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Show V Many Men Making War Its Horrors and Its Waste ori War, I . Si S s . ' r T rHEN Idctllna strikes hands ; with practicality and the two join forces for the attainment of universal " there is peace hope that this vision of A A centuries will be mads a reality. Kev-- cr before' In the history of the world l Rusal barn so many persons of prov. ty in varlona lines been striving' with voice and 'pen for the abolishment at a - writer on international arbitration bloodshed as a means of settling inter- a- few years ago. Keeping pace with national disputes and for the substitu- tho growing of European. Asiatic and tion of tho courtroom for tho battip-- . American armaments and the appropriation of gigantic sums for tho mainbold. , ' The estabiishment of the Carnegie tenance of tho world's fleets and ar'tld.Wt.M9 peace fund with tho avowed mies. there Is an ever increasing tendand supple- - ency on tho part of tho peoples which intention of these forces- to Inquire mentlng the work of tho various peace must maintain societies and advocates of arbitration into tho reason for and tha use of has focused tha attention of tho world these vast sums of money. Virtually upon flu peace workers and their as- -. ovary nation of civilization has Its aociattona Of' tha hitter there are peace society committed to. the cause arbitration as a sub- many, all with the same avowed in- -: of internabonal for-w' tention 'and Tha peace pure purpose of hastening the stttute drums shall tbmhJ.Sa.C4iJnitei day when, th,0 bo longer and the bsttleflags be furled It .is a matter of difficulty' lo compile tn tha parliament of man. the federa- a complete list of tha international sotion of the world. But in their ods of working for this deaired and war since in many cases this Is not or avowed object of societhey vary; often with a duplication of the direct effort and consequent loss of energy, ties which number in their memberwhich are real detriments to the cause ship leading men of many nations EvA primary ery society which brings together in .of International , peace. objects men of purpose W the Carnegie fund Will he the pursuit of common the conservation of tha valuable ener- light and leading tn their respective nations may be considered, speaking gy thus squandered There are rumors of war, but there broadly, a peace society. arc many more, rumors of peace. said Of purely peace bodies organised on . . - - - & soupiefts -- H t 4 1 f 4 i ; ar. t T ft I ... T way towaKT international basis, probably the owing with the society to tho Ameri- economic waste involved. In this dismost important are Tho Hague con- can Fence and Arbitration league, with credited. bestial manner of settling ferences and the international peace slmiar aims and purposes Tho Uni-n- s disputes often unrighteously waged, to Peace union, which' has been well attested by the growth of arbitracongresses, th- - International Arbitration association and the Association engaged in the propaganda since ltd tion treaties and the establishment and For International Conciliation. Prob- undo the direction of its founder and successful working of the International ably of equal Importance and stand- president, Alfred H. Love, Is another arbitration court at The Hague. There ing Ja the Lake Mohonk conference pn xctivd American society. In addition, is no reason, declared President Taft arbitration, held annual- there are the Peace Association of st the dlrnsr ef the Aamcaa fins let Por Judicial Settlement of Inly at Lake Mohonk. N. T at which Frien s In America, the National men of international repute meat to in For Arbitration, the Ameri- ternationa! Disputes why oven quesdiscuss tho problems pertaining to the can G bool Peace league, the Women's tions of national honor should not be substitution of arbitration for war. Inter itlonal Peace League, of Ameri- submitted td International arbitration. Tho Institute of Peace, founded and ca. t i Young People's International Should this view be adapted by the maintained at. Monaco by Prince Al- feden ion and others. world's statesmen and the pronouncebert. does much In the way of publish ment of the president of the United o Lack of Peace Societies ing thJ proceedings pr paace' societies Tb,; 'is no lack of Americii so throughout, tho world. Then there is cieties! go composed of friends of pence movement toward that and n si Bents BwUacrland, the permanent and fi war and Its horroes TTierol,n, block1n ihe way of worldwide international peace bureau and tn New to ne ldk of harmony among them, permanent peace would bo remoped.-Histor- . York the World Federation league, but then to waste of the Pesos Movement. of effort sad which aim at the establishment of tofluro to realize In full the Although tho idea of international peace through tho medium poestMHtka of the peace movement. peace aa the normal condition of a naof the formation of a close union Enough Was been written of tho hor- tion instead of. war dates back to the among the powers rors of vq to fill many libraries That seventeenth . century, when William In America a leading peace asaoda- the nations well understand tho awful,. Pena. Among other lovers of mankind. and the maiming of advanced the proposition that war y.j eess of theslsying tranches auxiliaries men by wo Wide and disease, tho mmk- essentially wrong, it was not until ISIS throughout tho United States tag of orplWns and Widows and tha that tha worlds first peace society was inte-natlo- ial con-sequ-nt Co-op- -1 Corn Will Be King and the Corn Girl Queen At the Coming National Corn Exposition I 1 -- V 0LD KINO CORN, that wealth old tout will be crowned, sceptered and enthroned soon. The time Will be the first two weeks of February, and the piece will be Columbus. O. His virtues In the fleld. ta tho ear. ta the shock, on tho cob, ta the can, ta the mouth, in tho form of meat and tn myriad other forma trill b sung, chanted and printed during the coming National Corn exposltlon. Strictly speaking, tha coming exposition Is to be a corn show of corn show's At it are to be represented 'only tho elite of the corn world chosen specimens of tho varieties of corn. Quality, not quantity. Is the thing demanded of exhibitors at the national show. Tho conditions can for tho display and competition for prises of the prise winning specimens of corn and other grains previously exhibited and msdaled or ribboned at state fairs. Promiscuous exhibits of corn will not bo received. Jt to to be purely a show of prisa winners. Entrants will grad uata up from stats fairs or special corn shows suck as those recently held tn la this way entries for tn national show will be kept wltkln bands and tho flood of crib corn which nwrly swamped tha Omaha show will be avoided. The prise list will Includl the smeller grains and the grass seedsknd also sheet exhibits; and thus a brotily planned grain show wifi be assembld. The colleges and agricultural steams wlU be weU represented In order to glA King Corn a proper palace the shod will be splendidly housed in the sewn fine buildings used for the Ohio staq fair. All the usual features of su shows machinery displays, entertal slate and nationi ceptlons to vial etc. will receive New England and Iowa. (movement. The late Alfred Nobel, fo venter of dynamite; left the groat fund ' from the Income of which s prise Jt I ( awarded annually to tha mao. vromeCi or society considered to have done the most effective work for International organised. Xew York has the honor peace during the year. Tha prise of giving It to tho world. And A New amounts to about 94A,Mfi annually, la York merchant. David L Dodge, to the picture to to ha seen the case the prise awarded to President rightfully entitled to the name of "the fataer of the modern peace movement." Roosevelt la INK for hie work ta endWas war. In UN iAthe parlor of his bouse that ing the It tha-- New York Peace society was or- Baron OTSetouraeUaq do Constant, ISIS. most in the ganised probably August. prominent .of tho Tho organization of1 tha first New French workers for international peace, York aoctoty led rapidly to the forma- received the prise. Congressman Richtion ef similar bodies in other parts of ard BartAoidt of Missouri baa boon actho United States, beginning with the tive in tho work of the InterparUn-.- ,, Ohio sorletrnd-ti5 Muaxchuietts mentary union.' which works tadireotiy ociety. both In. NIL Tha first British hut Very effectively for tha causa, w as in UK many years International peace has founded London in society and the movement took root on tho been one of the principal objects ta continent of Europe at Geneva in U3t which Andrew Carnegie has devoted and at Paris in UiL The first interna- hie time, his energies snd his SHOg. tional peace congress was held In Lon- Nicholas II, emperor of Russia, dedon la IMS. Victor Hugo, - Richard serves a place among tha world's faCobdea. Elihu Burritt and John Bright mous peacemakers for bis calling towera among the famous men who gave gether of the first Hague conference to CiHILbat N OJ6PrtANED jyPQKT AitTmnt SIEGE Russo-Japane- fi s -- -- The Illustration shows some of the English editor, to one of tho I sailing men Terentiy Identified with tbs peace peace workers la his country. Qhe: Hundre(T Years Ago, on Feb. 3, 1811, r Horace Greeley, Famous Editor, Was Born victories, aver dinning into tha can of ten at Washington tho cry On to Richmond! and greeting every, cautious. indecisive atop an an oridenco ef vacillation and possible lukewarmnsag ta the canoe ef tho Union. To the south ha wan an ogre; something with which to ocare one's children, aad as example of tho Intolerance, bigotry and narrowness ta those days believed everywhere south of Mason and DlxoaV line to bo truly charaetortotle of tbs north. Both sections learned to know him better, tho moderates of the north appreciating to the full bin seal far the Union mad his' immense Influence ta preserving tho bond - among the stataa, aad tho south finding ta kin advocacy of general amnesty when flu way wan over and bin signing of the hail bond of Jefferson Davis evidence . of broad mtadedneaa and liberality suspected in the author of the bitter attacks on tho "secession lata." "Personal Journalism Is a term fMe duentty need ta speaking and writing of tho career of Horace Oreeloy. It Is trite, but true. The phrase in hack- - ' neyed,Jfept there is no other that ex- - ' presses eo well hte tafiuenee on the American Ufa at hie time. Nn Other American editor, save possibly Dune. , hue had eo largo a personal following. Horace Greeley wax tho eon of s New Hsfapshlrs farmse. . Mta- early days were passed in poverty, aad hi scbooUng was meager- - He acquired in youth a facility ta the printer's trada having given evidence la very early yearn of an Interset ta newspapers aad their manufacture. After a brief apprenticeship on papers la Vermont aad , Pennsylvania he went to New York at the age of twenty, poor ta money, bat rich In Intellect and spirit. For time bo worked aa n printer, had the ta bis twenty-fourt- h yen r. with friend, ha established tho Now Yorker a literary weekly. In April, 1941, came. tho fonndtag pf tho Dewe gaper with which his oidmo Is Inseparably aaso- - i dated, la the history of Amoricafi Journalism and politics. ,i , . For thirty yean thereafter the Tribune grow Meadlly In rirrulatlpa. Influence and pr .fit. says the blogra- pher -- already quoted. - Greeley's ooa ... "his name remains at tho head of tho section with the paper waa sever'd roll of American Journalists. Bueosn-so- n only a few day before hte death, which ta the primacy of current dis- occurred Nov. It. IS"!, twentr-fou- f cussion diay surpass him. no doubtless days after hte overwhelming defeat for some of them already have, in con- the presidency. He wee the candidate of sistency and learning, but hardly ta the Democrat and Liberal Republictho chief see satiate of A Journalistic ana but i he could make no headway stylo. Others may snort a more aahilary against the power and popularity fi infilled re. If not eo pervOnally diffused, General Grant. The disappointment but la tho roe poet of high Meeds; cour- follow tag the death of hte wife ta ffep-- ' age. Intellectual force and personal (ember of tho name year sad hte im magnetism, the qualities which Impel paired physical coadltlon through leaga man of tetter to ho ateo a man of aad constant attendance at her bd- , action. Horace Owe ley wan of heroic tide, preyed on hte Intellect, aad H, - mold. felt a rtetem to brain disease. , at To file ardent war supporters of the Various loos of the Greeley north Horaoo Orseley wax an inapt rad saatosaary have bean planned, especial-l- y Now York city and at Cbappanoa. prophet. Impatient of delay, arid of vtetestom awe victories aad Ml ROBERT HABT1NO -- - US-t-ie - one-thir- I se -- d 1 I I ng tention. WhHe corn, simpto and ta Ha various modified forms. all be the renter of attraction at tho s position, the other features will claim fa large amount of attention. There hlblts of other the best specimens Of course no fai ho reads of tk els for the national c this fuss about con may bo tempted to ever, and to them the following impress rre figures are addressed- - Three billion one hundr-and twenty-fiv- e million seven hundred sad thirteen thousand la the number of bushels of tha great American cereal produced ta the United fitateo this year from acres The J- - ta! farm value of these three bllllofi and more bushels is It i:i IM to. or 41 cents a bushel. Why even norkffeiler would have to dig down In his .Sens quite A flit befoe he could bring money to pay tor this single c r, g ' Of course In number of bushels apd 'Value of the crop corn to far ah-- a Fof any other cereal Corn accounts t tor mors (San d of the total Valuation of all the of 'farm the country, (Tops principal which la this year. ,. Every year some new use to found for corn For example, nearly MNM gal Ions of corn oil extracted from tho germ of thi corn nre produced lu this country annually. Moot of the oil to used In the manufacture ef cheap gradee of rubber tbfi oil of tho corn betho rubber- - - Front tbe ing mined pith of the cornstalk to manufactured cellulose, need to redder the hulls ef warships Impervious to water. Strangs to say, from the sumo material at which this protection for the fighters la mads gun cotton, intended for their deetruollon. Is also manufactured. Experiment! have shown that them are bright hopes for tho utilisation of the cornstalk in the manafocturo of paper The rapidly Increasing use of earn la various ears baa lent decided Interest to tho event statement of C. P. Hartley. government com expert, to tho effect thetm proved methods of enable thin eouhtry In a few reefs to doable tho average pern duction of corn par or re. JAMES T. BEBABTIAN. J ' , I -- Two years have passed since and tho world paid to aotemn , to the name of on Feb. 9. MIL Abraham Lincoln, Americans will ho called upon to thq one hundredth anniverman' who did sary or tha htrth of much to Uphold tho hands of Abraham Llrooin in bis warfare for Um preoor-taiio- n of the Union, altbdbgb differing frequently and widely from tho war president m bln Judgment of tho methods and men deemed needful to the task. Tho man wan Horace Ore-le-y, the faneosee editor of tho New York Tribune; who van bom Feb. 1, MIL Thee than thirty years after his ndmlrsr at Oceeiey. dea(hpiltM-A cel-Dr- ' 4 to, rai wo- .1 |