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Jan, 12,1917. 
Non-Fiction 
American Ideals 
Autobiography of Benjamin 
Franklin 
Bible Stories to 
Tell 
Bird Friends 
Camera Man 
Chequered Cruise 
Cloud and Silver 
Dictionary of Similes 
Drink Problem of Today 
Every-Day Words and Their 
Uses 
Honeymoon Experiment 
Intelligence of Woman 
Old Seaport Towns of New 
England 
Our American Wonderlands 
Passing of the Great Race 
Pleasures of an Absentee 
» Landlord 
Problems of Religion 
Recollections of an Alienist 
Salt-Water Poems and Bal- 
lads 
Self-Reliance 
Seven Wonders of the Ancient 
World 
Social Studies 
Literature 
Story of the Battle Hymn of 
the Republic 
Story of the Submarine 
Syrian Christ 
Cooper 
Pine, ed. 
Read and 
Oleott, Selected by 
Trafton 
Collins 
Stock 
Lucas 
Wilstach 
Kelynack 
Utter 
Chase 
George 
Hawthorne 
James 
Grant 
Crothers 
Drake 
Hamilton 
Masefield 
Fisher 
Banks 
in’ English 
Wylie 
Hall 
Bishop 
Rihbany 
BASKETBALL AND DANCE. 
Tonight ‘Flo” Harvey, the greatest 
forward ever produced in New Eng- 
land will bring his Newport, R. [.. 
team to Gloucester to compete with 
the Fish City basket shooters. Danc- 
ing will follow the game. The ’bus 
will make a trip to Manchester after 
the dance, leaving City hall at 1:2 
o'clock. 
“Uncle Frank,” asked little James, 
“what is the difference between ‘cute’ 
and ‘sneaky’ ?” 
“According to your mother,” re- 
flected Uncle Frank, “it’s the differ- 
ence between what you do and what 
Mrs. Brown’s little boy does.” 
_ It is said that the world consists of 
two kinds of people, those who go 
out to try to do something, and those 
, who stay home and wonder why they 
some other way.—/l. 
Wilfred S. Grenfell. 
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Now Unwisk For U. §$., Says HENRY 
A. WISE Woop, FROM STAND- 
POINT OF EVENTUAL SECURITY. 
AMONG the self revelations which 
Mr. Wilson makes in his note of 
December 18th to the belligerent gov- 
ernments, are two of protound and 
disquieting significance. In, assert- 
ing it to be “the fact that the object 
which the statesmen of the belliger- 
ents on both sides have in mind in 
this war are virtually the same” he 
shows that he fails utterly to per- 
ceive, and to recognize the validity 
of, the spiritual and moral issues 
which are involved in the war. 
Did he comprehend and react to 
those spiritual and moral questions, 
and were such reaction superior to 
the temporary sense of security he is 
endeavoring to achieve, even at the 
sacrifice ot international justice, Mr. 
Wilson would no more seek to com- 
promise the European struggle in its 
present stage than in private life he 
would be willing to compound a fel- 
ony. 
Aside from the moral questions in- 
volved, which alone should have been 
weighty enough to prevent. even the 
suggestion of, his interference, until 
justice should have been done and 
the need for mercy become apparent, 
there is another reason, grave and far- 
sighted, because of which our Presi- 
ident should have refrained from at- 
tempting to arrest hostilities at this 
time. 
It is this: The issue of the twen- 
tieth century has now been declared, 
and is apparent. Two orders of civ- 
ilization are contending for mastery: 
Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon. At its 
end which shall prevail? . We have 
seen that, despite its support by Slav 
and Latin, Anglo-Saxon. civilization 
in the Eastern Hemisphere has but 
narrowly escaped disaster. Knowing 
this, we ask ourselves what would 
have become of it had Great Britain 
lacked but a few ships. How near in- 
aeed, to the brink, when upon less 
than a million tons of metal afloat 
depended the freedom of subjugation 
ct the Anglo-Saxon race in Europe! 
Nought but thoughts of repugnance 
and anxiety should come to an Amer- 
ican statesman when he contemplates 
the narrow escape of Great Britain, 
and views the trail of the sanguinary 
monster that now bestrides Europe. 
Sights of the bloody processes. of con- 
quest. and, assimilation, which are 
the surgical» means by which the 
Teutonic hercules transforms other 
civilizations into his own, should ar- 
rest any effort for peace by America _ 
‘until that giant shall have’ been strip- 
ped of his power for evil. 
In view of it all can any doubt re- 
main as to the jeopardy which in fu- 
ture will confront ourselves, if the 
outpost of our own civilization, Great 
Britain, should now or in future go 
down before Germany? Dare any one 
contemplate with composure our years 
to come if the war be called a draw, 
and Germany be left the proven vic- 
tor in every military sense? 
A. glorified Germany revelling in 
her achievements, unpunished, for- 
eiven, unshorn her might, and still in 
the hands of her military. caste,— 
what a spectacle, indeed, for the con- 
templation of Americans, who are 
possessed of a third of the world’s 
wealth, and have thrown the egis of 
their protection over the whole of 
Pan-America!.. A third the world’s 
_ treasure, unguarded by armaments; a 
whole hemisphere, protected _by,— 
What? 
Because of the foregoing is it 
moral, or is it wise from the stand- 
point of our eventual security, for us 
to be parties to the making of peace, 
so long as the red god of insolent 
ruthlessness is astride the charger of 
victory? I say, No! 
Henry A. Wisk Woon, 
New York. 
[Note: The above is the text of a 
communication sent by Mr. Wood to 
the Gloucester Evening Times.—Ep.| 
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