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Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Newspaper) - October 1, 1919, Fort Wayne, Indiana THE FORT WAYNE JOURNAL-GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, 1919. The Fort Wayne Journal- Gazette THE FORT THE FORT WAYNE 1862 WAY.NE 1S52 Every Day MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED The Associated PrcsM Is exclusively to the uss for republicatlon of all newa dis- patches to It or no: otherwise credited In tr.n sapcr and also local news ouSllshea therein. JOURNAL.GAZETTE COMPANY 711-713 Clinton Street Entered at the Fort Wayne. Ind.. Postofflcs E3 Second-Claia Matter. _____ Vol. t 11 No. 261 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! Dally, single Sunday, single cents Dally, except Sunday, per week, fcy carrier .............................15 Dally and Sunday, per week, by car- rier In Fort Wayne......... ..20 centa Dally and Sunday cy carrier. In cities and towns outside of Fort Wayne..20 cents BY MAIL, IN ADVANCE: Dally, with Sunday, one year...........SE-CO Dallv. without Sunday, one year........S4.00 By Mall, In Advance. QJtr 150 Mile Radius: Dally, with Sunday, one Dally without Sunday, one WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1919 When You Are Tagged To-day. On the streets of Fort Wayne to-day you are almost certain to be tagged by young ladies who are attempting through this means to raise money for two of the very finest things In the Visiting Nurse league and the Day Nurs- err, "We have previously dwelt upon the remarkable work that is being done bj both that the city as municipality does not do, and would not ,be done but for the sacrifices that are being made by public spirited women of the community- And even these canno continue the wort without public support It is really a. shame that it Is necessary to raise money in small amounts for such purposes. It ought to be Possible for a woman to start out with a subscription list and in half an hour Bet enough names to guarantee the necessary expenses of both for a year. The trouble is that very few of us take much stock in the Christian theory that we are our broth- er's keepers. We are living in an age when "Number 1" counts. And there is no number 2. you are tagged to-day, don't grumble. If you have any imagi- nation at all try to picture what the these women are doing means to any community that makes any pretense to public sPirit. And give with the great- est possible liberality. AMERICA MUST NOT COMPROMISE WITH LAWLESS- NESS Laura Hawkins in real of a former Proper action, has been taken in Omaha in ordering United States troops to the scene of the anarchistic rioting to quell the disturbance, if need be, by a liberal distribution of cold lead. The miserable mob that all t murdered the mayor of the city for attempting to enforce the law, is an outlaw mob and must be dealt with without parley and without mercy. There are times in the history of nations and peoples when compromise .veakness. We may as well face the ugly fact that never in all modern listory have so many men been bent upon the overthrow of the state and the destruction of civilization as at this hour. is in the saddle n too many quarters and while radicalism is not objectionable when it plans to operate within the law, it becomes sheer anarchy when it proposes :o ignore the law and tear down the institutions of the state. Happily America is rallying splendidly to the protection of her in- stitutions. The fact that the great majority of the American people are and have long been in sympathy with unions, did not the over- whelming majority from denouncing and damning the proposition of the Boston police to make themselves superior to the constituted authority. The unionization of policemen, firemen and soldiers is bolshevism, pure and simple and no amount of sophistry can cover the fact America here was not stampeded or intimidated for a moment. She met that issue and is prepared to fight it to a finish. And may we not suggest that now is a good time in every communi- ty to investigate the rumors that policemen have entered into secret under- standings among themselves to desert their duties and under certain con- tingencies turn the community they have sworn to protect over to the mercy of the criminal element? And courage is required just now in dealing with industrial troubles. These troubles are not all of the initiative of the men. There is too much stealing on the part of some big interests. Too much of a divine nght ttitude among some big employers. But notwithstanding all this there is a mSre general appreciation ot the rights of the working classes now than ever before in history. Q And the danger is that the radicals, tinctured with bolshevism, may j were schoolmates mine." get control of the'organizations of the workers and wreck them by ex- Did Mark Twain Believe In An After Life? (By E. E. In City Star.) To one who has gone through a season of lurrRuous work, a tho town of Mark Twain's bqyhoort. with ic-rs ai iho hotel which boars his name, offers interest along with relaxation. But pt-rsons who go to Hannibal have its the real object of their sojourn a visit to ihe sweetheart of Twain's youth, the lovely girl in the emu res ot Tom awyer Becky Thatcher in the book. day. now Mrs. Laura Frazior, matron in the home 01" the friendless on Hannibal hill. Mrs. Frazier now is 79 years old. She will be SO the first cr December. In childhood she and Samuel Clemens cele- brated their birthdays on the night be- tween the two. for Mark Twain was born on the last day of November. The proprietor of the hotel and seven other residents of Hannibal, when asked concerning Becky where she could be found, and what the particulars of her life had been, could give no infor- mation. Had everyone not rend "The Adventures of Tow Verily, "a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country." Mrs. Mary keeper of the Mark Twain home, di- rc-c-ted to the orphanage, and I "was soon in the presence of Becky Thatcher. I asked her if she would make a. lunch- had loved years old. her ever since he was ten Bo you remember the shock treme measures. 111CO3UH-3. i There is too much loose talk to-day among these radicals about the right of the so-called "proletariat" to rule. Likewise too much talk of the divine right of capital to rule In America only the that includes all the a'right to rule and we don't propose to have either a financial oligarchy nor a bolshevistic state. It is tragic to find the steel workers partly compromised by the prominence in the strike of W. Z. Foster. He is not one of them. He has never worked in a steel mill. His business is not work. He works others. And his business is strife. It is tragic that the steel workers that came to you as you read of Tom's behavior in church on three well known occasions: When he won the. B'ble In Sunday school with the yellow tickets for which ho had traded trinkets of a various na- ture to the other Sunday school scholars? When the dog sat down on the beetle that Tom had turned out of a small tin box during the sermon? When Tom. Huck Finn and Joe Harper attended their own premature obsequies and exhibited themselves to the mourn- ers in the midst of the funeral hour? In the preface to "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" the author says: "Most of the adventures' recorded in this book .really occurred; one or two were experi- ences of my own. the rest those of boys Not- withstanding his modesty about claim- ing it all for himself, the immortal Tom Sawyer always was identified, it seemed, as a character that ful'y portrayed the boyhood days of Mark Twain. I was glad to have this view supported by the Interview with Becky Thatcher. Thus, after reading the three .incidents in con- nection with the church. I never could dismiss the thought that Mark Twain always treated the church as a joke. I constantly thought of him as a great humorist, and it never occurred that he could do anything else. And the church, having a corner on immortality and whatever there might be of bliss in an after life, the long yearn of reading his books and loving Mark Twain held one should have permitted this man to direct them in any particular. They are entitled to the leadership of their peers. _ There is something sinister in Foster's career and principles. His i iicrc io i" book on "Syndicalism" -is sheer anarchy. Another book by dus man written three years ago, he extols the idea of the destruction of the state If there is any difference in the things preached by Foster m these books and the principles of Trozky, they are too insignificant to notice Now it may be that the steel strikers are not enemies of American institurions-the vast majority certainly are not. But there stands hos- he must be explained. In Russia the masses of the people have been literally crucified by a comparatively few anarchists, and to-day a more sinister autocracy rules STn under the Romanoffs. When the Romanoffs were over- thrown and the republic was created, the workers had the opportumty of 4e centuries. Not only did they have the opportunity to rule but they dld ttlt totf Russia took charge-and ruled the work- And under their rule die workers have died like flies in early whiter. In America the masses are not stupid as m Here great re- forms areWking place. Social justice must be written into law. And it forms are Uk mgp be d b a with that deliberation which alone can Americans! Read This. The attempt to rally tre American peo- ple behind Bullitt and soviet Russia goes merrily on, and we note in an evening paper quite a tribute to the man who has tried to play bull in the china shop because the president refused to follow his advice and recognize the But we would call attention to the startling manner In which this is at- tempted. "We quote: Bullitt comes from an old and highly respected Philadelphia fam- ily and has a reputation for charac- ter and truthfulness. On his return to this country- some ,-nonths ago he criticised the American peace com- missioners because of their refusal to accept his recommendation 'that the soviet government in Russia ba recognized. He resisted as an at- tache of the peace commission after President "Wilson had declined to ac- cept his recommendation that the al- lies ar.d the United States recognize bolshevism. Note ye Americans, of The old-fashioned type, who have some respect for Ameri- can institutions, pray note that this ar- ticle was written and sent out to create sympathy with the views of Bullitt and to arouse the people of America against the president and the league of nations. And here wo havs it baldly stated that this man who "comes from an old and highly respected Philadelphia family has a reputation for character and truthful- ness" has attacked the American peace commissioners "because of their refusal to accept his recommendation that the soviet government In Ti.isala. be recog- nized" and that "resigned as an at- tache of the peace commission after President Wilson had declined to accept his recommendation th.it the allies and the United States recognize bolshevism." Here ve have all the particulars on which ws are expected to predicate partiality for Mr. Bullitt and a hate of 'SVilson and the league nations. Hf-re is something for you, Mr. Ameri- can, to think aootlt. Hns bolshevism already arrived In America? Fort Wayne's Offering. The fonowin? editorial slur President appeared in the Fort News-Sentinel of September 29: on the Wayne These tales of the president's ill- ness cause the cour.trv at l.irgo to stick Its tongue in its chc-ek and wink the other f-yc. The truth is that h-> was stricken too suddenly. Prior to the announcement the.t ho cr.ic'xlriS under the strain, we had fed up with .stories to the effect that He was in fine fettle, enjoying; every moment of every hour, and outstanding disappointment, and was that he did not believe in that _...... life beyond the grave. One- morning in April, nine years ago. a headline In a newspa- per stared from trie front page: 'The headline seemed to have beneath it in dim and misty letters, a Jew sig- nificant words from his own pen: "He had arrived at the dignity of only earthly dignity that is not the only safe one. The others are traps that can beguile to hu- miliation. only Immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all-the soiled and the rich and the the loved and the unloved." Those sentences, among the most ma- jostic that Mark Twain ever wrote, must convince anybody that he really be- lieved seriously of death. They .Indicate taken to Mark Twain's cave. At times, when her memory seer.ied to fail her. Mrs. Frailer remarked that if she "had knoa-n that Sam Clemens one day would become famous, she would have remem- bered a lot more about him. "When we reached the cave 1 called her atten- tion to the account of Becky and Tom being lost within its dark corridors. She said: "Of course, we went to the cave many mes. but we were never really lost in it. Sam just exaggerated a little on that story. He was inclined to do that." eaving the cave, wo rode back lo the city to visit the home of her girl- hood, a large, old fashioned structure that has weathered the storms of a hun- dred years, standing diagonally across the street from the boyhood home of Mark Twain. As she stood looking through her tears at the other house over the way. 1 asked her when she dis- covered that she was really Becky Tatcher. the sweetheart of Tom Saw- yer. She replied: "In reading the booh I readily recog- nized many of the Incidents as being peculiar to my own life, and when I went to Stormfleld to visit Sam (she al- wavs called him less than two years before his death, Ills daughter. Clara, threw her arms about me and said: 'I am happy now that I have at last seen Becky Thatcher.' But Sam did Hot refer to it at all." Words fail in telllns the experience of that hour with one whose story book name has thrilled so many boyhood hearts and the hearts of so many "grown- ups." She told me story after story of the days when she was little Laura and the world's greatest humorist was little Sam. But the story of their last day to- Rether was the most interesting of all. It was Mark Twain's ono definite state- ment ot faith in a life beyond death. At last I remarked: "To me the saddest thing-about him was that did not believe in an after life." "Oh. indeed. Indeed he she re- plied: "But how do you knov. I asked. "He told ins BO the ..lost time I ever saw she answered. And then she related this story: "In October, eleven years ago. I spent a few days with Sam at Stormfleld. The day. when I was to leave for home he made an address at the dedication of a library. I went to hear him last time. After the speech he walked with me fo the corner where I was to wait for a carriage to take mo to the station. Telling me good-by he took a footpath across the field and ul' the hill in the direction of Stormfleld. My carriage was delayed, and. to my surprise, after Sam had gone a few hundred yards, he turned and came back to where I was waiting. "'I have come to tell you gbod-by again. ha Gaid as he took1 my hands in his. "'Good-by, Sam.' I said. 'I hope we may meet again soon.' shall not meet again on earth.' tie answered. 'But I thought you were coming to Missouri again, Sam.' I said. 'No, Laura, I shall not see you in Misso.url any more. We shall not meet i earth he replied. 'Good-by, Laura." 'Good-by, Sam.' "Then he turned as if to leave, but be- fore striking the path for Stormfteld he turned once again, and with tears In his eyes he pressed my hands, saying: "'Good-by, Laura! We'll meet "W3th these words he went away across the field and up the hm and was lost to view among the trees around Storm- neld. And this is my reason for saying I know that Sam Clemens believes in Immortality." Brooklyn, where Mr. Gilbert died eight years ago. Of late years Mrs. Gilbert had not been strong enough to be active, al- though she maintained an interest in several Manhattan religious associa- tions. But the work si.e did in Water street and in the mission showed her to be one of the most sin- cere, brave and successful of mission- aries, in a cause in which sacrifices of health and strength hers are ac- cepted as almost a .-nutter of course. All that she had and all that she was, she freely gave. THE LATE SETH BULLOCK MADE OEADWOOD BANDITS BITE THE DUST. unfinished sentence that fell from he was passing out at Storm- ips eld. aid: If of" the hand. We must move work permanent n And m the or disregard the state, it must ._ civilization has designed for the protecuon of society. ,w 11CI1 an t ---------i be sternly met with all the machinery that without previous intimation came the statement that the poor felloe had down and would nave to can- cel all his engagements and hum home Ths excuse sounds as thin as K doubtless is. For obvious reasons the truth could not be admitted but nevertheless the country 'finally mustered UP innueh courage to sit on his head and force him to see that his absence from Washington at this time is nothing short of outrageous. Here with the country facing a crisis of the gravest sort, he is oft on a Junket lar-ely devoted to his Personal inter- ests and for his personal satisfac- tion. Naturally the country realizes this and naturally, too. it resents it. It fsels that the president's place at a time like this is in Washington and nowhere else. No doubt it re- quired something in the nature of a major operation to get this very- salient fact into til" presidential system but ones in the effect was Im- and salutary. The president at once became a sick man and. tho junket being abandoned, the march to Washington was begun. It is well. The only place for the presi- dent when national affairs are as they now are, la in the national capital. Thischaracteristic of course does not rise to the level of a decent man's contempt It is reproduced because it Is so something that Fort Wayne alone can boast. There are some insinua- tions that are beneath reply. The choice morsel above auoted ought to be carefully preserved in your scrap "book. It will make you more charitable toward bol- shcvists, anarchists, and the like. It Is al- most certain that Emma Goldman would have been Incapable of such a production, and it would have been quite beyond Eugene Debs. tlrely different version. It seems that the sandlot orator was summoned back to "Washington to vote on Johnson's cheapest fraud of all- regarding the giving to America of six representatives in the assembly to match Great Britain's six. On arriving in Washington it was discovered that seven republicans would not vote for just yet. These republicans are Lenroot of "Wisconsin: Colt, oi Rhode Island; McCumber, of North Dakota; McNary. oi Oregon; Kellogg, of Minnesota; Hale, o: Maine, and Nelson, of Minnesota. This list Is very interesting because it has been found necessary' to add the names of such advocates of the league .as McCumber, Nelson and Mc- Nary- Tne reason given for the declina. tion of these seven to vote for amendment just now is that they are "fearful of the effect upon their political fortunes if they votei AGAINST the amendment." Dear me, since they were supposed to be lined up for the amend- ment and fear to vote against it. It is passing strange that ttwy are afraid to Taking his daughter's hi: hand he meet' 3ut that was all. The Jj1 lever finished. Those were Mark Twain Paine. Mark Twain's RETURNS AS ALIEN ENEMY of his eventful life ha considered the possibilities and probabilities of a future state from every angle of existence, tie had considered the philosophies of an- cient religions, sPirituahsm, transmigra- tion and the various esorteric doctrines anS in the end he haJ logically, made up his mind that death ended But his normai: human heart hunger, which disclosed itself In so many of his whimsical sayings, reveals that aU he with a less logical never ceised to expect an And now to get back to Mrs. She accepted the proposal to ride and later have luncheon m Twain's home. The next day a ride was Mark house of deputies last week was one of the most important pronouncements of the last month. His generous admission that the allies could not nave -won tha war without the American admission we have been army Is an waiting for. vote they And This Is Statesmanship! Hi Johnson is to go_to California after all. The natural opinion upon tha mak- ing of this announcement was that the extraordinary fervor which Presi- dent Wilson was received in that state, the home of the sandlot orator, may have conveyed to Hi the Impression that the time has come to shift to defensive war- fare. But it seems, according to Mr. He.-.rst's news service, nr.d Mr. Hearst is the league because he is too good an American, and agaJnst Wilson because he is a traitor, gives us an en- at all. It must mean then that know the amendment Is a cheap and contemptible fraud, a demagogic ap- peal to unreasoning- prejudice, and abso- lutely wrong, but that they are afraid to vote against It because they may loose the votes of some people who have been deceived by the demagotrues. And if this is the case the republic has certainly fallen upon unhappy days. The seven senators are apparently against tho amendment but are afraid to say so. That may be true of some. We don't believe it true of men like McCumber, Nelson or McXaiy. It is more probable that a poll has disclosed the amendment will fail. the fact that Clemenceau's Appeal to America. Clemenceau was until quite" recently conceded In America to be a heroic and splendid figure. Now that he has in- sisted so earnestly upon tho ratification" of the- league by the t'r.ited States sen- ate we sfyall no doubt that he is a tool of Lloyd George. Notwithstanding which fact his two-hour speech in the His statement that the league of nationi is "not as perfect as President Wilson would liked to have had it" is only in accord with the president's own state, meni All demagogues to ths contrary notwithstanding, it was manifestly im- possible for any one ts have his own way in everything down to minute de- tails. There were "other pebbles on the beach." But his announcement that he hai .a no criticism to offer of the league shows how easily he has been "duped by England." It was pa.'nful to note the ittltude of tha socialists when Clemen- ceau was making his plea for the league They hissed and yelled their diapproval Now considering the admission of Gov- ernor Goodrich and Senator New tha the President is a "socialist" and is "spreading socialism" it is disheartening to find the socialists so bitter agains him and In such hearty accord with Goodrich and New. Not only the social ists but the Industrial "Workers of th. only the Industrial Work new bolshevist party America. Not only the bolshevists her but Lenine and Trotzky. Ills rather deep isn't Goodrich-Ncw stuff? (From the New York World) For the first time- since the outbreak of the- European war Countess Laszlo Szechenyi is visiting relatives and friends in the United States. The countess, who was Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, became by marriage an Austrain subject and as she was in Hungary at the time the war started was .unable to leave the country. fJhe is technically an alien enemy and it as only by special arrangements with he state department that she was able o come to America. She went to Switz- rland with her husband in February and ater to Italy, where sailed with her our children for America on board an talian liner. The count remained in lucerne, Switzerland. Countess Szechenyi whose husband is lead of one of the oldest noble families of Hungary, was one of the American )orn women who. when this country en- :ered the war. found themselves wives of enemies of their native land. When ihe war she turned her house in Budapest and her husband's numer- ous chateaus into hospitals. She anc Countess Anton Sigray, who was- Miss Harriet Daly, worked with the American Red Cross. "I am glad, oh, so glad, to be back in the United she said. "Dur- ing the war I stayed in Hungary. don't want to discuss the war or wha happened to me. All I can say is tha I'm glad to be back and meet my rela- tives and old friends." Soon after this country entered thakota Territory, where he was tried and onvlcted and sentenced to be hanged. During th5se turbulent early days of 'eadwood Gulch, Captain Bullock stead- astly alligncd himself with the orderly :ement. Road agents infested all the trails lead- ng to and from tfec Black Hills, and con- nued to grow bolder, holding up numer- us expeditions carrying' gold dust out of is Black Hills for shipment to the mint. )ne day the road agents held up and robbed an armored treasure coach, "irhlth had been named "Johnie Slaughter." tt honor of a driver who had prevlouMJ been shot and killed in a holdup net! Deadwood. The armored coach was It charse of flve picked men. with Scott Davis, now of Denver, Col., chief messen- ser, in charge. The stage coach drove up as usual, to the stage station at Cold Springs to change horses. The coach was brought to a stop and the drlvej threw the lines to the sround and those on the coach were preparing to dismount and enter the stage station, when sud- denly from the door of the nearby station the report of firearms rang out and a deadly hail of bullets hurtled about the coach. Campbell, a telegraph operator, who was riding on the i-oach. was Killed. Gale Hill, a coach guard, was badly wounded. Scott Davis, chief messenger, Jumped to the ground on the opposite side of tha coach from where the bandits were standing. He took cover under the heavy timber in the immedinte vicinity, and opened fire on the five men who had up the coach. The bandits having captured "Bip Gene." the driver, placed him in front or them as a protection and compelled him to walk toward the spot where Davis was concealed, find when within hailing dis- tance prevailed upon him to cease firing, tho bandits threatening to kill the driver in the event that he did not. Realizing that tho life of the driver nt stake should he continue his flra. Davis ceased, and. although he had been severely wounded by the first vollev from the guns of ttfe agents, at once started for the nearest stage station for assistance. After he had ceased firinfr tlie four unwounded bandits compelled the driver to break onen the treasure box with a pickax. During this proceed- and until the departure of the road agents with the in gold which the :reasure box contained, one of the guards was stretched at full length in tho bot- :om of the coach, pretending to be dead. He securel information which proved raluablo when the pursuit of the robbers was commenced. When they had ransacked the treasure box. the bandits, after first pinioning the driver to a wheel of the coach, mounted their horses and departed, leav- ing their wounded comrade lying where he had fallen when struck by a bullet fired by Scott Davis. Capt- Seth Bullock and his deputies, when informed of the noldup, took the trail of the Bandits and followed it until nearly all the robbers were captured and most of the stolen treasure recovered- (From the Brooklyn Eagle) The recent death of Mrs. Bradford Le Gilbert passed as an event almost un noticed in Brooklyn where many formo friends failed to recall that she was th Mrs. Jerry McAuley. "ocial worker many years ago. But with her first hus band, Jerry McAuley. siie had built tl: famous Jerry McAuley mission in Wate street, whose work of redemption for th fallen and the outcast was known th world over thirty ago, and sh worked side by side witn him during hi lifetime. McAuleys began their wo: together In the early 70s. Beginning i a little shack on Water street, the wor grew and prospered until "the presen comfortable home was Provided for Before the days of the Salvation Arm the McAuleys, through their mission held out their hands to the vicious an degraded and won them to pernranen reform in numbers equaled by no othe slnele religious force in the city. Two years before his death In 188 Jerry McAuley started tho Cremorn mission in a vicious uotown neighbor hood and his wife carried on the wor thore for eight ypnrs after his float Then her health broke. She marrie Mr. Gilbert, an architect, lived for a tin) in Sullivan county and finally came to "MEN ONCE WORE DRAPERIES" (From the New York Times) The cutaway coat worn by men of the present generation is about the last rem- nant of the skirt age to which men orig- inally belonged. Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale told the conference of women fhysicians the other day. She- sought to disabuse the minds of her hearers of the belief that the skirt was woman's by right of Inheritance, and to show that they could wear bifurcated outdoor garments in season if they de- sired. "All the kings, mayors, priests, etc., used to wear said Mrs. Hale. "The cutaway coat is about the last remnant of "the skirt age for men. and the remaining cylindrical horror of the frock coat is the last vestige of the smock which was worn by peasants. don't believe dress is based on sex she added, defending the prin- ciples upon which women 'dress. "Sav- age chiefs wore beads and other adorn- ments, and the men of ola wore quite as many frills and furbelows as the women. It was only with democracy that men gave up ruffles, laces and wigs. "Up to one hundred years ago men dressed quite as elaborately and as fool- ishly as women.- The modern American wife is a shop window for her Husband, showing at his desire that he is getting on in the world. Tiaras were worn only by ciueens and duchesses, but they are worn to-day by the ordinary woman, prompted by her husband, to show she can look as'cood as her neighbors." Mrs. Hale advocated a proper health as well as dress equipment for women, and said women should stand together for proper clothes and ngainst the fash- ions thrust upon them by the "greatest trust in the world, the clothing manu- facturers." (By Meredith Nicholscn.) So long as there is misery and heartache in the world the world is not right. The thought that as I walk the streets of this prosperous and happy town there are people in other lands without food, shelter or rainment is disturbmg. I do not like it. The fact that these people are a long icay from my home does not lighten my responsibility for their plight, for the great war has so knit mankind toghether that wherever a man, woman or child of any race is hungry or home- less or the victim of cruelty, there, indeed, is my neighbor. Of all the passions of men that which manifests itself in race hatred is the most despicable. The business of civilization is incomplete so long as one man anywhere hates another because of his faith, his blood or his color. When I read, as I have read all my life, of the persecu- tion and slaughter of the Jews I am not proud of my own race or of my religion. The most beautiful story in the story of Joseph and hjs brethren. I wish that every child who knows anS loves story might contribute to the fund of the Jewish relief committee. The lessons of tolerance, for- giveness, mercy and helpfulness are summed there with incomparable art. Let us ponder a little. What we should do with this appeal from the land of famine is to give generously of corn "and put ev- ery man's money in his sack's mouth." "And put my said Joseph, "the silver cup, in the sack's of the youngest and His corn money." That was Joseph's add to the value of his gift by putting his heart into it. This appeal is not to Jews or Christians, but to humanity. It should be a liigh privilege for those of us who have so long enjoyed the hearty co-operation of our Jewish fellow-citizens in every good cause to prove to them now our neighborliness and our appreciation of their generosity. The public spirit, patriotism and liberality of the Jew- isle people of Indiana need no advertisement. They have rarely asked our aid in their benevolences, but always they have helped witk ours. All the more readily we should respond to this cry for help which they utter; not in the name of their own people, but for all who dwelt in the lands of famine and desolation. Six million people perishing! There's not much joy in that for you and me. Let the sacks be filled, and Joseph's cup, the silver cup of love and brotherliness and good will, be thrust into the top of every one.