Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — What's In a Name? [ARTICLE]

What's In a Name?

To give a name to a thing is often to damn it A label Is a distinguishing mark which not seldom has an extinguishing effect, says Edward Lewis in the Atlantic. If frequently happens that to pin a nickname on a man is as good as to hang him; Ln the narrow circle of his friends the name may pass as a term of endearment, but it provides the general public with a jest and a weapon. The Germans were rapidly conquering the world by a process of “peaceful penetration,” but in a fatal hour they inscribed “PanGermanism” upon a banner, hoisted it over a park of heavy artillery for all the world to see, apd the world—saw itl