New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1917, Page 6

G COMPANY. ora. pted) at 4:16 p. m., €7 Church St. at New Britain Matter. any part of the city €5 cents a month. ta be sent by mall, 60 cents a month, ing medium in 48t and Broad- Board Walk, At 28 the Associated Press. Ps is exclusively entitled _republication of all news ot not otherwise credited and slso the local news ng laudation tains who loved not . but fought for the life of the nation; than honor and glory, and ‘history’s izon pen ‘the thought of duty done and the love of their fellow- "' men. : "RICHARD WATSON GILDER. ' NAILED AS A LIE. jnancial interests in this country “thrived since the beginning of 6 war, the while the financial mar- t has received many a setback be- puse of unfounded rumoars. It was v last week than apother of these aful_rumors was set afloat, possi- by persons who are anxious to see _populace of America in a con- nt state of turmoil. The latest story fad to do with the launching of the ! Liberty Loan. The date for, this permanently set, by the peddlers the rumor, as March 15, 1918. The kmount was eStablished, by these pur- | eyors of untruth, as $8,000,000,000. F'he rate of interest was fixed, by these me folk, as four and one-half per. t. Now Secretary of the Treasury | Adoo nails the whole story as a lie, {de out of whole cloth, calling at- ntion at the same time to the well- n fact that ‘‘such rumors are mis- Bhievous and hurtful to the interests it the country.” Of course, there will jo_another Liberty Loan: but we will Fosa that stream when we come to it. i the meantime, Americans may be d - that official snnouncement the Secretary of the Treasury tell when the next Liberty Loan ' be floated. ? ' TRON FIST, THE SHINY SWORD. o‘u‘ly two thousand years ago.the lof God came on earth to bring e and good Wwill to men. Bince fhat day the world has at least once ; year attempted to come around to right way of living. Love per- gates the hearts of men at the tmas season even if it does lapse & dormant state during the great- of the twelve-month. It was a season, the holiest week in calendar, that Emperor Wilhelm to enunciate his doctrine of Having had some three years ' bloody war and realizing that men rhere look forward to the day len the principles of .Christianity | all grip the hearts of all ih one t brotherhood, the Emperor of many told his enemies how they foula have, peace on ecarth, and how god will téward ‘men might once ain become a live active thing. His ormula is simple:. Come my way llingly, or be dragged along by the hair of the head. If there be those nations who re- e to accept a peace laid down by : Prussian autocrat that worthy an would batter in the doors hose nations with “the iron fist d the shining sword.” That is his tum, as proclaimed to his frmies. . It England, and France, and taly, and the United States of Amer- jea, and all the nations now fighting Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs not lay down their arms the Kaiser 1 send his hordes of the iron fist nd the shining gword and take those nscaway. He will batter in the Moors of the peoples of the earth and e peace down their throats. Two ousand years ago Christ came on bringing a message of peace so00d Wl!l to men. Two thousand after that event one Wilhelm penzollern upsct the regular order things and plunged the world into ;‘. state of chaos bordering on bar- rity. On the anniversary of the orld's greatest birthday celebration Wilheim announces a new program of and good will. It is 4 peace r | & monster ‘When Christ drove the money- changlrs out of the temple he called attention to only one form of debased humanity. There was a lesson there to those who would follow in His foot- steps ‘that they in turn might fight the good tight against the wicked of every caste and description. Using men as money and the world as a temple wherein he might change things to his own fancies, Wilhelm is the man who must now be driven out. And by the very people to whom he would administer the dofeat that comes by the ‘“‘iron fist and the shining sword.” Temporarily, at least, peace on earth and good will toward men must remain in the back-ground until the business of cleaning the world of is finished. Then there shall be peace, and a lasting peace. Any peace based on the terms laid down by a braggart is little better than no peace. > What the Kaiser might propose at this time would be a peace wherein he might mend his broken armies, put another coat of iron on his mailed fist, polish the sword, and go forth to real battle, a fight even greater than the one now going on. This is a terrible war. There is not a man engaged in it, or a woman who has sent a man to it, who does not at this moment pray to the Lord their God that the signs of peace 'will soon show in the Heavens. Yet, realizing that the time ig not ripe for such a peace so long as one of the peacemakers persisis in pounding the iron first and brandish- ing the shiny sword, the good men and women of this old earth will bide their time and see to it that peace comes in the proper way. The three years and more of war already fought must. not have been spent in vain. (“The blood of the men who laid down their lives in France and Flanders, the innocents of Belgium, the brave of Luxenburg, must not be forgotten, will not be forgotten. In any terms of peace their sacrifices must figure and must demand reparation. The iron fist and the shining sword are no new terrors. had its taste of these things; yet the world’ has not been conquered by them. The world has been shattered by blows from the iron fist. Its wom- anhood and voung manhood and in- i nocent childhood have been raped and slaughtered and robbed by the weild- ers of the shining sword of Wilhelm. There is a sword, however, of even greater brightness; a sword that has appeared in the heavens beforc. And it is more brilliant, more dazzling, than the shining sword of which the German Emperor prates. It is the sword of Christianity that appeared to an Emperor of old, and over its hilt are the words, “In Hoc Signo Vinces.” And by that sign we shall conquer. It is the sign of the cross,—the cross of One who came on earth two thou- sands years ago to bring peace and good-will. No other sign shall over- shadow this one, even though it be Wilhelm’s sign of the iron fist and the | shining sword. THE RED- CROSS AND THE HUN. Closing the campaign for an ijn- crease in Red Cross membership the campaigners find their efforts reward- cd in no mean way. There are some 21,000 members, of the organization now in this city. Practically one- third of the entire population here bclonks to the Red Cross. This is as it should be. In going the rounds, however, the campaigners ran into elements of disloyalty. There are those who have on their lips a curse for the Red Cross and all its workers. There are those who have no love for the Stars and Stripes nor with any- thing that is associated with Old Glory. They are out-spoken-in their batred. Doors have been slammed on the faces of those who gave up their time and energy for the promotion of an altruistic cause. Insults were aimed at women dressed in the uni- ferm of the nurse and wearing the badge of honor, the Red Cross. This, of course, is the seamy side of it all. No one is forced to belong to the Red Cross, or to any other ‘organization whose aim and object isfto adminis- ter to the wounded. Were a wounded German soldier to fall into the hands of Red Cross nurses that soldier would be ‘treated with the same kind- ness and consideration that might be meted out to an American under the same conditions. Sympathy of this kind knows no bounds. The Red Cross has already given aid to Ger- man soldiers in this war. Even. be- fore our entrance into the struggle The world has NEW BRITAIN DAILY HE DOING HIS BIT LIEUT. W. W. T. SQUIRE Lieutenant William W. T. Squire, son of Mr, and Mrs. William T. Squire of 154 Cherry street, is located at Champagne, 111, with the aviation sec- tion of the United States army signal corps as squadron adjutant. Lieuten- ant Squire needs no introduction in this, his native city. Graduated from the New Britain High school, where he was a football and basketball play- er, with the class of 1910 he later attended Colgate college. Subse- quently he entered the employ of the New Britain Record as a reporter and later worked on the city staff of the Hartford Courant. When appointed to the second Officers’ Training camp at Plaitsburgh, where he received his commission as second lieutenant, he was on the city staff of the Herald. Lieutenant Squire has travelled ex- tensively abroad and his knowledge of French should stand him in good stead when he is sent overseas. and reply, ‘“None of your bus- iness!”"—New Haven Register. To keep the axe a-ringin’ To keep the saw a-singin’, An’ make the soil Give up to toil— That’s faith to which we're clingin’! ‘—Atlanm Constitution. { The sunny side of the Russian sit- uation lies in the fact that you don’t have to believas all you read about it.—Bridgeport Telegram. A farmer of Kansas says it costs him now $2.65 to produce a bushel of wheat. In which case he should quit the business or quit Kansas.— Florida Timeg-Union. One woman was 8o crazy over bar- gaining that she went to a famous surgeon and priced a'number of his operations.—Boston Transcript. What. has become of the old-fash- ioned father who whipped his chil- dren when they didn’t mind?—Cap- per's Weekly. “He's hard to get along with, isn’t he?” “I should say so. He acts as though he were a street-railway corporation.” —Detroit Free Press. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fremont are the proud parents of a fourth son since last Thursday.—Decorah (Ia.) Repub- Hcan. - A Oountry Town. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Here are the stores that front upon the Square, the unhitched teams munch upon their hay; The stir of enterprise is ev'rywhere, And the busy scene proclaims it Sat- urday, Great hearded men are trading to and fro, Their figures stooped with toil, their faces brown; na that Bo, But here is changelessness—a coun- try town. Hero in old dreams a city was to stand, But that fond hope is dead forever- more; On every prospect is the fertile land, Stretching its verdure to the towns- man’s door. Thus it has been, and thus it shall be still s When last the sun course go down, A while to linger on the sun Risse hill; This is immutable—a country town. shall in (‘Here, too, is genuineness unimpaired By all the follies that the winds have blown; Nor human vanity has greatly cared For all the glories that it might have known. So it was long ago and shall remain, thistledown Into the quiet streets and out again; This is unchangeable — a country town. German® soldiers were taken care of by American women working on the battlefields ‘of Europe. Now that we are fighting the Germans is no reason why the same spirit will not prevail. IL is an ungrateful Hun within our gates who withholds his co-operation { from an organization that would even Lelp his own people. FACTS AND FANCIES. Some day soon a brave soul will arise and dare to ask the war depart- jped on the efficiency of the ‘“iron fand the shining sword.” ment just how many American troops are over there.” And some brave soul will arise in the war department (Mountain Patriarch.) The goldenrod is blooming here- about and has actually covered and completely 1dden all the paths that oncd led to the moonshine distilleries. Saving Time, (Detroit Rree Prees.) “You eeem to agree with every- thing a man says to you.” “Yes. 1 learned that trick e long time ago. It saves g lot of time.” Hint for Husbands, (Topeka Capital.) 1t is all right for a woman to pre- tend hr dinner was a fajlure, but it The fleeting centuries may come andi jts | And God knows what shall blow as | The Last Straw in a Bone Dry State. | | 1 is a wise nusband who disagrees with her, | Jehovah, of Joshua and Samuel with RALD, WEDNESDAY, DECE) ABER 3, 1017, PASTOR HARRIMAN’S SERIES ON ‘EVOLUTION’ ATTACKED J. A. Cooper of Youngstown, Ohio, . Believes Such Ser- mons Do Great Harm to Church and Christianity. To Rev. N. H. Harriman. Dear Sir and Brother: I have just read an extract from one of your sermons that you are said to haye preached lately on the doc- trine of evolution. You may not be aware, as I am, that this doctrine was annihilated last summer by the S. S. Times, but like Goliah, it probably needed killing a second time. It is sad to think of a thirteenth century theologian actually living in New England in the twentieth century; in Philadelphia, we expect it, but not in that enlightened land. As you know, Philadelphia is Cods headquarters, and that the Presbyterian and the S. S. Times the official representatives on Earth They are ably assisted by ‘the Herald and Presbyter and the Exposi- tor. You will motice in the last Times that it calls attention to it. They daily thank God that they are not as other religious papers, the Independent, the Homiletic Review, the Christian Work, the Christian Ad- vocates or even like the Outlook. They are the “defenders of the faith” once given to the ‘saints,”” the sup- porters of the ‘“fundamentals” not like - Beecher, Gladden, Channing, Phillips Brooks, or even like the fac- ulty of Union Seminary and practical- ly all of the reputable theological seminaries of the world. From time out of mind, these men and their like, have claimed a vested right to talk very plainly about those who differ from them, to call names, to misrepresent, to attribute false mo- tives to them, in short, to defy the recognized standards of good manners that prevail in the discussion of mat- ters in dispute among gentlemen, therefare, we feel justified in telling the plain truth about some things that only this state of affairs would ex- cuse. Remember, we do not like you, impugn motives, but we deny the Jesuitical doctrine, that the end jus- tifies the means, that lving and mis- representation are justified in their use in any cause, however good. You ought to be wise enough to know that such means only hurt instead of help any cause. But such men seem never to have either learned or forgotten anything. They are a set of asses, tied to thir- teenth century hitching-posts, stupid- ly braying out their warnings of the dangers ahead to the pausing pro- cession on its way upward toward the light. It is reassuring to know that very few are paying any attention to them ' fewer and fewer as they learn the truth about God’'s ways and methods of guiding His good world, learning that He did not make it one day and lose it the next; that He has not sur- rendered practically all His highest creation to Satan, one of His own creatures, with permission to keep and torture them forever, unable to con- trol this sclf-existent entity called “Sin,” but must allow it to forever prevail. That only a couple of thou- sand years ago He conceived a plan to save a few by committing a sort of japanese ‘“hari-kari Men| hecoming too highly civilized to be- lieve these blasphemous against the God whose tender mer- cies are over all His works. They are catching up to the Prophets of 2500 vears ago who had no such concep- tion of God as this. 1 yield to no man by admiration for the church, my earnest desire for its growth and prosperity, my belief in its divine mission to make the world bet- ter, to bring in the kingdom that would make Earth a Heaven, but it has passed its zenith unless its man- agers recognize modern knowledge and accommodate itself to it. Men like you are the men who are erip- pling it at this day, and nothing but the “gzood works” which you stren- uwously deny have any saving power, keeps it alive now. Few people join the church except those who have been trained in the S. S. and carefully kept in”ignorance of all modern knowledge. Our church has grown 25 per cent,in four wears | and the S. S. is actually smaller. And it is not hard to explain. Instead of lessons from the proph- ets, the Psalms, Job, the wise pro- verbs or the simple teachings of Jesus, we have studied the very doubtful history of a lot of ancient barbarians, the doings of the bloody the childish stories of miracles in which few people now believe, and when we have the N. T, it is only the miracles that get the most attention. We teach that God created all things out of nothing, in the space of si: days, and all very good. g Tha God For His mere “good pleas- ure” from all eternity elacted some to everlasting life, etc. That every sin deserves God’s .wrath and curse both in this life and that which is to come. ! No wonder young people will not be interested in such barbarous doc- trines. They are bribed by medals, by a good orchestra and other things, but they will not come. The only Sunday Schools that are prosperous are those which teach something sensible, and I know of some immense men’s Bible classes who are very much interested in Bible study when conducted in the light of modern ‘criticism. You must have umbounded self-conceit to set your opinion against the whole world of scholarship. The Presbyterian Ban- ner say lately editorially, that any man who denies that the doctrine of evolution is not as generally believed and accepted among scholars as the doctrine of gravitation, is simply making a laughing-stock of himself, and Dr. Snowden Is pretty good au- thority in the’ Presbyterian church. Now, you seem to rcly on the monu- | ments, Well, they are the very best are | charges | testimony about certain things. What do they say Did ever any critic deny that Babylon did not exist, that there was a king Nebuchadnezzar, a Belshazzer, a Cyrus, possibly a Daniel and Darjus? Until lately the only things they ylenied were the stories of the Golden image, the flery fur-: nace, the den of lions, the hand writ- ing on the wall and the story of Ne-| buchadnezzar being turned out to grass. But it turns out that much other Bible history is incorrect, that Belshazza never was king that he was not the son of Nebuchadnezzar as the Bible over and over states, that Babylon fell without the loss of life and that there was no king Darius at all. Have vou told your people these things? We venture you have not’ nor you never will. What else do the monuments show? ! That at least one thousand vears be- fore Moses was horn, there were codes of laws in Babylonia, so much more extensive and complete, of a much higher moral character than Israel| ever possessed at any period. That the stories of creaion, fall and flood were old in Babylonia no man knows when and that the Bible stories are copied either from them or from some older tradition. Have you in- formed your people of these facts? Have you told them that reliable his- tory in both Egypt and Babylonia ' goes a thousand years back of the| creation of Adam according to the Bible? Have you told them that the different races are depicted on the monuments more than two thousand years before the Bible flood? Have vou told them that the oldest traces .of man, from Greenlands icy moun- taing to India’s coral strand and from Scandinavia to the Cape of Good Hope are precisely the same, the same stone implements, the -same rise to ‘those of metal, that beneath these ancient civilizations are these primitive traces of primeval man, that the monu- ments prove beyond the shadow of a doubt, that man hag never fallen, but has constantly risen? These facts ef- fectually dispose of the theory that to Moses was first given the law, and also of the necessity of ‘‘redemption” from a mythical “fall.” Will you tell me how much better than plain lying is the concealment of these indisput- able evidences of the Bible errors on these points. The critics are the men who are saving the Bible. It has fallen almost into utter neglect through the absurd claims for its infallibility | and plenary inspiration. ‘Why, pray, should not a sensible man be glad that there was some mistake about God telling men to kill an aninal and burn it to make a sweet smelling savor in His nostrils? Or that He did not command to kill all but the maidens, and give them to the soldiers, or forbid the ‘eating of -diseased meat but permit it to be sold to a foreigner. That He never gave directions for the sale of one's own daughter to be a slave, and to demand the sacrifice of every first born son? ALWAYS disappointed. prices. That all the stories of lust and mur- der and all sorts of crimes so utterly uncondemned in every instance? ‘What sensible man that will not re- joice to learn that man has not fallen and for the sin of Adam condemned to eternal torture in defiance of every principle of justice, as though one { should be punished for the sin of an- other. Ezekiel knew better than this. Is it not more to the credit of the Grand Architect, or at least as much, to have worked by the plan of evo- lution as by flat? Do vou think that any writer of the Bible supposed for a moment that he was writing something that at some future time was to be called holy, sacred and inspired? Don’t you think that if the writer of the first chapter of Genesis had supposed that any one would be so stupid as to understand it literally, he would have labelled it poetry? Just as well claim that the Pil- grim’s Progress was a litera]l Pilgrim- age; just as much sense in it. Don’t you know that. Jesus set| aside as something that savage man | had outgrown, some of these primi- tive laws and did He not disregard others? Is it possible that you have ! not read what the Prophets, Amos, Moses, Micah, Isaiah and especially Jeremiah said about these primitive laws and regulations about sacrifices, sabbaths, full moons, fringes, per- fumeries, arks and tabernacles? No { modern heretic, not even Ingersol, so scathingly dénounced these things than they? Is it not about time you fellows were catching up to them after 2,500 years. Much of the theology of the | great Pres. Church which I have weekly attended for seventy years, would disgrace a Hottetot, and the | clergy are so meekly subservient to a few men like you and Matthews, Fox and a few of these editors that T have mentipnedthat they fear to cast off | this milestone of the confession, at the same time saying, “Oh, we don’t Ivbelieve such and such things.” They | are justly held inconsistenly when they profess to accept the confession and then preach doctrine squarely the contrary, professing to believe that every man’s destiny is irrevocably | fixed from all eternity and then stand- ing up telling men that by a simple act of their will they can set aside this eternal decree. Out on such hypoc- risy if you don’t want tp “cripple the Church.” Preachers have largely lost both the respect and confidence of the public by their weakness, lack of abil- ity and their willingness to try any- thing to attract members. Ever since Sunday was in this ¢ity, and those fel- lows sat up in ‘one'corner and ap- plauded him for the scandalous and abusive things he said about them, most of which were lies, they are the laughing stock of the best people, those whom they most need. Then they have a theory of Prayer that is squarely contradicted every day by the experience of every man living, yet our preacher the other day, said vou know that we have the positive promise that if two are agreed as touching anything it will be done, right in the face of the defeat of Pro- The McMillan Store, Inc. RELIABLE AFTER CHRISTMAS CLEARANCES Greater Than Ever Before IN THE CLOAK DEPARTMENT Big Markdown on Women’s Coats Our entire stock arranged in four lots— LOT 1.—All our $15.00 Coats MARKED DOWN TO ... LOT 2.—All our Women’s Coats formerly up to $20.00. MARKED DOWNTO ........ LOT 3.—All Women’s Coats up to $25 MARKED DOWN $9.98 $14.98 ... $19.98 LOT 4.—All Women’s Coats fol:\lnerly' up to ; %?)5.00, MARKED DOWN Come expecting Bargains and yo‘l‘l'll_' not be § $24.98 CHILDREN’S COATS all at MARK-DOWN FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NA BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GRWEN, Y. . 8. N, Field Piece In all his long dry Commentaries Caesar cracked just one single soli- tary joke. It wasn’t an overpower- mgly funny one. He rqcords that when his infantry were ordered to use the routed enemy’s horses one of them exclaimed “Gee! Jul. has not only made us soldiers but he’s made us Knights as well.” At which the Centurii probably rolled on. the ground with glee. ! A Man-o'-wars man has even more cause to boast his versatility. There are occasions upon which he becomes an Artillery Charger. Then no longer does his rifle balance gracefully upon his shoulder while arms and body swing free in the stride. Martial step of fife and drum command no rhythm in his movements. Music however, can, if loud enough, stir the numbest draught animal. The naval Drag- man is no exception. Primarfly the warship is built to fight at sea. Her turrets and broad- sides belch flame and smoke at the slightest provocation. The hail of steel therefrom is terrific. These guns are part of the ship and cannot be lanfied except to put them out of commission. There are other guns for work. The 3-inch Field Piece, and the Colt or Maxim automatic ma- chine guns are used for attacking land fortifications out of range of the ship's cannon. Such small artillery is essential in infantry action against trenches, blockhouses, or other walled defenses. Also when the Fleet cap- tures a city or harbor. Indeed there are many times when rifie fire is futile. Small numbers of the enemy may skulk among the rooms and roofs of houses and by sniping almost annihi- late the invaders. Such situations re- quire heavy artillery to clear house- tops and walls. shore Naval Field Pleces are stowed on| leck. A boat crane or davit lowers them Into the motor launch by which they are to be conveyed to the beach. Assembling of gun, mount, -wheels, trail, limber (ammunpition cart,) and hibition & few days before in spite of earnest prayers of every good man and woman in the church. Preachers must. think men are fools. This is one of the things that “cripple the Chfirch.” Then the claim that con- version changes the heart, making a new man, right in the face of the fact that the present war was brought on by the most orthodox-Christians in the world, the chief of the: claiming especially close relations with _God, and claiming the very same promise to answer prayer. 'And also the fact that is patent to every observer, that Christians are no better in any way than the same kind of people outside. No wonder men like myself are con- cerned for the church, the newly or- | sights:can be done on the ship. Thix Is particularly ‘necessary if the land- ing party cannot be well covered by their own vessel's barrage fire. We think of a gun’s crew as thg ' group of men actually loading and firing. With the warship’s fleld plece must be added several times this number for traction purposes. ;| The sun and ammunition carriages op carts are hitched together in tandem. Two long trail or drag ropes lead out' with six wooden toggles (handles) spliced in them at intervals. 3 3 A ship’s deck division mans two guns. The drag ropes take twenty men. In heavy going they ate double-bldnked to 40' men. On the wheel axles are two, guide lnes each taking a man. Charging down a rut- ted road behind their Juggernaut this pair of ‘guide-men’ may mean tha difference between safety and disas- ter. The 20 galloping sailors ahead have small regard for holes and / puddles. When such menace looms up it’s ‘“heave ho, heavel!” for the guides; and God help them if they'ro slow. Their job is like hanging on the hind' end of a wagon—except that, instead of milk’ bottles, loaded 3-inch shell como bounding out on shins and toes. Check ropes directly in rear of ihe piece are much the same though.more easily handled. If you can’t check you don’t. .They are holding back lines Intended .to take the place of brakes. Men on them are the brakes. Sometimes these brakes get tired, or must have a smoke, or just forget to do business. Then—you can guess what happens if it's downhill On the firing line the gun stops, un- limber, loads, fires, advances or re-’ treats, in a manner-similar to that of horse artillery—with one excep- tion. The ‘horses” here are armed with rifles. Without so much as a ‘giddap’ they will up-and-at-'em in a way to make a cavalry charge look like a circus parade on a wet day. | | They’re Knights all right—of the Good-Night type. . . . . A ganized instrument for keeping men's attention to things of the Spirit. ‘ People are sick of this slush about a “God of Love” who.has made prac- tical all men to be dammned for His | mere good pressure. About an omni- potent all powerful -God that cannot save them without killing His soh, They ask, did not Jesus say that love God supremely and your neisg bor as yourself wI‘ the “law and Prophetes’ ? £ Did He ask those who were told to. enter into the jooth mf iefy-uks enter into the oy of their Lord if they, believed in Jesus Christ? . What did the father say to the res (Continued on Seventh Page) ! runaway milk L} A