Liberty Express, Volume 13, Number 31, Liberty, Union County, 3 March 1916 — Page 8
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people of every nation and of all j SOME TALKS ABOUT
THE PLANETS, NO. 3.
need a zieh raw coat?
A RAIN COAT is the most serviceable garment you can buy. It will keep off rain and chill on a raw day and dust on cool evenings all the year around. OURS are not only serviceable but STYLISH and can be worn for any occasion. We have many splendid "numbers" in rain coats and cravenettes. When you PRICE them you will buy one. We've got the umbrellas, too. Look at your OLD hat and see if you don't need a NEW one. We are "hat" quarters for heads. FRED MAX THE BIG STORE The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
WAR IS IT WORTH THE PRICE? (Continued from first p;gi'-)
They lived far apart, were entire strangers, nay in eo wide a universe there was even, unconsciously, by commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. Why then did they kill each other? Because their rulers had fallen
out, and instead of shooting one another had the cunning or the power to make these men shoot each other. Finally, one arir ' . civen back and the ambulancec? lly.Mert up the wounded who lie scattered and tVeding over this field of carnage. They re
tossed not very gently into the ambulance in heaps, regrdls of their painful wounds and listened into camp, where wounds are hfrriedly dressed and mangled limbs sawed off by the army surgeons. Some of them are in a dying condition and the good hearted, pious chaplain goes among them. Here he kneels beside a cot and prays for a fairhaired boy whose soul is about to take its flight from his body, wracked with pain. There he stoops to receive the last message which another wishes him to write to the dear ones at home. Some have been captured by the enemy and
hurried away to languish in prison while! of 070 years, England was at war with
engaged in the conflict seven million dollars, fifteen thousand killed and an equal number iiaimed for life, to say nothing about what these men could have earned in peaceful industry. And oh, the heartaches, anguish and misery it has caused in once happy homes! Multiply the loss in cost and men in
this one battle by 100 and you will find that the loss sustained by both nations during this war was about $1,000,000,000, and 1,500,000 of the best men of both nations. Then multiply this loss and cost of this one war by 1,000 such wars, then tell me is war worth the price? Think of this vast loss of life
and that which sustains life and tell me
is war worth, this enormous price?
Is it worth the enormous war debt be
nmathed to future generations to be
paid by the sweat of the brow of men
not born when the war occurred?
:so words can picture war as it is. Xot even if we had the pen of a Ruskin, or a Maeaulav, or a Milton could we write out the miseries of war. Tell a man that during Napoleon's campaign in Russia there fell during 173 days on an average of 3,000 men each day and he has no realizing sense of it. Tell him that between 1141 and 181.". an interval
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. UM MII'll HUM lllH-f .t.-cro destriietiouists, instructionists and constructionists. Every one of us must be put under one or the other of these categories. vili(.,, are vo and vou, aMt von. my frit.II(iv We desire that you be hth an intrnetionist and a const rue-
jtionist. An nKtri.,t;,.iNt o instruct
"r I pie in regard to the follies and evils of war and a constructionist to aid us in contrueting public sentiment in tavor of international peace arbitration, that we may put the destructionists out of business. 1 answer our piory "Is war worth the priee-r let us look u poii the world war now raging in Europe and Asia, which is heiiifr fought on the land, under the ground, on the sea. beneath the sea and in (he air with the very liest modern equipment and arms, made for the especial purpose of destroying property and human life. While the cost of other wars has .,.,, estimated in thousands and million and the loss of human life at a few thousands, or at most a few millions, (lie ,.(t 0f this war will have to be estimated in billions and the loss of life, the thousands of old men. innocent women and children by starvation, exposure and destructive bombs dropped by airships on those unsuspecting victims and the loss in private property, homes destroyed, farms laid waste and hundreds of costly ships sunk, then answer is war worth this enormous price? What will be gained in return for this loss of property and life? Why, only the gratification of a few ambitious men who hope to win a little honor and glory by this war. l.ook abroad over the battlefields of this war of blood and mud behold the red sands of these battlefields strewn with bloody corpses and newly-made graves; farm buildings, villages, towns and cities destroyed by fire, shot and
shell. Then think of the many, many once happy homes destroyed, some members of the family killed, the rest of them separated, driven out of their na
tive land to be interned in a foreign
country in concentration camps, without
shelter and depending upon the charity
of strangers for food and clothing.
Think of the misery and intense agony
and suffering of the wounded on the battle fields and in the hospitals. Behold
the wounded soldier, maimed for life, when he returns to his once happy ;home with no wife and children to meet and greet him for they are either all dead or gone he knows not whither.; His property all destroyed, his home a mass of blackened ruins and he disabled, for life and therefore unable to earn a liv
ing- r
Heboid all this suffering, want, woe
and misery and tell us is war v rth this fearful, awful, terrible price?
MARY PICKF0RD
Takes Ride in An Aeroplane. of Yesterday.
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Girl
the weary soldiers who have escaped wounds, capture or death, build their camp-tires, took their food as best they can and then lie down upon the cold ground to sleep and dream perchance of home and loved ones far away. They have had their dinner but they will not get any breakfast , for their enemy smarting under defeat make a bold cavalry dash around to their rear, capture their food supplies, apply the torch and three million dollars' worth of army supplies go up in smoke. The morning's sun rises slowly, and calmly it looks down upon the red sand of the battle field with bloody corpses strewn. Men are detailed to bury the dead and such
France for 2GC years, his imagination lias not sweep enough in its wings to traverse such a fact. No canvas can picture a war. Not even if we had the colors of a Titian, a Raphael, a Claude, or a Turner could we picture war. No orator has ever attempted it and succeeded. No artist has ever found himself where he could fling aside his brush and say, as he gazed on his canvas, "Such, even as I have painted it so much and no more is war." There are no colors in Nature he could use. When nature would speak to us in her most ravishing tones, she summons the colors of the rising or the setting sun to her aid; but what artist would not tremble
Mary Pickford will appear in "'A Girl of Yesterday" at the Union Theatre, Wednesday, March 8. One of the features of the picture is a scene showing Mary as the companion of Glenn Curtis, the great aviator, in one of his daring flights. As the title character, "Little Mary" is called upon to portray one of the most unusual creatures ever made the central figure of a film plot. The story con
trasts in a remarkably graphic manner
the customs and methods 01 yesterday with those of today, indicating the difference of their influence upon romance. As the staid, prim and unsophisticated little country girl, the reincarnation of our mothers' grandmothers, and subsequently as the center of attraction in the modern world of society, with all the luxuries, pomp and ceremonies of the elite of today, Mary Tick ford achieves a double triumph of character depiction that will rank with the best of her inimitable creations.
a burial! They die lonsr trenches and at his own andaritv if he should dare to
hurriedly toss in the dead in heaps one fling such fair weather colors on his canupon another and hastily cover them up vas to represent scenes whose horror the not knowing who they are or whence! lurid flames of Tartarus alone can fit. they came. Such is war. Yet among! War is one of those themes where exagthese men doomed to such a sepulchre ; geration is impossible. It is impossible was somebody's brother, somebody's son. to become fanatical in opposition to this somebody's father and somebody's bus-j most terrible of all the scourges of our band. Somebody wept when they I race. War destroys human life, destroys marched away aye, somebody w ill weep ! property which sustains human life, hinlong and bitterly when the news that jders 'the progress of mankind in intelli-
they are numbered w ith the dead is re- pence and righteousness, burdens the
ceived at home. They weep long and bitterly and exclaim in their anguish, "Oh, if we only knew where they were buried that we might have them brought
citizens of a nation with enormous taxes and robs them of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. War is the most ferocious and futile of human follies.
OLD HIGH LIGHTS TO BATTLE LIB
ERTY. When the Earlham freshmen basket
ball team tackles the Liberty II. S. five
in the curtain act to the Earlham-Frank
lin game at the Coliseum Friday night
the Quaker yearlings will be represented
by a section of the 1015 R. H. S. squad. Al Laning, the lengthy center of the local high team, last year; Windsor B. Harris,
forward and teammate of the towering Al; Rus Titsworth, who starred with the Rushville high last year; By ram Smith,
Whitey Rees and Rochester Reath. all
high school athletes cf more or less note form the make-up of the Karlham fresh
men crew that battles the Union county
invaders. Richmond Palladium.
home and buried in the family lot in j Hate breeds hate, quarrel breeds quarrel, our own little cemetery that we might! war breeds war. It is the poorest of all rear a monument to their memory and! remedies to bring peace between nations,
strew flowers upon their graves!" But j for what but war can war but endless
war breed? A boy once said to another, "You have licked me, but I won't stay licked." So it is with nations, the defeated nation, smarting under defeat, is longing for a chance to get even with her foe.
alas their tears are in vain, for greedy, cruel war has claimed them for his victims and doomed them to be buried in this brutal manner in an unknown grave. This one battle cost the two nations
DAVIS TAPPEN.
Ernest C. Davis, son of C. V. Davis, of Connersville, and Miss Mabel M. Tappen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Tappen, of this city, were married Saturday evening, February 20, by Rev. C. W. Whitman, the wedding occurring at thu Methodist parsonage, with only a few relatives in attendance. Mr. Davis is engaged in the painting business and the young couple will reside in Liberty for the present.
Jupiter. A lavish planet reigned when he was born, lie skeined more like heaven than ours. Selected. Have you been watching those two beautifully bright stars in the evening sky. how they appeared to approach each other; how they passed within a degree of each other on February 14. and how they are now widely separating and going in dilTerent direction, as vieweii from our earth? Those two stars are planets, both interesting members f our great family along with the earth which circle around their god. the sun. through the wonderful and invisible ower of attraction. Now the star that to our eyes appears
the largest anil nearest is Venus, and though the nearest is truly much the smaller. The other, -Tiipifer. is about 1,400 times larger than Venus. But it is the vast distance between them which makes the diflereiice. Venus is about; (i7.000,(HM miles from the sun. while Jupiter's distance averages nearly 490,(00.000 miles from the solar orb. j Now notice, during the next few j months, the course of Venus, which will , describe a curve and set in the north- j western sky, while Jupiter will appear to set in directly in the west, but which il- ! lusion is caused by the change in the i course of our earth. I i
Jupiter was named by the early as-1
tronomers after the ancient Italian god of the heavens, because it is the largest planet, by far. in our solar system, and is often called a "little sun" from the fact that it shines partly by its own light. All astronomers of the past have
devoted much time and study to the
mysteries of this wonderful world which is nearly 90,000 miles in diameter and nearly 1,300 times larger than the earth, and I hope I may be pardoned for repeating some of what has been written
or told.
As far back as written history tells us Galileo, the inventor of the telescope, was the first human to view this planet by the aid of a magnifying power. Discoveries have been made of so-called "burning glasses" in the ruins of ancient Babylon. Now all glasses used in the telescope are "burning glasses" when held to the sunlight, but history is silent about them ever having been applied to viewing the heavenly bodies. So until future discoveries are made to contradict it we are compelled to accord to Galileo the invention of the telescope, which occurred in 1C10. With this crude little instrument, which had an object glass of only one inch in diameter, he made the remarkable discovery of the four larger moons of Jupiter, which, by the w ay, are each larger than our moon. Allow me to quote from Neath, the English astronomer, the following" facts
(which are not so generally lop own)
about those great moons of Jupitor, to-
wit: "The revolution of the satellites about the primary present an interesting series
of phenomena as seen from the earth. Eclipses of the first, second and third satellites take place at every revolution around Jupiter. Eclipses of the fourth
occur more rarely, its orbit being more inclined to the ecliptic. Oeeultations occur when the satellites are hidden from
view behind the Wly of the planet.
Transits are the passages of the satel
lites across the face of the planet, where
was discovered, being smaller and nearthey appear as white spots on the surface, and are usually preceded or followed by their shadows, which appear as
black spofs."
For more than 300 years no more moons
were found until 1892, when a fifth one
er the planet. Since then four others
have been found by photography, making nine moons in all.
As seen through the telescope. Jupiter has dark, grayish streaks upon its surface and which are parallel to the equator of the planet. These are called "belts." Like Venus, Jupiter is covered with dense clouds and the belts are supposed to be formed by the rapid turn of the planet on its axis and whose day is but nine hours and fifty-five minutes of our time. In 1878 a great "red spot" appeared on the planet, which remained visible, with changes, for a number of years, then entirely disappeared. Much speculation was caused by the astronomers of the world as to its origin and disappearance but nothing definite was arrived at. One man said he thought it was the body of the planet visible beneath the
clouds, another thought that it was a
solid surface forming on the planet, since it has long been believed that it is in a fluid or molten condition, but the mystery remains for some future astronomer to solve, and gain enuuring fame. The earth is now passing far away from Jupiter, and will soon be 180,000,000 miles (the diameter of the orbit of the earth) farther away from us than last August, when those who looked could have seen that it looked much larger to the naked eye than now.
KERR'S Dry Goods Store
Leave your measure for a suit of clothes made by the StorrsSchaefer Co. Guaranteed to fit. We can furnish you with a made-to7order suit, as cheap as you buy a ready-made suit. We also carry ready-made suits. We will be pleased to show you . ; ; ; We have just received a large and varied line of room-size rugs, all sizes. Velvets, Body Brussels, Axminsters, Brussels, Fibre and Grass Rugs PERSONALLY SELECTED See our beautiful line of Bischof Coats for spring. No other line of coats equal them in style .' . ; ; ; . Your Patronage Will Be Appreciated
We Have the Goods"
W- K- Kerr
Jupiter has an orbit of about 2,900,000,000 miles, which is equal to one of its years, and it travels this vast distance in nearly twelve of our years; thus
hens and one rooster, R. I. Red, full-
Also a lot of household and kitcrk
furniture, consisting of carpets and
it advances practically one-twelfth of ! stoves, two organs, and a lot of other
the circle of the heavens in one of our , articles. - - 1 i C ti tU.l t li i 1 TV 1 LV.l . A. I. " - A 1 A r A
Jl'iU, VM UUl itiF,innp.iMn iiiii-. l nr ; i wglll HI IVFUnp H. III. JMlHrp. earth goes much faster, or 5GO,(HH),oio WATTON 1IANNA.
miles in one year. j Minor Conner, Auct. Some weather prophets claim that .lu-;Chas. Woods, Clerk, piter exerts a very great influence upon ( has. 1). Johnson, Cashier.
our weather, by attraction.
PUBLIC SALE.
THE PRIMARY
; Tuesday Is the Date for First State-
Wide Primary Election.
Having sold m v farm ( will oiler for
sale at public auction on the premises,! five miles southwest of Libert v and one! The stage is almost all set for the first
l r n.. I..O.-H .. 'p.. l... state-wide primary election, which il mile east of Dunhipsville, on 1 uexlav, , - , f ,. , , , " nc held incsdav (March th). March 14, the following descnlied prop- , . . ... , . ' " 1 1 In I nion county, candidate for trea tr : ' urer, sheriff, coroner, surveyor, commi tie :
i-ourieeii neau oi noises ami iiiu.es. ioil(.r of S,oi..l District, and commi
consisting of 1 team of coming 4-year- Honor of Third will be nominated by tin
olds, broke; 1 bay liorst-, ." years old. i Democratic partv and the
broke; 1 gray horse, S years old, good i partv. The Progressives
worker; 1 bay horse. 10 years old, fain- j candidates on a county ticket but wil. ilv broke: 1 dark bav. 5 years old, ' nominate a candidate for United. State-
Senator, a Kepresentatie m tongress, h
joint Representative for Wayne an
Union and a candidate for Governor, The Democrats and Republicans
i. aim iiiiiiiii minated by thA the Republicaif have placed in I
broke; 1 good brood mare, 11 years old; 1 black mare, b years old; 1 bay mare, 7 years old; 1 gray colt, coining 2 years II. 1 t O 11 ...1.... 1 . 1 .
oiu; l tpaii oi o-eur-oiu nunc. onir,j
1 span of coming 2-year-olds, not broke. Cattle Six head of milch cows 5 fresh, consisting of .'J Jerseys, and Shorthorns; 4 Shorthorn heifers, coining .1 years old; 4 head of heifers, 2 years old; G head of yearlings past. Hogs Fourteen brood sows, all breK 2 male hogs, 1 full blood, Duroc Jersey and one Big Type Poland China; ."0 head of feeding shoats. Sheep Twenty-seven ewes, all bred; 1 buck.
side nominating candidates for these flees will also express preferences
President of the United States, Vic
President, and also will nominate car ditlates for the office of prosecuting at torney of the 37th Judicial Circuit. A special effort is being made by tii two leading parties to get all voters the respective parties to the polls as it . regarded as very desirable to make gotnl showing and it is further pointe out that the primary should be an e pression of the rank and file of the part in reirard to the men wanted on tl
Farm Implements A full line of farm-1 November ballots
inff implements, consisting of 2 farm I The polls will be open from 0:00 a. n
u-m,,. 1 W waaon. 2 busies. 1 storm to 0:00 p. m. and the following are tl
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I A!.... ,.....j It 4 Ilia SWMtltr
2 Black Hawk corn planters, 2 ' " " .
hggy,
riding sulky breaking plows. 2 walking breaking plows; 1 two-row coin cultivator; 2 single-row cultivators. 2 mowing machines; 3 wheat drills, one-horse: 1 land roller, 1 disc harrow, 1 spike tooth harrow, 1 hay rigging, a lot of carpenter tools, portable forge and anvil, portable wood saw, gasoline engine, 6 II.P. 2S-inch saw, good as new. Harness Five sets of work harness, 2 sets of buggy harness. Hay and Grain 2.800 to 3.000 bushels corn. Lot of baled straw and feed.
I Also a 4:-ga)Ioii feed cooker, 100 fence posts, two or three stands of bee, fifteen
Center Tp.. Precinct 2 Beard's da rag Center Tp.. Precinct 3 Mrs. Vanau dall's residence.
Center Tp., Precinct 4 Ross Moore
residence.
Brownsville Tp., South Pet. Scho.
House, Brownsville.
Brownsville Tp., North Pet. Yanke.
town Mili.
Union Tp., East Council Room, Co
lege Corner. Union Tp., West Milt Pouder redeuce, Billingsville. Harmony Tp. Township IToune. Liberty Tp. Township ITouse. Harrison Tp. .Tune White's residen.
UNION THEATRE FRANK A. IRWIN, Manager.
Home of Paramount and all the beat Picture a Now showing every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday
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SATURDAY, MARCH 4 PAULINE FREDERICK Star from the Eternal City In the Dramatic Sensation "ZAZA"
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 8 The Idol of All America MARY PICKFORD In "A GIRL OF YESTERDAY" Assisted by Her Brother, Jack Pickford.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9 By Special Arrangements We Present "THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES" With an All Star Cast. Try to read this noted book before you see this wonderful production.
SATURDAY, MARCH MARIE DORO In "THE WHITE PEARL" COM I KG -"CARMEN" "THE SLIM PRINCESS" "THE ROSARY"