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Volume X. BREAD OR BULLETS. Ms ere&itrfe-'tmrigf has" best' to feed the starving millions of Europe. About last October he ; American people for $2$,000, v0fi whieh he said waif urgently needed to care for "evenheTchil dreii t who were ; staging; : ' The Literary Digest took tip the cry. and started a big cam aign to help Hoover get the S23.000.Q00. The whole coun try has been organized anxFas sessed and each section is raising its "quota" in, a good deal the same manner as the big war loans were raised. ' The Digest now announces that $10,000,000 hiss been collected and the pros pects look good to get all that Stiv Hoover thinks he can use in his Joseph business. ; ; ; That is all good commendable .work., There is no doubt about the need ;of itf. arid I am mighty glad to see it going on. But here is what gets my goat! You will notice that Hoover just asked for twenty- lation of America has just been tearing its 'shirt and hasn't got half the amount yet. But in the same issue of the Literary Di gest, on the first page, is an article headed, "Battleships and Bankruptcy," in which it is sta ted that the United States is now building or fixing to build SIX great battle-cruisers, each of which will cost twenty-three million dollars, or one hundred and thirty-eight million in all. Please notice carefully that the cost of ONE of these war-mon sters is just equal to what Hoov er wants to feed starving Europe And we are going to build SIX of those : things. And that is only a small part of our naval appropriation for this year. The whole thing will be about seven hundred million dollars. All these millions for war are appropriated by Congress with out a word saidwithout asking anybody's advice or consent. Fix ing things to kill people is so much more important than fix ing a way to keep people alive, don't you see ? Everybody has to be called in to help raise a little mite for the starving, but when it is wanted for battleships seven hundred million dollars Boomer North Carolina can just be handed out with" one flip of the : finger, and nobody stops to think anything about it I can t afford to cuss. " but I do wish-, there, was some good Christian way of sayirig T)amn such business? I" i ! OTH CRIME WAVE. Holy catfish! , Misery and meat-skins ! -And seventy: sorts of sin! '; Just listen what an awful fuss they are making about the nvaye of crnne that is said to be sweeping over this sin-soaked section of Satan s kingdom! There seems to be a general "scare" over, the- increase of crime, especially in the cities. All the papers" are full of mur ders, robberies,' and various out rages, and it is said that human life is less secure -in America right how than at any time in our history. - : Well, what of it? Isn't that just exactly What we have been fixing for and leading up tcT by our blood-thirsty , -patriotism" and our high-handed official per secution of peaceable folks ? Did n't our government conscript four million men and send them off against . . their ' f wills- and train them in the fine art of murder? r Didn't it put; guns in their hands and compel them to kill people . against whom they had not the slightest ill-feeling? Didn't it teach them to revel in butchery and bloodshed, to be come calloused and hardened against the awful sights they had to witness ? Of course they had to harden their hearts and make themselves as brutal as possible, else they could not have endured it at all. And didn't bur war-mad gov ernment take up peaceable men and women and put them in pris on for the -' "crime' of ; beirig peaceable and lovers of peace? And isn't it keeping those people in prison yet, in defiance of ev ery true principle of humanity ? And now if the tree of bru tality, so carefully planted and tended by our government, is be ginning to bear its natural fruit in the private life of the nation who is to blame? - You "must remember that it was not just the four million sol diers alone who were hardened and brutalized it was the en 1921. tire population of the country so far as the government s lying waipTopagaEfda could influence it. ; Wewere fed exclusively on a diet of hat& ;We were taught that killing people and wrecking homes was the one and only, job worth doing, and if we didn't 16m in the fun we were sent to jail'and epttfcere. No, I am not charging that the returned soldiers are responsible for the present crime-wave. Most of them got their bellyful of it and are willing enough to be quiet. , But among so many mil lions there must have been a large number of the crimnally in clined, and the war-training on ly made them expert criminals. Then the war psychology the bloody atomsphere that we lived in so long made millions of other criminals. On top of all that came the awful disappointment and disil lusionment of the people. The war was fought to "make the world safe: for democracy. But we woke up to find that democra cy was the" deadest thing of all, and that autocracy " and bull- headed brute force were still-in the saddle. We saw that the peace conference was not a peace conference at all, but merely a knock-down-and-drag-out con test over the spoils". We sawr that instead of giving us disarma ment and peace it was going to breed bigger armament and big ger wars. That discovery took the heart out of everything, and destroy ed what little was left of the world's moral conscience. People have just come to the conclusion that everything is lost anyhow, and they don't care much what they do. Now do you know ? The man who thinks it would be a disgrace for him to wear overalls is probably right it would be a disgrace to the over alls to have such a sorry thing in them. I don't know that anybody has made an official investigation to find out, but I just suppose the bad name a bed-bug has is due to his smell. Any fool nows that if a chinch smelt like violets every family would raise 'em for the market. February Number 12. D1?T T? HCP TTXTTrk TTO T AD AD jU.UJLU&XXkJul Ull AV KJiJ vaiAu BAS." When Jesus the agitator the Debs "of Jerusalem was brought before Governor Pilate, charged ; '11. ' f a' ' . 'j wnn seaiuon, mating to. jsot, blasphemy, and so forth, tlsre was a gxeat scene. You remem- per now it went. rrom; tne scripture accounts of the trial it seems " that . Governor Pilate must have been a pretty honest, well-meaning sortv of ?a blocks head, but he had a yarn ravelling in the place of a backbone. Ev ery time I read the 23rd chapter of Luke I feel like I would love to go fishing if I just had Pilate for bait. He would ; have made a j im-daridy worm for a fish hook, t Really, it was no trial at alL It was just a mob of the Jewish Patriots and good" citizens demanding the life of Jesus and getting it. After Pilate had kept Jesus on the witness stand for a right smart while, he seemed to be convinced that Jesus was a good man who ' had not commit ted any crime, and he wanted to turn him loose. It was right at the time of the Passover feast, and there was a rule that one prisoner should be given his freedom on that occasion. So Pilate made up his mind that Jesus was certainly the one who ought to be released. But they had another prisoner by the name of Barabbas who was in for sedition and murder. The mob of Jewish patriots and good citizens decided they wanted Ba rabbas turned loose instead of Jesus. Pilate argued with them awhile in his weak way, pointing out that Jesus had done nothing to deserve punishment,, and beg ging that they allow him to re lease Jesus. But at that the mob began to cut bigger shines than ever, stomping and yelling: "Away with this man, and re lease unto us Barabbas." I guess an old hen with threa biddies could have scared Pilate to death, and so he was good and scared about then. - It's 1 plum certain that he wanted to re lease Jesus, but he didn't have nerve enough to withstand the will of -the mob. So he said, "Well, if nothing else will do, just have it your own way, but? I (Continued on page two.)