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TOE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 21. 1922 - "v. Issued Daily Except Monday by TOB STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY v 215 8. Commercial EL, Salem, Oregon , yyA (Portland Office, 27 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic - S27-6 . ; " . - ' MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' ' The AMOciated Press to exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of nil news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited tn this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks Manager Stephen A. Btone ............................ .Managing Editor Ralph Glorer v.... .Cashier frank Jaskoskl Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: Business Office. IS Circulation Department, Sit ' Job Department, 6SS Society Editor, lot Entered at the Postotfiee In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter LET US BANISH FEAR (Copyrighted by the San Jose Mercury) 4 , Superstitution is but the jiatural expression of ignorance. With the dawn of the light of knowledge the ghosts, hob goblins and demons which people the imaginary dark world of superstitution disappear, even as the terrors of night van ish with the coming of the great orb of day. Not only have men woven superstitution about things' of which they knew absolutely nothing, but they have supplemented their imper fect knowledge of many things with superstitions having no foundation whatever in truth or fact. Thus have cnm all the superstitions and foolish conceptions that have fastened ' which His creatures may elect to live ; but they must obey doubt and unceriainty as to their future, and became -wretched. Many minds were unbalanced by these fears. Cheerful ness almost disappeared from some parts of the earth, and solemnity and piety became synonymous terms. Such unfortunate people could wake up on a spring morn ing and hear the birds singing as if their throats would burst trying to express their joy; see the sun shining, the flowers blooming gloriously, and all nature alive with joy and light and beauty, without changing their attitude. They would still feel that they were walking "through a vale of tears." Why should religion be such a somber and forbidding thing amidst all this riot of song, color and cheerful beauty? Why should men fear their God if He be a God of love, as Jesus declared? And it would seem that no word of Holy Writ should be necessary to make them know that He is love when they think even of the physical blessings He is constantly showering upon them. Being a God of love and wisdom, He knows and has Charity for our imperfections and weaknesses. He has made all of His universe glorious and created it for life and joy and happiness, no matter where His laws may bring us. There is nothing, in the future, not of our own making, of which we need be afraid. ! ' ' Then why not banish all these fears, superstitions, hor rors and uncertainties with which the ignorance of the past has filled the future? More, why not let the God of love reveal Himself and His love and truth to us, not only through the words of the New Testament and His beautiful physical universe, but out of His spiritual universe which is today just as real as it ever was ? Let our souls live and think and see so that we may hear His voice today, every day, instead of blindly groping in the darkneses of the past. Let us rise in aspiration, prayer and life where we may claim our Divine relationship, our spiritual sonship with the Father. This is the hope of the world. The God of love has established the law of love under themselves upon religion, many of which still persist in spite oi tne great increase or knowledge. -. For example, there has always been, there still is, a great mystery about the death of the body for most people. Con 'nected with this perfectly natural phenomenon there has come down to us from the past many childish and supersti tious ideas, .When the . body suddenly ceases its activity; when the;life, ; the personality, that animated it is gone; when the soul that smiled its love into our hearts and the eyes of compassion for our frailties and pains are but a sweet memory, it is hard for us not to still connect thesef things .with the "silent form lying before us. ; Many most intelligent religious people are coming to un derstand, however, that there is not, that there never can be, , any more union or connection between the soul that has gone , on and this inanimate garment that it has cast off than there is between you and the worn out coat that you laid aside last year. As, soon as it has served its purpose, when its useful- 1 ness is gone, it drops out of sight; and as you come forth clothed in the new coat to go on with your work, so the . soul clothed in the new garment goes forth in the newtlife better equipped for the tasks it is called to perform in work ing out its destiny. The soul once out of its physical tene- ment could no more go back into it than the chicken once hatched could return to its shell, :m-.' .- , v . y. Death is as natural as. birth. Indeed, birth is even a more wonderful phenomenon than death. Why should the one be clothed in mystery more than the other? Why should T superstition obscure the meaning of physical dissolution, , or undertake to surround death with terrors any morethan When the Bible speaks of death it does"not: as a rule. ;,mean death of the body. It usually refers to this in some ...... sucK"words as "He was gathered to his fathers' or "He gave -- M MM . M . sup tne gnost. . me -death" ot the Bible is a condition of spiritual torpor, of ignorance of truth and purity, a state of animalism and sin, whereby the life- of the spirit in man is, ;5 for the time being, stifled or destroyed, v -7-vi i In the past- superstition filled the- life after death with ; such-uncertainties and terrors that the stoutest heart 'was f overcome with horrible, undefined fears at the mere thought . 'ofifacing it; 1 Accordinir to the old teaching the soul a it --r slipped out of the body, would, either immediately or after .'the long sleep, be consigned to unlimited bliss or to everlast ing torment, its status already fixed forever. Most people, 1 "being conscious of their own imperfections, were filled with this law if they are to live under it. He has given to His children something of His own life; but they must cherish and nurture this life if they are to enjoy its blessings. Un der this law of love and through the quickening of this Divine life in us we may come to have a real religion, shorn of su perstition and theory, that shall be a guide to our feet and a stay to our spirits now and always. Such a religion inspires courage and makes one ready to meet whatever. is in store for him. Knowing that nothing, either on land or sea, either now or hereafter, can harm him who has set his face to the true "light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world." lation of the blood, and the Bes semer process for the manufac ture of steel. There are a lot of things he must clear up. Watt's steam engines and Stephenson's railways will follow as soon as he is able to get around to them. A New York preshytery has re solved to allow women to -become deacons. If the march of im provement goes on some of these days the sex will be allowed to go to heaven. And. seriously, what would heaven be without them? DEFKXIW FLAPPERS The flappers have found a per fectly good defender of unim peachable standing. She is the Rev. Maude Royden, England's most famous woman preacher. And she is in New York doing a little preaching on behalf of the flapper. She srys she likea the flappers, she approves of their cigarettes and their short skirts and- their bobbed hair. She says their man ners are natural and charming, not vulgar and wicked. She says they are independent and. capable, not parasites and wasters. And she thinks their independence and naturalness have a particular ly good effect upon the young men. are physically ponderable. Pos sibly he is wrong. But why not? With the air about us filled with sounds we cannot hear until Ecience opens our ears; with a printed page radiating music piat gives forth words, and from the fuccersion of words thoughts and from the thoughts full fellow ship with all aspiring irinds, what is not impossible? If the air is full of things unheard, why may not space be filled with things un seen, and why may not "the forma of the departed" "enter through the open door" when 'science has pried it open? What a show it is. the, phan tasmagoria that the curious mind of man has made out cf a rather simple old world that our grand fathers knew. When we call oil Ben Franklin no on the phone, how we shall Jolly the old mm for sending the key up on the kite to bring down the lightning froi.i the clouds. He surely unlockeJ Pandora" box of grief and trou ble and amazement with that old key!- WUliaifi Allen White in Judge. .-. u SERMON BY YE PASTOR A Warning to reel tired be fore exertion la not laiiness if a sign that the system lacks vi tality, and needs the tonic effect of Hood's Sarsaparilly. Suffer ers should not delay. Get rid of that tired feeling by beginning to take Hood's Sarsaparilla today. Adv. Congressman Simeon Fe?s an nounces himself as a candidate for the United States senate from Ohio to succeed little Atlee Pome reney Wonder If he is any rela tion to the Simeon, son of Jacob and Leah, of the old Bible story? "Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, rector of the Church of the Asf cension, New York, has volun tarily reduced, his salary, from $10,000 to $5000 a year 'It is evideflt he knows Just about what he is worth." -Exchange." The foregoing, in different forms and with various comments, has been going the rounds of the press. It is a ood Item ; .and some of the comments are -witty and wise. But it is not true. There is noth ing in It. Rev. Grant says it is not true, and never was thought of. It Is almost on a par with some of the campaign lies of the late' unpleasantness in Oregon. Gutenberg, the discoveries in elec tricity by Franklin and Galvanl, Priestly discovery of oxygen, the smallpox preventives of Jenner, Harvey', discovery of the circu- Havlng settled that there is no such thing as evolution, a friend at the wrfler's elbow says Col. Bryan will next dispel the misin formation abraod about the in vention of the printing press by FUTURE DATES May 15 to 81 Elka' Proiperity vMk. in Portland. May 22, Monday Willamette iirw tity school of music recital by Evmrett Craven, baritane, and Eugenia My era, pianist, at the First Methodist Church, 8 p.m. May 22 to 27, Monday to Saturday Swimming week for boya and stria at Y.M.C.A. May 24, 23 and 26 Ore ton Jersey Jubilee. ., ' May 26 and ST. Friday and Saturday May Festival. Oratorio Oreatioa Friday tn armory; living pletnree Ba tar day kight. May 31, Wednesday Health week be gin. , l June 8, Saturday Automobile racew at state fair grounds. . June 5. Monday Trie 'taee'C WnW . ettd aid Pacilie Uaimtlty at forest wove. June 6. 7. S and 8 Oreemi Orange convention at MeMiaaville. Jnn 14, Wednesday Flag Aay. June 16, Friday Jilga school gradua tion. ,.u ,0 . Jnae 20, 21, 22 and S3 r Portland Rose festival. V Jane 29-89, Jury 1 0nremtloa a Oregon lire Chiefs' association, at Marsh July S sad 4 Monday and Tuesday State convention of Artisan at Wood burn. September 2, 8 and 4 Lakeview Round np, Lakeview, Or, ; - - o . September 18, Wednesday Oregon Metaodie conference meets in Salem'. Beptembes- II, 81 aad 18 Peadletoa tonad-ip. .,. , September 25 SO laehuive Oregon State Fair. ... , .. t Tuesday 0 omega! State ( '. tott WM HTJlfOX . PLAT WOKX Copyrlshte 10S3, Aaaociated Editors The Biggest little Paper in the World Edited by John H. Millar TOE SYYtf.tf.HNG CLASS Lesion 1 i BY JACK GIHON " The. Mas Who Tangbt One Thous- :, and New Orleans Boy and - Girl. How to Swim . It Is peculiar, but a fact, that all the movements of the body re quired In ordinary swimming may be learned on dry land more easily k C . than In the water. M oat beginning swimmers have a tear of water, and the-presenee of this . tear ; retards f one's progress Is . master ing the stroke. II the would-be swim mer accustoms, him self to the stroke ItM4 before he enters the water he will learn Leg Kovojb nQW tQ awlm more jnulckly- than he otherwise would. - The ordinary stroke consists of three movements: The let move ment. arm stroke and the breath- ine.' Each of these should be learned separately and then com bined. ; ' ; '-s Start with the leg movement, i Stand with yonr' heels together and your handi on your Hps. Lift your right leg up. wtth Jour knee pointing out to the side, until the i mouth and exhale through the heel' almost touches the left knee. ' nose. Exhale as your arms shoot Kick out the right leg,until it ts straight. The right " foot should be about 24 inches from the left. Bring the foot down to the start ing position using a quick, smart motion. Repeat this action with left leg. ,1 Learn the arm stroke next. Stand ' with your feet together. Place your : hands, palms down and fingers pointing forward, be fore your c hest' about ten Inches below your chin. Hold the fingers of each hand close together. Hove your hands forward until your arms are extended ahead full length. Then, when" you have reached on t as far as possible, turn the palms outward, and with your thumbs pointing toward the ground, describe a quarter circle with each arm, bringing the arms stiffly back until they extend at right angles to your body from your shoulders. Bend the elbows slowly, bringing your hands back to the starting posit ion J ; As yoi do, turn your hands so' that the palms again are toward the ground. ' ' ' " 'f - The third thing to learn la the breathing. ' ;; '' - ' Breathe smoothly and easily, not Jerkily.'' Inhale through the 1 DAILY PICTURE PUZZLE Whal; Parts Of An Automobile AnsTncsc? ti yp-? ray's: 'Make hay while the sun shines.' forward at the be ginning of the stroke. Inhale as they start back ward in the stroke. By the time your hands have reached the chest position your lungs should be filled. The fourth step consists of these mice iaru ui luo am Stroke stroke combined. Stretch your arms out In front of you. Bring them back in the quarter circles, at the same time taking a deep breath. As your hands come to the chest position, raise your right leg. Start your hands forward at the same time straightening out the right leg. When the arms are almost fully extended to the front, bring your right foot down to the ground with considerable force. When the hands again reach the chest, raise the left: leg,, and so on. using one leg and then the athec for each stroke. - ' ' Jack' Glhon Is one of the best swimming teacher la America. If you don't know ; kow to swim, here's your chance to learn. If you do know he will teach you diving, fancy swimming, and speed strokes. 1 s There are eleven more articles In the series. "Be a good neighbor." That's the only way that the world's problems wi!i be solved. They sren't going to be settled mainly by legislation or war or througn "scientific" methods. Charity or ganization societies ara very necessary In our complex city life. but by tar the best way that they work is through "good neighbors" -men and women who become responsible for a family or ,an individual. "Be a good neighbor." Live it and talk it. Get others to be "good neighbors." Ana when you succeed In getting enough people in your community and your town to assume the friendly care of somebody else helping them to find jobs, advis ing them when they are in trou ble, having a sincere interest In their children we'll all be a whole lot nearer the dawn of the millennium. "Be a good neigh bor." It doesn't require much money, either mostly it needs a heart and a love for humanity, and some common sense. "Be a good neighbor." Arkansaw Thomas Cat. Dr. Lee A. Stone of Chicago says the flapper is no mystery. He thinks she is Just a female who has lived down thousands of years I brinR. Somehow or other w to ot hypocrisy and has beme agine Dock has the right ".lope." what she desired to be. a human 'as the saying goes. Exchange. Back-East RoundTrip Fares Lowest Years Daily May 23 to August 31 By The OREGON ELECTRIC RAILWAY . And Direct Connections Return Limit, October 31 Choice of Routes and. Liberal Stop-over arrangements on going and return trip Round Trip Fares from Salem: Atlanta Baltimore ..... Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Cincinnati .......... Cleveland tfenvrr Dea Moines Detroit Indianapolis Kansas City - ..St 19 60 .. 14S.65 .. 160.40 .. 121.70 .. 137.40 S8.05 108.35 110.65 66.05 J 79.70 107.70 101.30 - 74.05 fou is villa - Memphis Mi!wukr Minneapolis . Nashville X Orlean New Yrk Omaha Philadelphia Pitttbarra . 8u ljonia St. Paul Toronto . I10S95 96.10 86.90 74.05 10S.9S 109.05 H9.4S T4.04 147.00 lll.il S.S 74.03 iiS.4 Washington ... $ 1 4 3 . 5 Va,:.,. v f Proportional fares to certain other cities ; in the East, and fares one way via California will be ' supplied on . request - - t Sleeping car arrangements made, baggage checked and tickets issued through from Salem. Train schedules and other details will be furnished gladly. ' p Oregon electric: railway J. W. RITCHIE, AGENT, SALEM, ORE. MODERN MIRACLES What a marvel it is! Our mod ern miracles are so much more unbelievable than the wonders of old. Radio concerts cover thou sands of square miles, the human TOice carrying around the world, and one after another of the plagues of men falling before se rums. A great French scientist declares that discarnate spirits At Last! J. R. Radio Sets For An excellent receiving set, thoroughly practical and complete. En ables one to "listen in" on anything' broadcasted within a 50-mile radius. All you need is overhead wire. For particulars call at SALEM HARDWARE 120 North Commercial St. The Winchester Store GO. A. I THE SHORT STORY, JR. : V' - ;' Glen Garden - -j "How xnanf times," said old Sandy, flourishing his hoe threat eningly, "have I told ye to stay awa,?, The son' of the assistant gardener drew back. "Out of here, out of here!" shouted Sandy.vi Waited walked slowly out of the beautiful and closed the gate be hind him. Much as he .wanted to stay, he dared not for fear ot get ting his father Into trouble with the croutchey old head gardener. who railed against ' having any "destroyin young-uns" in the wonderful garden of the manor house. "rather,' said Walter that night, "why can't I have a garden of my own? You could bring me some seeds or plants they don't want." His father pushed back his chair angrily. "Don't let me hear you talk that way again." he ex claimed. "My son is not going to be a gardener. Never talk to me about gardens again." Down In the glen beyond the house, Walter made his flower garden, starting with seeds he had found back of the greenhouse. It was all a secret, and he was al ways in fear of being discovered. One day he was working over his garden when a shadow ap peared above him. He looked up with a sudden fear, "and there stood the master of the manor, looking down at him intently. Walter was on his feet in an In stant, trying to explain, his throat dry with terror. And some how he fouud himself telling about Sandy, and about raising flowers. And the master listened. Then he took him Into his house and into his library and pulled out book after book on natural science and It all seemed a dream to Wal ter. "And to think," old Sandy would say,' in days to come, when he spoke of his acquaintance with Walter Blum. the great natural ist, "that it was me' started him gardening - " Make Your Porch a Summer Time Outdoor Living Room ; With a few comfortable chairs a rocker or two a table and a luxurious swing you can turn your veranda into an ideal outdoor living room and enjoy the summer breezes to your heart's content. ; - - We are showing a splendid variety of furniture for this purpose chairs, rockers, tables, settees, etci, in reed, grass, fiber and old hickory. Strong comfortable swings of canvas make your porch a real living room and our moderate prices on this class of furniture are an added inducement for you to enjoy this summer to the fullest extent. H00SIER Kitchen Cabinets The HOOSIER Cabinet is the kitchen cabinet that is repre sente4 in over two million homes. There is a reason why. Let us show you. $1.00 puts this labor saver in your home. 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