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THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, POETLAJOJ, OCTOBER 21. 1906.
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Parcels Post Would Be an Elephant
FINE THING FOR MAIL ORDER HOUSES, BUT PACIFIC COAST
BUSINESS WOULD BE INJURED.
By John A. G ruber.
JUDGING- from outward appearances,
the . people of the United States de
mand a parcels post. Packages up
to four pounds are now being carried in
the malls at the rate of" one cent per
ounce and printed matter, seeds, etc.,
fat half that price; but that is not sat
isfactory. Mr. James L. Cowles, sec
retary of the Postal Progress League, in
'Jiis letter to the Outlook triumphantly
reports, that the National Association of
Photographers has demanded "the beet,
'the cheapest and most extensive parcels
Jpost in the world." That sounds very
patriotic. Americans demand the best of
Sever j-thing and should have It.
It goes without saying that a parcels
jost in the United States, owing to our
extensive territory would be an elephant.
Hut the photographers, under the guid
ance of Mr. Cowles, who doubtlessly is
U high-priced parcels post expert, de
mand also the cheapest. That Is un
lAmerican. It smacks of pauper labor.
However, that is not what they really
mean. Who cares for expenses when
the taxpayer foots the bill?
The parcels post bills before Congress
provide that packages up to 11 pounds
toe carried the length and breadth of the
land, including Star and R. F. D. routes,
tor 25 cents. Should the scheme suc
ceed, Mr. Post, the father of the league,
vould, receive orders innumerable like
this: "Enclosed find postal check for
one dollar, for which mail me 10 pounds
tf your patent mush." ; A few days
thereafter the postman would deliver the
mush to the cook in a mining camp at
the foot of Mount St. Helens. It might
cost the Government a dollar or two
more than Mr. Post paid for the service,
hxit then this is a rich country. Should
the scheme succeed, it would practically
wipe out distances, revolutionize trade
and upset present values. Mall order
Ihouses would do a tremendous business.
Why Oregon Loses Her Best Teachers
Normal School Certificates Worthless Until the Graduate Has Passed Many State Examinations.
THE OPENING, or attempting to open,
the public schools throughout the
state during the past month has brought
Oregon face to face with a situation which
lias attracted very little attention here
tofore. There is a deplorable deficiency
in the ranks of schoolma'ams from a
numerical standpoint.
The question naturally arises: " Where
eve the graduates which the normal
schools are turning out every year for
the express purpose of directing "the
young idiot how to shout"? Statistics
show that between 700 and 800 new teaeh
rra are needed every year to replace those
who leave the profession, for various rea-
One excellent reason why even the offer
mf higher salaries is left unresponded to
3s that Washington offers a premium for
the normal graduates from Oregon in the
shape of first-grade certificates, granted
upon the passage of an examination in
school law and constitution, whereas, un
der the present law, the same diplomas
are worthless in Oregon until the holder
Jias passed IS state examinationF, with an
additional four for a state diploma. It
ft further required that the applicant
shall take the said 22 examinations in
three groups, or he must go back to the
lieginning and start over.
Practically all of the states supporting
normal schools accredit the diplomas as
teaching certificates, including Massachu
setts. New York, Pennsylvania. Illinois,
Jnwa, Nebraska, Michigan, California,
The Bottom
V6v This
By J. I.. Jones.
THERE is a great confusion of
thought on the subject of observ
ing law. Few people seem to tinderstand
the radical difference between God's law
tend laws made by Legislatures, and it
Feems to be generally understood that
only the observance of the latter Is ob
ligatory and essential to salvation.
We sometimes meet with allusions to
'the higher law.' but there Is little def
Snite knowledge of what this term means.
The highest Uw and the only essential
one we know of is set forth in what is
nailed the ten commandments.
There are two parts of this law. The
first has to do with the duties of men
to God; the last part, with the relations
of men to one another. Beginning at the
ibotiom, the last five commandments pro
3ilhit covet oneness, lying, stealing, adul
tery and murder. The last or lowest
one, which is the firt that man comes
in contact with, prohibits covetousness.
Now it will be evident to anyone who
will .give the matter a little attention,
that if people would only keep this bot
tom commandment and refrain from
wanting what does not belong to them,
that they would never get up against
Spiritualism,
How the Father of All Falsehood
By A. P. Anrra.
JVDGING by the utterances of Elder
Snyder, which sound like an echo of
the dark ages. It Is evident that
cither amaxtng Ignorance or else vile hy
pocrisy and criminal duplicity are still
erchin(r in the Christian pulp-its. If the
elder Is sincere, he is the personification
. cf ignorance and superstition; if he Is
Hot sincere, he is the personification, as a
deceiver, of the imaginary devil of which
lie talks so much.
The Idea of a distinct personality of
evil. In other words the Idea of a devil,
was unknown to the Jews prior to the
lapttvity. This idea, together with the
myths of creation, the flood, etc., as found
In the Pentateuch, was borrowed by the
Jews from the Iranian mythology- The
tdea grew and developed, under the care
Jul nursing of the priests, until hell be.
(.ame the foundation and the devil be
transcontinental maf? trains would sup
plant freight trains and tour-horse
freight wagons the stagecoach. Country
stores would be a thing of the past and,
last but not least, the annual postal
deficit would run up into . hundreds of
millions.
"Nonsense." says the league, "look at
Germany, where they carry -even - larger
packages for less money." Germany's
area is four-fifths that of the State of
Texas, every foot of it is cultivated and
densely populated. The people all live
in cities and villages, labor is cheap and
the government - owns the railroads.
There is as much sense in comparing the
postal system of Germany with that of
the United States as there is In the
fooIs remark, who, when informed of
the cost of a voyage across the Atlantic,
exclaimed: "My, oh, my! "I paid only
one mark for a long ride on the Rhine."
"The Postal Progress League Is pre
paring to make a whirlwind campaign
this fall," says t he Iron Age. Hereto
fore the league has been obliged to de
pend on the subscriptions of Its own
members. This Summer, however, it
seems to be liberally supplied with funds
and Secretary Cowleg is making a tour
of the country obtaining indorsements
of misguided business organizations.
Whence eometh this money for carrying
on this campaign? Doubtless from the
would-be beneficiaries, the principal ones
being the jobbing and mail order houses
in the great cities in the East and the
railroads, whose earnings would be ma
terially increased by hauling mail in
stead of freight cars.
During the coming short session of
Congress the league will push the ''con
solidation scheme," which means the
carrying of merchandise in the mails at
one-half cent per ounce. Last year
Uncle Sam lost nearly fifteen millions in
his postal business. Ordinary business
sense would suggest that the source of
the deficit be ascertained and eliminated,
that the receipts be increased or the ex
penses diminished. Parcels post advocates
demand a reduction of the income and an
increase of expenses. Even the friends of
the consolidation scheme admit that the
proposed reduction would cost the tax
"Washington and many others. In Califor-.
nia and Washington the accrediting Is
limited to the state normals and the state
university.
The normal schools of Oregon should
be placed on the same basis as those of
Washington. The state should maintain
them adequately, require thorough work
in the training department, and then give
at least a four years' certificate on gradua
tion. On suitable evidence that the teach
er has done good work, the certificate
should he changed to a state diploma at
the expiration of the four years' term.
By limiting the first certificate, the dan
ger would be obviated of graduates of the
normal schools who should fail to teach
subsequent to graduation becoming
possessors of a state paper. The superin
tendents should be required to exercise
strict supervision and refuse to recom
mend for a state paper wherej the work
of the graduate had not been satisfac
tory. It should be the policy of the state to
induee as many teachers as possible to
complete a thorough normal course. The
possibility of securing a state paper would
be a very strong inducement. As the sit
uation is today, both Oregon and Wash
ington are short of good teachers, al
though many of those trained jn the state
normals supported by Oregon are going
Into our neighboring state to pursue their
pedagogical career for two reasons rec
ognition of their diplomas and better sal
aries. The only reasonable objection to grant
ing state papers might be that the work
Commandment Is I snored
Reason, the World Is Really in a State of Anarchy. "
any of the other or get into any further
trouble. .
The first step in error is desire for
something that belongs to the neighbor.
Then comes "false witness," the evil
eye. Then, naturally, follow stealing,
adultery and murder.
The efforts of governments are mostly
punitive. They punish for crimes instead
of preventing them. Observe that no
government makes laws to prevent cov
etousness or lying. If they coul3 stop
these then they would have no need to
punish for adultery, stealing or murder.
For governments, such as flourish in
the world at present to legislate against
anything is very much like Satan making
laws to stop sin. There Is a mighty dif
ference between legality and morality.
The more legality thrives, the weaker
and sicklier becomes morality. Crime,
insanity, adultery, adulteration, dishon
esty and alt immorality increase in about
the same ratio as the burden and ex
pense of government.
Laws made by Legislatures are futile
If men will not, of their own volition, ac
cept and obey the simple and natural
laws given in the last five command
ments. If men would, by social contract,
agree to accept and observe these laws,
then there would not be any use for
Adventism and the Devil
Has Figured in Theology Since the Time of the Jewish Captivity.
came the keystone of the structure of
Christian theology. Satan, not God. be
came the prince of the world, and be
cause of the original sin, man became
the devil's rightful possession, from which
bondage nothing less than the ransom of
God's own blood, through Christ.- could
save or redeem him. To the demonology
of Zoroastrianlsm. then, with the Jewish
idea of the blood sacrifice attached to it.
as the tail is attached to the kite, are we
Indebted for the gift of Christianity.
Preachers tell us that His Satanic Ma
jesty Is the prince of deceivers, and that
all deceivers ar of the devil. If this
is so, and if what I have stated above is
true, and it is, then all those who teach
the dogma of eternal damnation are vile
deceivers and of the devil.
William Miller, himself an ignoramus,
and the founder of Adventism, predicted
that the second coming of Christ would
take place. In IMS. If he was deceived,
then his Inspiration was of the devil, but
if he himself was a deceiver, tha be
payers of the land from two. to three mil
lions more per annum.
But that would be only a tithe of the
injury this scheme would inflict upon the
industrial and commercial Interests of the
Pacific Coast. A reduction of mail rates
from one to one-half cent per ounce on
merchandise would hardly be noticed tn
the densely populated states of the East,
because a short haul at 8 cents per pound
would still be profitable, and the express
companies would -continue to do the busi
ness. Trans-continental shipments, how
ever, would be turned over to Uncle Sam
to be made at public expense, particularly
when packages are to be carried into the
interior on Star or R. F. D. routes.
Our infant industries, who are obliged
to buy their raw material in the East,
would not be able to compete with their
Eastern rivals were it not that the freight
rates on the finished product offset the
freight on raw material, and that the
coast house can supply its customer with
goods in small quantities and within a
few days' notice. In spite of the present
high transcontinental rates Eastern job
bers and mail-order houses do a large
mail and express business on the Coaat.
The latter send catalogues into every
nook and corner and quote prices the
country merchant cannot meat. The mer
chant tells his customer that his price is
as low, if not lower, when transportation
at 16 cents per pound is added to the
catalogue price. Traveling salesmen of
Eastern houses meet those of the Coast
in the fight for trade; one harps on low
prices, the other on cheap transportation
and quick delivery in any quantity. Com
petition is. keen, margins of profits are
cut closely, and freight and express rates
are carefully considered by both buyer
and salesman. The struggle would soon
be at an end should the rates from New
York to Salem be made the same as from
Portland. But distances at present make
that impossible unless the Government
should step in and pay the difference.
Standard Oil and the packers obtained
favors from the railroads which enabled
them to crush their rivals. Should Con
gress extend similar courtesies to the
great commercial interests in the East?
JOHN L. GRUBER.
Wlnlock, Wash., Oct. 15.
of the normal schools is considered un
satisfactory. The immediate remedy lies
with the state. Make ample appropria
tion, give good' buildings and equipment,
and just as soon as possible make grad
uation from the high schools a prerequi
site to admission to the normal schools.
California has already taken all these
steps, and has excellent service from the
normal schools.
The rery first step toward making -the
public schools efficient is to provide an
abundance of the best training for teach
ers. If there is an argument for training
a few teachers, there is an argument for
training all; so enough schools should be
maintained to meet all the demands of
the state. Owing to the limit placed on
the size of the normal schools by its train
ing department, some 60 or 70 graduates
are all that can be expected from each
school per year, which Is one of the
strongest arguments offered for maintain
ing several schools. 1 n refusing to rec
ognize the diplomas of her own schools,
Oregon is annually losing a number of
her best ' teachers. The fact that they
have spent four years at a training school
and passed, the examinations there re
quired is considered by them sufficient
evidence of their ability to teach, and, al
though perfectly competent, to do so, tne
law requiring them to take 22 examina
tions, wuich they have just completed, is
consldeid an unnecessary hardship. The
supply is not likely to exceed the demand,
so long aB the services of Oregon's teach
ers are so much appreciated by the neigh
boring states. TEACHER.
Portland. October 18.
Legislatures, and the gentlemen who now
labor so earnestly at. making laws they
don't' intend to keep, would have to do
something useful for a living.
Fortunately our modern grafters can
not steal the thunders of Sinai nor se
cure a franchise on the waters of the
river of life. Moses was ahead of their
time and still maintains his lead. He
gave five laws in five lines that the mod
ern lawmakers confess they cannot keep.
So they are always trying to replace his
law by .something they don't have to
keep: something to hold down the other
fellow, but let themselves free.
The bookshelves of the world are
groaning under great burdens of use
less law books, while the . people are in
gross ignorance of the simple primary
principles of natural law. The more the
laws and lawbooks are multiplied the
greater the lawlessness and the darker
the records of crime and disaster. This
is because the whole present system is
based en the abrogation of the last com
mandment, which Is really the first les
son in social ethics. If this Is violated
the whole law is nullified. The world
is really in a state of anarchy. Its laws
are based on repudiation of the law of
God.
Corvallis, October 13.
himself was of the devil. In either case,
then, if there is a devil, he is the father
of Adventism.
As according to the preachers, false
hoods and errors are of the devil, the
Bible, which is full of falsehoods and er
rors, according to their logic, must also
be of the devil.
The phenomena of spiritualism are es
tablished facts. The devil and hell are
exploded myths. Siliritualism teaches
that all gods and Oevils, Bible and
creeds, heavens and hells, are human in
ventions, hence the enmity and deadly
hatred of the church and of its paid advo
cates. Spiritualism floats the banner of knowL
edge and progress; the church stands for
darkness, ignorance and superstition.
I herewith inclose a few lines by the
great scientist, William Denton, and in
Its satirical words the progressive-minded
will find a pean of joy, stnging the vic
tory of science and knowledge over me
dieval darkness, ignorance and supersti
tion, but to the old fossils it will sound
like a funeral dirge bemoaning the loss
of their great provider of the coveted flesh
pots; but in either case, most appropriate
to the subject under discussion.
Etna, Wash., Oct. 16.
THE DEVIL. IS DEAD.
Sigh, priests; cry aloud, hang your pul
pits with black;
Let sorrow bow down every head:
The good friend who bore all your sins
on his back.
Your best friend, the Devil, is dead.
Tour church is a corpse; you are guarding
its tomb;
The soul of your system has fled.
That death-knell is tolling your terrible
doom;
It tells us the Devil is dead.
'Twas knowledge gave Satan a terrible
blow;
Poor fellow! he took to his bed.
Alas! idle priests, that such things should
be so;
Tour master, the Devil, is dead. '
Tou're bid to the funeral, ministers all;
We've dug the old gentleman's bed:
Tour black coats will make a most ex
cellent pall
To cover your friend, who is dead.
A y , lower him mournfully into the grave;
Let showers of teardrops be shed;
Tour business Is gone; there are no souls
to save;
Their tempter, the Devil, Is dead.
Woe comes upon woe, you can ne'er get
your dues:
Hell's open; the damned souls have fled:
They took to their heels when tjiey heard
the good news
Their. Jailer, the Devil, is dead.
Campmeeting's henceforth will be needed
no more:
Revivals are knocked on the head:
The orthodox vessel lies stranded on
shore.
Her captain, the Devil, is dead.
Don't Drop Necessary
Hyphens
Our Historic Indian IVamea Will Be
I.oxt if Slmplifled Spelling; la Es
tablished. By H. Davis.
ACCORDING to the nu speling, Wil
lamette wil hav to be speled wilam
et." to get the right sound. The old way
of speling this famous Valley and river
is clumsy jn the light of the onward push
or things simplified. Eastern people uni
versally call it "Will-a-mette," just as
they pronounce San Azay "San Jose," be
cause it is speled that way. Now. to give
the Wilamet River the right sound, it
must be hyphenated, thus: Wil-am-et
In this way the musical Indian accent
retained. And, unless this musical accent
is retained, we lose the charming novelty
of names we desire to perpetuate.
A study of Indian language of any of
our American tribes shows that all words
containing two syllables or more, are
spoken in a hyphenated . manner. The
English tongue is hard, cold, wholly un
musical as compared with the Indian lan
guage in its purity. And, while many of
the states, and many of our towns, cities,
rivers, creeks and mountains have been
named in memory of the aboriginal tribes
of America, some of which are extinct,
and others nearly so, we have lost, or
rather perverted, the real intention of
those who gave those names, -which was
to perpetuate the Indian sound or accent
thereof.
Take the word "Yosemite," for instance.
The average person, especially in the
East, calls it "Yo-semite." Instead of "Yo-sem-i-te,"
which gives It the true Indian
Inflection. The English words are
bunched up, as it were; the Indian words
are hyphenized, drawn out, hence their
softness and musical touch.
All will agree that "Min-ne-ha-ha" Is
more musical and less harsh than "Min
nehaha," in the English. "Che-hah-lis"
sounds better than Chehalis, with the in
flection on the "a." as is the common
pronunciation. Then, there is "Wal-Ia-Wal-Ia,
U-ma-til-la. Mult-no-mah, I-o-n-e,
Kah-me-la, Wal-lu-Ia, and many other In
dian names for towns, counties, etc., in
Oregon. which would sound better if
given the real Indian accent.
I am aware of the fact that in this
hustling, electric light age, hyphenated
words are being relegated to the rear,
among the things that were. That is all
well enough in ordinary speling, in words
that were formerly hyphenated, as In
"today," "tomorrow," etc. But those
were necessary removals of useless points,
and were not needed for the preservation
of words. The removal of the hyphen
from "today" and "tomorrow." It will be
seen, merely simplified the language. But
unless the Indian names we have are hy
phenated the true beauty of the language
is lost, become more English than Indian.
American scholars have been vainly try
ing for half a century to get away from the
English from European spelling and pro
nunciation of words. And the American
language has been greatly simplified. I
call it "American," in contradistinction of
British, which is not American. And I
am for calling the language In this coun
try "The American Language," because
we differ much from England, and are
drifting further away every year from
cockneylsm and "ye anciente spelleing."
But American reformers of the language
have had a rocky road to travel. The con
servatives fight for the old English
method. They want it- spelled "pro
gramme," "catalogue," "honour," "wag
gon," and so on, and indignantly resent
and oppose all propositions to get away
from the mother tongue, which is not an
original language, but a composite of
many other languages. In fact, there is
only one English language, and that is
spoken in England in various dialects,
from cockney up to the King's English.
In America we have a different language,
and we are getting further away every
year from "English as she Is spoke" In
Great Britain.
Of course, speling will be simplified. I
believe much of the simplification of spel
ing in this country is Sue to newspapers
and Job printers, who saw the necessity
for a change and so dropped out useless
letters from words of their own accord,
without agreement with any speling re
form committee or any one else.
Portland. Or., Oct. 13. 1906.
Fate of the Fare in Doubt. "
Boston Herald.
It happened on a crowded -car from
Augusta-, Me., after the ball game re
cently.. The conductor had experienced
more or less difficulty in getting- the fares,
as there were over 70 on the car and the
running-boards were crowded. He had
returned to the rear platform and as a
final precaution against missing a fare
looked over the occupants of th back
seats.
"Here, you," he said, addressing a
bright-eyed son of Erin, "did I get your
fare?"
"Yes," responded the boy.
"Sure of it?" pressed the conductor,
this time rather sharply.
Back came the rejoinder at a high
pitch: "Well. I dunno! Either you or
the company got It!"
The faretaker was a little discomfited,
but Joined In the boisterous laugh at his
expense.
Principles of Life Inherent in Matter
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTION OF A GOD -MADE UNIVERSE
CONTRASTED WITH VIEWS OF REVERENT SCIENTISTS.
By J. R. Kendall.
IN The Sunday Oregonlan of the 14th
Inst, is an article entitled, "Earnest
Seeking After Divinity." by Rev. Mr.
Vrooman.t If the Reverend were not tha
ologic he would be scientific, as he shows
quite a laudable desire to fathom the ul
timate mysteries of being, but plainly
shows the theologian in his conception of
an universe, of brute matter presided over
by a creating, overruling spirit intelli
gence, self-existing and incarnate, com
monly called God by those people to
whom he is said to have especially re
vealed himself.
That the Reverend should be "dum
founded" at finding himself alive is to
my mind quite philosophic, as I look upon
my being as a result of evolutionary
forces. The plain logic of evolution is,
that the principles of life are inherent in
matter. This is evidently not the view of
the Reverend, who finds, upon analyzing
matter that the molecules, when existing
separate from organized being, are in a
"state of absolute death." Reasoning
from this premise, his first conclusion is
that it is a great absurdity to suppose
that life originated in matter equivalent
to believing that "something can come
from nothing." Since, according to the
Reverend's dictum there is no life in mat
ter per se, it must co'me from nothing or
be created out of nothing. Which horn
will the Reverend choose? Jn his Belfast
address John Tyndall made use of these
words: "Abandoning all disguise, the con
fession I feel bound to make before you
is that I prolong the vision backward,
across the boundary of experimental evid
Wh
en Spelling Reform Is Established
Correct Present Abuses and a Long Step Will Be Taken Toward the Millennium.
ILL you allow a little space In
your Sunday paper for a little
more "spelling rubbish"? I will try
to make my e's and i' so plain that
they will not be taken for l's and s's. I
must confess that I neglected to except
diphthongs when I stated that there
should be as many syllables as vowels.
That scores one for Mr. V. I will not
argue with him any more about "the
mluzic tq or the use of e for k. That
is "small fry" for "fonetlks." It has a
much more important work on hand.
I agree with Mr. V. that our "alfabet"
Is defective, and ' In a former article
suggested some needed changes.
Note some of our inconsistencies. We
have "eigh" (four letters) to repre
sent long a, as in such words as eight
and freight; eau" for u. as In beauty,
but not duty. Now why not deauty or
buty? Again, the same eau stands for
long o, as in beau, bureau; but we do
not spell no neau, or so seau. Then
"ough" is used for a as in fall; ex..
"Am I My Brother's
Xot Deity but Man Must Provide Food for the
By Thomas gladden.
ESUS CHRIST has made provisions
J for the little children." "Every
one that goes to church is prosperous,
because going to church makes them
prosperous. Going to church would make
the poor prosperous and by this method
poverty could be abolished from the face
of the earth."
If the working people would go to
church and- swallow such absurd state
ments without question, they had ought
to remain poor all the rest of their days,
but the fact that they will not go to
church-and have such stuff dished up to
them is proof positive that many of them
are not beyond redemption In this world,
whatever may be their status In the one
to come.
If Christ provided for little ones, some
of the prosperous church members have
gotten away with most of the provisions
and are making a rather successful at
tempt to get away with the rest. What
provision has Christ made for those chil
dren born in the tenement-houses' of New
York, in certain districts of which it has
been truly said, "A birth means, -in a cer
tain time, another inmate ror a peniten
tiary or a brothel?" What provision has
he made for the child of a certain mother
left penniless In Portland, her husband
and breadwinner in the Salem peniten
tiary? Never mind what he has done;
answer for the child.
"The mother hen can warm her chicks."
So says the doctor. Tes, the mother hen
can warm her chicks with feathers, but
dollars are the feathers with which the
mother must warm the human chicks, and
many of the mothers of human chicks
have been plucked of all their feathers
by pious and prosperous church members
before the human chick was born. "The
foxes have their holes," but millions of
the children of the poor have no t place
to lay their heads. Hundreds of poor
girls are today working for wages in Port
land, that, if they have much of an appe
tite, will keep two or three divinities
working overtime to take care of them.
I think the Rev. Dr. made a mistake
when he likened human beings to hens, in
his illustrations. He should have used
buzzards or hawks. But even the hawks
do not make war on other hawks' chil
dren, and live off of them. The question
Is not what provision Is God making, but
what provision are you making, to clothe
the naked, feed the hungry, befriend the
fatherless. Don't try to shift human re
sponsibility onto a deity. That is played
out. Your philanthropy Is nothing but
"charitable hypocrisy." Your churches
have degenerated, until today they are
nothing but fashionable clubs, where ego
tistic respectables of the select assemble
to hear their own praise sung by their
chosen mouthpieces.
And while these rhetorical bouquets are
being delivered tr self-glorified and self-
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ence and discern 'in' that matter, which
we in our ignorance and notwithstanding
our professed reverence, for Its creator,
have hitherto covered with opprobrium,
the form and potency of every form and
quality of. life." .
Rev. Mr. Vrooman, according to the
dictum of this distinguished authority, is
still engaged in the hopeless task of
trying to cover matter with "oppro
brium". He would disown his plebian
mother natures and claim direct descent
from the gods, but he lives upon mother
nature's bounties and convert her en
ergies into terms of vitality and con
sciousness. .
I speak with all due respect when I
say that the necessary and fundamental
conception of theology is a god-made
universe. ' Thus has God become the X
of theology and we are perpetually con
fronted by the theologlo equation let God
equal the mystery. ' This equation has
been before our side of the world' for
SOOO years (it has been a little longer than
that since ha was discovered) and the
solution is as far off as ever and the
first essential of the equation seems to be
getting farther away, as the distance of
the sun is to the "flight of a bird." Be
fore theology is prepared to enter the
field of physics, it should be able to
give a rational explanation of the mode
of existence and plan of operation of
the power called God. If he is self-existent,
then why is nature not self-ex-lstent.
If nature needed a creator then
why does its creator not need a creator
ad infinitum? To science every form of
energy has Its equivalent and all forms
of energy are convertible. Motion, heat,
light, electricity, magnetism, etc., are but
fought, ought, etc., and again 'tis
00 as through. If we had an o . for
move, to and do I would make through
"thro" Instead of "thru." Mr. V. would
probably make It thrlu, as neither of our
other ue wuld "fill the bill." Bi and ie
are either long e or 1: ea Is sometimes
long e. and again short e: an "a" or a
"u"; here are examples: heat, bread,
heart, learn. So e. I and o are often used
where u should be, as the 1 in bird and
girl; the e in fern and stern, and the o
In word and worth. Ce before k is useless
in tick, lock and luck, and of what use is
1 before k In walk, balk and talk? or be
fore f in half and calf? Ph for f and ch,
for k need replacing.
Just think what a boon this would be
for the kids! Let us just step in ami
watch 'em spell. The sehoolma'am says:
"Juvenile spelling class." Out swarm 'he
boys and girls and "line up" heads erect,
hands down and toes- to a crack in the
floor. Teacher says: "Johnny, spell
thought." Now in our revised "alfabet"
we will have a letter like the Greek theta
for "th," also three additional a's which
wo will call "aye," "ah and "awe." So
hypnotized, perhaps well-meaning sky
dreamers, who are living in the air, the
cold and hunger and want still accumu
late "in the warrens of the poor, and the
mother still hums in her attic the song
of the Bhirt." Am I my brother's keeper?
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Pleas mention this ppr.
aliases on the line, of the inscrutable
mystery called force.
JVIU the Reverend point out the home
term on this line of force the end term?
If we- had indeed a Iheolosic universe. It
would be no trouble to find sticks and
strings with but one end. The universe
of being about us is a manifestation of
force and if the theoretical power tho
theologian calls God was the caii!e of it
.then this cause needed a course whirh
needed a cause AA infinitum. But tho
theologic conception is ' that this God
cause is the '"first cause" the end of the
series. A first cause that can spend in
finite amounts of energy, without even
Impairing the original stock is a decidedly
theologic conception. The Reverend calls
in a greater mystery to explain a lesser.
It is easier to believe the universe suf
ficient unto itself than to believe in an
independent. abstract spiritual intel
ligence great etiough to create it. and
yet not be converted into terms of It.
The "inexorable logic of dynamics is
that the power that created the universe,
was converted into terms of it and if
the Reverend is earnestly seeking divinity,
he may see it. if he but look with a
little scientific faith, embodied before him
in "every form and quality of life"
'.'law." "instinct" and "reason" are equiv
alent terms lit the, same series. Nature is
intelligence materialized.
As to those vain mortals referred to by
the Reverend, who are stretching up anil
assuming divine prerogatives 1 can say
that I am not one of them, and consider
any object iti. nature as divine as any
other object. My surmise is they are
"Christian Scientists." but as these, are'
neither Christians nor scientists, they
may be pardoned for assuming a little
more than their share of divinity.
Cottage Grove. Or.. October 1G.
Johnny will speak up smart and say
"Theta aw te. thought." Then teacher
will say, "Sally, spell chalk, ( and Sally
will say Vhe awe ka, chalk.' Right; the
next spell weight. "We-aye-te": riR-ht. The
next, signboard"; es-eye-en-be-oh-ar-de."
Right again; the next, ' reign,' 'ar-aye-en.
reign." Next, seize, 'es-ce-z, seize." " We
will hot stop to hear any more now. There
is no "turning down' In that class: all
have their lesson: no staying after school
to finish spelling lesson. Teacher can go
home as soon as school is out. Editors
can save a half sheet or more and have
the same amount of matter in their paper:
mails will not bo so heavy, -and 1'ncle
9am -will save something; rural deliveries
will have lighter loads, and it will be a
long step towards the Millennium.
1 am aware 'there will le some trouble
In "iiitrodoosing" this system, because all
do not pronounce alike, jn such words
as vast, last and psalm, some use the
short a and others the ah. The Virginian
says flo and mo for floor and more, and
bar for bear, and others have peculiari
ties. REFORM.
Ontario, Or., Oct. 12.
Keeper?"
Hungry.
And the accusing finger of intelligence
says: "You are that brother's keeper, and
to you, not God, devolves the duty of pro
tecting the helpless." And in Bowery
English, you've made a bum job of it.
Portland. Oct. 16.
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