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November 5, 1918.<br />
A FAMILY PAPER.<br />
CHRISTIAN NATION PUBLISHING CO,<br />
1105 Tribune Building,' N. Y.<br />
E D I T O R I A L<br />
John W. Pritchard, Editor.<br />
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 5, 1913.<br />
The theatres of Pittsburg have been receiving<br />
a send-oif from the Chancellor of the<br />
University.<br />
In a former year he visited a<br />
down town theatre at the fall re-opening, and<br />
spoke in its favor.<br />
was opened—in the East End,<br />
This fall a new theatre<br />
His presence<br />
was among the announcements', as this from<br />
the Post of Oct. 20:<br />
"HEAD OF UNIVERSITY TO OPEN NEW<br />
THEATRE.<br />
"Chancellor S. B. McCormick of the University<br />
of Pittsburgh will preside at the formal dedication<br />
of East Liberty's new playhouse, the Sheridan<br />
Square Theatre, this evening. The chancellor<br />
will he introduced by Thomas D, Harman,<br />
editor of the 'National Stockman and Parmer.'<br />
A tew words on the importance of this new<br />
theatre to the East Liberty valley will be spoken<br />
by Dr. McCormick and then the show will be<br />
launched. Numerous theatre parties have been<br />
arranged for tonight, both by business people and<br />
society folk, and the theatre is expected to present<br />
a brilliant appearance."<br />
The Despatch of the next day said:<br />
"At 9:15 p. m., when the firstevening performance<br />
was over, the Penn avenue entrance was so<br />
packed with people who had bought tickets for<br />
the second show that those inside could not get<br />
out that way, and the house was emptied via<br />
the Center avenue and Sheridan street exits. Altogetherit<br />
was a big night in Bast Liberty,"<br />
The same paper gives this in the same issue:<br />
"University students, celebrating the victory of<br />
the Pitt team over the Carlisle Indians on Saturday,<br />
marched around Oakland yesterday behind<br />
a brass band and finallyproceeded downtown to<br />
a theatre. There, under the guidance of a cheer<br />
leader, they became so boisterous that the management<br />
sent for the police. They rushed for the<br />
exit. The cheer leader, however, was caught,<br />
but his comrades posted a forfeit for his appearance<br />
at Central Station hearings today. After<br />
his release the students gave a sample of lung<br />
power inside the Public Safety Building. Classes<br />
at the university were demoralized all day,"<br />
RELAXATION AFTED SEVERE<br />
STUDY! SO NECESSARY FOR<br />
WEARY MINDS,<br />
The importation of the English militant<br />
leader has been a failure for tbe syndicate.<br />
The chill came in this city in the sparse audi-<br />
"ice. The question 6f "moral turptitude"<br />
niay be academically discussed, but when it<br />
comes to arson, and to impure literature as a<br />
means of propagandism, duty seems clear.<br />
The Sun of October 24th says:<br />
"The hospitality of this land has been accorded<br />
'0 Mrs, Pankhurst ungrudgingly and without<br />
prejudice. Almost her flrst act on accepfng that<br />
in Britain, and appeals had gone out, for<br />
hospitality is to let loose a flood of literature,<br />
the product of a sexually perverted mind, which<br />
for sheer morbid pruriency puts in the shade any<br />
book that the most venal publisher dares to offer<br />
for sale. That the majority of those who purchase<br />
this prurient sheet do so only to satisfy a<br />
pornographic curiosity is evident from the considerable<br />
increase in the demand for copies of the<br />
'Suffraget' after the nature of its contents had<br />
been freely advertised. What Mrs. Pankhurst<br />
chooses to do in her own 'country and wbat action<br />
the authorities there like to take in the matter<br />
is no concern of ours, but if, on being permitted<br />
to land in the United States, Mrs. Pankhurst<br />
elects to abuse the toleration, she should receive<br />
exactly the same treatment as Is given to an><br />
American citizen who promotes the distribution<br />
of forbidden literature.''<br />
"On the same day, upon the personal assurance<br />
of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont to District Attorney<br />
Whitman that no copies of the Suffragette would<br />
be on public sale at local suffrage headquarters<br />
and all unsold copies had been or will be shipped<br />
out of the State, Mr. Whitman agreed today to<br />
drop the plan of arresting the sellers of the daringly<br />
written magazine. Anthony Comstock also<br />
agreed not to prosecute the women, provided they<br />
keep Mrs. Belmont's plege.''<br />
A CLIPPING FROM THE CHRISTIAN<br />
CYNOSURE.<br />
The August Cynosure published at the request<br />
of our friend, Mr. W. S. Craig, an<br />
advertisement of The Menace, an anti-Catholic<br />
paper. We give below another ad,, this<br />
itime clipped from. The Menace itself. Its<br />
constant efforts to boost Freemasonry, a<br />
greater menace than Roman Catholicism,<br />
raises the query as to what its real object<br />
it.<br />
Its gross misrepresentation of the historic<br />
facts as fo the abduction of Capt. William<br />
M<strong>org</strong>an not long since will be recalled.<br />
To Scottish Rit€ Masons:<br />
I have a personal, private message which<br />
I wisih to^ convey to every thirty-second degree<br />
Mason in the United States who is a<br />
subscriber to The Menace at the present<br />
time. The information which I propose to<br />
furnisih will be registered to you free of<br />
charge, and it involves nothing that will<br />
put you under any obligation to me whatever,<br />
but it may prove fortunate for you, I<br />
must be convinced that you are a thirty-second<br />
degree Mason before the information<br />
will be given, and it will be necessary for<br />
you to inclose in your letter your last dues<br />
^•eceipt or O'ther information satisfactory (o<br />
convince me. Your credentials will be returned<br />
with the information, registered. .Address<br />
me personally.<br />
MAR\^IN BROWN, 32nd deg..<br />
Box 243, Aurora, Mo.,<br />
Associate Editor, The Menace.<br />
A CRISIS PAST.<br />
The summer has gone with celebrations<br />
along the Great Lakes, of the hundred years<br />
of Peace between the English-speaking nations.<br />
Arrangements had been made earlier<br />
funds to purchase the home of the Washington<br />
family as a Alemorial in England. The<br />
monument on the Braddock field had just<br />
been unveiled and King Ge<strong>org</strong>e had sent a<br />
recognition of the courtesies shown tbe British<br />
representatives at this event.<br />
During all this time the United States Government<br />
was carefully handling the case of<br />
the Mexican military usurper who had seized<br />
the reins of government after the killing of<br />
the President of Mexico. The Election Day<br />
was approaching, ,Sab)bath, O'ctober 26ith.<br />
The usurper, not long before, had seized lOO<br />
Deputies of the Mexican Congress, and had<br />
imprisoned them. In this' crisis, and at this<br />
very time, the English representative, Sir<br />
Lionel Garden, handed his credentials to the<br />
/usurper. He then took on more boldness.<br />
He gave out this, October 24th. Sir Lionel<br />
Garden had left bim at 2 a. m., after a long<br />
conference:<br />
"Should the United States fail to recognize the<br />
established Mex'can government, it will run the<br />
risk of precipitating in Mexico, a crisis which<br />
might bring the government in Washington face<br />
to face with foreign governments and which<br />
might result In the setting aside of the Monroe<br />
doctrine."<br />
"The best government Mexico has ever had is<br />
by a few and it will be a long time before Mexico<br />
will have any other kind of government. It will<br />
require years before conditions reach the point<br />
where millions may go to the polls, cast an Intelligent<br />
ballot and then abide peacefully by<br />
the resut. Washington can give no sufficient answer<br />
to the people of the United States or the<br />
people of Europe if, through its 'conduct, a consequence<br />
so repugnant to the universal sense of<br />
justice is brought about,"<br />
A flush of anger spread over the face of<br />
the country, when the credentials were given<br />
in. Cautions were given out against hasty<br />
speech, for in such circumstance's', even treaties<br />
are of no value. They are as tissue paper<br />
in a flame.<br />
The gravity of the situation was felt on<br />
both sides of tbe Atlantic. Tbe British Government<br />
hastened to disclaim hostility, as did<br />
the French. The peace of the world depends<br />
under God on a righteous public opinion,<br />
which will refuse to countenance wrong for<br />
'selfish ends.<br />
The Herald of this city said, on the 24th:<br />
Misrepresentation abroad of the attitude of the<br />
President is not worrying him In the least. He<br />
does not deprecate newspaner agitation of the<br />
Mexican question in iGreat Britain, even though<br />
some of this agitation contains misrepresentation.<br />
He believes there Is need for a clarifying of the<br />
atmosphere. This will be valuable In bringing to<br />
the British people a realization of the reasons impelling<br />
a difference between the position of the<br />
English government and that of the United States.<br />
That this difference is due in some measure to<br />
the difference In the amount and character of the<br />
responsibility of the two governments toward<br />
Mexico he surely realizes, but he is undoubtedly<br />
confident that when the British people understand<br />
Just what has been happening at the City<br />
of Mexico and the motives back of some phases<br />
of British activity there, the result will be a<br />
searching of the British •conscience. And this<br />
he thinks will be valuable all around.