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“hHe That Dasheth to Pieces Is Come Up Betore Thy Face: Keep the Munition, Watch the Way, Make Ihy Loins Strong, Fortify Thy Power Mightily.” —NAHw. i 1
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Attend the Theater
Regularly and Pay War
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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 omn life ‘‘over
here.”’ ' |
Our stage is a national institution, because it entertains while portray
img 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
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 produe
tions; least of all the plays at popular prices.
. The United States Government has levied this tax to care for our boys
‘““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 » moment that the great producers of 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
Remember that every time you go to the theater you are taking care
of our boys ‘‘over there,”’ 2nd maintaining a greater courage in living ‘‘over
hm."
The war tax is levied by cur 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.
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Why Do You Want to Kill
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Germans With Dynamite?
_Mr. Ben Etle writes:
Worthy Editor:
' lAs 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 50, why do you advocate that the U. 8. should send 25,000 flyers to kill
the German people? 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
mctlnltthermdmbmd,mltm;mmflyinfavoroftheir
’s plans for bloodshed and conquest—which means that these Prussian
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man people’’ and then 25,000 more, because sending them will be a great
favor 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 is desirable.
DYNAMITE WILL ml 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
; g‘kfllfly mh the roofs of pigsties, frightening the Prussians and kill
the pigs, hemto cure the Prussians of the impression that they are
chosen to rule the world. Dynamite talks the language that a Prussian un
_ The Prussians have been too peaceful inside: of their well-managed
trenches. Dynamite droged from the sky and by the United States is the
,msombh and o}arobsb the ONLY possible cure for their conceit, their
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 & man in your department who you fear is going to get your position
ané the thought is keeping you from doing many things which you would do other
wise; things which would make you more valuable to the firm and also to yourself,
This thought is killing your initiative.
So afrald are you of making a mistake that you are losing confidence in yourself.
As a result, you keep pegging away, same old rut, day after day, and one of these
times & more aggressive man is going to supercede you.
It may be the man you fear, or it may be some other man.
Br!:tn :mlderauon ought to show you that the course you are pursuing is a
: More to your credit to have three or four failures and half a dozen successes
than never to have made any progress.
Strike out in original lines once in a while.
Do things in a different way.
Forget what the man under you may think.
It is the approbation of the boss you are after
The boss understands. l
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THE MOTHER OF THE REVOLUTION |}l
WOULD like personally to know
l ' Madame Breshkovsky, of Rus
sia. She must be one of those
singularly outstanding women of his
tory who seemed
fired with & vision |HEAENESNELSS
and a zeal which [§B b
normal human |3 . ;
strength can nev- »«4‘
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We have heard |3 §:§\§;¥3 R
a great deal of {{ERENE S Uil
her lately as’ one [§ 8 \w?\”
of the principal |G R
movers in the so- ‘figf\‘g@g’
called revolution, | B ERARE (s
which deposed a|JR "N (. { f
Czar and mada “&( éf&\ .
Russia free from | SRS ay
the rule, or mis- *’%&%" y
rule, of man-or- JEEERNE /AEr
dained Kkings. ‘v <
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 & 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 became
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
wlienever she ventured into the open
alr. :
' To such an\erudrontnent was the
young and sensitive Madame Bresh
kovsky sentenced—torn away from
her husband and her home and her
luxuries to take her place in the
manacled line of weary prisoners,
marching to a frozen exile. But her
spirit could not be broken even by
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
yvears ago. Today we hear of this
heroine of Ddrkest 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 ledst, the
first breaking down for the oppress
ed serfs who for centuries have bent
their backs to the iron heels of their
masters.
She i now an old, white-haired
woman with only a few years more
to live. -She is looking out from the
eves 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 ig 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
t'e great world drama. ;
The women of America can un
derstand and appreciate sueh a wo
man as Madame Breshkovsky, even
it it is difficult for them to glimpse
the almpst insurmountable obstacles
which she faced u‘d conquered. They
were born in a far different enviren
ment, and in far more advanced con
ditions. Their heritage was 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 theé hearts
of humanity 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 position 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 career is a stimulus
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. g
(Copyright, 1917, by The Bell Syndi-
w PUBLIC SERVICE
The Dlscourses Of a
Scientist
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By Edgar Lucien Larkin,
HE kinetic laws are that mole-
T cules, atoms and electrons move
incessantly. How many mil-
Hons, billions or centrillions of years
they have been g SSTUSTERAI T
moving is un- i. o
known, and no i g 4
trace of knowl- ! SR
edge as to how [ @ o Y
long they will ,_;_ she ‘fi’
move in the fu-|{E "w"fi?‘(fi*
gained, Bot o f MRB
within the area of g’
the universe so far | N ° 5
microscope, tele. ’ *3
#cope, speetro-fi L 7
scope, electro
scopes, induction o Ik
balance and a hom oEEBNIPARK.
of other complex
inatruments, all things from suns to
the minutest-positive nucleus of atoms
maove,
Buppose that scales be made sensi
tive to the extreme limit of weighing
matter, down to millionths of a grain.
These weighings would be as weigh
ing a carload In comparison with ths
minute scales to millionths with the
weighing of one eleetron to the mil
lonths of a grain. For units of elec
tricity can be measured and weighed,
far and away beyond all hope of
weighing 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 labyrinths deep
within the beautiful temple of nature,
whose existence were not even sus
pected on January 1, 1900.
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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 a 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 length of a stick or
diameter of a stone with any such
precision. One of the most remark
able facts now before the advance of
science {s electrical induction. A page
of the Georgian, printed in fine type
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
pendous 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 frem 3-10 to 98-100
the specific speed of light.
Brain can not think of the strengths
of the electric bonds as in the case of
the string and stone that exigted up to
the breaking point. Atomic bonds, in
between positive and negative elec
trons, may be faintly imagined by the
terrific force when liberated electrons
fly apart as in dynamite, lyddite,
melanite and of 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 miles, out
to Neptune, 2,780,000,000.
Colossal comets have plenty ot
room to dash in between orbits of
planets, 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. Thus the light due to the
impact 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 hit. And it is in these su
pernal realms that Millikan and oth
ers are now exploring minute by
minute, hour by hour, year after year.
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' Accessories to Love |
| Thefts ‘
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 p— _“A__,,__*.,___
like ‘other people 5
and didn’t have a |Ees eSO
pain in her hip— ; "‘m s
she never worries | . ¥
about herself; that ' S :_
isn't the way she’s | : J
made—she’s wor- u
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friend—a friend (S 8 “w Al
who really needs ,?- < |
about a little. ‘-,j‘i
She's such a "E&bfi'”}"fig
goose, such a ro- !i‘é%‘?#‘é‘;
mantic, high- ":"‘*’7l‘* S
flown, impractical, U SRR N
impossible goose— “SIBNEZ &P
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.
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 on the piano, and looks
wistful and sits silent among her
friends—in the hope that someone
will ask her what's the matier
If anyone does 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.
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
geritle as a dove.
He's a caveman and a Sir Launce-
Jot, an iconoclast and a saint—all in
one.
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 house for week
ends, and I've seen him when 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 |
#irl who is lame, is worried about— |
the wife and children, and the man |
and his job, and the gir! who is mak
ing such a fool of herself.
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. ‘
“But as it is—
“ 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 s 0 |
helpless.”
“Helpless!” sald 1. ‘“~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'fr?e little lame girl’s eyes flew wide
“Am I an ae o :
sobbed. “Oh, T don't want to Do~ "
Then I told her that T 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
dlamond ring from a showcase or a
purse from someone's pocket.,
There's nothing romantic about
stealing another woman's husband,
and I can't for the life of me see how
any girl can be sentimental over a
man with two children and a wife at
home.
It's like being enthusiastic over a
;ictond-hand dress or a made-over
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 sheq very many tears
over that. But the little lame girl—
and then there's the wife—l really do
hate to think of her tears.
I wonder if it ever pays to be an
accessory to this gort of vulgar,
m!ls’;‘m:'le afllairs, 3
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all a.boutrrt);\y‘ll'trggdtf;’iefl m a‘r;”
who is lame—there is something
sweet and saintly about her, and I
hate to have her smirch her gar
ments in such a wretched cause.