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"OLD GLORY"
'America For Americans
| FOOD WINS THE WAR
DON'T WASTE iT
WHY UNITED STATES IS I'K.HT.
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EVEKY ordinary man ran remem
ber that during his boyhood there
was nue vital point upon whii'h
he always insisted whenever he
»a* threatened \\:th discipline fur get
ting Into a tight: "He began it I"
Boys realize that Justice rests upon
rtie question. Who »'us the assailant?
And almost every boy has mure than
juce suffered under the sting of an
idult Injustice w hlch. declining to In
vestigate, punished him for "fighting"
when he had been merely defending
ilinself. Of course, self-defense does
Qot consist entirety of warding ges
:ures, for If it did it could not defend.
A person attacked must either be
Jeaten or take his choice of runniug
*way or of striking back; aud If the
assailant Is the speedier, running away
s a mere postponement of being
beaten. But spectators of a conflict
(especially If they have not noted or
.•omprehended its beginning) almost
always take a superior position of dis
gusted impartiality. "Brutes!" they
jay. "Fighting: They ought to be
ashamed of themselves!"
I remember 6Uch a case. A boy
friend of mine, an awkward but splr
■ted ten-year-old. was returning alone
from an afternoon's skating when a
I'.urdler, shorter boy the same age.
jpposed his progress, and addressed
to him the provocative formula. "Who
you lookln' at. you dern fool you?"
My friend replied plaeatlvely that he
wasn't looking at anything, whereupon
rhe stranger demanded hotly: "You
•all me nothin'. do you?" and, striking
him suddenly upon the mouth, snatched
his skates aud turned to make away
with them.
My friend managed to trip the little
thief, however, and the latter, rlsin ,
struck out fiercely, whereupon a fight
of some duration took place. It was
interrupted by nn elderly pedestrian,
*hocked and Indignant. "You scoun
drels!" he said. "Fighting; Stop It I"
Then for emphasis he struck my friend
a sharp blow across the face with an
umbrella, and forced his way between
the combatants. "But he's got my
skates!" my friend cried. "Shame!"
was the response. "If I knew your
fathers and mothers I'd see that you
were both whipped for fighting.
Shame!"
My friend tried desperately to dodge
round the peacemaker, hoping to re
cover his skates from the other boy,
but he failed, fur the elderly man
telzed him by the collar. "You would,
would you? Trying to get at him
sgaln, you little beast! No. you don't!
I'll teach you to stop fighting when I
tell you to!" Thereupon my friend
got the shaking of his life, and. though
he tried throughout this martyrdom to
convince his shaker that he "didn't
begin it" and that the other boy had
his skates, and was now running away
with them, lie was unsuccessful in re
moving the impression thnt all bellig
erents are wicked. "There!" said the
elderly man. releasing hiin at last; "let
ton eatL-li ivU Li.'h'.lLig l^U_lh .Ujd ru
CAMOUFLAGE .
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I MAKE YOU SO WHITE LIKE A DOVE J
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^tve you a worse oneC 'Go onliomei
Get out of this neighborhood I I don't
want to listen to you
So. bloody and dizzy, my friend went
on his way. and the elderly man pro
ceeded, convinced that he had con
ducted himself In a manner beneficial
to public morals. v
What Every Boy Understand*.
Vow, ns any boy understands that
ihe most Important question about any
right 13 "Who started it?" so any boy
also understands that the question
next In order and next in Importance
is "Why did he start it?" Any boy
understands that a just peace cannot
he made unless it takes these two
questions into vital accounts, and that
disciplinary measures not founded
upon them are arbitrary and unjust
| md vicious. Any boy understands
hat a peacemaker or disciplinarian
who places both belligerents upon the
same plane is not only unjust but. in
• fleet, stupidly partial to the eause
•f the guilty belligerent—for one bel
ligerent is guilty.
Win-n the war began in August,
• 1914. all those neutrals who wished to
j understand the right and wrong of
j he matter, that tIn-:r opinions might
i not be unjusr, begau to seek every
source of information which might
help them to learn who started It and
why. At first—as the sources of Infor
mation were not Immediately at baud
—there seemed room for argument,
though on the face of things It was
apparent that Austria first declared
a war upon Serbia and Germany then
declared war upon Unssia and France.
We saw plainly that Serbia had been
bogging and squirming to avoid war
I and that Russia had been working for
j peace. Austria and Germany were the
j countries that declared war. and. of
I course, until somebody did actually de
j clare war or actually make war there
i was a chance of peace.
I , What Documents Disclosed.
i As soon us the diplomatic documents
were published we all saw—uny per
! son who could read was able to see—
I that Austria had been bent upon war
| with Serbia and that Germany had
wanted Austria to .mike such a war,
and. under a rather careless pretext of
wishing to preserve the peace, had
Hctually prevented peacemaking on the
■ part of other governments. It was
clear, too. that Russia had been bound
! t«> protect Serbia from Austria, and
that Germany understood this and
I knew that Austria's attack on Serbia
i meant war between Austria and Rus
I slu, which also meant, of course, war
between Germany and Russia and be
tween Germany and France, since the
J latter was Russia's ally.
Nothing could have been more sig
nificant than this, that Germany, being
herself already prepared—down to the
last buckle—for Immediate war, de
clared war on Russia for the alleged
reason thut Russia was getting pre
' pared for war. Wo know this sort of
talk of old in a thousand trials for
cold-blooded murder In our own coul
I try. "Self-defense!" shouts the mur
derer's attorney. "The deceased made
a motion toward his hip pocket." Ger
many stood with a bright new auto
matic revolver In hand, and Russia
made a motion toward the hip pocket
—whcv ft."re was later found a pen
knife with two blades DroKen. -seir
defense," Germany claimed loudly
through her attorneys. "He made a
motion toward his hip pocket; so I
had to shoot him."
The German chancellor declared In
the relchstag that Russia made this
fatal motion toward the hip pocket In
spite of England's effort to keep peace.
Russia "began It," said the chancel
lor—and then a few days later all Ger
many began shoutlug that England
"began It!" This was when Englanfl
fulfilled h;r oath to Belgium, and Ger
many broke he_r own.
(Continued Tomorrow)
DAY OF NATIVITY UNKNOWN
World Has Only Tradition to Rely
Upon as to Date of the Birth
of Christ.
The traditional 25th of December as
the date of the birth of the Savior has
no historical authority beyond the
fourth century, when the Christinas
festival was introduced first in Koine
(A. D 360), on the basis of several Ro
man festivals (the Saturnalia. Siuil
laria, Juvenalin. Bruiualia, or Dies
natalis Invlcti Soils), which were held
in the latter part of December, In com
memoration of the golden age of lib
erty und equality, and In honor of the
sun, who in the winter solstice Is. as It
were, born anew, and begins his con
quering march. The only Indication of
the season of Christ's birth is the fact
that the shepherds were watching
their flocks in the field at the time
(Luke 11:8), and this fact points to
any other season rather than winter,
and is, therefore, not favorable to the
traditional date. Besides, the ancient
tradition is of no account here, as it
varied down to the fourth century.
Clement of Alexandria relates that
some regarded the 25th, Pachon (1. e.,
May 20), others the 24th or 25th, Phar
muthl (April 19 or 20), as the day of
Nativity.
As to modern research, the only
point on which divines generally agree
Is that Christ was not born on Christ
inas day, while numerous learned au
thorities put the birth on almost every
date of the year. •
How to Tell Age of Eggs.
There is a simple method of ascer
taining the uge of eggs, based upon the
fact that the airy space at the broad
end of the egg Increases with Its age.
Now, when the egg Is placed lu a
tumbler of water In which any amount
of common salt Is dissolved, it will,
with increasing age, tend ever more to
assume a position with its longitudinal
axis In a perpendicular direction. A |
fresh laid egg will lie horizontally on ■
the bottom of the vessel. An egg from (
three to four days old will rise with Its
broad end, so that its longitudinal axis '
forms with Its horizontal axis an angle
of 20 degrees. At the age of eight days
the angle Increases to 45 degrees, at
the age of two weeks to 60 degrees,
and at the age of three weeks to about
75 degrees. When the egg is more
than a month old it will float perpen
dicularly on Its small end. I
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Edward A. Kasmuson, Arctia Chief.
William II. Gray, Arctic Recorder. |
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