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ttt-R KTTVDAY OBFfiOVTAV. pfvn TT,. A XT), FEBRUARY 1915. it . , . I . : PASTOR Rev. W. The frrmon on "Friendliness. Honor and Faith." by Kcv. W G. KMot. Jr.. pastor of the Urst Unitarian Church. Is the third in a series by -prominent I ort land clergymen. Other contri butions and the dates o publi cation follow: February 28. Dr. V. B. Hln son. pastor First Baptist Church t White Temple). March 7. Dr. Frank U Ice land, pastor FirsJ. Methodist Kpiscopal Church. March H. Kev. E. V. O-Hara, assistant pastor Cathedral of Immaculate Conception. March 21. Rev. H. M- Ramsey, dean St. Stephen s FTo-Cathdral. March 28. rr. Jonah B. W tse. Rabbi Temple Beth Israel. BY REV. W. i. El.IOT, JR.. pistor First Unitarian Church. THE great war has stabbed the woof, world awake to the fact that friendliness, honor and faith are factors of .uprem-Importance. This Is true in all the affairs of life, but especially true In four -Prtn human Interest whore our problems are most crucial. ' fH. First In the industrial world. Mod ern industrv was developed under cir cumstances" of injustice, toward I wage earners that tend to perpetuate a srow inu hostility and distrust. The f that there is much friendliness and fair deVllnS - between individual ""p'oyers 2ni aRe earners should not blind us to the evils that still exist, and espe cially to the evils incident to absentee ownership and irresponsible sharchold- '"Nor should the generosity of an em ployer like Mr. Ford 'blind us to the Fact that relations between employer and wage-earner can never stand upon a perWnently satisfactory basis until wage-earners have an effective voice as To tne terms and conditions of their 8eiCrlcent years there has been an increase of friendliness and honor among wage-earners and an Increase of friendliness and honor among em ployers. But the situation remains Im possible until there is an equal Increase of friendliness between employers and wage-earners. Union Placed mm 1 Xlmr. Under present conditions friendliness and honor beween employers and wage earners can mean nothing less than the right and duty of wage-earners to or ganize effectively, frank and full ad mission c.f the principle of collective bargaining and the duty and privilege of employers to recognize the union. But neither friendliness nor honor re quires the employer to recognize the union if the terms demanded are tyran nous in practice or wrong in principle. It cannot but appear to many disin terested observers that the demand of the unions that recognition shall mean 'the closed shop" is both wrong practice and in principle, and can be Justified only as a war measure, that is to say. upon a basis of hostility rather than upon a basis of friendliness. Nor does "the open shop" come much nearer to a solution. It appears to be more nearly correct In principle than the closed shop, but in practice It evades j the nai issue. jiuicmci, PRETTY L - lH fPjA II ! II ? 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There are two ways to apply the de- ing the pattern and transfer paper you j" mi fwi iTnisiii x fl ' vj I l" sign to the material upon which it is to , will find a neat and accurate outline ii ,o e ii ' ' t be worked. It your material is sheer, ' of the design upon your material. lyv I V -r :A BUTTON-HOLE, SATIN, EYELET ANb J OUTLINE STITCHES SEES FRIENDLINESS, HONOR AND FAITH STIR G. EliotExplains Factors of unlon workman In the open shop has an advantage with his employer, and. all things being equal, is preferred to a union man. At the same time the non unton man in the open shop shares tuo advantages which the union man has helped to create, but does not share the latter's sacrifices. Deadlock Seems Apparent. That effective unionism ought to be recognized and that the unions, ac cording to their present belief and practices, cannot always be recognized, evidently creates a deadlock. Those who do not incline favorably towards either extreme, whether of Syndical ism on one hand or Socialism on the other, and who are forced to realize that as between the other remaining alternatives there can be nothing but Increasing trouble, should consider a remaining alternative which would ap pear to conserve the principles involved in the open shop and yet to acknowl edge the Just necessity of effective unionism and full recognition, namely: What is known as "the preferential union shop." In this case the employer frankly recognizes and welcomes the union man and his union and prefers him to the non-union man, reservig the right to employ nonunion men when union men are not to be had or prove to be less efficient; these last two questions being left to impartial arbi tration in the event of dispute. The working of the last-mentioned plan undoubtedly depends for its suc cess upon a larger practice of friendli ness and honor on both sides. But it has this additional advantage over any other plan proposed in that when there is dispute the battle is fought in a fairer field. Nor have I any illusions that this will solve all the problems; nor that it is necessarily applicable in every case. Complications incident to competitive markets often make the problem in individual instances ex tremely complicated and difficult. Closed Shop Considered "Wrong. What is here claimed is that in gen eral the closed shop is wrong in prin ciple and practice and that the open shop is unsatisfactory and evasive of real Issues, and that both are therefore impossible as bases for a permanent settlement of the questions involved. The only settlement that will be any thing like permanent under present conditions must be upon a basis that Is both friendly and honorable. The goal to be aimed at is the establish ment of methods by which ware earner may have of right a, reasonable and effective voice in those phases of industry that effect the terms and con ditions of their service. The effective weapon of the employer and wage-earner alike will not perma nently be force and strategy, but an Intelligent, conscientious and effective public opinion. I do not now know of any device or practice so likely to re ceive the indorsement of the public as that referred to, viz.; The. preferential union shop for the reasons named. I say these things in no partisan spirit, but in all friendliness and com mend them to my friends in both camps for their thoughtful consideration and kindly criticism. Secondly In the relation of nation to nation. International friendliness and honor do not mean non-resistance or peace at any price. There is one hell lower than war. and that is a shameless peace. There is such a thing as' a na tion's life and honor: but the funda mental fact is that war exists in posse DESIGN SUITABLE FOR HANDKERCHIEF OR GLOVE CASE Industrial Life, Relations before it exists in esse in any nation where children and youth are reared to believe and feel that hatred or dis trust or contempt of another country is the principal ingredient of patriot ism, or taught that war in itself is the natural and best way to settle any thing, or that might makes right, or that the principles of international ethics are essentially different from the fundamental principles of personal ethics as between man and man. Kvlls Traced to Child Life. Whether it is the boy throwing stones at a Chinaman, or Hobson pre dicting war with Japan, or a politi cian, making the eagle scream, it is all wrong. Our own children are brought up with too. little genuine friendliness for other peoples and too little confi dence in the capacity of other nations for honorable dealing. .If anyone thinks that the United States is the only hon orable Nation on earth, let him read the story of our treatment of Indian tribes for the past three centuries and he will receive a severe and much needed discipline in humiliation. Upon no other basis is war permanently pre ventable than upon the basis of inter national friendliness and honor; and the world cannot be successfully con- of Men and Women, Dealings stitutionalized upon any other terms. Third: As between men and women. Men and women are different physi cally, intellectually, temperamentally. There are doubtless likenesses, but men are men and women are women by virtue of the differences and In spite of the likenesses. These differ ences are real and deeply rooted and can be modified only superficially and temporarily, by environment, custom or education; they cannot be permanently and radically altered.. Men. are inferior to women In some things and superior to them in other things, and vice versa. And no attempted solution of the sex war is permanent that ignores facts. But facing the facts is only one step. Dishonorable Solution Doomed. . In any real solution of present prob lems, friendliness and honor are indis pensable and all attempted solutions that move on lines. unfriendly or dis honorable are doomed. This principle must hold true even when the present day confusion of issues or blindness of vision makes it difficult for the Judi cious always to perceive clearly Just what is right. But there are some things which seem to be growing clearer and clearer, viz: that supposed friendliness of men towards women of Nations and Finally in that makes a woman a toy or even puts omrarieshln before common duty in marriage Is dishonorable: nor is It the truest friendliness to substitute any false or over-individualistic independ ence for manly and womanly Interde pendence In the domestic and social or der. Moreover, there Is no real friend liness or honor In the pretenses where by a woman may succeed In wheedling out of a man what she wants, or In the weak indulgence on the part of the man that grants her anything if she will fling a sufficient, tanttum. And this, too. Is growing clearer to the minds and consciousness of all. that men's dishonor to women, in the de gree that it exists everywhere, is and has been the supreme tragedy of the ages and will never cease so long as1 boys' minds continue to be sub-Irrigated with vlleness and rendered almost helpless against commercialized vice through the ignorance and fear and neglect of parents; and so long as bo many men claim a right with other men's sisters and daughters that these very men would be all too quick to protest at the pistol point when it is their own sisters or daughters that are concerned. In all attempts to find a way out of a situation which at present is compli cated and perilous, we shall probably move along with a mixture of success and blunder with misunderstanding and some things to repent of at leisure. Of this we may be sure: what Is con ceived in hostility and rancor and co ercion can never permanently hold its own with what is conceived in mutual friendliness and honor. Churche Come In for Share. Fourthly: Among the churches. Evcrv attempt should be made to bring about greater friendliness among the churches. But never at the expense oi honor. Friendliness without honor will lead to the minimizing of real and vital differences and in a hasty pud ding of concessions. Friendly merg Ings and federations, so far as they are consistent with honor und genu inely honest co-operation among churches, are steps in the right direc tion. But more desirable than any such measures are movements of inward growth and of a more internal friend liness and honor among all the churches. There can be no permanent approximation to church unity upon any other basis than an honorable loy alty to what one's own branch of the church has genuinely contributed by its origin and history to the life of the world and a thoroughly friendly appre ciation of. what other churches have contributed and of those things in which they may be superior whether in what they have conserved or in what they are thinking and doing. Constructive Course Is Defined. The real constructive course for all Is not to see good in all the churches and to make that an excuse for being loyal to none, but first to be honest at any cost and then to be loyal to one's own church at almost any cost short of honor and one's deeper happiness. It behooves any man to realize that his own department of the church at large almost invariably carries the defects incident to its reactionary origin and its development in a hostile environ ment, or the defects that are inevitable under coercive systems: and he may well believe that the final test of cath olicity or universality in his own or any other church is not to be found In its numbers nor in its length of years but In its capacity to meet effectively Association With Church and and honestly the final necessity of the human soul the human soul conceneu of as essentially a social being, men aced In its congenital entanglements with the forces of ignorance, death and sin. but deathless In Its possibilities of redemption, education, sacred affections and moral victory. I have said that the whole world has awakened as perhaps never before to the importance of friendliness, honor and faith in all the affairs of ltfo. I have illustrated and applied this to four departments of human concern. If I have said little about faith was It not nevertheless always implied? Materialism is profoundly inconsistent with all the higher implications of friendliness and honor. Friendliness and honor demand sacrifices that cannot be vindicated In terms of space and time. Unfriendliness and dishonor contribute to a real hell here and here after. Friendliness and honor here and hereafter contrlbuts to heaven. Goal ot Dead Und Is View. The goal of friendliness and honor is not a dead one. The meaning of life necessitates some intimation of what are otherwise sealed orders. The true interpretation of life Is not to be found In Its natural source but in its heaven ly destiny. Every department of hu- STUDENT INVENTOR IS FUGITIVE FROM RUSSIA Isaac Schneider Spends Spare Hours at University of Washington in Perfecting Instrument to Measure Height of Trees. UNIVERSITY of Washington, Seat tle, Feb. 20. tSpecLal.) A revo lutionist and a fugitive from his native land. Isaac Schneider, senior forestry student at the University of Washington. Is spending his spare hours in the laboratory producing a noteworthy Invention. Seven years ago he fled from Russia to avoid slavery In the Siberian wilderness. Next June he will be graduated from Washington. Schneider's interests in his studies are toward improvement in instru ments relating to forestry. He Is per fecting a new instrument for getting vertical or horizontal distance and for measuring the height of trees. Pcan Winklewerder, of the School of For estry, has pronounced it good, and the members of the engineering depart ment are enthusiastic over its possi bilities. In Warsaw, Russian Poland. Schneid er, although lie had Leon educated In private schools and was living In ease and comfort, decided to devote his life to help educate the poor and ignorant, that they might some day help In the uprising against oppression and free their country from the tyranny of castes. He had certain books and pamphlets in possession when secret agents of the government discovered them. His home was surrounded and the doors battered In, but Schneider escaped. He fled from the city. Passports were forged and watchmen were paid to he blind. He reached the border and fled to Germany from whence ho made his way; to New orK. Schneider got a Job in New York, although he could neither read nor WORLD Religion. man Interest. nottlly the one we con sidered above. Is coming more und more to sense this truth. A general faring of the realities of life and death, a profound penitence, widespread sol -row and fellow feeling, the, flaring transltorlness of earthly thins,, pathos and tragedy on a ronipelllna and um vlnrlng -calo, heroin and willing rlflces all have awakened the world to a realization that provisions fir wealth and health, that economic lutions. that legislation and reform, all touch onlv tho outside of Hie total human problem. Many people are tired of dogmas nn l forms, to a great extent, no doubt, cause they do not understand them and do not do them JumI. o. Ai many mor are worse than weary of nothing nl all wherln to believe and hope. W.i cr eamers and employers, whole nation. of people, our homes and ev.n our churches are turning with wIMftil longing and renewed conso -ration to the light thit llghtelh evcrv man. an'l craving the solutions and Inspiration and sustaining help of liiimuiiiicl. "iJo. with us." and seeking the fellowship and the blessing of the rhun Ilea for their worship, their work and their play, and for all the deeper problems anil emergencies of their Uvea. write Kngllsh. II worked there for two years, and. passing the New Yolk hlph school examinations, entered the School of Forestry, at Hi In University He studied two years at Ohio end tlien came West. After a four year's filulit half way around the world, he reached the University of Washington. "I will never go back to Russia. " said Schneider. "There would be noth ing there for me but a prison cell or slavery In Siberia." Schneider Is 30 years old. On hla graduation ho will make forrMry lis profession. He lisa two brothers In this country, one In huslnrsa mil th" other In tlie army. Hla mothrr and two sisters arc still living In Warsaw, lie had had no word from tin in since the beginning of tho war. Five Washington professors lime received invitations of mcmtcrslilp In th Association of American Profes sors, a body of scholars of acknow ledged achievement In university ten li Ing and research work, organized ilnr Ing the last year. Teli mams uuiimim Ing the rliosen member of the Wash ington faculty were lecclvcd here yes terday. The professors who hae been ankrd to be members are: F. M. 1'nWrlforO. head of tlie iJrp.-irtrn.nt of l.igllsh. J. N. Bowman, assistant professor of European history; It. l' Morlu. pro fessor of nuit'iematlcs: II. tj. lUi-rs. professor of chemistry: and J. Allen Smith, professor f political sclt-iu-e and economics. lTofessor John Powry. of Columbia University of New Yolk. Is president of the Association, ami there is a coun cil of SO professors berldcs the remilar officers. i
