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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL ' PORTLAND, MONDAY . EVENING. DECEMBER 7. 1908.
PROVIDE BREAD
THEN STEP UP
Lecturer Mill Shows Man
kind's Tplift Awa its Eco
nomic Struggle.
MVELOP31EXT GKOWS
AS WANTS AlfE FILLED
try to clin to it, it escapes from us, ffered, by those who have no eompre
while we atriva to hoia it, it la itone. henaion bt.it, 'the possession of libraries
- ZWf ore Audience at Masonic Temple
Walter Thomas Mills Shows Rela
1 ' tion of Art and Music to Amount
of Time for Life's Improvement.
Walter Thomaa Mills delivered tha
. first of' a aeries, of seven lectures' on
sociological aubjeots, yesterday after
noon at the Masonic Temple. In his
address the speaker contended that bc
tfore men could .have opportunity isener
j ally to engage in the study of ethics
l and the beautiful things of. life the
icondltona , of the present day would
have to be changed. Under the present
'conditions or. labor, and the struggle
lor existence, me great majority or
men did not have the time to give
after their daiiy. toil was done to the
study of ethics. In treating the sub
ject Mr. Mills said in part:
"I am to speak or ethical asplra-
Inna mnA economic needs." Tha term
J philosophicar refers to that which la
strue. Tha term 'ethical' refers to that
which is right The term 'aesthetic'
refers to that which is beautiful. The
f three together deal with the world of
i truth, goodness and beauty.
"Tha fact is, there are three great
things to do. They are to know, to
: think and to feel. The greatest thing
(to know is truth: the greatest thing to
think about is life; the greatest thing
to feel ia love.
"We know that which we can see, and
'having once seen, have It forever with
i us. or having once heard, can forever
J listen to it. as if.lt sounded on for all
'time We know that which we can
j grasp, can cling to and fasten to our
selves. Ufa We Cannot Xnow.
, "But life we cannot know. II baffles
and deceives ' we in - a thousand ways.
; Jt comes to us unbidden, and when we
WEAK KIDNEYS MAKE
WEAK BODIES
Kidney Diseases Cause Half the
Common Aches and His of
Portland People, .
As one weak link weakens a chain,
o weak kidneys weaken the whole
body and hasten-the final breaklng
. 'down.
Overwork, strains, colds and other
' causes injure the kidneys, and when
their activity Is lessened the whole
body suffers from the excess of uric
' poison circulated in the blood.
Aches and pains and. langour and
' urinary ilia come, and there is an ever
1 increasing tendency towarde diabetes
and fatal Brlghfa Disease, There ia
no real help for, the sufferer except
i kidney help.
Doan'e Kidney Pills act directly on
the kidneys and cure every kidney ill.
.Portland cures are the proof.
Mrs. J. O. Steams, living at 1641 Base
limine road. Portland. Or., saya: "I have
known of Poan's Kidney Pills for a
number of years, and have recommend
jed them highly at every opportunity.
1 1 know that this remedy acts up to the
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its. Dean's Kidney Pills promptly re
lieved me of. this complaint and ban
ished several other dirric-ulties -arising
from a disordered condition of my kidneys.'
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states.
Remember the name Doan's and
.take no other.
Hut if life is mora thh wo rn
grasp and hold, and fully know, still
we are not altogether In ignorance of
ii. ana uncertain as la our knowledge
we must inina anout it wether we will
oroio.
"To think is to compare things. To
think Is to discover the relations of
things to each other and to ourselves.
It Is this relation of things which is
called truth. When we can so relate
tne things about us to each other, and
to ourselves, that love springs up In
our hearts, then we have learned the
most essential relations, the most im
portant truths. We have thought out
the greatest things about life, for we
have come to the gladdest, the best, the
most relentless, the most enduring, to
the greatest of all things love. Thus,
the philosopher, the moralist and the
artist are but different names for the
same thing.
As to Economic Heads.
"How meaningless is life devoid of
the aspirations which may be said to
be at once philosophical, ethical and
aesthetic. I have chosen to speak of
all as ethical aspirations. I am trying
to explain tnat what I have in mind is
a discussion of man's longings. To
know that which Is true, to realize that
which is good, to possess that which is
beautiful, ahd I am to present, if 1 can,
the relationship of these aspirations to
economic needs, the needs which hind
the millions of people so ruthlessly in
the basement, that there is no time for
the library of the music room.
"I have been trying to say that 'life
is more than food,' and the body more
than raiment,' but while we Insist upon
this truth, we cannot escape from the
fart that Just as these ethical aspira
tions are the crown of the human struc
ture, lust and appetite are still at its
foundation. Without food, and cloth
ing, and fuel, and shelter, it is not pos
sible to live, and without life it Is Im
possible to be either a poet, a moralist
or a philosopher.
"Through the long ascent which man
has made, the ape and the tiger has
been losing dominance In his nature.
As ethical aspirations have become a
part of his consciousness, he has not
asked for music or philosophy as" a sub
stitute for food, but for food under such
conditions as Would make it possible
for him to' gratify these highest long
ings of Which he was becoming con
scious. '- '
"Iet us-consider for a little while,
some of the relutions between theso
aspirations and these needs. The effort
to organise and equip the industrial
arts which exist In order to satisfy the
economic necessities of man. historic
ally, is not as old hs the fine arts which
exist for the sake of Joy of life, snd are
addressed to the ethical and the
aesthetic .in his nature.
Artist Cam rirst.
' "Songs are older than statues. Poetry
Is older than prose. Carving orna
ments are older than ; the building of
houses. Patches of color were put on
faces first and then on fabrics. The
artist came first, and the artisan fol
lowed him. Human speech . existed as
music before it was spoken In words.
Bonus without words were sung for a
thousand centuries before Mendelssohn
tried to catch them on the written
scale, -and to repeat them on Instru
ments of music but while the fine arts
are older, the loftier aspirations could
not go very far, except the struggle tor
existence against natural enemies, and
distinctive surroundings was made less
difficult.
"Again, there is no great art except
there is areat lov. and iov In life can
come only when the economic needs
are provided for, and man ia free to
iva unninaerea expression to every
Urher longing- of his heart. But under
modern conditions, for the multitudes,
It. is impossible to live at all -except
under the relationship of mastery and
servitude, and mastery and servitude Is
the most Infamous relationship to
which man can submit. Jt binds, dis
courages,' impoverishes, and imbltters
the heart of man, and so. long as it
does these .things, It makes Impossible
the gladness which necessarily con
ditions all higher aspirations. For in
stance, for the multitude there ia no
time eilhar to produce or to enjoy the
higher thtnga in life. This lack of
leisure deprives the world of the art
work of tnu multitudes, born with all
the power to fill the world with beauty
ana witn music, nut are witnout tne
leisureor the means to cultivate either
taste or skill. To be sure, there are
great . works of art which have been
produced by the workers, shelterless,
ragged and hungry, but it made a
tragedy of the lives of those who did
it and is an argument for making an
end of the necessity, rather than for
Justifying ita. existence.
Servants of Machine.
"But the masters suffer no less than
servants. The struggle necpssary to
obtain the position of mastery is so
great that those who attain It and are
able to command the services and the
roducts of others, achieve the ability
y a process which binds them to the
money making machine they have
created, making them indeed its serv
ants, rather than Its masters. Nothing
Is more common than the possession of
works of art, by those who have no
appreciation of their meaning, attend
ance where the choicest music Is of-
which are never read, art products never
understood, j-or trie many among tne
millionaires, aa well aa the workers,
It would have been ns -well had the
prophets never spoken, . had the poets
never written, had the masters never
sung, for they move In the midst of
tnese things Ignorant or tne greatness
of these achievements, deaf, to the
music-blind to its beautv.
"We are told, however, that" the
ethical has the patronage and support
of the men of economic power. The
effect of this patronage is too often
to promote the incapable, to dis
hearten aenlua and to make the winners
of the prises offered by the masters of
i no marjtfi, not great proaucers, out
great imitators instead." Having no
knowledge of art, they are Incapable
of discovering where genius lies, in
capable of determining what Is the
worn or genius wnen tney see it, ana
as Ruskin has said. 'Usually bring
their rewards, if at all. after the real
struggle of the real genius is over, and
his best work achieved in penury and
neglect.'
Again the ethical is alwava social.
Tt 'is known that . it is impossible
simply to be good. It Is only possible
to be good to someone. The economic
strugglu is strictly anti-social. The
motive of the ethical is to arive. to
give Joy, to give gladness, to quicken
the emotions of others by dong some
thing in such a way as shall not only
bring gladness to the heart of the doer
but shall recreate in others the glad
ness which the artist feels. Oomnarr
all thia with the motive which rules
in tne market. There the struggle is
not to give, but to get; not to transfer
the gladness that is In our hearts to
the hearts' of others, hut to transfer
from others, by processes not calculated
to maae mem glad, the things that they
possess.
Bread Tixtt Provided.
"No artist in picture, poetry or story
has ever been able to present a picture
of a perfectly moral world in which
the economic needs have not been
first provided for. This was as true
of St. John of Petmos, as of Plato,
St. Augustine, Bacon or Kdward Bel
lamy.
"This then Is the inevitable con
clusion: The first and most essential
step toward the realization of ethical
aspirations is to deliver men from the
economic struggle to exist. Then, as
Drummond has so aptly said. 'May he
struggle for a higher existence."
"In this course of lectures, I shall
deal only with this problem. I shall
consider the waste, the vice, tlio rltv,
with Its power to build and to destroy
nm wuiHciH vi tne loresi, tne riein,
the workshop, the mine and tho market.
together with the questions of equip
ment and of organization. I shall con
tend, that the toll which kills and the
poverty which destroys are absolutely
unnecessary, and I shall prove my po
sition to tho satisfaction of evcrv
rational man and woman who will do
me the kindness to hear my story."
Tonight Mr. Mills' topic will bo "The
Wasted Resources of the Earth and
Man." The lectures will be given every
night thlg week.
ALL DEPENDS OX START
Dr. Dyott Says Sectarian Schools
Should lie Supported.
Taking for the subiert of hl
last night, "Religion and Education,"
Dr. Luther R. Dyott, of the Firs; Con
gregational church, declared that the
state should appropriate money for the
support of sectarian schools, and thai
ieiiiou pinuuui uc taugm in tne secu
lar schools, but that It should he
purged of sectarianism. Dr. Dyott took
the position that tho, education of a
man without -a corresponding develop
ment of his spiritual nature simply
gave him an opportunity to become it
greater scoundrel.
"If education Is onlv to make mon
clever and smart," said the speaker.
"these smart but unprincipled men will
meet others of the same calibre and
we shall have a battle of evil aaalnst
evil.
"The destiny of the world is largely
shaped by what transpires during that
period between the Btrth of the child
and the age of seven. If the ' evil in
the child la found by the parent or
some one else responsible for its bring
ing up, ana tne .cnua taugnt to over
come it, there ed be little fear of
the tendency toward evil cropping out
in later life.
"The child should be taught the
duties of citizenship, true ideals of c.
He should be inspired' with lofty ideals.
He should not expect merely to make
money: he should not select as an ideal
the man who has Set up for himself
tne god wuicn we Americans call suc
cess, which is sometimes won at the
price, of honor, but he should, select
for an Ideal nothing short of that man
who has all the nobler qualities, al
though he may be compelled to walk
in a humbler path.
"Without Introducing any unhappy
comparisons. the Roman Catholic
church is doing more than the Protest
ant church In caring for boys and girls.
If we do not do .this work, and they are
willing to undertake it and some little
help can come to them In the . work
they cannot do ' alone the tax -payer
ahould not begrudge tha . small . appro-
nrlatinn. whlth I m nMMav "
CHURCHES SHOULD UNITE)
Sunnyside Pastor Points Out Bene
fits of Larger Organization.
The subject of church union was
handled by Rev, W. T. Euster. pastor
oi tne ounnyslde M. - E, church, in a
radical 'manner Sunday morning. He
apoke feelingly about the fact that such
useless waste is allowed, and ao much
prejudice and Jealously, is allowed to be
created in this age by keeping the king
dom of Christ separated aa it is.
Rev. Euster described towns -of tOOO
people where over a dozen denomina
tions exiHierr, an in pooriy punt
churches, with poor preachers half paid,
with poor choirs and not any of these
churches prospering ; at all. If they
would all sell -their present buildings
and erect a magnificent one for all the
people, hire the best preacher and have
the best choir all would benefit accord
ingly, he said. Then there la the
problem of each denomination : in the
cities. The big central churches are
ruining the family life and Sabbath
school and young people'a work. They
naturally force the children to remain
at home largely ana tnus separate tne
mi rents and the children In the church
services. He spoke of one Methodist
church having 1800 members with 200
In the BaDoain scnooi ann not nait or
these the children of those members, i
- "Where are the rest of the children?"
he asked. "Almost anywhere. But not
in the church nor will they ever be' In 1
the church until father and mother have
'grace enough to deny themselves the
Dig crowd and social prestige of the
central place of whirl and social influ
ence and walk with their children to
the church and to the Sabbath school.
This problem can be solved by centra)
churches selling out and moving Into
the' residence districts or by becoming
Institutional churches and giving, the
residence territory to aa many churches
aa are needed, without the work of
the Sabbath school and the children en
courage by presence of parents In the
same church, the, children of Methodism
wil4 drift and be lost to the kingdom."
FAVOR ORGANIC UNIOX J
Three Churches , Will. Probably Be
come One Soon.
Members of the United Evangelical,
Evangelical association, and. United
Brethren churches, at a meeting In the
Second United Evangelical church in
Alblna yesterday afternoon, voted unan
imously in favor or orgamo union or
the three denominations. This ia the
culmination of sentiment that baa been
manifest for some time and has found
expression- in repeated joint meetings
of the congregations. r
Ree. C. O, Poling, pastor of the
church where the meeting was held.
Rev. Frank B. Culver of the First
Evangelical, and Rev. Cheater P. Gates
of the St. Johns United Evangelical
united their voices in favor of federa
tion of the three churches and of
organic union as soon as possible. They
agreed that it is a waste of effort to
build separata houses of worship and
maintain separate organizations for
churches that , are so near In 'object
and belief.- .
It was decided to held another union
meeting at the St, Johns United Evan-
Selical, church on the aecond Sunday in
anuary, and the . circulation of pe
titions in favor of organic union is be
ing considered. - ', .-. , -
; NEW CHCRCII DEDICATED
St. Stanislaus Catholic Edifice Con
secrated by Archbishop.
- Portland's new Polish - Catholic
church, St. Stanislaus, -on the corner
of Faifteg street and Maryland avenue,
waa- cifhseerated ' yesterday , morning.
i ne ceojeatory was preacnea Djr Arch
bishop -.Alexander Christie, .Father
Charles- Seroskle in charge of the par
ish assisting in the services. Following
the - services, solemn high mass waa
celebrated by Rev, J. P. - Arthur de
Loulner, assisted by Rev. J.P. Flta-
fatrick and Rev, Father T. Paum. in
be consecration . sermon. Archbishop
Christie paid high ' tribute to-- the un
tiring perservance of Father ' Seroski,
who labored earnestly for two years
in providing a home for ' the Polish
Catholics of thia city. '
ELKS REMEMBER
DECEASED MEMBERS
- Memorial services for dead members
of Portland lodge No. 142, Benevolent
and Protective Order, of Elks, were held
yesterday-afternoon in the Taylor
street method lat church during whlch.
accompanied , bv the tolling of a hell. '
the roll was called of the 17, members '
who have- passed away. . .. , 1
' The memorial address ' was by- Tr ,
Franklin Rabor ' nt rvinm.H o..i
Oeorge L. Hutchin, chaplain , of the' '
rortland order, delivered the eulogv. '
A quartet, consisting of Miss Ethel
RhM , f PO X) nuA Il1n..l. T", .... - . .
Claire- Monteith and William H. Boyer
furnished the musio and singing for
vxv occasion. .-' ; - .
Services began at 2 o'clock, members
ef the organization having marched to
the church from the lodge, rooms at'
Portland Elks who have died slnce
In laiKt mumiHil upvliua 4 .... . -
ago are as follows: D. U Wolf, died
pecemoer e, jbo7; John Lament, Decern
berg, 1907; "William Beck, February 1,
1808; v J. Thanem, February 88;
Bernard Albera, March. 4; J. D. Meyer
March Sj Ed Solomon, March 27; J. C,
ii"";!1, ApJ"u i9: --V w'" Williamson,
April 26; John Orandstrom, April 28; ,
John P. Betts. May Jl; Emile Cloaeef
Jr.. May 17; Thomaa McNames, July 2;
A. greyer, September 24; C. E. Holmes!
October 4; William H. Upson, Novera
ber 4; W. E. Hurd. November 16.
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