TWENTY YEARS AGO|
without penalty is very much smaller
U an. 1 ast year in th is county.------- _
Fragment» of Fact
and Fancy
I Mrs. W. C. Laird, who arrived here
■frtim Honolulu last Friday, expects
i to remain for a two months* visit be
fore starting back.
Fewer Religions
More Religion
By GEORGE PECK
y
What America, and the world needs
today is fewer religions and more re-
ttgfon; fewer tenets sad damns and
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a bit more of the milk of human kind
ness.
Recently we had the pleasure of
seeing “How Green Is My Valley?”
the motion picture adjudged the best
of 1M1. It sets forth all misfor
tunes of mankind brought about by
brutality,
evil-mindednete
and
thoughtlessness It emerges a great
film, achieving dramatic power be
cause the baser qualities of mankind
are contrasted with tne sweet and
fine.
It made us realize once again just
Ixiw unnecessary is most of the suf
fering we see about us. A little.of
it can be cured by Government regu
lation and legislation, but it goes
deeper than that and becomes our
.responsibility—yours, dear reader,
and'ours.
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Club and church women are active
ly engaged in promoting the Bundles
Some of us are deluded with the
Day Campaign designed to collect
and ship.spare clothing to help clothe idea that Government by itself can
adjust the relationships of men.
the near-naked of the Near Rast.
Others among us, believe that going*
Archie O. Walker left Monday to church or supporting the church
morning for San Francisco in re ends our obligation to‘society. The
sponse to a telegram that his mother, former is futile, the latter false.
Mrs. Anna Walker, was not expected
Only by being more patient, more
to live.
a
thoughtful, more tolerant of others
about us, can suffering really be al
If th? world owes Uncle Sam eight leviated.
Sympathetic understand
een billions, as « Washington dis ing and consideration of our nelgh-
patch affirms, the world la, certainly
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bankrupt.
It wouldnt
sell
for ever, they add, The Bailes Ik too close ;
enough to pay the MIL
to the ocean and the policy is to push '
all new industries inland at least
i -. would be impossible for the machines 200 miles, if possible. No- powder
I to operate. From Curry to Clatsop plant will be built, however, uness
counties detachments of horse cavalry WPB decides that existing plants are
will be spread supplementing exist- insufficient. One story is that the
plants now operating have capacity
! ing forces.
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Gold Beach, at thejnouth of Rogue to provide all the propellants required
river, has asked for an army air base fur a global war.
but for the present, at least, nothing
r. will be done, - •................................... — .. For several years growem_of beW
War production board is interested
in the lime deposits of Wallowa and
Baker counties (lime plays an im
portant part In a number of materials
grass in Clatsop county have been
urging an appropriation which would
permit department of agriculture
scientists to study grasses to deter
mine which are best for cértain lo-
loc'ating a war industry in Grant
county adjacent to the chromite de
posits in the John Day country, and
transporting lime to the site. Nothing
definite as to this, but it is in the
conversation stage.
bore, our friends, yes. even of our
enemies will enable us to overlook
their supposed faults which so great-
I ly , i u i a s us. America. is fighting a
[great war against cruelty anil oppres
sion against the pagan doctrine that
any pedple has the right to force its
dictum on another people. So lg£.
the battle has gone-against-us. We
i<-.u the tide will not turn in our
favor until we abandon our mater-
I lalism and stop demanding rights
which we ^either have earned nor
deserve.
Even if we defeat our military ene
mies, we can Still lose the war if we
do not as a nation * experience a
spiritual regeneration; if we do not
substitute the words “sympathy, un
derstanding and sacrifice” for “my
rights and gimme.”
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There is too much of hatred, bru
tality and suffering running rampant
in the world today, Let us resolve
here and now, not to add to the
world's woe by any harsh word or
covert act of ours, Let us further
resolve to be more cheerful, more
kindly, more self-sacrificing to those
about us, beginning with our own
family and reaching out to all with
whom we come in contact.
Self-sacrifice is the child of love
and love is of the being of God. Yes,
wu need fewer religions hnd more re
ligion— less hatred and more love
less cursing and more prayer- less
•'gimmes”- and more giving. If we
purge ourselves, both material and
spiritual victory ultimately must be
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