Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT HITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. DOUBTS MEN WILL SEE WAR Notre Dame Head Thinks the End Is in Sight. South Bend, October 6. —“Personally, I don’t believe you will ever be subjected to a German attack, for I don’t think you will ever see actual warfare,” said the Rev. John Cavanaugh, president of Notre Dame university, at a banquet given the men who will leave here Sunday for Camp Taylor, at Louisville. Father Cavanaugh said, further: “War is all the bad things you ever heard of. It is the suicide of civilization. While I am a priest of the cross you men are priests of the flag, and it is your duty to save this country, the same as it is mine to aid in the redemption of sin. It is the blood of men that consecrates the United States and makes us love it close to idolatry. Face this war in the right spirit. The right spirit is not the spirit of hate. Washington and Lincoln did not fight with that. It was their great love of liberty that urged them on during trying times. Don t hate the Germans in goring them to death with bayonets. It is their rulers who are forcing the war. Remember, Germany muet die or America and liberty will die.” Business men of the city acted as waiters at the banquet. Fred A. Bryan was toastmaster. Among the other speakers were Mayor Fred W. Keller, Captain Edwin Nicar, Dr. J. B. Bertefing, W. 0. Davies and Thomas W. Slick.