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, 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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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