1917-03-30 Carmel Standard

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Vol. X
CARMELi INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, iqi7
No. 50
QUAKERS FOR
PREPAREDNESS
In every great crisis that has
confronted our coutnry the peace
loving Quakers have had a hard
decision forced upon them. No
Quaker wants war, but there are
certain fundamental principles of
right and humanity which every
man must feel called upon to defend, even to the extent of
armed conflict, if long continued
intolerable conditions caused by
morally defunct people are ended
before the world is enthralled.
The greatest Quakers that have
ever lived have shown that they
were willing and able to offer active resistance to great wrongs
after their best efforts had been
given to avoid such action. They
realized that in 1 such cases
great collective oppression mere
submission only rendered the objects of the oppressors more easily attained.
Thus William Penn in his controversy with Lord Baltimore
said that his opponents must be
"broken," and if * 'lenitives will
not docoercives must be tried."
In that that prophetic proposal,
"Aji Essay Toward the Present
Peace of Europe," he advocated
a league of nations antedating by
more than 200 year the present
League to Enforce Peace, and
proposed that those who refused
to obey the dictates of the league
be compelled by force of arms to
submit. Penn's able secretary,
James Logan, who so well represented him and his family in
Pennsylvania, and was one of the
colony's most distinguished as
well as .most learned citizens,
strongly favored a defensive
warfare and assisted Franklin in
his plans for the defense of the
city of Philadtlphia, forcibly
maintaining his position both in
the legislative assembly and in
his own Friends meeting.
Jonn Dickinson, a founder of
the famous Friends' boarding
school at Westtown, swayed the
councils of the colonies for
twenty years, and wrote many of
the state papers of the continental congress. His "Farmer's
Letters" caused the repeal of the
stamp act, and although opposing
the Declaration of Independence
as inopportune he became the
colonel of a regiment in the ensuing struggle, and later Gover-
ernor of Pennsylvania and one of
the framers of the .federal constitution. Nathaniel Greene, a
Rhode Island Quaker, and the
son of a minister among Friends,
became a major-general second
only to Washington in ability,
and Thomas Mifflin, of Philadelphia, rose to a like rank, being
the first aid-de-camp chosen by
Washington. Later he too became Governor of Pennsylvania.
Israel Whelen, a distinguished
Quaker banker of Philadelphia,
became commissary-General of
the continental army, and Betsy
Ross made the first American
flag. In the war of 1812 Jacob
Brown, a Bucks county Quaker,
and the head of Friends school in
New York city, was the most
successful general and rose to
be commander-in-chief of the
United States army.
When the incubus of human
slavery seemed to threaten the
very heart of the nation  the
Quakers arose almost in a body
to a vigorous service toward its
abolishment.
The foundation principles  of |
the society of Friends is a belief
THE tLUBS
FORTNIGHjBLY NEEDLE
CLUB
The Fortnigt&ly Needle Club
imeets April 12 with Mrs. F.  A.
in the universal and direct reve- Thomas.
lation of God to every human be- i LEMRAb CLUB
lag, and ike object of the society jj
is to awaken everyone to a con
sciousness that God speaks to
him directly without any intermediary. Consequently, all other
beliefs and actions must be left
to the individual after he has exhibited a good degree of seeking
and faithfulness. Such a liberal
and tolerant organization is
bound to become the hitching
post for fads and to offer unusual
opportunity for radicals who naturally attract public attention
and thus unfortunately and frequently stalnp the entire organization in the public mind with
The Lbmrac Ciab m:ets April
3 with Miss Anna Perisho. Responses,  Witty 1 Sayings.    "Ori
of • their particular doctrine.
!>past a  few   rigid and
the
In the
 ^^— ascetic
Friends gave people the erroneous idea that the Quakers were a
hard and peculiar set, and now a
few sinners and zealous idealists
are creating the impression that
all Quakers advocate peace at
any cost, even a surrender to the
most evil influence in the world.
. The truth is that the majority
of the Quakers are as earnestly
opposed as any one to the oppression of a military caste, to the
unquestioned might and right of
the state, to the human slavery
and slaughter imposed upon Belgium, Poland and Armenia.
The> are as anxious as anyone
that all this should be stopped in
the quickest and most effective
way possible, and they have no
unity with those who would utter
sentimental platitudes while a
mad dog is running amuck
biting women and children. Nor
is it likely that the most radical
of them, in the pinch, would
stand idly by quoting some isolated passage of Scripture while
an insane man murdered him or
ravished his wife. In such situations years of patience, calmness
and kindness are of no avail, and
most Quakers are loyal to their
country and the forceful, if need
be, resistance to the continued
violence and armed interference
with our lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Some of our
extreme Friends seem to have
their beads in the clouds, are entranced with their own words
and have a sincere longing for
martyrdom. They fail to see
that wrong is relative and has
degrees, that there are greater
things even than human life and
worse things than war.
The public should understand
wlien such expressions appear in
the press that they represent the
views of the author and not
necessarily of the Society of
Friends., Indeed, it would be almost impossible to get the view
of the society, tolerant and
liberal as to the individual conviction as it is, as the "meetings
for discipline*' or business meetings are rarely attended by more
than 5 per cent of the membership, and "generally less, and as
their minutes are dictated by the
weight of tjie meeting, consisting of two or three ancient
Friends, one can readily see how
unreliable public expressions can
be as representative of the society.—(Horace Mather Lippin-
cott, writing in the New York
Sun of March 24).
gin of April
Anna Perisho.
Marie Owen.
W. a
TheW. C. T.I
)ols   Day,  Miss
rocal Solo, Miss
U.
IU. meets
April
22 with Mrs. JoSn Hines. Song.
Devotional, Mrs;. Hannah Gar-
rity. Roll Call. Leaflet, "Where
are We Drifting?" Talk, "Is
the Sabbath asjan Institution
Worth Preserving," Rev. C. M.
Hobbs. Leaflet^ "Value of the
Sabbath to the forking Man,"|
Mrs. Henry Apple. Discussion,
"Present Day Tendencies," led
by President. "How Can We
Enforce Laws in Our Locality,"
Rev. Jehu Reagan.
LADIES AID SOCIETY
Carmel M. E. Aid Society
meets at the home of Mrs. E. H.
Spivey, April 5thu
ENTRE NOUS CLUB
The Entre Nous Club meets
April 11th with Mrs. Raleigh
Owen. Human Foods, chapters
XIII and XIV will be discussed
by the hostess. "Effect of the
War on the United States," Mrs.
Maud . Stanton; "The United
States Navy," $lrs. Jesse Ven-
able.   Demon sta&tion    pudding.
The Pumpkin Case
The .men's bible class of the
Friends Sunday school gave an
entertainment at the church,
Tuesday evening, which proved
to be mirth provoking from start
to finish. The main part of the
entertainment was a mock trial
known as "The Pumpkin Case,"
in which R. L. George was the
plaintiff and R. J. Follett, the
defendent. Judge 0. R. Mann
presided with great dignity and
decorum.
Fred Bristow, as Dr. Some-
body-or-other, I testified that he
had been called to treat two
cows and the evidence in the
case tended to show that said
cows had probably eaten the
pumpkin. The trouble really
started when the pumpkin
climbed through the fence and
proceeded to grow on the territory of the defendent, the latter
taking the stand that the pumpkin had really (trespassed.
Evert Stroud proved himself a
real artist as !an entertainer, in
the rendering! of two readings,
and Charles Fitch added much to
the entertainment with several
selections, boih vocal and instrumental. Fonjest Nutt also gave
a piano solo.
CARD J3F THANKS
We wish jto thank all our
neighbors and friends for their
kindness during the sickness and
death of our beloved son and
brother, John Ihndris Jr.
THE FAMILY.
FOK SALE-A No. 1 Jersey
cow, heavy springer, 5 yrs. old.
Emmett Wise, phone 804.     adv.
FOR SALE—General purpose
mare, in foal. Call M. H. Randall, phone 2508.       adv.
BORN-To Mr. and Mrs. John
Kinzer, Tuesday^ March 27, a
nine lb. girl.
FOR SALE-Good yellow seed
corn. Call 2904 or 71. C. C.
Carey. adv.
FOR SALE—Black Minorca
eggs, $1 00 per 15    Mary B'uce
adv.'
UNIVERSAL
ARMY SERVICE
IS URGED BY
"HOME FOLK"
President Hears From Every Sec-
tion of Country on Army Plans
The navy having been put in
order as far as presidential authority now goes, chief attention
as regards the defpnse of the
nation, is today centered In the
land protection problem.
What form or'system land defense shall take still is being debated. By the tkne congress
convenes in extraordinary session
next Monday, it is expected this
question will have been resolved
into positive shape. *
President Wilson has begun to
hear from every section of the
country on the army question.
The various notes being sounded
were specifically requested when
the war college universal service
bill went* before the country.
The "people back home" are" expressing themselves as to
whether there should be universal training, a call for volunteers
or some means to raise an army.
It is not the purpose that
the young men of the United
States shall have the kind of
military training that incurs
hardships as the term applies in
Germany, but it is meant to give j
them a better and broader
knowledge of military affairs.
It is also put forward that aside
from all military considerations,
it will teach our young men, (including the foreign born) much
needed lessons of obedience and
properly inculcate an added love
for the flag and a renewed devotion to our institutions.
It is also argued that until a
peace court is established or until all-the leading powers of the
world agree to lay down their
arms, that it behoove the United
States to be prepared.
For the effect military training
and preparedness would have on
other powers that may be ready
to pounce on the weaker nations
after or during the present world
war, it is argued that the best
method to insure peace for the
United States is to adopt a system of military training and preparedness. The proposed universal military training in substance means eleven months
training by every young man in
the United States at some time
between seventeen and twenty-
two years of age. After that,
he is to be called out but two
weeks each year for ten successive years merely to reacquaint
him with military tactics After this preliminary training, he
is placed in what is called the
first line of reserves to be called
out in a case of necessity.
Most men of prominence from
all over the Nation seem to be in
favor of universal military training, and of course names included in this list are both Ex-
Presidents Taft and Roosevelt,
the Presidents of Harvard, Yale
and Princeton and other Universities and most of the leading
clergymen of the country.
Several state legislatures have
I passed resolutions favoring uni
versal   n ,;ncr.    Hundreds of teleg      .»nd letters
from college students and young
men in all parts of the country
urge adoption of such a system.
Out of hundreds of newspapers
questioned by the National Association for Military Training,
93 percent favored a law compelling universal military training.
Chairman Chamberlain of the
senate military committee said
he believes recent military developments are the beginning o*f
the greatest preparedness of the
nation's history. .
t He says he is hearing "from
che people back in Oregon," who
originally were opposed to military training, but who now loudly
insist on it. Otner senators and
representatives have made similar reports.
The two senators from Indiana,
JMew and Watson, are also heartily m favor of it.
foince the whole country is demanding universal military train-^
ing, it is expected that bills will
be introduced, both in the House
and Senate immediately after
Congress convenes.
Funerals
The funeral of John Ihndris Jr.
occurred at the family residence
northwest of Carmel on Friday.
Rev. Gertrude Reinier delivered
the funeral oration and the
beautiful funeral ceremony of
the Masonic order was given by
Carmel lodge, William Moffi'tt
acting as Worshipful Master in
the enforced absence of Dr. K.
C. Hershey. Interment occurred
at the Hill cemetery.
The funeral of Miss Essie Gar-
rity, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Dennis Garrity, occurred at the
Friends church, Saturday afternoon. Interment at Carmel
cemetery followed the funeral
service. Rev. Gertrude Reinier
gave the funeral oration.
Miss Garrity is survived by
her mother," Mrs. Hannah Garrity, two sisters, Mrs. Earl Murphy and Miss Elizabeth Garrity,
and a brother, Alfred Garrity.
She was prominent in the work
of the Friends church, as long as
her health would permit and
lived a consistent christian life.
She was 44 years old and had
been in poor health for a long
time but serious illness was of
recent weeks.
Mrs. Caleb Cook, 69 years of
age, died Thursday and the
funeral occurred at the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Ward,
Saturday, with interment at the
Carmel cemetery. She was a
member of Roberts Park M. E.
church, of Indianapolis. Herself and husband resided near
Carmel for eight years and then
moved to Indianapolis. She is
survived by her husband, one
brother, George W. Ward Sr.;
two nephews, William J. Ward
and George W. Ward Jr. and a
great niece, Mrs. Virgil Bond.
She lived the life of a christian
woman.
FOR RENT-4 room bungalow
in first-class condition. Call 610
or write C. R. Wicker, Carmel,
Ind. adv.
FOR SALE—Jersey cow,
fresh, and Chester White sow
with seven pigs. Phone 77, Carmel. adv.