enough the cord will break and
the stone will fly away on a straight
line called a tangent. But the speed
on the tangent is the same as that on
the circular orbit at instant the string
breaks. - But speeds on tangents of
electrons hurled from radium have
been measured of from 3-10 to 98-100
the specific speed of light. ! 7
Brain can not think of the stpengths
of the electric bonds as in the‘case of
the string and stone that existed up to
the breaking point. Atomic bonds, in
between positivé and negative'elec
“trons, may be faintly imagined by+he
terrific force when liberated electrons
fly apart as in dynamite, lyddite,
melanite and o_f late, still more pow
erful explosives. ”
- * *
But the sinking of the sounders, the
laws, into these profound deeps show
that the negative electron has such a
minute diameter that 50,000 placed
side by side in contact, impossible by
humans now, since they repel, would
equal the diameter of the hellum
atom.
The symbols of exalted mathemat
ics, the divine language of man, show
that a negative electron has a diame
ter 2,000 times greater than this won
derful positive central sun of an atom.
Then orbits of the negative electrons,
around the positive are farther apart
in proportion to diameters than are
the paths of the planets in our solar
system from the sun, even from near
Mercury, distant 36,000,000 milss, out
to Neptune, 2,780,000,000. -
Colossal comets have plenty ot
room to, dash in between orbits of
planet.s.,,/but not more in proportion
than have electrons dashing through
atoms of, say, oxygen and nitrogen,
in air being bombarded by electrons
hurled at high specific speeds from
radium. Thu§ the light due to the
impaet of one negative electron upon
another has been photographed as a
miscroscopic. speck on a sensitive
plate. But this same electron had al
ready. passed in between orbits of
electrons in 10,000 atoms without
making a‘hitg And it' i§ in these su
pernal realm& that Millikan and oth
ers are now exploring minute by
minute, hour by hour, year after vear.
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Accessories to Love
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By Winifred Black.
little friend, the girl who is
Mlame. is worried. Not because
she’s lame, and not because
she's sometimes very tired and wishes
she could Walk o —
like oth’er people A )f
and didn’t have a > ey 29
pain in her hip— ,‘i : ;:;% e
she never worties |, .M
about herself; that ; TR
isn't the way she’s e s
made—~she's wor- [SSEE
ded about |l O weCY
friend—a friend RS .= SR
who really needs ,fux.;
about a little, e
She’s such a *ufi?“:?r
goose, such a ro- i o
mantic, high- %
flown, impractical, NSU ST NG
impossible goose— @'W v
and the worst of
it is, she tells everyone about it!
Just now she’s in love—madly, des
perately, passionately, irrefutably and
hopelessly in love,. 2
She can't eat; she can’t sleep; she
can't work, she just sighs and smiles
and cries, and looks at the moon and
picks rose geranium leaves and press
es them, and repeats poetry and plays
sad music en the piano, and looks
wistful and sits silent among her:
friends—in the hope that someone
will ask her what's the matter.
If anyone dees ask her, she takes
a long breath, puts her head on one
side, flutters her eyelids and says:
“Nothing—oh, nothing at all!” and
looks as if she were going to_expire
right then and there. N
What She “Sees.”
The man she’s in love with is“won- |
derful—she says. .
Also he’s beautiful, and he has a
great soul and his mind is almost
appalling, it’s so powerful.
He's as strong as a lion, and as
gentle as a dove.
He’s a caveman and a Sir Launce
lot, an iconoclast and a saint—all in
one. o
She never knew what life meant
till she met him, and the very first
time she saw him, something strange
happened to her heart, and the world
has never looked the same to her
again.
I know the man myself—that is,
I've always thought I'knew him.
He lived in the same town I did
for 12 years, and we went skating
and sleigh-riding and tobogganing
and partying together, he and his
sister and I and some of the rest.
He was in the same class with a
good, friend of my brother's, and he
used to come to the heuse for week
ends, and I've seén him awhen.he was
tired and cross and cold and hungry,
and when he was happy and pleased
and warm and fed.
I knew him when he graduated, not
at the head of his class ‘nor at the
foot, but right in the middle of it,
like the middle-class, medium-sized
chap he always seemed to me to be.
He had rather nice hair and a good
deal of it; a profile, a pair of shoul
ders, a gift for quoting poetry, a small
salary, not many friends, no-influence
or position whatever, and a perfect
ly good wife and two rather more
than usually nice children.
That's what my little friend, the
girl who is lame, is worried about—
the wife and children, 'and the man
and his job, and the girl who is mak
ing such a fool of herself, 7
Not at All Helpless.
“If she only wouldn't tell every
one,” says the little lame girl. “Of
course it will all be over in a little
while, and then if no one knew, per
haps—no one will be really" hurt.
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“You see, she tells me all about
it. . Here's 'a letter she wrote this
very morning, and I'm not the only
one. Why, the town will be ringing
with it in a month. T don’t know
what to do. It makes me feel so
helpless.” :
“Helpless!” said I. “You aren’t
helpless. You are an accessory to the
fact. Don’t you know what that is in
law? It is someone who helps an
other to commit a crime, and when
the punishment comes, the accessory
is often as severely blamed and pun
ished as the criminal himself.”
op’{:e little lame girl’s eyes flew wide
“M I a o
sobbed. (;‘h alc Cs::?tryw;ants ht?:) al;]er? '?St
Then I told her that I thought it
was her duty to tell this little goose
of a girl just exactly what she thinks
of her and to do it in the same way
that she would do it if the girl told
her she was going out to steal a
diamond ring from a showcase or a
purse from someone’s pocket.
There’s nothing remantic about
stealing another woman's husband,
and I can't for the life of me see how
any girl cam be sentimental over a
man with two children and a wife at
home,
It’s like being enthusiastic over a
second-hand dress or' a made-over
hat. ”
Of course, the little goose will get
her own punishment, and so will the
man who is encouraging her. I'm
afraid I shan’t shed Very many tears
over that. Bjt.the little lame girl—
and then thére's the wife—l really do
hate to think of her tears.
T wonder if it ever pays to be 'an
accessory to this sort of vulgar,
mirs'erable affairs. & !
m worrying myself, v
all about r}nyglitt{e frie}noc}? :;Ge‘ ?111"’1
who is lame—there is something
sweet and saintly about her, and T
hate to have her smirch her gar
ments in such a wretched cause.