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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1922)
" " THE OlX&aklSW V ,',' 1 1ssued Dally Except Monday by . , r THE v STATESMAN PUBLISHIXQ COMPANY ;..- - 215 S. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon ;. r (Portland Ofrico, 627 Board ot Trade Building. Phone Automatic , v , 627-53 r . MEMBEIl OP T1IK ASSOCIATED PRES8 :,? The Aisoclated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited hi, la this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks Stephen A. Stone "Ralph Glorer .. . Y Frank Jaikoikl -f ta Manager - .Managing Editor Cashier Manager Job Dept. .TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23 Circulation Department, 6S3 ' Job Department, 683 Society Editor, IOC Entered at the Postoffice In 8alem, Oregon, as second class matter -'t'A THE OTHER MAN'S GOD . . ' (Copyrighted by the Sah Jose Mercury) ."Although the men who went to'France to ensraee in the ''"'world war may have tome back with some bad habits, they, uiuujul itjui mem a new remjiuus ureauin oi view ana a toleration, acquired in the camps and trenches of France, I.1' which means much for the future religious life of this coun- . try. , The men learned to Tespect the religion of the man who . , . iougnt Dy their side, no matter what it was. The chaplains leamea me same lesson, it tney neeaea to learn it. As a . , matter of fact, however, the chaplains were quite generally the leaders in . this liberalizing spirit and fraternized and supplemented each other in a manner to greatly encourage ' those who hope to see the spirit of Christ triumph over sec ' "tarianism and bigotry. Rabbi Lee J. Levinger, one of the twelve Jewish chap lalns assigned; to the 27th Division A. E. F., has recently published a book entitled, "A Jewish Chaplain in France." Writing of the four chaplains who shared his quarters, he . t. " says, iEvery evening we gathered about our grate fire and related from the grim business of the day. We sang, played checkers, argued on religion. Imagine us discussing ; the ' furidamerial, principles of Judaism and Christianity for sev eral 'hoursv.The five of us were all of different creeds , , Catholic, .Baptist, Christian, Christian Scientist and Jew !" As showing the respect the chaplains generally enter . ' tained for each other's religious beliefs and the manner in which they co-operated in their work, he writes, "A Catholic priest told us briefly what we should do in case we found a f . .dying Catholic in the hospital or on the field, with no priest at hand.' Then I was asked how best 'the others might ad- f( minister to a Jewish soldier in extremity. I repeated to them the old Hebrew confession of faith: Shema Yisroel adonoi elohemi adonoi echod. 'Hear, O Israel the Lord is our God, ; the Lord is One' I told them to lead the boy in reciting it, ' - or if necessary, just to say it for him, and the next morning when I brought down copies of the words I was deeply " touched by their eagerness to know them." therefore, ve ignorantly .worship, him declare I unto you"! Then Paul revealed unto them the God of Christianity. But' there was no assault upon the cherished beliefs of these Athe nians. He soyyht to lead them from their idolatry to the understanding alid worship of the true God, but he had char ity for their condition and knew too much of human nature to treat their religious opinions with disrespect, contempt, ridicule, or direct and brutal assault. No man was ever con vinced of the error of his religious ways by force or by ridi cule: Men can be led out of error only' by leading them to embrace the truth. They can not be driven or forced. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion stilL Besides, one does not need to be a narrow sectarian or a bigot in order to be loyal to his own religious convictions. We can respect another man's religion without embracing it. We may properly even, help him to live the religion that meets his needs, when ours does not- and we will do so if we have grown above that narrow, disgusting belittling man ifestation of selfishness which we call intolerance. The more Spiritual knowledge and development one ac quires and the nearer he comes to. the Christian, the ideal life, the more he comes to see that all men are only spiritual children with imperfect ideas and knowledge. Real devel opment of soul brings true humility. The truly great in spiritual power as an intellectual strength know how weak and ignorant and imperfect they are when compared with the great source of all strength, knowledge and perfection and are glad to learn that from the least of God's children, and often find that they can do so. It is only the small and imperfect and undeveloped who are sure that they have all the truth and refuse to learn, even to investigate, anything new. Finally all religion, whatever it3 Jrm, is the effort of men to comprehend, to reach, to do the will of the one great source of Good. Every man will have a conception of God that expresses his own spiritual condition. As men develop, as their spirits become enlarged, their ideas of God change and enlarge. Men's religion likewise is but an expression of their inner spiritual condition. To change their religion we must change their inner condition. We are somewhat lacking in spiritual development and discernment ; that is why we differ. We have not yet reached the condition where we have "one Lord, one faith and one baptism ;" and we will not reach this condition until, as Paul says, "we all come in the unity of the faith and of the know ledge of the Son of God, unto a 'perfect man. unto the meas ure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." Until I have reached this condition, what am I that I should say that my religion is the true one and every other is false? who are premfllnniarians have no Intention of imposing their belief on the denominations. Pro fessor Anderson admits that "$apli?ts are hafing a difficult time at present,"! but' points out that the doctrine j is not confined to his denomination. He bfgs Jeave to call attention to the "proud record of Baptists lor free dom, spiritual? and progress." The "spectacle most awful Tin the world's record- of j wars and mas sacres" that Dr. Dieffenbach pre dicts as a result j of the arsres- sire premillennarian teaching in certain quarters will probably be warded off by the good sense of mankind, which is now being-mobilized as never before in an ef fort to prevent the world from again being drenched in, blood through political and economic antagonisms. In, -view of. the aroused putallc interest in the discussion. It is pertinent -to qnote the resolution adopted by the To ronto Methodist Ministerial asso ciation the past week: "Such materialized and local ized conceptions of the reign of our LordCpreniellennialism) not only seem to us out of harmony with the revelation of God in the Scriptures, but in our judgment they tend to restrict the church's mission to. a rescue work of a very narrow and limited character." not aare that the man who pointed the way to heaven m Snnday was pointing the way to the millinery department on Mon day. ,Tfce ch-jrrh trustees knew, however, and were satisfied. They could pay the preacher only $7.5 a month. He drew down $125 a month at the store and In this way was able to live and main tain his family in better circum stances than the average rural clergyman. A good many people will agree with, and a good ma'ny others will disagree from the following comment concerning the case of the New Jersey preacher, by a neighboring newspaper para grapher: It was a fide thing all 'round. - If every country preach er had a good job during the week he would preach with more assuredness and' J enthusiasm on the Sabbath day." CHURCH PASTIMES PAYING THE PREACHER .! t Without toleration, without real respect for the religious convections of others, without that charity that covers a multitude of ignorance, error and sin no man' can approach unto, no man is even in the way of reaching, the spirit of ; the' Christian religion as taught and lived by Jesus and his , A disciples, if the JJew Testament record is true. Loyalty to . -their Master and his principles did :iKtuse"theiirtdi treat j,i,J ehovah and the faith of the Jews with contempt, disrespect . and derision. On the contrary, they souirht to build unon jriiiitjthe new faith and to, lead the followers of Judaism to em- brace Christianity, not by assaults upon-their religion, but .,.by showing- their own, the new light. , .When they undertook to carry the- gospel to the pagan i world they pursued the same course. In Acts it is related . that Taul stood in the midst of Mars Hill, and said, Ye men ot Atnens, I perceive that in all things ye are too supersti tious. For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found s The Baptists of Iowa have asked an altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God. Whom, the farmers of that state to con- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. Robert Louis Stevenson. In the days of the Old Testa ment it was considered a miracle for an ass to speak; now nothing short of a miracle will keep one quiet. tribute to mission purposes all the eggs laid on Sundays from now until the lBt of May. Will they shell out? It is found that the pastor in a New Jersey country church has been floor-walker in a New York department store for a year with out the congregation knowing about it. They knew he wpn t in the big city every! day. but wtre The pastor of the Methodist church at El Taso, Texas, is opening a roller rink in the base ment of his church to offset somej of the jazz dancing in the town. The institutional church move ment is spreading in most sec tions of the country. THE ROOT OF ALXi EVIL Writing in the Revue de France, the eminent French scholar. Ca naille Ayhrard, discovers the in teresting fact that for pure Bol shevism Lenine and Trotzky are mere pikers compared to one Wang Nga'n Shen, a Chinese phil osopher, who flourished about the end of the 11th century. This ancient reformer, accord Ing to Aymard succeeded In con vincing his emperor. Shea Taunt. ; that h reasons the, internal af fairs' of the empire were- so de plorably bad at tnerime was plain enough for a -wise man to see. and for a celestially wise empe- ior eair enough, to remove. To cause of all the misery, he said, was money. He induced the em peror to abolish money entirely and to take over all the harvest in the name of the state. The situation speedily became ter rible; but, urged on by his head strong adviser, the emperor was unable to turn back. Fortunate ly for the countryy be soon died killed by care, perhaps and at news of his death the philoso pher disappeared.-. The erratic reasoning of Wang Shen fa not peculiar to Celestial Bolshevists alone. Some Chris tians are in the habit of misquot ing the Bible touching this same point. "Money, they say, "Is the root of all evil." But the Book doesn't say that; what it says Is: "The love of money Is the root of all evn." In this connection It might be worth while to consider a story from Mexico bearing upon another problem which Is considerably bothering Americans at this time. The tale, declared to be a true one. is to be found in Charles F. Lummis book, "The Land of Po co Tiempo." It tells how two Mexican peons, Cristobal and Translto, having managed to ac cumulate a little money, formed a Dartnershln and bought a 10- zallon kec of whiskey in ' Santa Fe, and then started over moun tainous roads to retail the stuff in outlying; plazas. They had agreed in advance that neither wato:ieiTetheother a drink. Thla was, necessary, .for v thej were both hard drinkers. Attei trawling verarmUes. CrlstobaL who was particularly thirsty, beg, ged his partner to break the Vul : Just once. Xo; . the partner ,rwa obdurate, , Cristobal plunged, bU hands in his pockets, dejected. and in doing so encounierea soliUry nickel Tie didn't know he had. Slowly an Idea, came tc him.- He would buy a drink; there was no agreement noi sell each other a drink. He con- . vlnced Translto and got his drink- let. Slowly It dawned on Tran sito that he. too, might buy him- self refreshment . There is nc use to go on ; with, the story; When the two made camp tha ? night the , nimbi ? nickel leaped back and forth; for trade wa j gOOd. -' ' , . ; There may be a moral in tWr. ' v. i ' Story; there : may even, uo i morals, or several morals, accord- ing entirely to one's point of view. " -.' -v' I' I FUTURE DATES s . it in u.j.r WLUimrtt ami ,-ty Pro'- Fk, , "ViUmi " i l. dirt." 8 B.ni. . April IS. WcdwJT Oouy fc"4 lly club f ! mtt . April J4, Fridy t-Mt dT W candidal (or itau efficM M "! act-rotary et atata. . Srhulti. T1iiiit, Grand thealr. AprO IS te 1 1 MaiK" in "alrtif. Aoril 18. Tuaaday WfcltBay By nnm to an at Chriaa eharca. April 27. Thanday -100th Aanivmary of birth of V. a-Grant. ''"'' : Aoril ST. - Thttnalay lOOtli 1 Honda W. W. Ellavorth, t4 oditor and tiiarary naa, addroaa Wlllanatta rn,ilita." , May i. $ d S. Ctrla Ckmlage. Kay IS. ' Saturday Joator ,wk-ea4 antortlnmeat -O. Ai-C. - May IS, Friday Primary alaotloa. May 19, Friday Opaa setose nrfmfif of fifth arhool ' . Am mmmmmm mmmmmM mmmM i '':,....-. i - j Ljyuaijj)t ill Most people will find that they caq reduce their daily Tation one third, sometimes one-half, with out any inconvenience whatever. Dr. J. H. Kellogg. Science now claims to be able to decide what trade or profes sion one should adopt, but people will go on trusting to luck just the same as ever. Back In St. Louis the clergy men have agreed to hereafter de liver only 20-minute sermons. We have known of some Instances where that was too long. Los Angeles Times. EXCITEMENT. OVEIt rRE- MILLEXMAIJSM (Springfield Republican.) Premillennialism Decame a live topic the past week with a start ling address by Rev. A. C. Dief fenbach, editor ot the Christian Register, in the Arlington Street church, Boston. Even those who, with Dr. Dieffenbach, disapprove the doctrines of the coming of Christ now being taught by ex tremists, must have felt that the energetic editor overstated the peril ot sucn teaching. i.tl A Baptist, a member of the de nomination which Dr. Dieffen bach particularly censured, makes a temperate and urbane reply. This authority, Prof. Frederick L. Anderson of the Newton theo logical institution, denies that Premillennialism is dominant in the Baptist church. "Nine-tenths of our people are moderates In opinion and they will find a way to live together," he says. Those tCHOOTa 8 TODY P0BT9 mm a m 30 HUMOB PLAY WORK Copyright, 1922, Associated Editor The Biggest Little' Paper in the World Edited by John H. Millar TTO3 PIRATE ISLANDS "Say,f say sf Joe Taylor, 1 when ! us fellers In the Pirate Six were Bitting around , In our eave the other night, "I've been learning a lot about pirates since w were ere Jasv time. Funny how 1 1 happened on to It. i , , "Last Sunday we all drove down, to Hillsdale, where some ot our relatives live, "because my un cle Ned was home. He knocks around a Jot and Isn't home very much. , . : ... .fr . "Alter dinner Uncle Orvil was reading out loud from the paper tabout how some merchant ships bad disappeared and folks thought - there was a pirate ship operating somewhere on the coast, prob'ly some ex-German sailors that bad a ship and were pirating, like In - , old days. ":: fc..,' V "Then Uncle Ned got to telling . about bow he'd been down in the West'lndiea . and around South America last winter and had come .j Vacross a lot of ptaces connected with the times when It was thick tVlth plratesw:;-'-'1 : ;V ' The Pirate Pea - ? - , "Ever since Christopher Cblum - bus stumbled on to America, .he i ii i says, the islands down In the Car " ribbean Sea have been over-run with 'pirates and have, been the scene ot lots of adventure. They are right across the old- route, you see, where the ships carrying gold and . Jewels from the Incas . I had to follow on their way to Spain. That's why It was such a favorite hang-out for the pirates. "These Islands were sort of rugged and hard to get at, so it was easy for the old buccaneers to tit them up as their headquarters and be safe."- , , "What's buccaneersr Inter rupts Sam, showing his Ignorance. "That's another name for free booters and pirates," says Joe. "By the way. Uncle Ned told me where that name came from. I never heard .of it before. In a place called Tortuga in the Car ribbean there was a regular pirate colony. There weren't any cattle there, so they went over to Haiti to get their meat, where the Span- lards had started the raising of cattle. The cattie ran wild. Meaning of Bifccaneers "The men hunted these cattle, cut the meat in strips, and hung It over frames to smoke. The place where the curing was done was called the 'bucan.' And the cattle hunters were called bucca neers. This name finally cams to be used for all pirates. : "Well,' I was going to tell you about these Islands. St. Thomas, in the Vlrgfn Islands, now belong ing to the United States, was an other place the pirates used to be fond of. Uncle Ned .was there for some weeks. He saw a kind of tower on ' a hill that they, called Blackbeard's Tower, , The people there told him how way back In the colonial days it was built by an old pirate whose real name was Edward Teach, He used to stay up there and watch for the big gilded Spanish. Galleons. : .. "Blackbeard had got his name from his big black beard, which he was awful Stuck up about. He used to twist his beard up Into little pigtails and 'tie ribbons on them. : V" ': . " '-" End of Blackbeard "He was a reckless sort of pi rate and even anchored his pirate ship as far north as Charleston. South Carolina. Then English colonists finally got tired of being afraid of Bleckbeard. so the gov ernor of Virginia set a price on I the pirate's head. "One day a fighting English man named Lieutenant Maynard found him resting in an inlet in North Carolina. He hemmed him in with his ship, and a fight started. Finally Lieutenant May nard came face to face with Black beard and fought him singlehand ed, until the pirate fell on the deck. That was the end of the fa mous pirate, but the kids in St. Thomas still feel creepy if any one says, 'Look out, or Blackbeard will get you'." Just then Mrs. Woods came out In the yard and catted Herb. Joe said he was going to tell us some more about what his Uncle Ned talked about, but he'd wait untU next time. So we said s'long and beat it. AL STUBBS. Scribe of the Pirate Six; CHANG t im TMW (Set These Low Priceo ONE REEL YARNS THE REST OF TH3 STORY, There Is nothing the twins like better than to hear stories of "When Mother Was a Little Girl. One day in midsummer she told them how she and her little sister bad gone into her grandpa's hay meadow and made themselves a house by trampling .down the standing hay into rooms. "We had a parlor and a sitting room with double doors between; and bed rooms and a kitchen an j even a barn " Just then thi phone rang. . The twins did not wait for more of the story. They looked at each Other and said, "Let's us," an4 taking 'a box of crackers and at apple apiece, they scampered ofjf to the field where their grandpa V. hay was shining In the sun. The trampled themselves a hous4 apiece, with living rooms anil dining rooms and even sun parj- lors, and then they set up house keeping. It was great fun, and the twins were enchanted with the waving green walls of their new house when a shadow fell across the liv ing room, and Grandpa a very red faced and angry Grandpa came stamping right through the walls of the houses, and grasping a twin in either hand gave them a good shaking apiece. "Look at all that good hay spoiled what do you mean don't you know that hay means money don't yon know that it spoils hay to tread it down that way?" Sheepishly the twins returned home. "Mother." they asked, "What did grandpa to do you when he found you playing house in the hay" "He spanked me." said Mother. "Why?" 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