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Wood and Clarence Miljer, all oi Valparaiso. The party remaine* with Mrs. N. C. Isenbarger until Sunday. —o NA»VY COLLECTING PHOTO GRAPHS Through the Bureau of Navigation the Navy Department is now collecting photographs of all men of the service who have losi their lives in service against the enemy. To perpetuate the me mory of these men who have made the sacrifice their pictures are to be preserved in the vari ous training stations of the coun try. Secretary Daniels has re quested that these photographs be sent to the Department b\ • the next of kin. As rapidly as these pictures are received copies are made am the originals returned to th< owners. A photograph of eaci man is then forwarded to th< training station where he begar his career in the service. There a memorial gallery' of honor o> a hero’s corner is formed so tha‘ for all time the the met of the Navy who have made th* supreme sacrifice piay be honoree by the youths of the future sen! to the station for training. Relatives of men who havebeen lost in the present war wh( have not received requests so: pictures are asked to mail then to the Department for this memorial. All pictures sho'ih. be securely wrapped after the.* have been marled with tiename, branch of service am training station the young mar entered after enlistment. Tb« '< should be addressed to the Re cruiting . Division, Bureau o 1 Navigation, Navy Department Washington, D. C. When copied t.he photograph will be returnc* To the sender with one of th* copies. EARLIEST NEW YORKERS We wonder whether an Ameri can Indian could ever look im pressed. Taken from his reserva tion and led to the top of the Woolworth Building, seeing the world's greatest city from the world’s champion skyscraper, still he would havb that “master of-all-he-survey” look. Many Indians are used to grea ( cities, and they can get a check from a waiter as blandly as thei’ fathers could scalp a hostile brave, There are one hundred ano fifty Indian families scattered about New York City. They arc employed in every sort of work from soldiering to being New York state’s official archaeologist They are newspaper men and artists, salemen of all sorts. They have no “quarter”; they de not keep among themselves, for, after all, they, as no one else, are first, and always, Americans. — (World Outlook. PATRIOTIC MIIETING □ - —— The second in the series of patriotic meetings that are being held here in accordance with the wishes of President Wilson, will be held tomorrow (Friday) night on the school lawn. The program as arranged is as follows: Prelude by school band. Patriotic song by audience. Prayer by Rev. Hollingsworth. Song by Evangelical ladies’ quartet. Patriotic song by audience. Address by Rev. Cline. Music by M. E. Brotherhood chorus. Patriotic song by audience. The large the crowd the better will be the meeting, so if you want it to be a good meeting turn out and make it so. * 4 WHY WE ARE FIGHTING GERMANY Why are we fighting Germany? The brief answer is that ours is a war of self-defense. We did not wish to fight Germany. She made the attack upon us; not on our. shores, but on our ships, our lives, our rights, our future. For two years and more we held to a neutrality that made us apologists for things which outraged man’s common sense of fair play and humanity. At each new offense —the invasion of Belgium, the killing of civilian Belgians, the attacks on Scarborough and other defenseless towns, the lay-

ng of mines in neutral waters, f l .he fencing off of the seas—and| >n and on through the months s ve said: “This is war —archaic, i < uncivilized war, but war! All i 1 rules have been thrown away: < dl nobility; man has come down j ’ to the primitive brute. And 1 s while we cannot justify we will ■ s lot intervene. It is not our 1 war.” 3 Then why are we in? Because 1 we could not keep out. The invasion Os Belgium, which open'd the war, led to the invasion 1 >f the United States by slow, 1 steady, logical steps. Our sym-l jathies evolved into a conviction < >f self-interest. Our love of fair ; day ripened into alarm at our i >wn peril. 1 1 We talked in the language and n the spirit of good faith andi sincerity, as honest men should * ;alk, until we discovered that ; >ur talk was construed as cowarlice. And Mexico was called up>n to invade us. We talked as j nen would talk who cared alone 1 for peace and the advancement' >f their own material interests, j until we discovered that we were thought to be a nation of mere, noney makers, devoid ot all j character- until, indeed, we were j told that we could not walk the] highways of the world without! permission of a Prussian soldier; that our ships might not sail without wearing a striped uniform of humilation upon a narrow path of national subservience. We talked as men talk who hope for honest agreement, not for war, until we found that the treaty torn to pieces at Liege was but the symbol of a policy that made agreements worthless against a purpose that knew no word but success. And so we came into this war for ourselves. It is a war to save America —to preserve selfrespect, to justify our right to live as we have lived, not as some one else wishes us to live. In the name of freedom we challenge with ships and men, money, and an undaunted spirit, that word “Verboten” which Germany has written upon the sea and upon the land. For America is not the name of so much territory. It is e. living spirit, born in travail, grown in the rough school of bitter experiences, a living spirit which has purpose and pride, and conscience—knows why it wishes to live and to what end, knows how it comes to be respected of the world, and hopes to retain that respect by living on with the light of Lincoln’s love of man as its Old and New Testament/ It is more precious that this America should live than that we Americans should live. And this America, as we now see, has been challenged from the first of this war by the strong arm of a power that has no sympathy with our purpose and will not hesitate to destroy us if the law we respect. the rights that are to us sacred, or the spirit that we have, stand across her set will to make this world bow before her policies, backed by her organized and scientific military system. The world of'Christ—a neglected but not a rejected Christ—has come again face to face with the world of Mahomet, who willed to win by force. With this background of history and in this sense, then, we fight Germany—»► Because of Belgium—invaded, outraged, enslaved, impoverished ' Belgium. We cannot forget i Liege, Louvain, and Cardinal| Mercier. Translated into terms ' of American history, these names ■ stand for Bunker Hill, Lexington, and Patrick Henry. Because of France—invaded, desecrated France, a million of whose heroic sons have died to save the land of Lafayette. 1 Glorious golden France, the preserver of the arts, the land of noble spirit—the first land to follow our lead into republican liberty. Because of England—from whom came the laws, traditions, standards of life, and inherent love of liberty which we call Anglo-Saxon civilization. We defeated her once upon the land and once upon the sea. But Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Canada are free because of what we did. And they are with us in the fight for the

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freedom of the seas!: Because of Russia—New Rus-! sia. She must not be overwhelm- i ed now. Not now, surely, when she is just born into freedom. Her peasants must have their chance; they must go to school to Washington, to Jefferson, and to Lincoln until they: know their way about in this! new,- strange world of government by the popular will. Because of other peoples, with their rising hope that the world j may be freed from government by the soldier. We are fighting Germany becuse she sought to terrorize us and then to fool us. We could not believe that Germany would do what she said she would do) upon the seas. We still hear the piteous cries of children coming up out of the sea where the Lusitania went down. And Germany has never asked forgiveness of the worlcL We saw the Sussex sunk, crowded with the sons and daughters of neutral nations. We saw ship after ship sent to the bottom ships of mercy bound out of America for the Belgian starving; ships carrying the Red Cross and laden with the wounded of the nations; ships carrying food and clothing to friendly, harmless, terrorized peoples; ships flying the Stars and Stripes--sent to the bottom hundreds of miles from shore, manned by American seamen, murdered against all law, without warning. We believed Germany’s promise that she would respect the neutral flag and the rights of neutrals, and we held our anger and outrage in check. s But now we see that she was holding us off with fair promises until she could build her huge fleet of submarines. for when spring came she blew her promise into the air, just as at the beginning she had torn up that “scrap of paper.” Then we saw clearly that there was but one law for Germany—her will to rule. We are fighting Germany because she violated our confidence. Paid German spies filled our cities. Officials of her 11 tit t, ivwiveu the guests of this Nation, lived w*ith us to bribe and terrorize, defying our law and the law of nations. We are fighting Germany because while we were yet her friends —the only great power that still held hands off —she sent the Zimmermann note, calling to her aid Mexico, our southern neighbor, and hoping to lure Japan, our western neighbor, into war against this Nation of peace. The nation that would do these things proclaims the gospel that government has no conscience. And this doctrine cannot live, or else democracy must die. For the nations of the world must keep faith. There can be no living for us in a world where the state has no conscience, no reverence for the things of the spirit, no respect for international law, no mercy for those who fall before its force. What an unordered world! Anarchy! The anarchy of rival wolf packs! We are fighting Germany because in this war feudalism is making its last stand against oncoming democracy. We see it now. This is a war against an old spirit, an ancient, outworn ; spirit. It is a war against feudj alism—the right of the castle I on the hill to rule the village ’ below. It is a war for demoj cracy —the right of all to be their own masters. “ Let Germany be feudal if she will, but she must not Spread her system over the world that has outgrown ! it. Feudalism plus science, thirteenth century plus twentieth — this is the religion of the mistaken Germany that has linked itself with the Turk; that has, too, adopted the method of Ma- | hornet. v ‘The state has no conscience.” “The state can do no wrong.” With the spirit of the fanatio she believes this gospel and that it is her duty to spread it by force. With poison gas that makes living a hell, with submarines that sneak through the seas to slyly murder noncombatants, with dirigibles that bombard men and women while they sleep, with a perfected sys-

I tern of terrorizat# that the c ! modern world heard of t iwhen German WPS entered j ; China, German |pudalism is j making war uponjfcmkind. Let this old spirit of vil have its ; way and no manf'dl live in ; America without |p>' :n g toll to ; 'it in manhood fad ' n money. ’This spirit mighpmand Canada from a def|acd. navy less , England, and thm ' ur dream of peace on the noitl would be at ,an end. W’e w<a!d live, as France has liv|c to years, in haunting terror. America speakl or the world in fighting Gerni Y- Mark on a map those counties which are Germany’s allies »nd you will i mark but four, ruling from the j Baltic through Austria and Bulgaria to Turkey. AU the other nations the globe around are in arms her or are unable to move, inhere is deep meaning in this. We. fight with the world for art honest world in which natiori keep their word, for a world in which nations do not lively swagger or by threat, for a torld in which i men think of the ivays in which they can conquer the common i cruelties xff naturf instead of inl venting more hoirible cruelties Ito inflict upon tie spirit and jbody of man, fop a world in i which the ambtion or the , philosophy of a few shall not make miserable al mankind, for • a world in which ;he man is held more precious thin the machine, j the svstem, or the state By Franklin K. Cane, Secretary of i the Interior. ,1 __Q. REPORT OF SUNDAY SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETING A meeting called by Rev. Crejmean, July 15, 1918, consisting iof three persons from the five j Sunday schools. Rev. Cremean 'i opened the meeting by song j number 112, after which Rev. I Engers led in prayer, followed by song number 169. Rev. Cremean carried out the election of officers which, resulted in W. G. Connolly being elected president and J. W. Vorhis I'secretary. ' These officers + < lK ’bg the chair , ui Sunday aoUo* work was open for discussion. Rev. McClure, John Richards and ■ many others speaking on different lines of work that wquld build up the Sunday school. Rev. . Engers gave a splendid talk on . how we should build up our , home schools first. Rev. Cremean brought out three points of work: (1) reaching our enrollment first, (2) every church member be in the ? Sunday school, (3) through full attendance we would be streng- > thened to do outside work. Then some suggestions of a rally; not make lectures or essays out of this, but a real business meeting. After all the committee had ’ liberty to speak the chair was ready to entertain a motion. ( Rev. Engers moved that individual schools seek to enlarge enrollment from the congregation and membership of the . church and report to this comj mittee by the first of Sptember. After the question of the resolutions came up Rev. Engers, by the consent of the second, . withdrew his motion. He made ► another motion that the chair appoint a committee consisting of one member from each school this beiAg a committee on resolutions. This would report to the general committee on Friday night. The chair appointed J. W. Vorhis, John Richards, , Nevin McConnell, Benjamin Ott and Mrs. Eagles. A motion that the secretary should make an item of business carried out and see that it be in the paper. Friday night, July 19, 1918, at 7:30, was the next meeting night appointed. Thence a motion carried’to adjourn. The meeting was closed by the singing of number 236. W. G. Connolly, Pres. J. W. Vorhis, Sec. -o THOUGHT WOMEN At the Red Cross social Saturday evening Mrs. Frank Younce, and Mrs. Alice Wertsbaugh, on their own initiative called for a popular donation for the band. Passing the hat through the

crowd, they collected 1102 for the boys. Later Mra. David Jones stmt in a dollar a gift for the band. The boys appreciate not onl/ * the money, which they find most 1 acceptable, but also tlm interest 1 this showed on the part us tin ' women whose idea it wa? , | The funds will is* used to as M sist in the purchase k of instru merits and music, and other ex penses. —r PLANS UOMPLirrE FOR LI BRA RY Syracuse will have a Carnegie foundation library. The plans drawn up by Samuel A. Craig, a Huntington architect, and submitted two weeks ago Saturday to the Carnegie institute, were returned early last week, approved. Mr. Craig is now drawing up specifications, and, providing the cost will not amount to more than SIO,OOO, as soon as these are complete, advertising will begin for bidding on the work. The other terms were that the town and township should furnish the site and levy an annual tax for its support amounting to a tenth of the appropriation of ten thousand dollars. About two years ago the first efforts were made to get the library. On finding out the terms, the local library board began at once to look for a suitable place. Considerable time was lost in finding a site within “ financial reach. Finally the Stiffler lot on Main and Huntington streets was obtained by the board for S2OOO. About three months were taken up in carrying the deal, through, duetto the fact that many of the heirs were far away, and that there were ’ some minor heirs. x The souse standing on the lot was then sold to John Snobarger for $1.25; the woodhouse on the I lot was sold to J. W. Vorhis for $2». The house will be moved a away at once so that the lot will be cleared as soon as needed. The woodhouse has been removs ed and converted into a garage at Mr. Vorhis’s home. In the spring, when it was i seen that time was> passing faster L than developments were being j made, an extension of time was asked, and two years more I granted. This extension will be , from next December, when the time would have expired. r The board considered the question of going on or going it up t for the present because of war conditions. They have decided . to go on with the work, owing e to the facts that the duration of I the war is indefinite, the money used would not otherwise be put in circulation for war work, the labor and material used would be largely home products, and that there is labor available here that could not be used In , war work. 1 5 SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC Mr. and Mrs. Fred Self enter- ? tained Mrs. Self’s Sunday school class Tuesday afternoon with a J picnic in McFall’s woods. The children present were Lois Butt, Juanita Beery, Hazel Miller, Opal Geyer, Edna White, Helen ’ O’Brien, Neva Foster, Elizabeth ’ Rosson, Mary Alice Kitson, MarJ garet Walker, Naomi Bernhizer and Genevieve Treesh. r 1 LUTHERAN PICNIC > The Lutheran Sunday school • held its annual picnic Thursday I in McFall’s woods. , Despite the cloudy sky, a fair : representation was present. The short shower did not lessen the r fun. » A plentiful but conservative ; picnic dinner was served. The . dinner brought along in the in- ’ dividual baskets was suppiemen t- . ed by ice cream cones served to • the entire crowd. A few stayed over for supper. > o PICNIC SUPPER Mrs. Alldean Strieby entertained Monday Misses Jessie and Helen Green, Beatrice Flick, Kathaleen Williams, of Ligonier, and Annis Stilwell, of Converse. The afternoon was spent in swimming and canoeing, and was followed by a picnic supper in Qtt’s grove. In the evening the party drove to the Waco.

HARRY < ROUUH INJURED An accident at the factory resulted in xerious injury to the 1 «y«<s of lUrry Crouch. The sight; is gone from one eye, it is | Uiought, and that of the other | eye postsiiidy impaired. His mother, Mrs. Crouch, and his sister. Miss Belle, are here. WILLIAM SWIHART HURT I William Swihart has his foot severely injured Tuesday evening when a load of logs he was trying to adjust fell upon it. I The accident occurred near the , Fred Cline place. Mr. Swihart has his foot in a | plaster cast; the injury promises to be serious. — -o—— WORD FROM LOYD KETRING A letter received by O. C. Butt from Loyd Ketring this week says that he is well and happy. He is still in England, and still painting aeroplanes. He spent decoration day in London, and said that the celebration there was impressive. o ; WHO AND WHERE Mrs. A. W. Strieby is ill. Philip Bowser is home from Bloomington. Miss Ruth Launer spent last week in Elkhart. Miss Mary Frank is visiting her cousin, Miss Helen Hoy. Mrs. John Miller and family of Germany” at Goshen Tuesday evening.

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Mr. Harper, of Bloomington, h«vs been visiting Orrin Klink. Miss Goldie Mathews is in Elkhart visiting Miss Louise Shirk. Orrin Klink received his call and left today for Fort Sheridan, 111. | Miss Annis Stilwell, of ConI verse, Ind., is visiting Mrs. AllI dean Strieby. ' Mrs. Jecob Sheets, jr., of Ligonier, is visiting her mother, Emory Strieby. I Otis C. Btut was in Bowling Green, 0., Tuesday and Wednesj day on business. H. G. Mann, of Montpelier, 0., came Tuesday to. visit Mr. and Mrs. S. H., Widner. Mrs. Ernest Nichols, of Warsaw, and her son Charles spent a few days of last week with her sister, Mrs. Milo Kitson. .; Little Buda Handsche is very I. ill with ulcers of the stomach. ■ Miss Edith Brian came from Ko-z' i komo Tuesday to help care ftfr ■ her. * , A. W. Strieby, Owen Strieby, Misses Della Otis, Mary Cory and Winifred Shannon witnessed Gerard’s “My Four Years in Germany” in Goshen Tuesday . evening. J Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tom, Mr. ! and Mrs. James Whistler, Donald ! McClintic, Edward Strieby, Miss ’. Vida Dewart and Miss Ruth i Launer were among those who f attended, “My Four Years in y South Bend are visiting her | father, Benjamin Ott.