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4 THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 5, 1D22 " luned Dally Except Monday by TflE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY , ; . 216 S. Commercial Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, 27 Board of Trade Building. Phone Antomatle :'-:-"v -. - f - , - 627-89 . - : MKMBER OH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Preas la exclusively entitled to the use for repub lication of all news dlipatche credited to It or not otherwise credited la this paper and also the local newa published herein. R. J. Hendricks Manager Stephen A. Stone.. - Managing Editor Ralph Glorer Cashier Frank Jaskoskl Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: Bualneaa Office. 23. Circulation Department, 683. Job Department, 683. Society Editor, 108. Entered at the Poatofflce In Salem, Oregon, aa second class matter. , DOES IT PAY? .(Copyrighted by the San Jose Mercury) This is said to be a corrtmerclal age, because most toeri will make no effort to acquire those things that bring with them no material reward. What return will it make? That is the .question which every man tries to answer before he makes an investment of capital or engages in anything that calls for self-denial or any kind of personal effort. When narrowly and lgnorantly followed such a spirit is to be con demned, but when intelligently applied it may be properly brought Into other things besides business. As a business which will not pay the cost of its operation and, something more is not worth the time, thought or effort of anybody, so other things that bring us no reward are not worth the ef fort to acquire them. This is as true of the development of character and of . religion as of other things. If there be nothing worthwhile for us in these higher things, we are justified in refusing to strive for them. Recognition of their worth, however is almost universal; the most mercenary and worldly man will usually admit, at least to himself, that character and the riches of the spirit are the dearest of possessions. V , On the other hand, what does a life of self-gratification, sin, intemperance, impurity and? of yielding to the base promptings of the carnal nature bring to one who lives it? Who is so ignorant that he does not know? And what does an' exclusively grasping, sordid, business life bring to him who lives it? Let any man who has lived such a life to near ;its end honestly answer. Although such a life may have yielded some rewards, these are not to be compared withj what has come to him who has striven also for the ' higher things and made whatever sacrifice and effort were necessary to acquire them, . V';i:". iv ;;".;,.. ', " ' I The world is so made that when we act in accordance with the laws which the Creator has established for its govern Imentwet get a reward for our effort ; and when we do not so act, we either get nothing or suffer loss. The chemist who combines the elements in accordance with the laws of chemistry gets the result that he expects and the reward of his efforts. But if he works in ignorance of chemical latf s or, knowing' them, does not work in harmony with them, he destroys; the elements he uses and is fortunate if he does not produce an explosion and suffer bodily harm. . ; It is the same with human life.' The laws of health, for example, are fixed and certain as the laws of chemistry. He who learns and obeys them will be well and strong and able to discharge, with pleasure and profit to himself, the duties which life brings. On the other hand, he who violates these laws, whether lgnorantly or knowingly, ultimately pays the .penalty in bodily weakness and suffering. ; It cannot be. too often emphasized that the moral and . spiritual laws of our beings are just as fixed and certain as are the physical laws over men and the world. We cannot violate them without paying the penalty of such violation. .And If We live in harmony with these higher laws we shall certainly receive the resulting reward of happiness, peace of mind and health of body, mind and soul. Do not believe the religious teacher who tells you that you must wait until the future life overtakes you for the reward of good deeds and pure living. A truly, honest, moral and religious life will bring its rich rewards as it is lived. Had not God made this so, would He be the God of infinite wisdom that He is? Even if the rewards of right living do not come as rapidly as we wish, we should await with patience and confidence the time of reaping; just as the farmer, when he sows his seed, relies upon the laws of nature to work perfectly upon it and bring the harvest, i Be sure that the laws over our lives work as perfectly as those over the seed that thex farmer plants. If we sow the seetl& of righteousness in our hearts, if we water them with prayer, if we let in upon them the sunshine of love, these seeds will in due season surely come to blossom and fruitage in our lives. Applying this commercial test, what is the life we are living bringing to us ? Are good deeds bringing home their harvest of blessing as the days pass? Are we gathering in the fruits of righteousness? Are our hearts filled with har mony and peace? ! Do we retire each night with a feeling of satisfaction at the thought that for that day we have done our best; that if God could give us the day to hye over again we could not do better? Or at each day's end, as we look back upon it, are we conscious that the day has been thrown away, or even worse than that; that we have yielded to some debasing appetite or passion; that we have been filled with unkind, selfish, bitter or impure thoughts and feelings? As a consequence are we full of discontent, disappointment, un rest, inharmonv and unhappiness? If we are full of the results of an empty or unholy life, would it not pay lis from this time forth to try to arise each morning with a determined purpose that the day shall 7 filled with thoughts and deeds of love; that for that day at least we will put away the envies, jealousies, hatreds and bit terness that have been so large a part of our lives; that we will strive to banish the unholy thoughts and impure desires that have filled so much of the days that have gone; and that we will prav'unto God for strength to resist the action of all our carnal, animal propensities? If we will do this iho ia whin- mnro certain in the universe than that it will pay. Not only in the great beyond, but here day after Hov tiro ct n ail fiiirptv cftther in a rich and bountiful harvest more precious and lasting than grains or fruits or gold or jewels or anything the eartn can yiem. i - President Harding is taking more exercise. He j is now en gaged In walking around a "bloc." Do we want Porto Rico in the Union, as the 49th Tstate? Sha wants in. She would have two United States senators and be as important in the senate as New York or Pennsylvania or Oregon. Salem is to have a cold stor age and icing plant, land that is great news. It will grow Into a very large institution, if it keeps up with the need for the facilities it will supply. There will also finally be several more private cold storage plants hire, and they will all be needed, to the limit of their capacities. THE LEAGUE Of YOUTH Some amnsement was shown In this country over recent reports FUTURE DATES February 0. Monday Father and Son lutrm- at Commercial lob. February 7, Thnraday- Nataraliiation ray ta erica it court. Boy Scoot Wock Ptbraarr to 14 "Wear the aamaro knot .and do a rood turn daily." February 9. Thursday -Flax and hemp grower cooperative association to meet at Commercial club. i . February 9, Thursday -Contest at Cor allis between drill teams of Salem and En fere Woodmen of the World. February 10. Friday 'Boy Seoul pro Cram at state lair (rounds. February 10. Friday Arbor Say. February 15. Wednesday Company F smoker at Armory. February 16 to 19 Inclusive State Cnriatlea ElMieaynr mstastles February 21, Tuesday-' Convention of Oregon Retail Clothiers; association in halem. February 21, Tuesday John D. Mickle to addresa South Salem Parent-teacher assignation at Leslie Methodist church February 21 and 22- Tuesday and Wednesday, Apollo club in concert with U id eon Hicks and Uertrnc Hunteley Ureen. pianiat. March 2, Thursday Annual Elks Elee fcon. . ! April 16, Sunday Easter. July 3 and 4 Monday and Tuesday State convention of Artisans at Woodburn from Germany of the burning of dime novels and the substitution of good books. There were no doubt amusing incidents, such as the collection by unscrupulous youths oi all me yeuowoacKs they could find for exchange on profitable terms, but the crusade against trashy books for the young is but one phase of a movement which seems to be in teresting and important and is said to be spreading from Ger many into other European coun tr'.esv according to a writer In the Springfield Republican. Essenti ally it is a moral and intellectual revival which originated spon taneously among the young peo ple of Germany and has Fed to astonishingly rapid organization for the carrying out of a rather definite program. Side by side with the move ment for burning trashy story books has gone an energetic cam paign against objectionable plays and motion pictures, and in many places the organization has al ready got o much strength that managers are obliged to consider its wishes. Nor is its program merely negative. Tn getting rid of the bad books and plays it tries to create a demand for a bettar BOrt of literature and drama. It combats immorality in life as well as in art and resists the demoralizing tendencies which, since the war, have been complained of in all countries. In other countries the elders have preached and the younger gsner ation has paid little heed; in Grmany it is the younger gener ation that rebukes its elders and sets an example. This movement Is Interesting in many ways; It strikingly re calls, for example, the Tu?end- bund," or league of virtu?, whicn sprung up so spontaneously ani vigorously in Prussia in the early 19th century after its reverses !n war. That movement led to a great patriotic revival and pre pared the way for the "war of liberation" and the downfall of Napoleon, but it began as a morel revival, closely associated wUh what in England after the Cri mean war came to be called "muscular Christianity." Grand father Jahn was its patron saint. and the gymnastic societies mul tiplied amazingly: many of th traits of modern German lif? which Germans have taken With them in emigrating date froia that great reyival of more thai a century agoi In the main th;it too was a yoikig people's move ment, though it developed on somewhat different lines, largely because under the autocratic gov. ernment of that day there was lit tle freedom. Now the young peo ple are fr$e to organize as they please, so long as they do not plot treason, and romantic se crecy is unnecessary. The results of the movement should be the more wholesome for this entire openness, and it seems to appeal equally to boys and to girls. Although this reform has tak en the world by surprise, it might reasonably have been expected, and Germany is the country where t would most naturally begin. In all countries one effect of the war has been to make the young er generation more self-conscious. the in one of his letters hands behind his back, and find ng a hymn book superfluaus. A paiticu'ar favorite was Luther's battle hymn, "tin Feste Berp which he sang in language it is recorded that he used to give a cash prize of " cents to each of his children who memor ized a hymn. He also was a great reader of the Bible, and the fact is not generally known that for years he was a Sunday school teacher. Toronto Mail and Express. pranks. They don't paint signs on the chapJl wails or put over alls on the statue of John Har vard. The exuberance of youth German Ueerns to be lacking. The profes sor only thinks so. It he will lollow the students he will find them jatzlng themselves to the bone in some parlor . where the ukuleles are going. They roar be different., but they are still young. A UWYKH'S IAST TRIBUTE A lawyer has died, leaving his wife $100,000, and in the will has Taid the lady a noble tribute. He says he loved her at first sight, that they have been married for 30 years, that they have never quarreled or spoken an unkind word to each other during all that t'nie. He says that she was. without exception, the sweetest, noblest woman he ever knew. In these days of divorce and marital woe, such a romance is doubly inspiring. It would not make a sensational news story and it is well that it should not. We should preft-r to think that such marriages are not exception al, but normal, not news, but a general custom, that only the failures are still "news." Hut once in a while it is well to drag these fine normal people into the limelight lest we forget. IX W1LDKST UK AGO Hy a vote of 52 to 7 the Chi cago city council passed resolu tions calling upon congress to re peal the Volstead act so as to per mit the sale and use of light wines and beer. But this does not mean that the lawgivers will pay any particular attention to the demands of the father of tho breezy city. Measured by per sonal records and past perform ances a Chicago council might eas ly pass resolutions Insisting upon Moses marking off at least eight of the Ten Commandments. Los Angeles Times; G. L DAVENPORT QEOWEB AJTD nrrfn - Apple. Potatoes, Onwn. B 1VU- Wst tasl'l tti ATI kinds produe IJcitaA 147 rroat 8V. farUaad. Or. ITse Statesman ciaaamed Ad- In England, in France, to some xtent in our own country bitter controversies have raged. Tho war has been called an "old men's war" which the young men have had to fight; the millions of young women whom the war has robbed of love and marriage have been responsive to the emotional appeal of such indictments. Such controversies lead only to futile dialectic, and there Is no such sharp distinction between on;3 generation and another as they imply. But in so far as the young people repudiate the ideals and motives that made for war and set themselves to the practice of a more austere morality, the movement is of good omen. Such a movement starts most naturally in a country depressed by defeat, but It need not stop there; a league of youth dedicated to plain I'ving and hieh thinkine mlsht help to solve many of the hardest Problems that the world will have to dispose of before the ravages of the great war can be repaired. COO CHAPLAINS IX RESERVE CORPS; 181 WITH REGULARS. frroov TTJTJT UTQXT MM 8TOCOB FIAT WOKS Copyright, 1923 Associated Editors The Biggest Little Paper in the World Edited by John H. UfUar i - . H MAROOXED OX A LAKE ERIE ISLAM) E fell rs In the Pirate Six all tit ought ' we knew how big the Great Lakes are until last meeting. . None of us have ever aeen them. We nevter figured SAVf i n e y weren i nuttC much larger than the pond that's near our ' town, I supposfet But last meeting 8am Finney, the fat feller in our bnncn, gets np and arrows us dif ferent. . r r - : :r;.- "1 got a lUtle story about two fishermen on Lake Erie I'd like to tell you fellers," says he. "It Jus' shows how much bigger the lakes ar than v i think. -They look pretty small on the maps, but Just you go out and sail on one oi em ; once The Fishermen Set Out "Well, these two fishermen started out on Lake Erie in a mo- torboat. - One of the fishermen was an old man. 74 years of age. The other was his son. ' "They had gone pretty far out into the lake and done a little fishin when a heavy gale sprung up.? It turned into real storm. The wind brjw like blazes. The two fishermen decided - to run their motorboat with the little row eoat. they hed tied on, in be hind a small island they sighted. They did so and tied up the two boata and hurried onto the island to get shelter. . - - . "But during the storm, while the men were on the Island, the heavy motorboat lashed -about by the waves, .broke away from its ?- rinrs and drifted away on the 'r'. Only the small, little thby were pretty scared. How could they get away? The island they were on was far out in Lake Erie. Few boats ever passed near it. The Motorboat i Sighted "Then th.j younger of the fish ermen sighted what looked like the motorboat drifting way out in the lake. He jumped into the small row boat and pulled out to ward the drifting object. As he drew n learer he saw that it was the motorboat. But before he could reach it he saw the craft sink! Imagine how he must have felt to see the boat going down. "After about six hours of strug gling with his oars he reached the Island on which his father was waiting for him. "Well, the two men realized that all they could do now was wait and hope that some vessel would pass and pick them up. When the fishermen had left their motorboat to go on the island they had taken a large part of their catch of fish with them, and so they knew they would't be without food for a few days, at least. But that's all they had just fool, and their little, frail row boat. 'Fpr three days and nights they were marooned on that is land marooned, fellers, on an is land, in Lake Erie. Didn't know H was as big as that, did you? : Smoke Signals Bring Rescuer v "They made smoke signals to attract vfeeeels that might be pars ing, but no vessels passed. The two men were about to give up when in the dltsance they saw the outline of a cargo x boat. It was traveling so that it would pass close to tne island. "The cargo boat saw ttesir slg r.aK She pulled up near the 1s- . A -srr :i :tj l:t ra se the boat to carry away more than one of the fishermen. And the ol der man decidixl to Stay on the is land and eat fish while his son went ahead on the freighter to a lake-side port where; he got a tug that could stand up against the stormy waters. Then' he went back after his dad. "That's how big the Great Lakes are." i Did YOU know Lake Erio was that big, I didn't. ; j AL STUBBS. ! Scribe of the Pirate Six. ONE REEL YARNS HELEN CURLS HEK HAIR "Oh. dear, I do wish I had curly hair like Beulah Rowe." sighed Helen as she jerked the comb through her straight black locks. "Her hair Is so beautiful and wavy and golden. If mine were only curly I wouldn't mind it be ing black so much."- : Just then Heleu , spied her mother's electric curler. "Why. how funny." she exclaimed. "I never thought of that. I'll curl It, of course." The next morning Helen's al arm went off earl for than usual. She crawled out of her nice warm bed and worked hard frizzing and crimping her beautiful, hair till it satisfied her critical eye. Then, riot daring to put oh her hat for fear she would muss the hair, she started off tor school. I "Why, Helen, whatever- have you done to your hiir," the girls cried as she met them on the cor ner. "You don't look like your self." ! Hl3len blushed. "Don't you like Lit?" she asked. ! ' "Oh. yes, indeed I do." cried Grace. "It looks lovely." The other girls declared that, she looked "cute", and "stunning" and "too sajt." Only Sarah said. "I think I like you better with; It straight" .OB, saran's .. an old . maid,' lau-hed tLcs otler lrl. . ' school when she heard Bob's whis tle and ne canto running after ber. Gee, Helen, you look funny to day," he panted. ' What have you done to your hair? It looks as mussy and fussy as Beulah Rowe I don't like it." Helen regarded Bob In a super lor manner. "That shows how much boys know about such things," she said. "All the girls think my hair looks lovely." "Huh, do they?" he asked. " heard Grace ask Lucy If she didn' think you look a mess with you hair all crimpeC up uka that." Tears came to Helen's even " think you re horrid, she clared. Bob stared at her. "Whv should think you'd rather know aw, ge3, hoot I what who why " he stuttered. Helen looked at Bob and had to laugh at his embarrassment think boys are a lot nicer than girls," she said. "They tell you what they think to your faaa in stead of behind your back. I won't curl it any more. It's too much trouble anyway." de- A BROAD, UNSELFISH VIEW We' certainly shall mls3 Will Hays in the postoffice department if bis plain duty and 1150.000 a ear call him elsewhere, but we must look at these matters in a broad, unselfish way and we will admit that the motion picture in dustry seems to be in need of a ittle Presbyterian influence. Ohio State Journal. Approximately 600 clergymen have received 'and accepted com missions as chaplains in the offi cers reserve corps of the United States army. Of this number, the following denominations are represented by the following num ber of chaplains: Roman Catho lics, 165; Methodist, 115; Bap tist. 91; Presbyterian, 71; Epis copal, 54; Disciples of Christ, 31; Qongregational, 23; while the balance of the 600 are represen tatives of some 12 denominations. All of the ministers who have re ceived commissions as chaplains in the officers reserve corps had active service during the World war as chaplains. Of the chap lains in the officers' reserve corps five rank as majors. 60 as cap tains, and the remainder as first lieutenants. At present the total number of ehaplains In the regular army Is 181, distributed among the vari ous churches as follows: Baptist 26; Congregational. 9; Disciples of Christ, 10; Lutheran, 12; Methodists, 41; Presbyterian, 13; Protestant Episcopal, 16; Re formed Bodies, 2; Roman Catho lic. 39; Methodist Protestant, 1 Universal'st, 2; Methodist (col ored). 1; Baptist (co:ored), 2 Unitarian. 2; Untied Evangelical .1. and Cumberland Presbyterian 1; total, 181. ROOSKVELTS RELIGION TODAY'S PUZZLE Change "came" to "went" In four moves. Answer to yesterday's: Read, dear. Answer to today's. Came, cane, wane, want, went. oW THAT YRErniNC? ME 1 It . is not positively asserted that Roosevelt never swore, bu those who knew him most intl mately testify that he never took the name of God in vain, and that at heart he was a profoundly re ligious man, regular in the per formance of his church duties and abhorring atheists and athe Ism from the bottom of his heart William Allen White of Kan sas, a friend of Roosevelt's, said that he arrived in Emporia at a. m. at the end of a wearisome campaign tour, but was up early to go to church. He avoided the big. popular church and hunted out his own denomination, tho Dutch Reformed, which wa housed In a tiny building. sang with delight his farorite hymn. "How Firm si Foundation which, by the way, was the only hymn, sung at his funeral. 'He knew many hymns. by heart and found - rreat 'TjlMsnrsi iii- tlnHn AUTO TOPS If you want your top re covered in first class shape, see us. We make all kinds of tops. Ve make and repair cushions and seat covers. Our New Prices will sur prise you. 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