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E “CRIME" OF SUIOIDE
is a bill pending in the New.
slalature to repeal the law
hires attempted suicide a crime
bio by imprisonment. The pro-
iotthe measure maintain that
' a... law, which is like that
”ling in nearly all 'the states, is
andtiuhumane,
,: try to kill themselves are.
rarity insane and therefore not
‘ his, and instead of being pun-
should receive curative help.
”ably not one in 111.111.11.111 who
because peo»
‘is cognizant of the fact that
exists and granting one did
of uch a law, such knowledge
have no deterrent effect.
ova of life is the strongest
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a me’htally sick. When one's
derangement is sufficient to
.‘h all love of life, it is also sufil
‘ abolish all regard tot law or
of duty. For the good of hu
' ity and the credit of our law-mak-
tho law that
suicide 9. penal offense should
:‘ui‘ptly repealed."
he inhumanity of sttclt laws is rcc
d instintively by public authori-
131111 little effort is made
thorn. . And from the nit-rely lc-
Itattdpolnt of course they are ri-
unl'y illogical. Suicide is proba~
the only “crime" in the category
Which the criminal incurs puniSlt~
if he fails"iu his evil purpose,
capes if he suc-
makes an attempt
be
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punishmcnt
W.” _ Wm .
Mlfis RANKIN'S VOTE
absblute sincerity of Miss ltan
warykvote stands out amid all the
xii 113 reports and criticism
‘ngifull’w'cll that she was in the
Lyrin a small minority which
erious disfavor with the coun~
large, knowing that as the first
to sit in congress the eyes of
nation were centred upon her,
.to’the strict and painful dic-
ber conscience.
are various tales of her do
t, ranging from “hands grin
or desk loosely/,1 o1ce moved by
emotic.11"'to “gave way to
and None of
have contemptuously said
collapsed. "
woman" have taken into
9 intense fatigue due . to
tervlews and other or-
.1 have been forced upon
past few weeks. Matty a
‘ndfl' less strain. than that.‘
g to it the necessity for
cord 11 torturing decis~|
ho contend that her vote
£11 by reason, but by in
instinct, there is but
,listhe 111111311111 which is
L l sane arguments for
.Ch all the people
There‘ would be no
of Assyria today
:their Numbers/Joshua, son of Jose-
:he of the gallows.
1would have fiouted playing the
, by intense patriotism, she still
flaming courage to vote ac-”
functions, fetes. luncheons,‘
llipsed entirely from pure'
THE DUST 0F YESTERYEAR ‘
What ghosts are stirring in their'
shiver with their bolts the Stones' day
once was!
parted do revisit” the glimpses of the
moon, surely a most notable gather-
der
nezzar and As. :ur and Nimrod thatL
mighty hunter, and 11 mighty aImy of.
Caliphs, headed, of course by
L‘piince of northie-g, Haroun al- Raschid.
Pethaps the guns have. aroused from
utes.
dech, Ezra, Daniel and Ezekiel, whose!
Cyrus may havei
come, to mourn over powers of des-
truction he would have known’so well
how to use, nd Sindbad, most excellent
of liars. faced by a fact transcending
all his florid powers of imagination.
What are they thinking off
shades who shook the world when the
world was young, as they watch Sol;
diers from islands they never tireauted
Dr.
these
1‘1 row cxistehce they the
of and c1 -
old
game on fields they consecrtttvd to 1.
death? “Dreams of Empire!" Vt as it 1::
Cyrus who sneered when he said that, L
and did that. mocking laugh that an-
sw‘ered him come from Sennachcrib?
W-..
THE‘ DARKENED MAP~
We call it "the world war."
regard that phrase as a mere figure of
11‘.
nd yct
speech. Few of us realize how near
it comes to being
the literal trutlt. _
neutral countries in"
shades will be amazed
area. now covered by the. war.
It the waningr couullies are slt 1d dLUnt
dark and the countries still” neutialhh9
‘l
are left 1tl1itc, one has to '“scutth Wit
citil"
.1 1111119 SDllt e in 11 great wildcittcss of
shadow.
it 11113.1
small dark spots, ltowot'ct', represent-
America, is left white. two
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lug British and French (1111111111; and 11111
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itutuay he hull" dark within :1 few days,
when Brazil, Peru 11nd 01111 or two;
other countries haw 11111111 tluir dc-‘
cision. QMUU
,l1l< only regret 11.11::
. old tnougli to serve
The report of the (‘onnnittcc on tin-L
may eutti the 11111‘ at any timcv—— 111d State of the t‘ount11‘ 1111s adoptctl by;
Greenland, which is 11 more waste of' an overwhelming ”MM ‘0”
'lhc Rot.
-« he would not intcirupt but 119111111 11_ _”
Theodore
the m“ “f in? vast continent 01' ASL" .The name was roundly applauded. The ‘ >
”following was then read: 1 -
“Give the conference my greetings} ,
tell the prtachcrs I
' ;l was disheartened by lllt" attitude of
churches.
claimed a gospel that did not ring true.
They cried. ‘Pcucc, pcocc, when there
and when more could
The only tilll1i‘l' conspicuous white
places on the map are (‘l1ina~-~1\‘l1ici1
ice and snow. and of little human i111~
portancc. Aside from China. nourly all m 1,
(‘1
is at war. Turkestnn. Arghanislan
11nd Siam are the only white spots
discernible without 11111;:1111‘,\1i11,1;“nd
glass. .
. Ithc
in Europe almost all is dark cxccpt‘
ll
,thc Scandinavian peninsula, the al-
most invisible Danish peninsula, Swit-
zerland and Spain. All“ Africa,
,cept for :1 dubious Strip of northwest
littlc‘ realm
‘whcre pence relgns—Abyssinia. The
whole nprth American" continent is
dark except the comparatively small
wedge south of the Rio Grandc, and
dark spots are beginning to appear
wedge. The East ludian
larchipelago is divided between light
iand datlt. The West indies are al-
1most wholly dark
It looks from a cursmy \ictt, as if
more than four- fifths of the inhabited
Before the present
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(IX-
;coast, shows only one
1 on that
|world is at war.
monht ends, it may be nine tenths
And anyone who watches the sinister
:progféss of the shaded area L‘adlllOl'
help wondering whether that shadow
L‘of Mars will not yet oversptcad the
'whole earth.
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“it there comes. as it is likely that
it will come, the need of taxation un-
Laccustomed, our loyalty to our govern
promotion.
it they shall answer the call to the
Zeiter,
Allen‘s
powder to be shaken into the shoes
nd sprinkled in the toot- bath. It re-
lieves painful, swollen, smarting feet
m'ent means that we shall stand ready; and takes mg MS out of cams and ‘ .
to hear our part 111 the financial lit-1rt bdnfo‘ns and by the mined and Gef-d. 3" Q
a blessing
are.
A. L. GOLDEN graves as the 1311111111 guns echo; “I believe Washington and Abraham
through the "1““ °f Nineveh and Lincoln look down from above on this
I believe that if
ithat mark the spot where Babylon and Stonewall Jackson were here to-
If the“ shades of the do day they would be eager to stand 1.111-
the flag. May
among those nations with readiness to
serve and die i need be for this new
‘i‘URE ‘ALMANAC FOR- ing must be througinguhe arid plains vision of that [world to come where
brotherhood holds sway and where
Sennacherib is thcic. and \‘ebuchad peace and righteousness pretail.”
Bishop “”5011 111115 intetruptcd fre-
quently by applause and the singing
of patriotic songs and old hymns and
that whet 1
he mentioned
Roosetelt the oonfcrence rose to its
feet and applauded {oi several min
The Rev. Dr Otto F
B
Mount Vernon said his grandfather
MUD” Residence—752.; Lirritation may be alloyed by thelhad three sons in the Owl/War, one 01”
Hang” S RCSidmce-‘i thought that their prophecies 0‘ doomluhom was his father. Hé‘ moted that
‘and wrath are Still finding fulfillment. all veterans of the Citil War it thel
Is the fair Esther there, and Human lconference he invited to the platform,
eight were presented to the confer-
ence; the members rising and greeting
them with applause,
briefly were the Rev.
Mains. the ‘Rev. Dr. Craudall .1. North,
Franklin P. Sellers and later the. Rev.
W. P. Estes
Following this, “lltll lllt adoption of,
the report of the stat. of the countt'yg
was moved, 11 decided pacifist, the Rev
E. F. Weisc of Bridgeport, came to the
front to read a paper in opposition to
He said that be felt that
tepprt.
‘he. could not lose his soul.
clloo'e‘betwcen my country and my
1 choose my God.
but!
saying
. . . . t
contrasting city and 1111 oath oi ailcg'ancc Sigurd,
u, find the by 146 utcnnicrs, only tint-c 01‘ 11l111111'
ttttrc living. among thcm
.J North mow
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am 511
said Bishop Wilson.
Only one continent, Stillthlsnltllel, lwlltud1ninistcrthc oath," de
rial-ed Dr
T
was
North.
c discussion,
.Alii't‘tl
11‘ 11111.
d. He said ho ha
111. D111 id
sage from
American
no peace;
be none.
"The church in further crises of his
pry led the. way by blazing on paths
101- righteous'uess 1111.1 justice. She was
the pioneer of reform in the sixteenth
century and her real mission was man-
ifested in— your Own religious move-
ment under the leadership of Wesley.
Her proper sphere is at the head of
every movement for moral and social
betterment, and when the church leads
tmd her ministers point the way of
democracy and'juslice for all, then the
world is safe.” Tell them I am glad the ,
true titsion has been seen at, last andt
her pulpits' are new lifting their voices
and our ministers are pointing the
way, the onlypossible way, of peace."
Delegates (cave Conference to Hear
Billy Sunday. 1'
Last night's session of the New York.
EaSt Methodist. Episcopal Conference,
in scssion at St. Mark's M. E. Uli‘tlrch, -
was devoted to the reading of the reg, ‘-"
Iport of the board of Sundoyfichcels.
As the advance program of the C‘d.‘
ference set aside .last evening for the
reading of répott's, hundreds of dele-
gates were absent. attending, instead,
. the Billy Sunday revival in Manhattan.
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SHAKE INTO NOUR SHOES
Foot-Ease,
Those who spoke
11m 11 Christian first."
.\ numhtr of the ministers tried to
have motions passul to dcclarn
Wales out of ordcr, one, the ltcv. John
that the
Lwere in opposition to President \Yil-'
5011. which was p1ct11 molly treason.
Bishop Wilson decided that Mr \Vclsc
had the light to proceed
tinned. although there “as cury in ”1
diratlon that the center: 11cc was bond. i
Antbodt who will giant-1 m a 111 ill “I. Secretary ’1. B. S.‘tnfmd read [tout
‘ ‘the minutes of tho sees, ion of the con-
the World 51'0“” tin b""”‘"“‘" “"stcn'nct-' in 1863, .1 dctlmution of loy-
t~ccltsi1mtical authority, not i
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“as lltllll in (11- rlnuny ltlll that in 11115
.111 Amtrican with t\'i‘l‘\' drop of his
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Robert E. Lee
America stand
the name of
rtholow of
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and be con- L
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d that tin saint ‘
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he mutter, uttcl
referred to thc
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that they were lltiti
their country.
G Don boy said
Roosevelt.
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W. o. T. U. OFFICERS {Amnue ill. E. church, Mrs. A. Palmei',
«M fAdvent Christian church, Mrs Robert
Charles Byxbee Presldent M"t,1’liompson' South Norwalk Congrega- ”
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Vi'miPrcslde t-~M Edith McLean"
Secretary— 11.0.1111. (lowering. ..
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