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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON "T SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1923 Issued Daily Except Monday by THE 8TATK8MAM PUBLISHING COMPANY - : f 21S S. f.nlrnr.M.il Ct Citum rt..n trortiand omce. 723 Boaid of Trade Building. Phone Beacon u 9 uj squared, by the golden rule and the plain teachings and pre - ' " MEMEEP OP THE ARfinritTrn drc&b T The i Associated r ress is exclusively entitled to the use for publl- .u7 uiBiaicn8 creauea to it or not otherwise credited injthis paper aiid also the local news published herein. R.I J. Hendricks Stephen A. Sioue Frank Jaakoskt 1 j - Manager i Managing Editor Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: Business Office ... Circulation Office -Society Editor - - Job Department - 23 683 IOC 683 Entered at the Poetof flee in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. HOSPITALS Hospitals run concurrently with the establishment-and spread of the Christian religion. The Good Samaritan had the hospital spirit. It is the spirit of the Golden Rule. It i3 the Golden Rule in action; It exemplifies the idea that every man is his brother's keeper. Salem is the second city in Oregon in population and in most other things going to make up a city of her class But she is short in hospital facilities, f i - The completion to . a point where it will be, ready for occupancy of the initial unit of the Salem Hospital building, now so near that point, will at least save us from disgrace Will at least take off the curse. ! In fact, with this thing accomplished, we will be able . to j offer very, good hospital service to a considerable number vofj people needing such service with the new facilities eking out those we already have. v i j ? But even then we will not have enoughi : , . , Other units must be added as fast " as possible; ' for' Salem cannot afford, from either ja business or humanitarian standpoint, or even in the interest of a just pride, to take a place in this respect below the distinction ; that ought to be hers. ! M ' By all means, the hospital drive should succeed. ' There should be no thought of failure. If the $35,000 necessary for " the immediate purpose can be distributed over the number of ! people who ought to participate, the burden should not ciples or an intellectual asservation of high ideals and pur poses ; and still less a mass of rituals, dogmas and ceremonies Any Christianity that is to have much effect in preventing wars must be that which will arise when the majority of the citizenry of the nations are dominated by the spirit of Chris and their lives and their daily conduct with their fellows are be v too hard on any one. t 1 CHRISTIANITY AND WAff (Copyrighted by the San Jose Murcury.) . . ' It was recently announced in the Press that the Inter- national Conference on Christian citizenship, composed of representatives of many denominations of churchmen from more than a score of countries, had dispatched an address f . to the sovereign head or chief executive authority of prac f tically every nation in the world. This address recites that every other method to abolish war having failed through the ages, "the time has come to try Christianity." It is an $ encouraging sign when a large number of the leading church & men of the world recognize that the failure to try Christian it ity in the international conduct of nations is the reason for all the wars of -the past; i But there may be some doubt as to whether the time has yet come when Christianity can or will be thus used to end wars, ! i ' In the first place, the time has not come to try Chris tianity as a preventive of war until the nations of the earth, l or some of them, at least, have really achieved Christianity, ' which Is not merely a dogmatic declaration of fixed prin- cepts of the Gospels. It seems strange that men generally in considering the cause of wars, do not recognize that nations are but aggrega tions of individuals, and that manifestations of national life and character are only manifestations, of the aggregate life Sand character of a majority of the men and women making Up the nations. Christianity can not therefore really be tried in the relations between nations in the effort to prevent wars until there is some approach to the Christian life and charac ter by the individual citizens of thfe'nations, or at least a ma jority of them. While selfishness, greed, covetousness, m justice and cruelty rule the majority of the people of a nation it is folly to expect the nation to manifest anything in its relations with other nations, except with selfishness greed, injustice and the spirit of brigandage and conquest The only way to prevent - wars between the nations is to truly Christianize the men and women, of the nations.; The hoDe of the world is not in its sovereigns, diplomats . and t.i i a. i: . . i Statesmen, uui in its living, warning, viinaiiau opusuca, iuj breathing emobdknents of the Christian life and spirit. May it not be that one reason why our Christianity has not more modified the natural, brutal instincts of men, of so-called Christians, is that most of us have not yet really embraced it? Our professions of religion have not usually been prompted by any unselfish desire for service, or a love of righteousness and truth for their own sakes, or a settled and dominating purpose to incorporate in our lives the true spirit of Christ and to square our conduct by the golden rule and the plain precepts of Jesus. And yet without these things nay, more, a religion that does not express itself in unselfish service to men, righteous living, doing justice practicing the golden rule and striving to know the will of God in all things and obeying that will is not Christianity, whatever else it may be. In order to induce us to embrace Christianity the ap pear has generally been made purely to our selfishness. We have Been urged to accept the Saviour in order to save our souls from the fires of a future hell. Fear of Jthe conse quences of our sinful, careless and selfish lives is what has moved us. No altruistic consideration, no settled purpose to overcome our selfish, beastly, unjust, cruelcarnal natures -i-indeed, we have been taught that we are so frail, imperfect and altogether bad that we can not do this, even with Christ's, with God's help; that we can only accept Christ as our bav idur who is then to do everything for us. Perchance we have been accustomed to sing with great spirit: ! "Jesus paid it all, All to Him I owe, I - Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow." Anyone who will read the Gospels with half an open mind can not fail to see that this is about as far from Christ's teachings as light from darkness. He is to help only those who help themselves to come into the Christian life: . He is to receive only those who ibey His commandments; He is a stranger to them that are deaf to the crying needs of humanity and who hear not His call to service, "As ye did It not unto the least of these ye did it not unto me. - I never knew you." Are these not His words ? How long must we spend our time selfishly praying for the salvation of our own little souls before this selfish effort will raise us to the altruistic heights where, like our Master, No More Fooling 1 MO WHERE did Abraham Lincoln show hit shrewdness of judgment V to better effect than in that famous utterance which ended,' "You can't fpol all the people all the time." . J In the past, there were a few misguided advertisers who thought they could sell their wares better by misrepresentation. But those advertisers have long since gone out of business or mended their ways. Hard experience taught that Lincoln was right Untruth ful advertising doesn't pay. ; " ' ! - ' ' ; " . :; i - ' ' - ; ' . "ft - : !' , J. : , ' . i Other advertisers proved that the only way to advertise success fully, make regular customers and build up public good-will was to tell the absolute truth about their goods. So, you can be sure that every consistently advertised product is good. Tfie advertising test has proved it The very fact that it is advertised is your best warranty of satisfaction and true quality. The concern that tells you frankly what it is doing is a t good concern with which to do business. That is why it pays to read the advertisements, to patronize advertisers, and to buy advertised merchandise. i . , Ifs mighty good business the better they are In "morals, man ners and' methods. Mrs.; MM had a class of some 40 girls and young women, none oi wnom r we shall forget ourselves in the joy of blessing and serving others? How long must we helplessly call upon the Lord to save us from the consequences of our own animal, carnal natures, which He has commanded us to overcome, before on.p!'thlne. TheT would borrow we shall be pure and strong enough to be His disciples, living tDe missionary's hat or a bit of His life and doing His works? The man who thinks thatlred ribbon for the hair when they Christianity is little more than a (cunningly devised scheme to save the "elect" from the consequences of their own sin ful, jweak, unfruitful lives has no conception of Christ's teaching and mission. I No, before we can hope that Christianity will have much if any effect in preventing wars, most of those that profess Christ must have a1 much higher and truer conception of what Christianity is than that heretofore reached by pro fessing Christians generally, and must have realixed some- i wife habit. The young gate Breat thing more of this conception in their daily lives and conauct. Unless they do this jit seems Jlkely ' that for two thousand years more Christians will be periodically flying at each other's throats, and despoiling, robbing arid killing each other, to say nothing of the heathen, just as tney nave Deen aoing for the past two thousand years. ' - ' were to be kodakedrEut otherwise were innocent of apparel or adorn ment, f Being thus photographed was with them quite a social er enf. Yet the moralsof the tribe were of a high order. They lived at peace with their - neighbors; they avoided bloodshed and were immutably confirmed to the- one- Too many people think that re ligion is a kind of rabbit's foot to keep bad luck away. Exchange, New York want's a modern Bible. This ' Is not to be wondered at. The old Bible condemns every thing; New York wants to do Cap per'a Weekly. . ! . President' Harding has joined anohter secret society., i The lat est is the "Tall Cedars." possibly Indicating that he is out of the woods. The Slogan editor wants your help on the City Beautiful edition for Thursday, next. Promised ar tides should be in tomorrow, if possible. . The weather man Is a bit too enthusiastic in favor of the hay niakers. Even the men in the hay fields could get along with a few cooling ocean breezes. The story about the sun losing per! cent of its, heat seems to have been much exaggerated ac cording to a number of Salem people overheard yesterday. ! Of course, the plan to 'put Into cold pack 100 tons of loganber ries for the pie trade will be car ried, out. Tnere, should oe no thought to the contrary; much less any word lo discourage it. The biggest thing will be the intro duction, for future crops. Mayor Glesy, in his radio talk from the Oregonian tower tomor row night, will have the largest audience of his official career. He will , broadcast the advantages of Salem and the Salem district; but there will be time ' enough to hit only the high places. 1 We take the most wonderful things as a matter of course. There's sleep. ' And what it we couldn't sleep? Let those who are afflicted with Insomnia answer. It is the thing that knit's up the raveled sleeve of care. And those who have no trouble goirig 1 ,to sleep never think of the wise be neficence of nature. Back in Pennsylvania, where the legislature refused the request of Governor PinchoC for $250,000 for dry enforcement, the Women's Christian Temperance Union' has started a movement to raise the money for the governor. And they have It in sight. Which shows that the real ' people are thinking about the enforcement of law. President Harding has sold his interest in the Marion Star. But he will never be as happy in the White House as he used to be grinding out editorials, with his Faber No. 2, Just after Mrs. Hard ing bad gleefully told him that she had succeeded .In collecting enough money to pay the hands Saturday night. Them were the happy days. : THE ARTFUL DODGER Senator UnderwboA says that he ncui iuv duu inio Airica 10 es cape politics and then comes home to find thajt a lot' of people have been nominating him for the pres idency. If he had stayed in At rica'he would have escaped dan ger, No man goes from the Jungle to the White House. The little bird! says that the southerner need not worry, at that. ,; THE SPIRIT PICTURE manner. In the campaign preced ing the election of President Hard ing ja notable company of cham pions of the League, including William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes, gave as their hon est conviction that the League covenant would fare better at the hands of a Republican administra tion' than ft possibly could in the event of Democratic success. It is, therefore, far from the mark for 'anyone even the president himself to assume that the huge majority which Mr. Harding re ceived was a spontaneous protest against the League covenant or anyJ form of . world alliance. It may have been to some, but not to all. It is still susceptible to proof that millions cast their bal lots) for Harding, to whom the League covenant was more pas sionately desired than the success of any individual. American par ticipation in a world tribunal of justice and American co-operation in humane programs of interna tional scope may. satisfy this ex pansive sentiment, which still ob tains in the hearts of millions. But 'they cannot be content with a schedule of complete Isolation. deference to their parents' and all were scrupulous In the payment of debts. Thirty centuries of .civ ilization might have refined them, but could hardly have Improved their moral standards. . The wom en are Jntense sticklers for fidel ity and divorce Is unknown. They are missing a lot, but if they do not know about it so much the better. It . would. seem that the Congoeums-or Whatever they call 'em might be sending mis sionaries to' this country to -show the benighted Americans how to pay their debts and live at peaco with their wives. They do not need to show them how. to undress Los Angeles Times. LEAGUE FOR PEACE books and magazines - in every language and the founding of. an International university to study Interracial questions and their re lation to present day problems. The Christian churches can ask no better fighting ally in the cam paign to end war man ine organ ized forces of education. It wat this combination that conquered booze in the United States. To drive out war is, of course, a much bigger task. It cannot be done simply by prohibiting .the manu facture or any compound more than a half-of-l-per-cent explo sive. . If universal peace is ever to come to- this war-weary world it must come by precept and exam ple, through the preachers and the teachers. The latest move bytbe National. Education As sociation brings . ua a step near er ; that International Court of Justice advocated by our presi dent as the better way for dispos ing of dangerous Issues that other wise In the hand of some heated politician may plunge the world into a I war of ' extermination, j IX DARKEST AFRICA They are not worrying over the length of skirts in the Belgian Congo country. Alexander George Mill and his wife are back in this country after spending nearly IS years In the deepest part of bru nette Africa. They were sent out by the Baptist church as mission aries.! and now have a 13-year-old daughter who is seeing white civ ilization for the first time. In the heart of the, Belgian Congo there are forests so dense that the rays of the sun have never been able to penetrate. their depths even at midday. Of the natives there are many tribes and the farther they are removed from white influences Peace has many champions no tably the churches, big, liberal- minded statesmen, the wives and mothers of every nation, business leaders of long sight and broad vision, true friends of labor and the president of the most power ful people in the world -a strong working army '' standing- between civilization and chaos. . " And, thank heaven! the peace army grows in numbers and in fluence as the issues and- conten tions that provoke war drive home to the heart of humanity the dan ger of drifting into a terrible dis aster that may wreck the world. The latest organized recruit to this army of crusaders is! a world Federation of Teachers, Dele gates front about 40 countries at the N. E. A. convention at San Francisco started a concerted movement to promote the cause of universal peace- through the agency of. education. : They will urge co-operation of schools in every part of the earth to instill in the growing generation . the idea of international Justice in stead of international slaughter. Among practical recommenda tions for attaining this object are establishments of correspondence between classes of schools of dif ferent nations; a general exchange of- teachers i. and j of information concerning foreign countries; . es tablishment of a universal library "BUILD YE MORE MANSIONS. STATELY (Herman J. Sticft In Los Angelea , .;, j Tl.?." In a certain small city lives a building contractor who 2s always hunting big contracts. No "small stuff" for him. ."Big stuff or notblng--some people are' that way. ' So he is Idle most of te time. j Only thejelecC who have achiev ed the world's plaudits, can afford to wait fr "big stuff," to the ex clusion of all others. The great majority of ns have to, be content with crumbs, trust ing that ' choicer pickings will some our way after awhile. . Get j the crumbs . and later you may get the tig cake as every body else has to do! . None of us - can forthwith be big-leaguers; we must-first serve as apprenticeship In the sticks. As we plug at our careers we are pecking on the stone of des tiny as water drips. Some day the stone will be-must be shaped Into form. , We rise from humble beginn ings that can't be skipped. Plod. Build shacks. Build them well. Build what anybody wants built. Save your dimes. So you will find.lt written- in the cards that some day you may erect a sky-scraper. Under an ordinance against noise a hundred years ago, Eliza beth' N. J., silences radio horns. Which proves the old maxim that if you keep anything long enough, some use will be found for It. service to supply upon request I Brooklyn Eagle. r Things j To DA I ' - 1 ' The Biggest Little Paper In the World I 1 Loads j Of Fun I Copyright, 1028, Associated Editors. Edited by Joha M. Miller. Cartoon MagicThe Spigot Express According to Dr. Conan Doyle an ectoplasm is the spiritual body when it manifests itself la a vap orous form. ; Under certain con anions or Inducements this sol idifies sufficiently to become pat pabie. it is "then ready to have Its picture taken. , That Is when we catch our spirit photographs. This sounds very simple, but there are camera experts In. Hollywood who are catching ghosts in mink traps and photographing them with their whiskers on. : They can take an Austrian lens and a shav ing mirror and build an ecstoplasm that could borrow money from Dr. Doyle. Los Angeles Times. ; ; , THE POINT OF VIEW On March 20, 1920, the then Senator Warren G. Harding : of Ohio voted for the Versailles Trea ty and the League covenant with the .'Lodge reservations. His vote has been twice recorded in this FUTURE DATES. Aagvat 1 to JS -AbbmI tiuapawtt ( Bor StesUl t CtmdlA. i-gupt -Aw u SJ Orce stats fife. ..; Pencils ready ! Clear the traclc ! Here comes the ex press! :. Draw up the locomotive before you put in the tracks, so you will get them to come in just at theright place. HOW WEN LEARNED TO . FLY .;; :- ' As yoa watch a circling, dipping aiTlane,; do you ever tetop to think how. long men have been trying to fly; For 5000 years, at least, men have been trying to conquer the air,-and only within the. last few years have they hany any success.. . Naturally enough, most of the early thoughts at flying machines were along the general lines of a bird, because the things whch men; did . see flying were birds. Unfortunately, birds were about as -poor a model as It was poss iole for man. to Imitate. Wings which flap up and down are all right for birds, but aot at all ad apted for mechanical flight. Some one . noticed that heated, air -would carry a paper bag or a silk bag upward if it were con fined in the bag. This led to bal loon experiments which were, at first; Tery crude, but which have resulted In the gigantic airships of today, paterned after the Zep pelin type. The third false start In building flying machines was the effort to build a plane which would rise straight off the ground by means of a horizontal propeller. Such types of machines are called heli copters and are Just starting to have a tiny bit of success . to day. .. - THE SHORT STORY, JR. I - .- MUD SLINGING William was "slinging he mud," Intending to hurt his friend Dad; The thing that he said Bounced back, on his head And he came down to earth with , a thud. . " Dudley Chapman had been ac cused of cheating during a final examination. William Kelly had told the principal that he saw him copying from another boy's arith- metic paper, and the principal had called Dudley' into his office; "Dudley, "if you cheated, you have done a very serious thing. I hope you are Dot guilty. You know that a boy who Is caught cheating here is dismissed from the school. What have you to say for your self?- v -.Or--.. ."Mr.. Dawes, I didn't cheat, and 14 like to speak before the whole school in assembly tomorrow and prove It," answered Dudley. This request Mr. Dawes agreed to, and Dudley left the room. V The next morning at assembly Dudley got on the platform and started his talk. "I am not a cheat,- he said. "I despise cheat ing and think is it one of the meanest and most underhand things a boy can do. There Is only one thing -1 can - think; oi wnicn is very much, meaner tm tia - m . ... "T ,m w ooy to aeilberatelv accuse another boy of cheatinr. wiuiam Kelly tisane this; I heard him tell another boy about how he had done It to get even with me because I stopped -him from fighting with little Billy Kent last week. I dare William Kelly to come on this platform and deny that what I have said Is true." h When the boys and girls looked around to see where William were sitting, all they saw was some one making tor the door very rap idly. ;--'.. And that'a how William helped Dudley to win the closing day elec tions for mayor of the school the following year.