TURKISH NO MORE
Whole World Rejoices That "the
Infidel" Has Been Driven
From Holy City.
EASTER wilt be celebrated In
Palestine as never before this
many centuries, and all, the
Christian world will celebrate
with greater tervor and deeper rever
ence now that the hand of the "infidel
Turk" In removed.
- It Is exactly 674 years since the
Turk drove out the Christians and took
possession of Jerusalem, after It had
been taken by Frederick n, March 17,
1229, who frowned himself king of the
Latin kingdom, in imitation of that
earlier king of Jerusalem, Godfrey of
Bouillon (1099).
Land of Pilgrimage.
Palestine had been assigned to the
Emperor of the East in 305 A. D., and
was nominally Christian at that time,
when pilgrimage to the Holy Land be
came almost a cult and the finding of
relics became a regular pursuit in all
the plaeea^identlfied' with the life of
Jesus.
This was the fierlod that might al
most be termed the Christianizing of
Palestine, for Christianity had devel
oped far more vigorously at Rome and
in other parts of the Roman empire
than In the Holy Land itself, up to this
time. Constantine had made it the
state religion and Helena had found
the "True Cross," so that there was a
great stirring of interest throughout ,
the land. Many fine churches were
built, and Justinian erected the Golden
Gate and part of a great church, now
the El Aksa mosque (527-565).
Christiana Persecuted.
It was In 614 that Chosroes n, king
of Persia, made his great inroad, per
secuting the Christians wherever he
found them, especially in what Is now
Armenia,, and capturing Jerusalem,
The Emperor Heraclius managed to
regain control (629), but he had to
yield before the might of the Caliph
Omar (637), who erected many great
structures, especially the * mosque
called after him, upon the great rock
which had been the site of the temple
of Solomon.
r or more than 400 years the Mo
hammedans held sway, until as a re
suit of the Crusades Godfrey of Bou
illon took possession in 1099. The
Christian powers could not, however,
hold possession, for they were always
fighting among themselves, and sc
Salad in, the mighty leader of the Mos
lems, gained a permanent hold over
the land of Palestine and Jerusalem
to 1187.
It was during the next century that
the Christians under the leadership ol
Frederick II gained possession of Pal
estine for the last time, until our own
day. But with dissension among the
Christians of that time it was not dif
ficult for the Turks to regain control
In 1244 and retain It ever since, in one
form or another.
Surrender of Jerusalem.
The surrender of Jerusalem to the
British forces last December, and the
subsequent conquest of much of the
rest of the land now establishes Chris
tian control, at least for the present,
?nd the doubt has been raised whether
any Christian power, even Germany,
will dare to suggest that the holy
places again be turned over to the
power of the Moslem, no "matter what
the terms of peace may be.
Precisely what local changes In priv
ileges of worship will come out of the
change may not be foretold. For a
long tlRie a strange situation has pre
vailed in Jerusalem. The holy sepul
cber, for example, with its relics of
Christian treasure, has been used by
Greeks, Armenians and Western Chris
tians In alternation, the control re
maining with the Turkish authorities.
Naturally many disputes have arisen
out of so strange a situation.
This Easter Significant.
When the city was capturfed by the
British there was great local anxiety
as to what might result. With the en
try of General Allenby, with his staff
and certain French and Italian officers,
these anxieties were quickly set at
rest The Jewish population soon
learned that all was to be well with
them and other sects represented In
the- citizenship of the historic place
were equally reassured. A sense of
peace, liberty and security had Its Im
mediate effect and Influenced pro
foundly the preparations for the new,
unexampled Easter as well as for fu
ture worship of every sort In the trou
bled Holy Land. In Jerusalem as
elsewhere began to appear a conviction
that, no matter how long world peace
mignt be delayed, a new spirit was
abroad throughout the earth.
Tills Kaster, then, has a special slg
i .'trance, in view of all the centuries
of auu^le for holding the places con
secrated to Christianity by the activity
srf its Savior.
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SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE
BASTER, ?19
<a??nkm la Ffano. the Bnm ml* blaaafat
Briathe o'm hit (tit# th. iaetuc ?i mf lovtl
Ssoawiari la Ftuu tb? Kara thia. ihrou(k tka
|Lwniin|
Fond eyesof u|?ii witehiol from above.
Somewhere is Prioec all thai I bad ia sleeping,
Treesure pf heart ltd jewel of my eoal I
Somewhere in France, I cannot ace for weepiag
Bran hie writiit' grisf beyond oootrol.
Somewhere ia Fraaaa, O Chriet. salyarioo's Gap
Order'him hom.-h?'. dying, .iclt aad taiit I
Somewhere jn France, he ia dead ? bia had)
Liberty'VflaA. na anewer la ay piaiat!
Somewhere ia Fraaaa. aad this ia Baater morning.
My breaking heart can raiec aa hymn of prone i
Somewhere ia Fraaaa. ahall lowers far Chriac'i
adorning
Grow from the stones of griefs downtrodden
ways?
Somewhere ia Fraaaa, aod yet my bitter eryiog
Wakes a faint echo like a distant chimes
Somewhere ia France 1 hear fakh'e bells replying
falling like mnaic from the towers of time.
Somewhere ia France, along the eastera aeavens.
Hang with the pall of battle smoke and grime.
Somewhere in Fraaca a shiniag pledge ia givaa.
Morning ia dawaiag. aileot aod eabiitte.
Somewhere im France maa's son Is hare burst theii
prison;
Somewhere ia Fraooc Chriet oomai agaia to earth
Somewhere ia France, 'tis true oar Lord is risea t
Somewhere ia France a better hope hae birth.
Somewhere in Fraace. I have no bitter yearaing
To bring him thence, to hold him for my owa |
Somewhere in France today he ie retoraiag :
Somewhere ia heavea now he has oome home
Opprobrium Given
Crucifixion Plant
Has Many Reasons
T1ERE is a popular belief li
the Old World that the crown
of thorns placed on th<
savior's head was derive!
from a c?rtain species of euphorbia
which, wben> grown nowadays in bo
taiical gardens, is often trained lnt<
thai form of a thorny crown fastened
upon a cross.
The "crucifixion plant," as It ft
called, has no leaves worth mention
'imiinwiiiiip^- mm |
The Crucifixion Plant.
ing, jitivi' at the tip* of Its branches.
All the rest of It' Is mainly thorns.
But the oddest thing of all about It
Is that, when cut with a knife, drops
of red juice resembling blood exude
from It. No wonder, then, that In the
Old World where religion and super
st It Ion so frequently merge, it should
he regarded.with owe.
NAME DERIVED FROM SAXON
Easter Known to Have Been a Colo
bratton Time of the Heathen
Qoddess Ostara. ?
Not until the eariy sixties did the
t'resbyterians take note of Raster. And
New England wa* the last section of
<>nr conntry to bend?or unbend?In
the direction or the Easter celebra
tion. The name Easter, which Is In
nse only among the English and Ger
man speaking peoples. Is undoubtedly
?lerlved from thnt of tb?? heathen Sax
on's goddess, Ostarn. Ostorr or Eas
?re. She was the personification of
t'ie East, of the spring and of the
morning, the month of April being
?Indicated to her rnd called "Eastvr
mortnth" by the Saxons and Angles. It
Ik still called In Oermany Ostermonat.
Vet Router sometimes falls in March,
its the chnrch calendar prescribes thnt
it shall fall upon the first Monday
lifter the fourteenth dny of the moon
that happens to reign at the vernal
equinox, which is March 21. One
writer'says:
"Non-Teutonic nations cling to the
Semitic wool derived from the A ra
mi'Ic word pesnch. 'to pans by,' which
has been translated Into English as
Praaover. In England the Semitic
form survives in ninny terms appli
cable tA the season, as pass flower,
pnsehal lamb and paseh. pace or pase
eggs. These terms remind us that out
Christian festival Is the successor to
the Jewish Passover, while the word
Easter carries ns back throng* the
Srxops to the mure ancient celebra
tions which from the earliest ages of
man have expressed the universal out
burst of rejoicing over the reawaken
ing of nature after the long sleep of
?rlnter"
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LET UNCLE SMI ]
BE YOUR INKER
Offers Fax Better Opportuni
ties Than Those Enjoyed by
Thrifty People in France
Who Claim Leadership.
France has been called the thriftiest
nation in the world.It claim* to be. U
we do not watch ont she will prove
it conclusively. America Is the rich
est country on earth. Our per capita
savings increased approximately 46
per cent in the last (our years?the
period of the war. Last year, for In
stance, the per capita savings in the
South alone was $26.73. That sounds
like we have the money, and we cer
tainly have the will to make more.
Uncle Sam is out to. show you how.
He wants to be your savings banker,
He offers you not only 4 per cent, in
terest, compounded quarterly, but the
government as security. There could
not be a better Incentive for thrift
than that. The French people hav?
far less, yet they save more. They
have no way to put their savings into
small government securities, the popu
lar denomination being that of five
hundred francs, or $100.
It would not be very convenient to
save if we had to put our pennies into
an old stocking until we had accumu
lated $100 as the French do .would It?
And the stocking doesn't pay any in
terest. 'So let Uncle Sam take care
of your pennies?twenty-five of them
buy a Thrift Stamp and sixteen Thrift
Stamps converted into a War Savings
Stamp begin earning compound inter
est for yon immediately. Are we going
to let the French beat us In thrift?
DARED GERMANS
10 m HEADS
Sergeant of Marine* Hurled
Pointed Query at Boches
When Fire Was Most Ter
rific in Belleau Wood.
It iaa't nice to swear la type. Neith
er is war nice. This la a war utoij?
It was told by Brigadier General Cat
lio ia hU book. "With the Help of
God and a Few Marines." Belleau
Wood is the setting.
The General had siren his troops
the order to advance. His laat words
were, as they started across the wheat
Selde under a withering Are, "dire 'em -
hell, boys."
"Some one has reported," the Gen
eral eentinues, "that they advanced
on those woote crying. "Remember
the Lasltania.' If they did I failed to
hear tt:
"Somehow that doesn't sound like
the sort of things the Marines say
nnder the conditions."
Than General Catllh talis what they
did say. When the llnee were waver
ing under the terriSc German Are, a
sergeant cried out:
Tone on yon ?, do
you want to live forever T"
Tell the marines that yoa are not
going to take your share of the com
ing Victory Liberty Loan.
CHINESE*
WINS WAR MEDAL
General Pershing Pins Award
on Breast of Sing Kee, Who
Bra*red German lire.
lUri Is a Hast book on American
lam written In Chineae character and
translated for uae when a Victory Lib
erty Loan talesman tackles you to do
your duty. It la an official American
communique:
"Pvt. Sine Km, Infantry. Chang
Kee, father, 604 North Fourth street.
San Joe* Call! For extraordinary
heroism in action at Mont Notre
Dune, west of names. France, Au
gust 14, It. 1*18. Pvt. Kee, although
seriously gassed during shelling by
high explosive and gas shells, refused
to be evacuated, and continued, prac
tically single-handed, by his own ini
tiative to operate the regimental mes
sage center relay station at Mont
Notre Dame. Throughout the critical
period Pvt. Kee showed extraordi
nary heroism, high courage, and prr
siateot devotion to duty and totally
disregarded all personal danger. H..
his determination he materially aided
his regimental commander In com
mnnicatiea with the front line."
Sing Kee wears the Distinguished
Service Medal of the United States of
Amerloa.
Sing Kee Is for America?for her
enough to lay flowb his lite. Are you
for AknericaT Ark you as good a man
as Sing KeeT
Then buy of tbe Victory Loan to the
limit v
DO YOUR PIT WILLINGLY.
By spending lavishly the United
States ended the war, saved billions
of dollars and hundreds of thousands
of Uvea. Pay your share of Ue hUla
thankfully.
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