r 16 TITE 3IORNING OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10. 1010. ML Sill LANDMARK THROUGHOUT AGES Mountain Stands Unchanging Ever, Says Dr. Ellis. BIBLICAL TIMES RECALLED Writer Muses on Time When Moses Received Ten Commandments Xor Children of Israel. BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. MOUNT SINAI. Above all the mists and turmoil and trouble of our times, rising clear and rugged in rough red ness, after having weathered the fatcrms of centuries and millenniums, the Mountain of the Law still stands tentinel and monitor over mankind, even as it did when the awe-stricken children of Israel camped down yonder in the plain called Wady or Raha and listened to the thunders of the voice of Jehovah in the cloud-enwrapped mountain. The spot is the antithesis of Paris or New York or London. There every thing is man-made; here every ruddy crag is eloquent of the Divine Artisan. In the cities jangling voices and inter ests hinder clear thinking; here there is no sound save the rush of the mighty winds amid the mountains and the rare note of bird. There changing fash ions, of thought and of life prevail, here one dwells, awed, amid the change less things. This is a place of apart reap, a sanctuary scene. Hither, for ages past, men have fled to find God in times of trouble and perplexity. Sacred associations, the most awful in mortal experience, crowd these precipitous defiles and these cav ;rncd mountains. Amid a welter of bare peaks, all stained at sunset as with blocd. Mount Sinai stands un shakable throughout all storms; it was here at the world's beginning, and it will be here at the world's end. The tempests of centuries and millenniums have raged about the head of this rock; still here it stands, unchanged itself, yet changing all. Mount of Moon la Visited. This is the Mount of the Law. On this peak Moses talked with Jehovah. Here began the organized monotheism which has ever dnce increasingly commanded the hearts of mankind. From the days of Abraham until the time of Moses the worship of Jehovah had been only one of many cults. Here at Sinai came the clear revelation of the oneness and supremacy of .iod. the Lawgiver of the Universe, the Lord of all the worlds. Amidst these creviced crags Moses re ceived the Ten Commandments, the law for all human creation, which still are accepted as the truest test of charac ter and the highest social code. Other creeds and phi losophies beyond count have risen and fallen and been forgot ten; the Ten Commandments are of more- contemporary importance than today's newspaper. , To the traveler who finds his way to these rarefied heights this is a moun tain of musing. Apart, he ponders the significance of the movements of men which he has been witnessing. What portends this turbulence of our time, which has swept around the earth like a seismic current? With so much that was for ages accepted going now into the scrap heap, are we to discard also j the teachings of our mothers and of j the book they taught us to revere? Is a new philosophy of life, a new creed of religion, to be forged in the day's superheated furnace of unrest? Shal' we look for a herald of a better social order who will bear in his hand a dif ferent code of laws for the regulation of man's relationships with man and J with the Unseen? Is there to come out j of Russia or out of Germany a work- ing faith for a revolutionized world? MrsHae of Mountain In Kr pea ted. To ask such questions is" to answer them. lay after day, in this mountain air of crystalline clearness, from heights whence one may see fierce and blinding sandstorms raging on the desert below, 1 have pondered the ba sic problem of this, our time. With all the honesty of soul I possess I have sought to see straight into the causes and character of conditions. Turn whichever way I will, follow whatever tet of conditions I can call to mind (and I have had recent personal expe rience of bol she vised Russia, of proud and discontented Europe, of sullen and menacing Asia . I find myself led j-traight up to the Mount of the Law. Here is the answer to every question Things have gone wrong because na tions and people have departed from this law. They will never go right until nations and people have the clar ity of vision and the courage to re turn to the keeping of the ten words ipoken on Sinai. Let us confess the truth, even we of the most stable land on earth today. We have waiule ret from the st i a igh t paths of our fat hers and have turned aside from the simple faith that made them great. We have left God ut of our calculations. We have put othei gods Lei ore him and given first alle giance to idols of our own creation. His name and his day have lost their sanctity in our eyes. Kven the sacred family relations have been disregarded by a generation proud of being "self made." We have invented slow and insidious methods of killing our fellow beinps as sacrifices to l he M olot-h of Mammon. Adultery has passed from its old place of a deadly sin to a mere form of persona 1 liberty and self-expression. Individual theft is still bad form, but wholesale stealing, by na tions a nd organized commercial or financial groups, has reached a mag nitude such as even the avaricious Crusaders never knew. We censor and color truth until the bearing of false witness has become an art. And. finally. our covetoiisness as nations and as men and women has led the world first into war and now into revolution. Is there any one of the Ten Command ments that we as a civilization have not openly, ft a grant ly and shamelessly violated, in disdain of God and in dis regard of the proved social utility of these laws? Commandment Are Quoted. A universal acceptance of the Ten Commandments, together with the sum mary of the law given by Jesus, would straightway, overnight, relax the ten sion of the times, settle revolutions and bring in that beter day toward which the world is blindly and violent ly groping. No mahatma from Tibet or Yogi from India or hadji from Tur key or mahdi from Egypt or behai from Syria is needti to show us our way out of the present muddle. The path runs straight as a sunbeam from the granite coast of "Jebel Musa," Mount Sinai. The Master word is here: "Keep ye the law, be swift in all obedience." The summation of Sinai's message for today is simply the Decalogue. All of w hich has been gathered up into one sentence by the Saviour, who come to embody and reveal the will of God: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy kouI and with all thy mind. . . . Thou shalt love thy neighbor as they self." Nobody can be long in this part of the world without realizing that there is a Jewish question. It flies in the six pointed star upon a white field, which is frequently displayed as an emblem of Judaism. The rapt immigrant to Palestine with glowing eye that mir rors the great dreams of his heart, in carnates it. The threats which Chris tian and Moslem residents of the Prom ised Land make against the Zionist give it a sinister interpretation. All the while thoughtful persons are re membering that it was a Jew upon this mountain who received from the hands of Jehovah the law which should last as long as time and that he bore it to a waiting host of Jews on the plain below. In this critical hour has the Jew a special mission to the world as the evangelist of the Ten Commandments 7 Jews who have repudiated the faith of their fathers have been the greatest modern unsettlers of the existing so cial system. Now will other Jews, who cherish the law as a trust, find the present their opportunity to crowd home to all men's minds the sanctity and pertinency of these Ten Words? No Jews ever come to Mount Sinai; the only one upon the register of the monastery, which has been kept since 1860, is a dragoman brought here in the service of a Christian. The prohi bition which in Moses' day prevented his people from drawing near t he Mountain of the Presence may still be considered operative. None the less, is this not the Jews opportunity to take the message of the mountain to mankind? They are leaders in social discussion; Io! they have in their spe cial keeping the sovereign remedy lot present social ills. World Trouble Solution Offered. Could Russia poor, distracted, deso late Russia be brought in widespread representation again to this, her favor ite mountain of pilgrimage, might not she thus be helped back toward sanity? All who know the Russian character agree that the nation will never be right within itself until it is right with God. A permenantly irreligious Russia is unthinkable. Territorially ambitious nations of Europe need to have preached to them the Tenth Commandment. One by one up here on Mount Sinai I have called the roll of them, as of the other groups and interests that are disturb ing the world's peace, and so far as 1 am able to discern there is nothing crooked in the world today that cannot be made straight by a sincere con formity to the law of Moses, with the appendix added by Jesus. The reader would do well to make his own test upon this point. Daniel Webster once said, "Justice is the supreme concern of heaven upon earth." The Ten Commandments are an exposition of universal justice. Is it not a timely and proper and practi cable suggestion that, as a stabilizing influence in a troubled day, all teach ers of the young, all ministers of reli gion, all leaders of thought, should lay emphasis upon the Ten Command ments, having every person in the land commit them to memory; and every in structor of the people expound them in their present day application? They are the best barrier to bolshevism. They are the surest remedy for class and caste injustices. They are, so far as I can see from this height of soli tude and contemplation, the only Way Out. SMALLf OX CASE ON TRAIN Man Exposes 'ine People in Diner to Disease. A case of smallpox was discovered on Southern Pacific train No. 54, due here at 7:20 o'clock yesterday morning, as it was standing in the Roseburg sta tion late Monday afternoon, by Dr. Shoemaker of Roseburg. The man, whose name has not been learned, was sitting in the diner, exposing nine peo ple to the disease. The matter was immediately reported to Dr. Roberg, state health officer, and an attempt made to keep the smallpox victim out of Portland, but it was stat ed that he was a resident of the city and, as such, entitled to admission. The car and people exposed were im mediately placed in quarantine and were placed under surveillance when they arrived in the city. The car will be sealed and kept out of commission until considered safe by Dr. Parrish, city health officer. BURGLARS BUSY IN CITY Two Houses Entered, But Thieves Escape Before Police Come. O. Greenow of 657 Clackamas street frightened a burglar and took two shots at him Monday night after he had gained an entrance to the house and was ransacking the premises. The man dived through a window, ran down the street aiui disappeared before the arrival of the police. Mrs. Anette Melichar of 700 East Forty-first street discovered two men ransacking her house late yesterday afternoon after they had gained ad mittance by representing themselves to bt; gas inspectors. They stole some sil verware and valuables. The woman chased the thieves six blocks down the street in an endeavor to recover her stolen goods. A. V. Ringo, a street car conductor, joined In the chase, but they were unable to overtake the pair. CLOUDBURST HITS GLOBE Damage Estimated at $100,000 Said to Have Been Done. GLOBE, Ariz.. July 1 5. In one of the worst cloudbursts experienced in 35 years, the business section of the city was partly inundated last night, entailing property loss estimated at $100,000. Water at one time was runn ing on the main street at a depth of two feet. Rain has again started to fall. Road Tlr Oregonmn classified arts. 1. ! Coffee Drinkers Take Notice! There's No Increase In The Price of INSTANT POSTUM But there's apt to be an increase in your comfort and health if you change from Coffee to Postum There's a Reason " LEAGUE OF NATIONS IS HELD NECESSITY Senator Swanson Appeals for Support in Upper House. MEASURE IS REASONABLE Solon Cites Philippines as One Ques tion That AVI 11 Be Simplified by Covenant. WASHINGTON. July 15. Praising the league of nations covenant as "one of the world's greatest docu ments," Senator Swanson of Virginia, a democratic member of the foreign re lations committee, told the senate yes terday, that if the United states re jected the league it "would mean that she would skulk in the greatest world crisis that ever occurred." The speaker defended the league against the objections that it would sacrifice sovereignty and American traditions and asserted that on the contrary it would result in Immense material gain in protecting American integrity and preventing war. He de clared it would not create a .super government, involve objectionable obli gations nor invalidate the Monroe doc trine. "The pathway of our duty is plain." said Senator Swanson. "let us not: be fr'ghtened by our own prodigious shadow as it projects itself into world affairs. Let us not be deterred from our manifest duty and destiny by a craven fear of becoming great in giv ing service and direction to a world in the direst hour of its need and dis tress." Dark Agea Keared. Pointing out that the war had shaken the social crder to its foundation, the Virginia senator said was. the para mount obligation of responsible states men to prevent another such confla gration, which would return the world "to the rule of brute force and bar barism of the dark ages." "The covenant of the league has been assailed from two opposite sources." he continued. "The league will neither be a super-state nor sovereign, nor a help less, powerless association of nations. The instrument creating the league is a 'covenant' entered into by sovereign states. One of the attributes of sov ereignty is the ability to make cove nants or agreements. That a state re serves its full sovereignty is conclu sively settled by the provision allow ing any member to withdraw. Kqail Power Anfiurer. "The league could never be organized on any basis other than that of equal representation. If members were ac corded difference in the representation, upon what basis should the apportion ment be made? If upon population. China and India would dominate the league and the Cnited States would have only one-fifteenth of the number. If based upon wealth and military power, the situation would be equally as uncertain and unsatisfactory. "What better plan for disarmament could be devised? The council Is di rected to prepare a general plan of dis armament for the consideration of the governments, which plan in not binding upon any of the states until approved by that state. Under our government, the proposed plan to be effective In binding us must have the sanction of congress, which is entrusted under the constitution with the power of raising armies and equipping the navy. "Under article 10 each member of the league undertakes, first, to respect the territorial Integrity and political independence of all other members of the league. When the nations of the world, sobered by sorrow and suffering, are willing to raise their hands and take this .solemn pledge, are we sul lenly and stubbornly to stand aside and become a stumbling-block in the way of this noble achievement? Do any of them have possessions that wc view with covetous eyes and propose to seize and annex? Co operation la Pledged. "The second obligation assumed by each member is to 'preserve as against external aggression the territorial in tegrity and existing political indepen dence of all members of the league.' This is a natural corollary from the first. In the former we undertake not to rob our associates ourselves and In this we agree not to permit others to do so. This guarantee of territorial in tegrity and political independence is limited to those cases where they are threatened or attacked by external ag gression and does not apply to revolu tion within a nation. A nation's in ternal affairs are left undisturbed. "Thoughtful persons recognize the im portance of giving such a guarantee now, at least for a limited period, if the peace of the world is to be maintained. The autocratic governments that con trolled Russia. Germany. Austria and Turkey have been overthrown, but as yet no real, stable governments estab lished. Some of the new states created out of this immense territory, without the guaranty of the league, would be overthrown and would return to the domination of their former oppressors. "Honorable Klihu Root, former secre tary of state, recognized the great Im mediate need of this article and recom mended Its acceptance with an amend ment providing that any member could, after expiration of five -rear from th. signing of the covenant, terminate it. obligations under the article. "But under this covenant the I'nlteC States by giving notice .f withdrawal from the league can limit her obliga tions to a time not far to exceel t we years. If this treaty la lalified the L'ni.ed States may fully perform her obligations to her allies, discharge her duf.es to the new nation she has aldid In crcatirg. and then honoiably retire. "It should be noted thtt when In this article we guarantee the territorial In tegrity o all members of tbe league we receive at the name time from all nt them a like gu irar.tee ot our territorial Pokscs.-Io-s. 1 ho Philippine islands have occasioned us great apprehension. In order to safeguard these Islands it will be necessaty for uh In the present disturbed conduit n of the world to construct the largest navy afloat anc have -n army equal to that of any na tion. Shall we embark upvn thic greal military expense, or accept the leaaru and with It the honorable pledge that Creat Britain and Japan, the only ur nations from which the Islands conl.l ever be threatened would aid In pre rervlng them from all ext"rnil ag-Eressin." FAST TENNIS PLAY STARTS FLYE AND WAKEMAX WIN IX DAY'S FEATURE CONTESTS. Varied Schedule Calls fop Mixed, Doubles and Singles l'lay. Start ing Early This Morning. One of the most exciting matches In the first day's play of the Oregon state tennis championships which took place Monday on the courts of the Laurel hurst club was that between Guy Flye. junior center champion of Tacoma. and Kenneth Smith of Portland. Klye fi nally won. although the result was continually in doubt. Score: 7-5. 5-7. 6-2. Another close match was that be tween A. D. Wakeman and Henry Ste vens, both of this city. Wakeman won. 6-4. 0-6. 6-2. Catltn Wolfard and Phil Neer. two of Portland's favorites, had no difficulty In winning their matches and it looks as If they might meet in the semi-final round. By the mutual consent of the players, the James Shives versus Millington Gray match was continued over after the score stood 6-4. 4-6. A freak of the draw brings together the same players in two separate events, since Phil Neer is scheduled to play Guy Klye In the Oregon state cham pionship and he also meets the same lad in the big Pacific northwest Junior championship. The first day's play in a big tourna ment Is always a case of more or less uncertainty and tho matches are usu ally somewhat delayed, but that was not true yesterday. Only six defaults were ta-ken. A. H. McAlpin. Portland's official umpire for the United States National Lawn Tennis association and also referee of the tournament, han dled all of his work with his usual skill and diplomacy. Many fine matches resulted, and the fast play was only excelled by the pace with which the thermometer traveled In Its desire to make a real record. The first match between Mr. Neer and Mr. 'le will be the best of five sets, and they will again meet for the best of three sets In the Oregon state championships. Another match which will cause much discussion will take place when Jack Wright of Spo kane meets Herbert Little of Seattle in the Pacific northwest Junior tour nament. The boys' event between Portland, represented by Isadore Wes terman. and Tacoma. represented by Charles Grimes, is another setto which will draw a large gallery and which will be for the best of five sets. Yesterday the refreshments were In charge or Mrs. W. J. Ilofmann of the Irvington club assisted by the Misses Adele Jones, Bcrnlce Burke, lJlixabeth Wiggins, Klizabeth Kttlngcr and Janice Kttinger. Results In the first day's play were as follows: Men's singles: -'at!ln Wolfard best A. S. Frohman, 6-0. 6-2. Robert Harper brat Ted gi.ffn. default. W. Taylor beat Herbert S. I,ittle. e-u, S. H. 'ook b.;it i:. C. Kalph. ;uy Flye beat Kcnncih inlth, 7-i. 5-7 6-2. Jade Neer beat Jo. I.lvingood. 6-3. 6-1. A. I. NorriH beat IvM s. Cohen, fl-n. C-l. Jack Wright beat CeorKe rewey. 6-4. tt-2. T. tire.ne beat II. K. Kandalt. 7-.. 6-X K. P. Stelnmetz beat Thomas li. Youell. default. Koditers McVeigh beat Leonard C. Wilson. 6-4. 6-4. I'ouclas Youns beat Bartt.tt Cole, default. H. V. t.'oi. beat s. Smash, default. A. R. Muniter beat t. :. Witmer. -l, 7-5. Phil Neer beat Percy Lewis, tt-3, 6-2. A. P. Wakeman beat Henry Stevens. 6-4 0-. 6-2. Herbert Swett beat Robert Oilman, 6-1, 6-0. M. C. Krohman beat A. Line, default. Marshall Allen beat N. Yantafi-e. default. Harry Wcslerman beat C. U. Unit, Jr default. Ladies' singles: Mrs. Cushlnr beat Miss Inez Falrchlld, 6-2. 6-n. Miss Irene Campbell beat Miss Madelalne Steffen. 8-1, 8-6. Miss Stella Fording- beat Mrs. F. E. Har rison, default. Miks Harrietts Johnson beat Mrs. J. p. Mulder, default. Mrs. W. I. Northrup beat Mrs. Harland Wentworth, 8-6, 6-0. Yesterday's schedule: It A. M. Jnme shtves vs. Millington Cray. Miss Gertrude Sehrelner vs. Mrs. Kthl Wnrner. f. Halsev vs. H. Hmtrlt. I Permanent Positions for Young Women Permanent and temporary posi tions open for young women as tele phone operators with or without pre vious experience. Applications will be received dur ing the present strike at any Central Office in Portland or Room 601, Sixth Floor, Telephone Building, Park and Oak Streets: or Room 226 Morgan Building, Washington street between Broadway and Park street. Tele phone Broadway 12000. The Pacific Teleohone and Ja Telegraph Company i i'J noon J. P. lilMTbirk v. John Walker. - P. M. Mi Hrnii-) I4urk v. Mt AO vie Jonfd, Miss K-hr?ln4r and Ir. Slin tnftx vn. Mm. Kthfl Warner and partner. 3 I M. Winner of Hh!ve v. t.ray match v. M.C. Frohman, Marton Kyle v. Chart- j (irlm, MtM Ktulla Kordina v. Mim Mildred ! Terry. Mi May me M I ton 1J and W. Ta lor v. T. lreen and partner. I 4 V. M. Pacific northwest Junior rbim- i plonsblpa I'h 1 1 Neer. IN.riland. v-rua tiyy Klye. Trom. Pacific northmeat tx , hmplonshlp -rharle tinmen, Tacoma. versua ladore WeMerm-m. Portland. tte icon ata.e -hampionihip Robert Harper veraua loucl You'tg; Mrs. i'uhtna v rup M nt. Clar ; I co Mall'tt vervtia Marball All-n. A P. M. Pacific northwest Junior cham Itonhtpa Jack Wright, tSpokane. versus Herbert S. Utile. Seattle. O r e ft o n Mate championship H. K. Wheeler vernua I'atlln Wolfard; Harry Oray vcrmia W. Taylor; i. B. Cooka erUK A. It. Muneer: A. O. Norrla vrroun Jack WriRht ::M P. M. Mi fa Harriett Johnnon vrua winner: XI ikm (iertrude Kchrclner vcxua M ra. Kihel Warner. Harry Gray and partner versus M. C. Krohman and partner. fl P. M. A. D. Wakeman vernun Jacle Ncr: T. ilreene veru Herbert Mwett ; K. ;riffin vfrnui winner: Halrcy verua .Smith; Phil Neer vcrui liuy Kle; M lia Irene Camp hell vernug Mta Kuth t'arlnon. :30 P. M. Jace Neer and S. SmltH versua Herbert t. I.tttle and Jna l.tvlnsood: II. V. I'oto and Harry WeMerma-n venim i:. Griffin and Marc ha 1 1 Allen. 7 P. M. M ( Lilly Kox ve nun M inn Marlam Sinclair: Walter A. Jo and Phil Neer ermun Kodejera McVeigh and W. Tay lor: M. ray and T. Urern erua Guy Vlym and Char lea Grime. 7:30 P. M. Mia Irene Campbell and MIks Gertrude 8hrelner vereui Mr. Harland Wentworth and Mlas Mariam Sinclair; Harry Westerman veraua E. P. Stelnmeta; II. V. ., vemus ivunir: J. B. HildiThm h v-n.u Walker: A. & Frohman and Robert Gllmaa vemus H. K. Wheeler and Whilmer. rhnnitt. filch arhools and a. university had been opened In the army. It wax announced thai about 2i00 nervlc medal had been presented to ex-puldters from Multnomah county and that about KOOu more probably mould b cilven out. others mho took r"t In t pro pramme mere Captain Thomas Smeenev and MIhs V. M. t'arr. mho played a violin iolo m ith M 1km KUeen lpracue a accompanist- James McCarren pre sided. I.unrhron mas nerved after the programme. Read Th Oreconfan rlaifi 1 ad a. ARMY SCHOOLS DESCRIBED General Martin Tells or Work Ac complKhcd Overseas. General Charles H. Martin, former commander of the 90th division, de scribed the educational system which was inaugurated among the overseas troops after signing: of the armistice in his speech Monday nifi:ht beforr Over-the-Top post. Veterans of Forelsrn Wars, where the city service medals were presented to ex-soldiers. 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