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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1922)
i Issued Dally Except Monday by ) Tim 8TATKSMAX PUBLISHING COMPANY Y 211 B. Commercial 8t, Salem, Oregon V (Portland Office, 111 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatle lnarr.KTt of tub associated pbess The- Associated Preea la exclusively entitled to the in for pwbli - cation of oil news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this paper and also the local news published herein. - B. J. Hendricks ........ .Manager Ctepben A. tStoao .' Managing Editor Ralph Giovsr Cashier t Frank Jaakoakl .......... .............. ..'..Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: i - Business Office, SS Circulation Department. Ill Job Department, SSS Society Editor, IOC THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND MR. BRYAN The withdrawal and the re Issue of the invitation to William Jennings Bryan to address the in- tc national Sunday school conven tion at Kansas City. Mo., the 21st to the 27th of thie month, the news of which (especially the Withdrawal) has been widely pub lished, are explained in a state ment issued by the convention's program committee. Specific dj- of the rebellion and should have been composed loig ago. Catered at the Postoffleo la Salem, Oregon, as second class matter INTOLERANCE i, (Copyrighted by the San Jose Mercury) S a To the right-thinking man intolerance is one of the most repulsive exhibitions of human selfishness. 1 It is not the re 4 suit of having strong convictions and being loyal to theml It is simply an unwillingness to permit others to entertain h views opposed to ours; a determination to force our ideas upon others-with or without 'their consent, failing to dcj whicrr we are filled with hatred of those who are 30 obtuse zs not to sfce thatwe are right and they are wholly wrong. Intolerance goes even , further. : It imputes to those whose ideas are not in harmony with ours bad motives, and attaches e to them bad characteristics, usually largely imaginary, which to our .minds fully j ustif y our dislike and hatred of . them. 2''JntoIerahce can, of course, manifest itself in many ways about inany things! But it is in religion where itmost fre queritly exhibits-itself, and inits- most repulsive form. His-' " tory teems with camples of this common uman passion. v. Cruel persecutions burning at the stake, killings of men, wo- men and children, 'wars, bloodshed these are 3ome of its fruits. These persecutions make up many a black page in the ' history tf England, as they do of the tyistory of most, if not T. all, the nations of Europe. Itsems to us now almost ftnpos- " sible that.thb form of cruelty could have ever had.a foothold upon the soil of America; and yet the Puritans, fleeing from persecution to the wilds of, this land, cruelly persecuted the inoffensive Quaker and -drove Roger Williams from the Mas sachusetts Bay Colony into the woods. In fact, only in Cath , olic Maryland and in Quaker Pennsylvania during the early history of the colonies was there real rehgiou3 freedom as we know it today. , v . Even In. recent yeara we have read, of the intolerance ,n of the Turk breaking put in Asia Minor and resulting in the .massacre of tens of thousands of Armenian men, women and ; children, while in Poland and Centrol Europe there have been .several so-called "Pogroms," resulting in the death at the hands of their Christian neighbors of hundreds of Jews. These terrible exhibitions of intolerance in this aire of such general enlightenment faove one to ask, when will the time come that men universally will be content to live their own ,l religious lives and permit their neighbors to peacefully live theirsT ; . ' ;.. ' . , In the light of the plain teachings of Christ and the New Testament it is nam to understand now any one wno proies ses tor beaChristiaij carrjustify or def endV-ahy, manifesta tion ; of feeling' of intolerance. Yet a few of the A. P. A. ' - order and some Catholic fanatics are still with us. Christ's own words are "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, shall ye. he judged; and with what measure, ye mete, shall it be measured to you again." . No- where in the New Testament can there be found an. in toler ant spirit Paul says, "Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and let not him that eateth not judge him : that eateth. "! One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mincL ! Let U3 not, therefore, judge one another any move; but judge this, rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.7, - r- . ? ? iWe'are commanded to "let our light so shine before men tha, they may see our good "works" and thus be. attracted o embrace the same truth that has blessed us.-But no word of the NewTe3jtament can be so construed as to warrant usflnnd Samson rather than of the in forcing our light upon our brother and killing him, or even sedocUve enchantress, in the hating him, if he does not receive it. This is so contrary to I Bible. to- the pillars belonged to the spirit of Christ and His gospel as to require no reinforce- the temple of the Philistines. ment by argument. And "who are we that nudgetn anot fieri Are we so The president .hopes for the spiritually developed, so clo3e to God. and Christ, as to be Zionist program nhe fullest meaa warranted in concluding that we know it all -that there can ore of success- and the Tice presi be no spiritual knowledge or truth .outside our own little, dent hopes for "the full measure warped, undeveloped, imperfect minds and spirits . . Our. shall of success." They are in subs tan- we insist that some other man or set of men have explored i tial agreement. the uttermost bounds of spiritual truth and that there is uuvuu.6 u.y uiat ny uueuuie.ci uu w Another effort is to be made contrary, hiatorv reveals the fact that most men who have! suffered martyrdom were persecuted because of something Vorth and Soutl, The differences nUl u made of the Cnristian Res that the intelligent and broad minded of this age recognize as 0Ts Urery and Ine ww l,!ter's report that Mr" Bryan "was oi nitie or no real consequence, or. Decause tney. were in ad vance of the age in which they lived and were carrying for ward the torch of civilization and progress. , The truth" is. and many - are coming to see it, that the wisest and moat spiritual men and women of this, as well as of all other ages of the world, so far from having the abso lute truth, are only beginning to learn it; indeed, in our pres ent undeveloped state in this infancy of the. race-rrwe can not even comprehend the truth as it is in God, any more than the babe can comprehend the life and principles of its natur al father - All of us having much to learn, it is well to obey the command of -the Scriptures to "Prove all things and hold fast that which i3 good." The truly great man maintains? an open mind and is willing and glad to learn from the weakest Mayor Moore, addressing the of God's children. It is the essentially small mind who says, American Jewish congress at Phii "How blest I am, I have all the religious truth there is, and sdeiphia a week ago Monday, op have therefore no interest in, and no necessity to bother posed the literacy test for the im- about, learning anything more." ( migrants, as many other com pe lt should be borne in mind that Jesus was a dissenter teni obseryers hare done, and pro from Judaism as truly as Martin Luther and Calvin were dis- posed as a substitute "the human senters from Catholicism, and that the world would be much test the test whether he is, wu further back in barbarism, religious fanaticism and ignorance hns t0 work 13 law eb'ding and if som& heroic souls in the history of the race had not had ha a religion," it might puzzle a light beyond their age and had not been loyal to it, even in the experts to define having a re- the face of persecution and death. Their, truth may not have Melon for purposes of such a test always been the absolute truth, but apparently only by the -Struggles and sacrmces oi its oaiins ana martyrs na3 me The descriptions of heaven bv world been lifted above its original plane of animalism. - Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, now ( Remembering how weak and comparatively ignorant we lecturing on spiritualism m this all are, it is well npt'to be too cocksure of anything that we country at $3.so a seat, is a case have not proved or -demonstrated n our own lives. With of old wine in new bottles. Swed charity towards our brother, let ua therefore spend our ef- enborg. who died 150 years ago, forts in striving to incorporate in our daily lives such rfU printed a book entitled "Heaven gious truth as has been revealed to us, and help him, whjat- and its Wonders and Heir that ever may be his religious belief, to do the same. Thus shall sells for five cents, containing harmony come to the religious world and ail men come nearer I more about heaven than Doyle im- to the God Of love. - I t I parts in his lectures. Swedenbors never received A prominent English clergyman suggests fining non church goers as a means of raising revenue and thiks it would bring in 1409,000.- 000 a rear. Some one suggests that congress should be informed of this; that such a tax in Amer ica would pay the bonus, with plenty to'' spare. mittee seems to want to, hate u known that when he addresses the convention he will speak on a con troversial topic, if at all, on his own responsibility and. not as an official spokesman for a gather ing representing "widely different viewpoints regarding many theo logical and scientific questions.' It reads pretty plainly between the tinea that Mr. Brran'a view on evolution are at variance -with those of many people who will be represented at the convention This, howecer, has been pretty well understood. ' "Personally, we have never heard of any movement on the part of the devil to get a five-day week' Exchange. 'iWhy spend so much time dis cussing the tlrs't chapter of Gene sis? It is not so much where we come from as where we are going. New York will have a nine-story church. Many people will get nearer to heaven only when they take the elevator, "going op." IUis innomne4 that the pope will view for the first time an American game of basebaH. He will realize what a lot he has missed. ,We Jcnow. folks .who. for years have not been able to make them relves believe in religion, who have no trouble at all swallowing the theories of Dr. ' Conan Doyle and - his "sperrits." L03 Angeles Times. ' ' " ' iMr. Barthou seems to have been a little hazy about the scrip tural rtory when he retorted, to Lloyd -George's observation that I ' I never, received a penny for his England and France were the p'A- j voluminous writings, covering 27 lars of the temple of peace, that j rears observation, but gave them "we must be eareful not to let De-1 freely to the world. Those who lilah in." If Russia menaced he j see enamored of the Doyle stuff pillars It was in the role of the.land th,nk of experimenting with' mediums will shve themselvA! time, money and mental strain by first glancing over this volume. FUTURE DATES Job 14 Wednead? SUU teaedi xamnation begins in ealem. chosen by the program commit tee to speak but the committee's report "was rejected by the execu tive committee" and that "his medieval views and his hostility to teachers was the reason." The withdrawal, it appears, was made before Mr. Bryan had defi nitely accepted the invitation (which did not come before the executive committee) and after the merger of two organizations the International Sunday school association and fine Sunday school council had made neces sary a radical change of tbe con vention program and' the elimin ation of planned addresses by a number of prominent persons.: The re-issue of the invitation was made after a discussion occupying -'an unnsuat amount of time' of a petition rrom the convention committee of 100 from Kansas City urging such action. ' This further, etatement by the .'. program commutes is of intere3t: "The International Sunday School council is representative of 29 of the Evangelical denom inations of North America. It constituency naturally represents widely x different viewpoints re garding many th3oio,.cal and scientific questions. It is the pol icy of the council neither ta as sume any attitude to thesq ques tions nor to allow itself to bo d'aVn Into contriver: regir-lsng them. Its purpose i to bring to gether In a practical form of Christian service all those who are loyal to Jesus Chri3t and the essentials df the Christian re ligion." Mr. Bryan has accepte-i the re issued invitation, and the com- GOI WITH rsw Harrr f. Atwood. -; author of -Back to the Republic," 'The Constitution Our Safeguard." and other works of note, has written a booklet entitled "Keep God in American History," replete with allusions to the reverence of our forefathers for the Almighty. Cre ator and tending to show how the hand of, God has shaped the prog ress of our greit commonwealth. The author closes his book, with an appeal to the people of Ameri ca "to return to reljanee upon Divine -Providence'? and with Prayer ., to God for guidance and renewed faith in His word. j In this connection an editorial writer in the Los Angeles Times asserts that, in spite of criticism voiced by foreigners ... who are jealous of America's progress and v ho accuse us of being "rank ma terialists" and "purely commer cial," the crowning glory of these United States lies not In bur com merce, our Inventions, our scien- ces, nor even In our unexcelled educational system, but in the fact that the people of this republic have always been a God-fearing. God-lovliJg people and that their lives have been, largely molded by their faith. Since Benjamin Franklin mado the constitution a success b. per ruading the franiers of that great document to take God into their confidence Americans, as a people. have always realized the necessity of reverence . for and dependence upon the Ruler of thV Universe Victor Hugo said. "A. bouse has a soul." So, also, has every City, every community and eTery nation a soul, a spirit peculiar to itseix. The aoal of America 1 naanirest- ed in her literature, her art and her laws which express the col lective consciousness.- a belief In God. The open acknowledge ment that there exists a source of power and wisdom and goodness superior to the combined ; best qualities of men is wortn, more to a people than any amount of material progress. : v Americans are idealists, which accounts for their restlessness and their growth .along many lines, and to our people, as a whole,, the name of God stands at the summit of ideality.! That we are not. nominally,, a "Chris tian" nation, but that we tolerate all religions-and all creeds which do not Interfere with. , personal liberty nor conflict with' the wel fare' of society, Is but , another proof of ; our. - truit u'Xf l rhich' none of us. pretend. to fnlly understand, but toward whom we look for Individual as well as na- tlonal guidance. ri Oar conceptions of God must necessarily . vary somewhat,- but -to each and all of us' He represents tho supreme goal . upon which our eyes are tixed."v:-'fv- - V':kUH CAVE-SIAX niTKJ , The cave man burled, his. dead with as solemn religious .rites ss any in rogue, today. Such is the conclusion- of Prof. Malnage of the - French "Catholic " Institute. from hts painstaking studies ;fct relics and ethnological recoras. Furthermore, '.he, is convinced that tbelr religion ! was not basically different from ours, and that thp, latter is merely an etolutiorfA the former.) The tombs ana carv f ings reveal-nothing in" common v j with animism or totemisnv si V ) though the csre inan'a oeuet nn- doubtedly accepted a plurality4 of Irh ih idea of one ff supreme being j later emerged. Dmf ' MtinirA'i ' tnvestlgatlonf. while pointing to the evolution- y j J nrv nature of religion, throw., no ' light on the origin of the mono-V i ,hoUi. rnnrent. Je Scientific Am- V ; crican. Jnna 15 to 29. National caard eaoipBent at Anarieaa lake. 1 Jnaa IS ta so. Aaaaal Y.M.C.A bora' eacaniDaent. Mar Otis.' ineoln ramiT. inoif uiga aaoi T4a- Jan 17, SatnrdaT Ceaaty fehtk rrada rradnation xcreiaaa t ftalia hirh school. i Jun 19, Monday Salem aehool Juna .17 to Julv 7. VartWn RiUa tiKir arhool. r-H T Jane "t0 Tnedrr--Chantnn aaaaoa epna at Dallas. Jaaa zo. Zl, SS sad IS Portland Sota teativai. Jane 21, Wednesday Kebraika plenie, atata fair grounds. .! Jnne 25. 8anday At Silicrtoo. 1 An nual pieaiQ of Salem lodga BJPJJ, Jnno 27, Tuesday American - Legion aw ucimpinni ai mi vailea. ,. Jnly 29, Satarday Marion eennty Sunday srbool picnio at fair grounds. Jmna SS-SS. Jmhr l-a..iu . Oregoa Tire Chiefs' osaoetation at Msna. i Jane SO to July &Chautaaqu4 tent on in Salem. -s . . . Jnly S and 4 Monday ejU Tneaday. State eoaveatiM of Artiaaaa at Wood Vara. September 2, S and 4 : Iakviv EoBod-ap. Lakevlew, Or. Sttrtamher IS. Wednesday Oregon Methodist eonferaare naoeta la Salem. SenteanW SI. SS amd SS -Pendleton roamd-na- . Septemkar 5 SO inelajlTa Ongoa 8Ut fair. v Morambor T. TnasdayOeaeraJ V''.' ( s rnrjT aroaza rrrrlgns, 1022. AaaocUted Editera Tb Blgxest Ilttlat Paper la the World Edited by Johm H. Millar THE SWIMMINC CLASS LESSON IV f- I 4 f For all-around swimming,, itie, trudgeon, or double overarm stroke. Is probably the best, stroke j there Is. It has, the advantage of speed, and yet is practically untir ing, which makes It advantageous for either sprint or distance swim ming. Of coarse, it Is not as fast a stroke as the crawl, but on the other band it is not so difficult lo learp. , Therefore. It is a good idea for.1 the beginner to learn it, and take the .crawl later, : as we .will 'do. 'v: ; U , i If yoo practiced the suggestions In the preceding lessons, you will .have an easy time la learning to swim- tha trudgeon. Remember "you were told to, lie flat,; face un der the water, and kick your legs. That is the principle of the stroke 'as far as the footwork Is concern, ed, . - ' ' -i.-- : i s. ' Continue to practice It until you ' have thoroughly mastered It. 'Kow begin on tha varm move ment thesame movement, that iyowf practiced on dry land. Don't itryito' go too fast; time yourself so that you make about one stroke ,a Wood. 'i---'"-" 'And be sure that your body1 is perfectly straight out In the wat you will sink if yon do..' ' Of course you will not tbe able to go very far, becau're, if you are following directions, your face will be .under the water. , Therefore yon can go on only as long as you can hold your breath... But . if you can go that far swimming all the time you will be getting along fine! :U .r : It is best not to try to breathe until yon can get the stroke down to perfection. Many embryo swim mers have the fault of straining their bodies when they should re lax. The beauty of good swim ming is Us grace and ease; there fore you should practice with your face still under, water, until you can do it easily.-' Now try breathing. When your right arm is coming down in the water, and your left over your head In the air, turn your head slightly to the left, so that the mouth Is out of water. Take In a breath, then as you are complet ing the stroke, exhale through the nose In the water, hen tWhen the left arm .copies forward r re peat -Perhaps , you will find it easier to reverse ""this that Is, breathe on: the, right slde-r-lf so, mers- breathe on the left side, however. V All that remains 'now is prac tice. .Remember that your body should not roll as it goes through the water, nor should the neck be strained back. In swimming, the head should foe in a position so that the water .comes just about to the nose. . j -j'lt Is best now to ask some good swimmer to correct tbe faults you are certain to have. That Is sure to get you into form more quick- ir. . The fifth article in the series of swimming lessons will take up the crawl. This is the stroke which is used by most speed swimmers. er. Doiot bendrat ,the waist you can do it Most good swlm- DAILY PICTURE PUZZLE '!-, i : f : fayvtR Te YtiTtSOAY'a PvzaLc tt CATflSH PiKt CAsP " HtRRlNSi I re-ru viavfslr em or tmesr tkree Crrfrs HAM? S f ' I THE SHORT STORY, JR. SOIMKRTDIE fTUIYIXa Wish I hadn't played along When. 'twas nice and cool: ' ; Wouldn't have flunked my history And be In an mm er-school; . Wouldn't be fitting on the porch All by myself at home, Head-a-aoddlng while I read how n -. - - Caesar f j ; Conquered Home. Fellows going by to fish Holler. "Come alongl" When I shake m V head they stop To ask me what is wrong. Then they're moving on again. While T fret and stew. And my head is swimming 'round With " Fourteen .- ' , .. Ninety-two. ' Grandest kind of day to. swim -Sunlight on the creek, Paddling 'round so laxy that ' You hardly even speak. ' That's the sport for summertime. Might ss well be dead - - As sitting here a-resding 'bout The things ,' That statesmen Said. .t Looks inviting on the grass. Like to stretch and roll, Can't remember those old date?. An Adnames to save my soul. Bluejay mocking in the trees, , Guess I'll hit him once, t Sounds Just like he says to tne, f "Goodenss, What a " ! Dunce!" i -. . ...... ,. ... s- yA II li ! Ill I ? I 13K. II I ii ii iui - n . ii i Not Much Use First year student in ";hlgh school (looking at drinking foun tain): "That is a heck of a thing. No soap or nothin." . J "That boy has a studious look." "Sure he has! That's on ac count of the pupils In his eyes." An -j hour Physiology Teacher: "How many "ribs have you?" ; ' Sammy: "I don't know.t' I'm so ticklish' I never could count em." - - , , , - . , v . : . rn's"- '-. : . . Where He Stadled ' ; English '"Teacher: " Did J you study your English last night, Harry?" Harry: "Oh, yes and a half.? .Teacher: "Well, the next time you study take your book home. You left it on my desk all night." L ' '-" '"' $ i - ,. 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