THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 28, 1922
AMERICA'
Rev. Mr. Hinson Decries Decadence of Home, Declining Morality, Mad Rush After Money and Feverish Chase After Amusement and Cites Kind of Men Who Are Needed Today Lincoln and Roosevelt Eulogized.
BY DR. W. B. HINSON,
Pastor East Side Baptist Church.
This day shall be unto you for a me
morial. Exodus xil:14.
IN 1620 a novel ship started from
the old world for the new, con
taining men and women in pur
suit of a strange thing, even freedom
to serve God according to their own
interpretation of the Bible and in ac
cord with conscience. And they land
ed on the stern and rockbound coast
of New England.
There was woman's fearless eye.
Lit by her deep love's truth.
There was manhood's brow serenely high,
And the fiery heart of youth. ,
And amid the storm they sang.
"And the stars heard, and the sea;
And the sounding aisles of the dim woods
rang
With the anthem of the free.
Tea, call it holy ground
The soil where first they trod;
They left unstained what there they
found
Freedom to worship God.
May I pause long enough to say
that after the fools have criticised and
satirized the Pilgrim fathers, you had
better become wise enough to rightly
estimate their virtues, their courage,
their fear of God, and to govern your
own lives somewhat after their heroic
and high example.
Clock of Destiny Strikes.
In 1776 the clock of destiny struck
again for this nation, and some farm
ers fired the shot heard around the
World. For God said:
' I am tired of kings,
I suffer them no more;
Up to my ear each morning brings
The outrage of the poor.
I will have never a noble
Nor lineage counted great;
Choppers and plowmen and sailors
Shall constitute tj state.
My angel, his name is freedom,
Choose him for your king;
He shall cut pathways for your feet
And lend you. with hiB wing.
And those men went forth in self
denial and heroic self-sacrifice to lay
the foundations upon which this re
public rests tonight. Not an easy
task did they find It. You know in
old Russia in the long ago, when they
would lay the foundations of a great
building, they laid them in human
flesh and blood by putting a live
body at the foot of every pillar and
post. That is the way the world has
been served. That is the way- civili
zation has been saved. It has always
been according to the Lord's great
The Kingfisher, by Phyllis Bottome. George
H. Doran & Co., New York city, N. Y.
A new apostle of realism has arisen
in England, one worthy to be ranked
with Thomas Hardy. This gifted new
novelist is Phyllis Bottome who has
quite a number of good novels to her
credit, among them being "A Servant
of Realty," "The Second Fiddler" and
others. Her newest story is "The
Kingfisher," which attracts by its wit.
cynical utterances, grim creations of
character and gripping power of plot.
It bears no references to the recent
world war and portraits instead the
working England of our day.
The masterful hero of "The King
fiRher" is Jim Barton, murderer, and
afterward barge boy on the Thames
river, Cambridge university graduate,
laborite, agitator, public speaker, rad
ical and lover. The novel begins with
Jim's infancy. Here is a picture of his
father: "Tom Barton was quite good
tempered when he was sober and he
was rarely drunk except during the
week ends; but from Friday to Mon
day the house rose and fell in the
tempest of his intoxication."
Gradually the furniture disappeared
sold for liquor but it was noted
that the family bread knife remained
nearly stationary. Tom "rarely hit the
children, except when they came his
way. When he was mad with liquor
he frequently expressed a wish to kill
them, but beating his wife always did
instead. Every now and then, she
screamed until the police came."
As a small child Jim rebelled against
a beating, even from his father, and
he always fought back. "Something
within him, very violent and unbreak
able, never felt itself quelled. Jim
did not know that it was his spirit,
because neither the word nor the
thing was recognized In his circle."
Jim hated his father with a fierce
hatred. The town they called home is
known as Swanhill with a population
of 7000, in a factory district. As a boy,
Jim was curious and disposed to be
inquisitive about education. A young
woman calls and tells the family that
Rev. Arthur Atkinson has recently ar
rived in the parish but the Bartons
are indifferent. They do not .care
about clergymen. '
One day, when Jim was 14 years
old, Mr. Barton, father, came home
drunk and started to beat his wife.
Jim struck at his father with a toy
horse and just then Miss Eliza, the
boy's sister, handed Jim the poker,
and Jim used' this heavy weapon on
his father's head. Mr. Barton shud
dered once or twice and then lay still,
he was dead. I
Jim was arrested for the murder
of his father and was sentenced to
serve three years in the nearest peni
tentiary. He proved to be an ex
emplary prisoner and attracted the
compassion ot Rev. Mr. Atkinson, a
radical clergyman, and on the boy's
release from jail, he was befriended
by Mr. Atkinson, who secured for his
young friend, a job as barge boy on
the barge "Water Lily." operated by
Joe Moucher. The latter was told
about the boy's history and said he
would give him a chance. Moucher
often drank to excess and his one
chum was Cadger, his dog.
As a barge boy, Jim was a suc
cess, and he gave satisfaction to
Moucher. But all the time the boy's
thoughts were about education and
he was afterward sent hy Mr. Atkin
son to board and to l"arn English
with the genteel and cultured family
of Mr. and Mrs. Bligh. There were
three other young men boarders.
Pritchard. Wivvle and Ainey. Jim
makes no effort to hide his past life
and when Ainey, who was a boxer,
openly sneered at Jim. a fight was
the result, in which Ainey is nearly
killed.
Rev. Mr. Atkinson, Jim's protector,
dies, and Jim falls into a legacy of
"300 a year" (pounds sterling or dol
lars?) page 199.
Jim visits a picture gallery and
there recognized a flashily dressed girl
as Eliza, his sister. Eliza is a profes
sional thief and proud of it. Jim de
cides to be honest. He goes to Cam
bridge university, gets his education,
and then turns to what is his life
work radical preacher, labor chief
and public speaker.
Miss Viola Egerton, society girl and
a self-willed one, hears of Jim as a
powerful public speaker and she
emerges as the heroine. Her family
frowns on Jim as a possible son-in-law.
All the time Jim does not hide
his prison record. AH the time he is
a fighter.
Powerfully drawn pictures ot dock
saying that a grain of wheat must
fall into the ground and die if it
would produfe a harvest. And I pause
another moment to say we pleasure
seeking, money-loving people of to
day had better pause long enough
in our mad whirl to think about the
heroic denial of self, the surrender of
self, that characterized those men
who built and who labored -for us.
In 1861 Families Divided.
In 1861 another shot was fired, ami
churches became enlisting places, and
families were divided, and 'father
fought son and brother fought broth
er. And in that record of divided
households the worst war of history
was waged. And out of the chaos
was evolved the greatest figure that
has yet appeared in American his
tory, quaint, uncouth, simple, sublime
Abraham Lincoln.
Yesterday the clock struck again
a r.d autocracy menaced the world, and
men said: "The struggle is not ours.
The conflict is on another shore and
the ocean lies between us and im
pending peril." But the aggression
became yet more determined and the
insults more studied and deep, until
at last too late for is highest honor
this nation moved into what will
be known to history as the great war.
Now and for some time past we have
been belittling ourselves by talking
about who won the war, and some
one with little penetration of brain
or heart originated a phrase that we
had better let slip into oblivion that
America won the war. America did
no such thing. In a sense Belgium
won the war by holding back those
gray hordes for a few days, and so
far won the war.
In a sense France won the war.
Standing there with her back to the
wall, solemnly determined "they shall
not pass," she held the armies of
Germany at bay until other nations
got ready to enter the struggle. In a
sense England won the war by her
fleet policing the seas ani making
possible the passage of an army from
one shore to another. In a sense
America won the war. entering into
it when the allies were disheartened,
worn out, war-weary. But let me
remind you of a sentence from Victor
Hugo. He stood on the field of Wa
terloo andi wrote these words:
"Wellington did not win Waterloo,
nor the British, nor the Germans.
The battle of Waterloo was won by
God, who saw Napoleon had become
too heavy for the peace of Europe
and who therefore overturned him." ,
God defeated the kaiser! Let there
be no foolish boasting among the
nations by the nations. It wasi God
who said: "There shall be no other
strikes and other labor troubles are
furnished.
Hugo Munsterberg, by Margaret Mun
sterberg. D. Appleton & Co., New York
City.
Professor Hugo Munsterberg and
his famous psychological laboratory
at Harvard university are remem
bered yet when educators and pub
licists meet, - although Professor
Munsterberg died December 16, 1916.
This biography, by Munsterberg's
daughter,- is a notable, important one,
and is read with profit. Munster
berg was born in Danzig, near the
Baltic sea, in the year 1863, and he
came to the United States in his 30th
This book details his busy life
at Harvard, his life work in psychol
ogy and political science, and -his
friendships with Roosevelt, Wilson,
Taft, Schurz, Andrew D. . White,
James Bryce and other notables.
The biographer relates how Muns
terberg was surprised, when in 1914,
his view of the causes of the world
war, from a German point of view,
did not meet with approval from
American friends whose opinions he
valued.
He appeared to be in his usual
health, it is pointed out, December
16. 1916. when he talked with his wife
about the war and said: "By spring
we shall have peace." It was a cold
morning, and snow was falling. Don-
The late Professor Hugo Mun-aterberg-,
a biography of
whom in a new book.
ning his fur coat, Munsterberg walked
to Radclife college and began to lec
ture, when he fell exhausted. It was
the end. "To him had come the ever
lasting peace."
Rogues of the North, by Albert M. Trey
nor. Chelsea house, New York city.
Boldly written and with a live,
pulsing interest in the recital that
wins the reader's respect, this novel
of . seal 'poachers and ' other maraud
ers in Alaskan waters is a welcome
surprise sent out as - it is by one
who is not one of the "big" writers.
Professor Webster, lately of Stan
ford university, Cal., and drawing a
salary of $200 a month, resigns to go
north to Alaska and northern waters
generally, to find a rumored lost is
land to which all seals are said to
migrate at a certain season pf the
year, and for the journey he. charters
the auxiliary yacht "Kittiwake," os
tensibly for scientific research pur
poses. The captain is Captain Catesby
and two important passengers are the
professor's daughter, Elise, and her
fianced one, Gerald Forrester, a some
what indolent youth. Catesby casts
doubt on the expedition and says that
the United States cutters never would
allow poachers to get away from a
seal rookery with a cargo of seals.
He insists that all the islands are
watched by government officers but
admits that somewhere he had heard
of a lost seal rookery, the location of
which no one seemed to know.
The professor produces a log book,
which he says he picked up from an
Aleut Indian, on Umnak island, a
log book purporting to relate how
I '
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world ruler until he whose right to
rule has come and established his
world dominion." .
Dates Well Recalled.
Now, we do well to recall that date
1620, We do well to remember this
republic was founded" in simplicity of
life, seriousness of thought, solemnity
of purpose and the fear of God. We
Jo well to remember that other date
1776, when men preferred liberty to
ease, conflict for the right to com
fort, and went out and laid, for us a
foundation upon which we may safely
build. We do well to remember 1861,
when it was resolved in this land
that equality before the law should
be obtained and possessed by every
citizen of America. And we do well
to remember the conflict out of which
we have just passed, for there are
menaces looking into the . eyes of
America tonight that I have solemnly
believed I should call to your atten
tion. No more sectionalism in Amer
ica! "No nation can exist half free,
half enslaved," said Lincoln. And
when I read at the beginning of last
week about a gathering of German
Catholics of Oregon and their as
sumption that it was theirs to. cor
rect the government and adjudicate
concerning matters they evidenced
profound ignorance of, I thought It
was a good thing that within a week
there should be Memorial day, when
these people should be taught that
sectionalism died in America long
ago. For they do hot seem to be
aware of it. And if there are in
Oregon German. Catholics who do not
like the way this nation has been run
in the past and is being run in the
present and is destined to be run in
the future, there afe several trains a
day out of Portland and several ships
a week leaving New York, and they
can go, bag and baggage! And' un
less they, are prepared' to desist in
their sectionalism it will be a good
riddance to bad' rubbish when, they
go!
Men who were traitors to this coun
try's highest interest are to be par
doned? Who said so? A congregation
of German Catholics!' And when the
newspapers say they were more Ger
man than Catholic it is a better ex
cuse for their foolish proceeding than
it is valid reason. For I hope th
day is far distant when. Protestant
Germans in Oregon will behave as
foolishly as did those Catholic Ger
mans. This country is one no east,
no west, no north, no south; simply
America. Let it be understood' the
menace of sectionalism has got to be
met seriously, calmly, brotherly, but
very firmly, if you please.
And the suspicion that justice does
the officers and crew of the
steamer Anadir sailed from Kam
chatka many years previously, in the
days before the United States govern
ment established the Bering sea pa
trol. The Anadir men had particulars
of the lost seal rookery, and when
the location was reached, according
to reckoning, "the seal herds were
beginning to come home from the sea.
The time was early June. The water
about the ship was alive with seals,
hundreds, thousands of them, swim
ming for the rookeries on the
island." The record goes on to say
that several boatloads of sailors who
left the ship to get to the island on
which they thought the seals were
never were heard of again. In frighi,
the captain ordered the steamer
right about for home.
Webster's hearers grew excited
when they heard of his magic island
of wealth in seals. When the proper
location is reached the professor and
a few sailors start in a rowboat to
reach the island which they see a
sfTort distance ahead., The yacht
seems to De stuck on a sunken reef.
Professors and sailors are apparently
lost an the deep fog. Forester be
gins to dominate the situation and
he emerges as leader.
Rough sea-rovers become aware of
the secret said to be in the posses
sion of the party, the secret of the
seal rookery; and one Joe Ladd, his
mater Kutii ana an alert Indian, in
their trading schooner Laddiebuck.
abduct Forester and Miss Webster and
take them north; Ladd had discov
ered the old log spoken of by Pro
fessor Webster and he wanted the
seals also.
Plenty of shooting and other fight
ing take place, the seal island is
reached, and surprising adventures
are vigorously described.
The Fire Bird, by Gene Stratton-Porter.
Illustrated in color. Doubleday, Page
& Co., Garden City, N. T.
Up to now, Mrs. Porter has won
recognition and favor because of her
excellent novels and nature books. '
It seems Bhe has made a life study
of the Indians and. aided by her hus
band, who was a collector of Indian
relics, Mrs. Porter pursued her
studies of Indian literature.
"The Fire Bird" is a long, r'oman-
,tic love poem of 71 pages, and will
ennance Mrs. Porter's literary repu
tation. It has the spirit of true ro
mance and lofty sentiment. It is told
by Yiada. daughter of White Wolf,
chief of the Canawas, and the listener
is supposed to be "Medicine man, O
medicine man.". Her mother told her
that her affianced one surely was an
Indian brave named Mountain Lion
and she danced the ceremonial dance
before him. She looked "deeply into
the eyes of him she loved," and he
danced with her. Her heart beat high
with hope. But a rival came, a rich
Indian girl named Couy-ouy, and she
found favor in Mountani Lion's eyes.
Yiada, for revenge, caused death to
visit her rival, to the anguish of
Mountain Lion. Yiada espouses an
other face named Star Face.
It is stated that the names used
of the tribes are fictitious, and that
all tribes and country described are
Alaskan or Canadian.
In the Clutch of Circumstance, ' by. an
anonymous author. D. Appleton & Co.,
New York City.
Truly a remarkable .story written
by a remarkable man a reformed
burglar. It is an astonishing human
document of a lively life. .
The author has served two terms
amounting to 14 years in two state
penitentiaries. His account of his
coming alone to this country, as a boy,
his arrest for vagrancy at the age of
16, the course of the burglaries which
he perpetrated in the most prominent
homes of the country, and of fiis
years in prison, is reading of more
than ordinary interest. His career as
a law-breaker ended with his robbery
of Mark Twain's home, an unsuc
cessful attempt which won him the
name of "the Mark Twain Burglar,"
and which led to his second long
prison term, from which he lately
emerged. '
It is stated that the author is now
married and is at last a useful mem
ber of soety. y
Hay-Fever, by William C. Hollopeter, M. D.
Funk'& Wagnalls Co., New York City.
Of outstanding interest is this new,
fourth edition of a highly successful
method of hayfever prevention and
cure. - -
The appearance of ''this volume is
particularly timely, for all those who
suffer from hay fever in any of its
forms should begin at once the im
munizing treatment in order to les
sen or perhaps completely cure this
season's infection, and gain a start
not always prevail in our lower
courts has got to be silenced, and w
have got to learn that which thrice
now I have uttered in the one address
equality before the law is the right
of every American citizen. And be
cause a traitor has money , or pos
sesses influence vulgarly called a
"pull" is no reason why his treachery
ehould be overlooked. No matter
how high, no matter how rich, no
matter howinfluential, a man who
is false to the solidarity of this re
public is a man this republic can very
well dio without.
And the menace of a declining, mor
ality is to be faced. If your fathers
and mothers with my father and
mother came back, they would be
surprised by few things existing as
they would be surprised by our
lowered standard of morals. The great
days when a man's word was his
bond; O the great days when' men
calmly entered into projects, and re
lations, conscious that words spoken
were not to be revoked, that business
morality must stand firm as Sinai's
law, how good .were it if they came
back. The divorce court, what would
your mother think of it, and my
father? Presiding at a marriage cer
emony in the city of Portland, a man
who was old enough to know better
remarked at the close of the solemn
service in which a man and a woman
had agreed to walk the trail of life
together so long as they both should
live, "If you do not like it, you can
dissolve It and in six months start
it afresh." Who so talks like that
is traitorous to the real welfare of
this nation as was your wealthy mill
er when in drunken imbecility he
spouted his treachery in a Pullman
car.
And the decadence of the home is
possibly a larger menace than any
of the others I have mentioned. Our
forebears turned a house into a home;
but our lowered manner of living
would turn a home into a house. Dis
respect to parents only equaled by
the disrespect of the parents concern
ing the children. For you ought to
know and you must know there are
parents in Oregon, in Portland, who
have no moral right to be fathers
and mothers; who instead of listen
ing to the great God as He says,
"Take this child and train it for me,"
think of nothing but self and amuse
ment and pleasure and ease, and by
their conduct they are undermining
the very foundations upon which this
republic rests.
Money Chase Mad.
Now I might go on till the morn
ing broke, telling of the menaces;
the mad rush after money, why our
on the complete elimination of the
trouble by next season.
It is well to bear in mind that the
basis of this immunizing method is
the proved fact that the emanations
of vegetable matter actually cause
hay fever, and that dfferent parts of
the United States produce different
pollens. Therefore, the treatment of
hay fever in one portion will be dif
ferent from the treatment in another.
West, north and east will call for, a
different immunizing process than
that of the middle states, yet, it is
argued, anyone can prevent his an
nual spring suffering by selecting
the proper anaphylactic reaction
from inhaled atmospheric pollens.
Man-Size, by William MacLeod Haine.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.. Boston.
A rousing, splendid novel of the
Canadian northwest, with whisky
runners, Indians, northwest mounted
police and traders as types. Mr.
Paine shows real ability as an enter
tainer in this story. The character
of Jessie McRae, Indian girl, is finely
portrayed.
Ambush, by Arthur Richman. Duffield &
Co., New York city.
A New York play in three acts
depicting middle class folks, love,
money, foolish speculation and re
pentance. A well-constructed play
teaching a powerful lesson.
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
Adventures in Angling, by Van Campen
Heilner, illustrated in color, 233 pages,
thrilling stories of experiences with big
game fishes in the Atlantic and Pacific.
(Stewart Kidd Co., Cincinnati.)
Henrietta's Inheritance, by Lela Horn
Richards, an attractive story for a grow
ing girl; and The Red Cavalier, by Gladys
Edson Locke, a romantic and enthralling
novel of English life. tjThe Page Co.,
Boston.)'
The University of Chicago Biographical
Sketches, by Thomas Wakefield Good
speed, volume one, 17 finely prepared and
interesting sketches of notables, 393 pages.
(University of Chicago Press, Chicago.)
The First Person Singular, by William
Rose Benet, a smart, witty novel,- princi
pally with scenes in and around New York
city, and depicting a wonderful girl who
dared to be individualistic (Doran Co.,
N. T.).
Two Dead Men, by Jens Anker, one of
the most admired writers of detective mys
tery stories in Denmark today. "Two Dead
Men" visions a murder, with a puzzle
to find the guilty one a story that is well
told and Interesting to read (A. A Knopf,
N. Y.).
Our Little West Indian Cousin, by Emily
Goddard Taylor, illustrated, an attractive
story for children, featuring life in Bar
bades, West Indies (Page Co., Boston).
The City of Fire, by Grace Livingston
Hill, a sterling American novel, power
fully written, and with a spiritual quality
that Impresses the reader (Lippincott's,
Phila.).
Prize Offered for the Best Novel.
A communication has been received
from Messrs. Harper & Bros., Frank
lin square. New York City, stating
that they are prepared to offer a
prize of $2000 in addition to the or
dinary terms of royalty, which will
be exchanged later with the author,
for the best novel submitted to' them
before March 1, 1923.
The rules attached to the competi
tion are:
Any author shall be eligible for the
$2000 prize who is an American citi
zen and who has not published a
novel in book form prior to the be
ginning of the war, August 1, 1914.
Only manuscripts of unpublished
works, submitted to Harper & Bros,
between June 1, 1922, and March 1,
1923, and accompanied by a declara
tion of the author that the manu
script is submitted in competition for
the prize, shall be considered.
All manuscripts submitted in com
petition must be offered to Harper
& Bros, for publication on terms to
be arranged between the author and
publisher. The successful work shall
be chosen from among those manu
scripts accepted by Harper & Bros,
for publication.
No manuscript containing" less than
30,000 words shall be considered as a
novel for the pujpose of this compe
tition, and preference will be given
in general to works .. of full novel
length.
Harper & Bros, shall use all rea
sonable care to pass promptly on
manuscripts submitted in competition
for this prize and to return those
found unavailable for publication, but
they shall not be responsible for
manuscripts lost in transit to or from
their offices.
Soviet to nivestigate Prisons.
MOSCOW. The Moscow soviet has
appointed a committee to investigate
the conditions of prisons and prison
camps. Orders have been given to im
prove the sanitary conditions and to
give the prisoners the right of lodg
ing complaints and appeals. .
phraseology in regard to currency
Is our standing disgrace, for we say,
"He is a made man," when we mean
he has got a lot of money. But the
man who is made by money, is un
made if he loses his money, there
fore there is little of man in the
transaction. And the wild feverish
rush after amusement, so that you
can not meet in your home for so
cial gathering but inside of 10 min
utes you have got to produce cards
or start gambling or dancing, not
having bisains enough to interest
yourself and each other for a single
hour; not having capacity enough to
become mutually edifying. And the
children, it is show after show, an
theater after theater. And the book
sellers tell us of good books there
is no sale today, but that we have
become a nation of magazine readers
and of moving picture shows. And
we go as close to the verge as we
dare, in action, speech and dress.
"What would your mother think
of that?" a man said to me the other
day as he called my attention to I
hardly know how to put It. And I
said, "My mother would say, 'There
is a bad woman, my son, and all like
her are bad too.' " Do I think as my
mother thought? . That is none of
your business! But I am telling you
what a good woman would think of
some of you and what she would say
about you. O' we need to remember
grand is our heritage in this coun
try. I like to remember that if you
were to populate California as is
Belgium, you would have the whole
world in California. A large coun
try, for a large people, with multi
tudes 'under the one flag, rich in
everything that goes t"b make up
happiness, and privileged living. For
hear Bryce, the Englishman who
wrote most Intelligently about Amer
ica, as he says, "In the three things,
material well being, intellectuality
and happiness, America leads all the
peoples of the world." Material well
being! You talk about the poverty
of Portland. Go and see the poverty
in London and Europe. Material well
being. Lavishly you ministered to
Armenia and the destitute children
cf Europe, and what did you give?
Very largely you gave nothing you
could not very well do without, and
it was the overflow of your cup that
solaced and sustained them.
Intellectuality. The magnificent
schools, the priceless opportunities to
acquire knowledge and wisdom, the
libraries, all means of mental up
building, how they surround us. And
happiness. He meant the things that
naturally tend to make a happy peo
ple. They abound here. But I re
member, too, how that same Eng-
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BY JENNETTE KENNEDY,
Assistant in the Circulation Department of
... the Public Library.
Mr. H ry Franck's refreshing ad
ventures, vagabonding in South
America, are complemented by an
amusing account by another wan
derer, Harry Foster, who has written
of '"The Adventures of - a Tropical
Tramp." One story in the book re
counts his experience In diplomacy
while a temporary clerk, which they
agreed to gild with the title of ''at
tache," in the American embassy at
Lima. Mr. Foster had been informed
that the new ambassador would be
the target for alms seekers and so
licitors for subscriptions, so on his
first day in his tiew pesition he dis
regarded the ringing of the doorbell
for a time. As the new embassy had
no servants, he finally decided that
the "attache" himself must open the
door. He found a priest waiting out
side, but having seen several mendi
cant priests collecting alms from door
to door, he jumped to cqpclusions and
held out some small coin to the friar,
saying: "Here's 20 cents; it's all the
change I have!" The priest turned
coldly on his heel and walked away.
When the young attache was called
to the telephone shortly afterward he
was told by the secretary of the em
bassy to prepare to receive the dean
of the diplomatic corps and to take
him to the ambassador's hotel. "You
will know him," the secretary said,
he's the papal nuncio and dresses like
a priest."
Julian Street recommends that
Briton, though he be," John Paris,
author of "Kimono," a novel which
amounts to an anti-Japanese tractate,
should be rewarded by California.
"The Hearsts, the Hiram Johnsons,
the Phelans, the McClatcheys should
constitute themselves a committee to
present him w'th a dozen typewriter
ribbons and a prune ranch," he sug
gests facetiously.
Blasco-Ibanez has written a novel
called "The Paradise of Women,"
based on a suggestion gained from
"Gulliver's Travels" regarding the
kingdom of Lilliput. A shipwrecked
hero an American engineer, in a
realistic dream, arrives on an island
entirely administed by women. As a
rebellious male says, "cleverness and
ingenuity take the place of strength.
Our whole country is like a home that
Is run by an excellent housekeeper.
But we are suffering from a mortal
weariness, nothing happens, life is
like a level field full of useful plants
vegetables. The desire to live in
peace choked noble sentiments. We,
like the men of former times, want
war and wine the two godlike pleas
ures of the human race!" The book
is, of course, a satire on American
institutions in which women have so
large an influence.
.
A story told by the author of
"Tropical Holland" In his prologue
probably exemplifies the usual atti
tude toward distant Java. He says:
"Some time during the late war one
of the big liners of the Netherlands
Navigation company, plying between
Amsterdam and Java, was hailed in
the Red sea by a British auxiliary
cruiser. The captain in command of
the liner was on the bridge. This
gallant Dutch mariner joins Falstaff
ian wit with Falstaffian dimensions.
The young British officer who
hailed the liner from the bridge of
the temporary war vessel had evi
dently been drawn from'civil life and
his geographical knowledge was In
irverse ratio to his patriotic impulses
which had impelled him to dedicate
his future and his life to his country.
The first question which he shouted
was: "Whence and where to?
The answer from the bridge of the
Dutch liner was: "To Amsterdam
from Java?"
Right back from the cruiser came
the query: "Where in hell is Java?"
The jolly Dutch captain simulating
the action of a clerk tapping a bell
on an office desk with a twinkle in
his eye, said to the young navigation
officer beside him on the bridge:
"Boy, page Java!"
Then grasping the megaphone he
gave this reply: "Java is a tight
little island near the equator, imme
diately adjoining the British posses
sion of the federated Malay states
and having a few more million in
habitants than 'Merrie Old England.'
It's splendid isolation is broken by
the visit of five large liners fort
nightly, and " but by this time a
roar of laughter from the bridge pf
lishman from Great Britain told some
Americans, "You go back to your
splendid world and see that you do
not make a failure of it, for if you
do you will set us liberals back in
Europe 500 years, and if you do make
shipwreck," he said, "you will do it be
cause you prefer private aggrandize-1
ment to duty to the state." In that
marvelous phrase Bryce told us If we
made shipwreck of this outstanding
civilization, we hould do it by our
own selfishness attending to private
interests, and being ignorant or neg
ligent of the general well-being and
good. .
Character Country's Asset.
The real asset of this country is
the character of its citizenship. Not,
if you please, your multi-millionaires
as studies for our youth; nor indeed
a majority of the captains of indus
try who too often have been captains
of selfishness. But we need to study
profoundly men like Washington,
Abraham Lincoln and a man thou
sands of us wish were alive every
day we live Theodore Roosevelt. Men
who gave themselves for the good of
others, for the ennobling and uplift
ing of the people. O in this age,
when a tide of materialism is sweep
ing us off our feet, and when as I
say our question that ought to stir
the soul to Its profound depths,
"What is he worth?" simply means:
"How much money has he got?" we
ought to hark back to a sentence
from one of our own poets:
Wealth apd rule go round with fortune
As her wheel turns round ;
He who keeps his faith, he only
Cannot Be discrowned.
Little matters loss of fortune,
"Loss of rank, renown.
But the wreck we're past retrieving
If the man fail down.
And we need to understand that
the chief asset of the republic is the
character of Its citizenship. And the
time is ripe when from the lips of us
all there should rise up the prayers
of Dr. Holland:
God give us men; a time like this demands
Great hearts, true faith, clear minds and
ready -hands;
Men whom the lust of office cannot kill.
Men, whom the gold of office cannot buy.
Men who possess opinions and & will.
Men who have honor, men who will not
lie;
Men who can stand before the demagogue
And damn his treacherous flatteries with
out winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the
fog,
In public duty and in private thinking.
Prayer for Manhood.
Those are the men we are needing
today. And a great surge of emotion
the British man-of-war showed con
clusively that after all our BritisH
cousins do appreciate a good joke and
still recognize a Sir John Falstaff
when he looms up large enough on
the horizon."
The author who recounts this story,
H. A. Van Coenen Torchiana, expands
and embroiders the captain's text into
a complete volume which he calls
"Tropical Holland An Essay on the
Birth, Growth and Development of
Popular Government in an Oriental
Possession." President Harry Pratt
Judson of the University of Chicago
has written a commendatory foreword
in which he states that Mr. Torchi
ana's treatment of his subject "is
worthy of serious attention and will
be extremely useful to students of
colonization."
A rival boat, "The Raven," a feud
with its crew which causes many a
laughable impasse and finally an un
expected and absurd set-to in port are
some factors in the story of the
frolicsome, squabbling crew of the
"Jane Gladys," called "Happy Ras
cals." The author is F. Morton How
ard, who may be remembered for an
earlier story, "Strictly Business."
How would you like to learn some
setting-up exercises so unique in be
ing devoid of contortions of the body
as to be called invisible?
Gerold Stanley Lee has written a
book on such a system and calls it
"Invisible Exerc'se." - It has been
summarized as "the story of one
man's experience in coming through
to a new kind of exercise. A setting
up exercise taken without getting up
ten minutes early. An exercise that
can be taken in half a minute with
out interrupting ' one's work, while
sitting at one's desk, while standing
and talking In the street or lying
back in an easy chair taken without
anybody's knowing it but one's self."
This description instead of clari
fying the process baffles the imagina
tion one must read the book, which
is announced for immediate publica
tion. "Pomander Walk" has undergone a
transformation, and with the addition
of music and lyrics has become a
charming musical play, "Marjolaine."
IN THE PORTLAND CHURCHES
(Continued From Page 2.)
offertory, "Lento fit G Minor," R.
Schumann: quartet, "Crossing the
Bar," Dudley Buck. (In memory of
America's dead.)
On the coming Saturday the bands,
circles and chapters of Westminster
guild will have a lawn party beside
the church, and Mrs. L. P. Hewett, the
synodical secretary for this work,
will speak to the girls.
Plans are progressing for the chil
dren's day programme and promotion
exercises to be held by the Bible
school two weeks from today.
Generous responses came from the
people of this section of the city for
the near east relief clothes drive.
At the Central Presbyterian church
today the minister, Dr. Walter Henry
Nugent, will preach both morning
and evening. Dr. Nugent's morning
topic is "An Unknown God," and his
evening topic "The Better Hope." The
chorus choir, under the direction of
J. William Belcher, will sing "Blessed
Jesus," by Dvorak, and "I Hear My
Shepherd Calling," by Frank. Miss
Hazel H. Hardis will render "Out of
the Deep," by Capel. -
The . christian Endeavor society
meeting will be held at 7 o'clock.
The subject is ''Lessons From Great
Foreign Missionaries." Miss Agnes
Martin will lead.
A new directory, giving the names
and addresses of all members of the
church and the number of the circle
in which each one lives, will be dis
tributed today. The last directory
was published a year ago.
At Piedmont Presbyterian church
this morning the pastor, . Rev. J.
Francis Morgan, will preach on "The
Prevailing Christ," and in the evening
on "Jehu, an Ancient Type of Re
former." Christian Endeayor will be
held at the usual time.
The Sunday school is making prep
arations for children's day, which
will be commemorated June 11.
Monday evening the session will
hold its regular monthly business
meeting.
Wednesday afternoon the Golden
floods my heart as I am hoping some
of you many young men listening to
me now will pray Tennyson's prayer:
O, for a man to arise in me. '
That the man I am may cease to be.
uNow a specialist in character is the
Master whom I serve, is the Savior
who saved my soul. Go back and ex
amine the character of the men I
have named as being worthy exam
ples for us, and you will find that
they 'were Christian men, they were
men who feared God, they were men
who adored Christ, they were men
who sought to square their lives ac
cording to the teaching of the holy
book. I tell you, sir, to your face, if
you will endeavor to pull down the
things for which an inspired Bible
and a called out church and a divine
Lord stand, you are a traitor to the
best interests of the country in which
you live. Character? Talk thou of
morals? O thou bleeding Lamb, the
best morality is love of thee. On
what do the great commandments
hang? Hear him answer, "Love God,
and as a result of rightly loving God,
love your neighbor." I call you there
fore to Jesus Christ. I call you to an
acceptance of his gospel. I call you
to a belief in his saviorhood. I call
you to allegiance to his lordship, and
I tell you what you already know or
can easily find out with little study,
the hope of this nation and the safety
of this nation all turn towards the
cross and the Christ who thereon died.
For this day, this Sunday, is to us
as a memorial too. Are we not
thinking about the day when he who
was dead came forth in his resurrec
tion power and glory, the acknowl
edged Savior of the world? He saw
I us sold to a slavery worse than that
of the south, and his heart yearned
with pity over us and for us he for
sook heaven, emptied himself of his
eternal glory, and became the lowly
Nazarene, the carpenter, the cruci
fied one of Golgotha. He came from
heaven to seek and to save the lost.
This evening I thought with much
emotion how he bought us on the in
stallment plan. Bethlehem, its sur
render of eternal glory and divine
prerogative; Nazareth, working at a
carpenter's bench; Quarentine moun
tain, tempted by the devil; Btoned,
despised, slandered, on he goes' from
altar to altar on the way to the
cross, until at last he gave himself,
hand for hand, foot for foot, brow
for brow, heart for heart, and he
bought us with his own blood. How
are we treating him? "I stand at the
door and knock," he says. And one
of our hymns suggests that it is un
christian in us to keep him standing
there.
But, my fellow Christians, how
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sical adaptation of Louis Parker's
play has been aescriDea as a very ae
lightfui New York production, in
which "there was not a moment of
vulgarity or cheapness. There was
no 'jazz.' The costumes were of the
Kate Greenaway type and the pro-
auction never Dorea.
.
Mark Sullivan's account of the
Woshinfinn conference has appeared
in book form under the title "The
Great Adventure at Washington."
The simple narrative style in which
it is written maices n very reauauic.
"It is a vital, human, dramatic pres-
n-aat 1 n tornn Hnftn I
euitiLiuii iiuD ...
gathering in which the author, while
never losing sigm oi ine iais pci
spective of the action, gives the small
but significant details in a way that
is peculiarly Illuminating," says the
first man who read this book.
Arthur Svmnns in a criticism of
"feminine fiotion," says of women
writers: "The ambition to shine is
so very feminine. It is that ambi
tion which today sets all the women
wrting. They are not content with
the triumphs of the drawing room.
They would conquer a place in litera
ture hj the same means and for the
same purposes that they would con
quer a place in society. This is not
the aim nor the method ot the true
artist. Being human, he desires ap
plause, but so far as he is an artist,
he does not work simply in order that
he may be admired or envied. He is
not always dressing for the drawing
rooms. Feminine fiction, on the con
trary, lives before the mirror; it is
like a beautiful low-necked evening
dress, worn in Order that the wearer
may be admired by men and envied
by women."
That interpretation does not seem
to fit George Eliot, Elizabeth Brown
ing, Sheila Kaye-Smlth or Mrs. Whar
ton, all of whom follow much more
the pattern Mr. Symons sets for the
creative artist whose duty, he says,
"is to see life steadily and see It
whole."
The pronunciation of the Rumanian
language is almost as melodious as
Italian which it closely resembles,
declares Dr. Charles Upson Clark. He
has written recently a sympathetic
study of Rumania, her policy, her am
bitions and her future, in a book
called "Greater Rumania."
Rule circle will hold the meeting
which was postponed from last week
at the home of Kathryn Long, 411
Jessup.
Memorial day services will be held
in Mount Tabor Presbyterian church
today. Ben Butler post, Grand Army
of the Republic, and the Women's
Relief corps will attend in a body
the morning service. The pastor,
Ward W. MacHenry, will give 'the
memorial address, taking as his sub
ject "The Influence of the Grand
Army of the Republic, in American
Life."
The choir, aided by others, will
give a sacred concert at night.
Next Thursday . the congregation
will meet to hear the report of the
finance committee and complete plans
for the improvement of the church.
The Grand Army of the Republic
and Women's Relief corp have accept
ed an invitation from the Hope Pres
byterian church at Montavllla to at
tend the memorial services to be held
this morning. The minister. Rev.
James Aikin Smith, will deliver a ser
mon on the theme "Shall the Sword
Devour Forever?" In the evening
the theme of the sermon-lecture will
be "Marriage, a Wise Choice or Lot
tery?" This is the fourth in the series
of sermons on "Young Folks' Prob
lems." The Home Economic school
conducted in the church last week
has been a great success.
Rev. N. K. Tully, associate pastor
of the First Presbyterian church, will
be the speaker at the Men's Resort
meeting this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Mrs. Jennie Jones will be the soloist,
and Alice Johnson, musician. The
men will again feature their favorite
gospel songs with R. Desmond as
song leader.
CHICAGO. May 27. Plans to use
the federal mail service to reach 25.
000.000 men, women and children In
the rural and mountain sections of the
country who have no. church affilia
tions will be a leading topic at a na
tional conference of educational lead
many of us have life's building on the
lompartment principle under which ',
ocean liners are constructed! When '
a leak occurs the doors are shut and
that compartment of the ship is
closed to the rest of the vessel. Some?
rooms jn your life and mine are .open;-,
to the savior. In some compartments
of thl9 varied life of ours we let him
holdl sway. But do we make our Mon-'
day as consecrated as our Sunday? Is a
our religion of the prayer meeting
the religion of the business office?
Are our ordinary words on the streets
as eulogistic of the Lord as our con
fessions that we make in the church?
Have we learned that seven days in
every week are holy, that wherever
we are we are to be Christians and in
whatever we do we are to glorify
God? Have we learned that lesson,
my brothers, my sisters? And do I
speak as I close to anyone in this -house
who has never turned) the eyes
toward Christ the savior?
Call Is to Duty.
The ordinance of baptism will be
administered at the close of this serv
ice, but that water washes away no
sin. The blood of Jesus Christ cleans
eth us from all sin. Those who are
baptized will become members of this
church, but they can only become
members of the church invisible by
becoming members of the church
which is the body of Christ. Priest
and ritual, ordinances and ceremonies
are in vain. Christ the heavenly lamb
bears all our sins away he alone. So
I call you on this memorial Sunday
nlght to think of your duty to the
republic of which you are a part; to
rise up and to the utmost of your
ability safeguard the institutions' of
America wherein they are divinely
appointed. But I call you also to an
other memorial. I call you to remem
ber that one hung on a tree and died
that you might live; that if tonight
you accept freedom from all sin and
its consequences you will be author
ized to say as you stand by the cross,
"With a great price obtained I this
freedom." Believe on the Lord Jesus .
Christ and be saved.. Heard it be- .
fore? Your responsibility was in
creased every time you heard it; but
a pang strikes my heart as I remem-I
ber you can go to many a so-called
religious service today without being
told the old story that only throusrh
faith in Jesus Christ can the soul be
saved; and I make no apology for
saying only Jesus can do helpless sin
ners good. The philosopher must bow
his head at the cross. The peasant
must bow his head at the cross. And
whether he be King David on Israel's
glorious throne or an abashed pub-,
l'can in the temple, each must say:
"Have mercy on me, O Godi; be mer
ciful to me, a sinner."
ers of the Episcopal church, which
will meet here May 30 to June 1 in
clusive. Experiments alreadv con---ducted,
according to Dr. William E. '
Gardner, executive secretary of the
department of religious education of
the church, indicate that methods of
correspondence schools and mail-
order houses may profitably he ap
plied to the rural problem of the
church. Under the system proposed.
Bible instruction would be sent broad
cast into the isolated districts
throughout the country to groups, '
families and individuals.
Thfe purpose of the conferenpe is to '
agree upon uniform plans for re
ligious instruction throughout the:,
church. Another important subject
for discussion will be that of re
ligious instruction through church
agencies in co-operation with the "
public schools. The Episcopal church
already has over 5000 children in 18'
states who are excused from the pub
lic schools for certain periods each
week for religious education Under
mo uireciion ot tne church and with
the approval of the parents. his
movement is being forwarded in all
large Protestant communions, in
charge largely of educators who have
long been identified with the pub
lic schools. A uniform plan which
has been agreed upon by the educa-,
tional secretaries of the large denom
inations will be brought before the
conference. Plans to standardize the
training of teachers for work in re
ligious instruction, of whom there are
approximately 50,000 in the church.'
will also be taken up.
The conference will be attended bv
clergymen, laymen and women from
all dioceses in the United States. As
representative of the board of educa
tion of the Church of England in Can
ada, the general secretary, Rev. R. A.
Hiltz, and his assistant, Rev. B D
Rogers, will attend.
Dr. B. J. Clark to Conduct
Memorial Services.
First United Brethren Chnrch to
Honor Soldier Dead.
THIS morning at the First United
Brethren church, East Fifteenth
and Morrison streets. Dr. Byron J.
Clark's subject will be "Importunate
Intercession." At 8 P. M. he will con
duct a memorial service in honor of
the soldier dead of all wars, with the
stars and stripes. His subject will b
"Sacred to Memory" and he will
answer the question "What Is an
Hundred Per Cent American?" Pa
triotic and memorial hymns will bf
illustrated with colored pictures and.
there will be other special music.
Rev. I. V. Hawley, at Second United -Brethren
church (Alberta) will take
for his subject this morning "Yielded
Up the Ghost," and in the eveninp
"Uncomfortable When He Saw Jesus."
The chorus choir will give special
music.
Rev. C. P. Blanchard will preach
this morning and evening at the Third
United Brethren church. Thirty-sec- ,
ond avenue and Sixty-seventh street. .
Southeast, in the absence, of the'
pastor.
'
Rev. B. Ross Evans will occupy hi
pulpit this morning and evening, hav- -ing
recovered from his illness. His
morning theme will be "The Place of
Victory." The church is at Tremont
station on the Mount Scott line. Hi?
evening theme will be "What Noan
Saw."
New Treaty Planned by Soviet.
CONSTANTINOPLE. The Russian
soviet government and the Turkish
nationalists are planning to hold a
conference at Kars to draw u.p a new
treaty providing for the resumption
of commercial relations between Tur
kfy and the small republics of the
Caucasus such as Georgia and Azer
baidjan. A treaty to that effect was
signed by the Russians and Turkish
Nationalists last fall but has not been
ratified by the states concerned on
the ground that it was unworkable '
owing to the abnormal conditions in
Russia.
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