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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
MONDAY, AUGUST 21; 1933.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be received at the
office of the Department of Roads
and Irrigation in the State House at
Lincoln, Nebraska, on August 31
1933, until 9:00 o'clock a. m., and
at that time publicly opened and
read for PAVING and Incidental
work on the EAGLE-MURDOCK Na
tional Recovery Highway Project No,
NRH-153-B, Federal Aid Road.
The Drooosed work consists of
constructing 0.5 of a mile of PAVED
road.
The approxiate quantities are:
30.000 Cu. Yds. Excavation.
6,672 Sq. Yds. Concrete Pave
ment. 245 Cu. Yds. Class "A" Con
crete for Box Culverts and Head
walls. 24.000 Lbs. Reinforcing Steel
for Box Culverts and Headwalls.
108 Lin. Ft. 24" Culvert Pipe.
Bridge Bight of
Station 369
1-25' Span, Treated Timber
Tresle Bridge.
The attention of bidders is direct
ed to the Special Provisions covering
subletting or assigning the contract
and to the use of Domestic Materials
The minimum waee Daid to all
skilled labor employed on this con
tract shall be sixty (60) cents per
hour.
The minimum wage paid to all un
skilled labor employed on this con
tract shall be forty (40) cents per
hour.
The attention of bidders is also
directed to the fact that George
Hodge, State Director of Re-employ
ment, Lincoln, Nebraska, will exer
cise general supervision over the
preparation of employment lists for
this work.
Plans and snecications for the
work may be seen and information
secured at the office of the County
Clerk at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, or
at the office of the Department of
Roads and Irrigation at Lincoln, Ne
braska. The successful bidder will be re
quired to furnish bond in an amount
equal to 100 of his contract.
As an evidence of good faith in
submitting a proposal for this work,
the bidder must file, with his pro
posal, a certified check made payable
to the Department of Roads and
Irrigation and in an amount not less
than One Thousand (?1.000) Dollars.
The right is reserved to waive all
technicalities and reject any or all
bids.
DEPARTMENT OF ROADS
AND IRRIGATION.
R. L. COCHRAN,
State Engineer.
GEO. R. SAYLES, County
a!0-3w
Clerk, Cass County.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be received at the
office of the Department of Roads
and Irrigation in the State House at
Lincoln, Nebraska, on August 31,
1933, until 9:00 o'clock a. m., and
at that time publicly opened and
read for PAVING and incidental
work on the EAGLE-MURDOCK Na
tional Recovery Highway Project No.
NRH-153-A Federal Aid Road.
The proposed work consists or
construction 6.5 miles of PAVED
road.
The approxiate quantities are:
180,00 Cu. Yds. Excavation.
76,230 Sq. Yds. Concrete
Pavement.
824 Cu. Yds. Class "A" Con
crete for Box Culverts and Head
walls. 68,500 Lbs. Reinforcing Seel
for Box Culverts and Headwalls.
28 Lin. Ft. 24 Reinforced
Concrete Pipe.
36 Lin. Ft. 36 Reinforced
Concrete Pipe.
40 Lin. Ft. 18 Culvert Pipe.
500 Lin. Ft. 24 Culvert Pipe.
244 Lin. Ft. 30 Culvert Pipe.
232 Lin. Ft. 36 Culvert Pipe.
The attention of bidders is direct
ed to the Special Provisions covering
subletting or assigning the contract
and to the use of Domestic Materials.
The minimum wage paid to all
skilled labor employed on this con
tract shall be sixty (60) cents per
hour.
The minimum wage paid to all un
skilled labor employed on this con
tract shall be forty (40) cents per
hour.
The attention of bidders is also
directed to the fact that George
Hodge, State Director of Re-employ
ment, Lincoln. Nebraska, will exer
cise general supervision over the
preparation of employment lists for
this work.
Plans and specications for the
work may be seen and information
secured at the office of the County
Clerk at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, or
at the office of the Department of
Roads and Irrigation at Lincoln, Ne
braska.
. The successful bidder will be re
quired to furnish bond in an amount
equal to 100 of his contract.
As an evidence of good faith in
eubmitting a proposal for this work,
the bidder must file, with his pro
posal, a certified check made payable
to the Department of Roads and
Irrigation and in an amount not less
than Nine Thousand (19,000.00)
Dollars.
The right is reserved to waive all
"technicalities and reject any or all
bids.
DEPARTMENT OF ROADS
AND IRRIGATION.
R. L. COCHRAN,
State Engineer.
GEO. R. SAYLES. County
al0-3w Clerk, Cass County. .
FREIGHT CAR FOOL
Washington. Josepa B. Eastman,
federal transportation co-ordinator,
announced he had begun a study of
the possibilities of a general or lim
ited freight car pool with a view to
achieving important economies in
railroad operation.
MURDOCH ITEMS
Homer H. Lawton and Charles I
Long were over to Weeping Water
on last Thursday.
Judge and Mrs. W. E. Newkirk are
visiting for a time at the home oi
their daughter and family, Dr. and
Mrs. L. D. Lee and son, Larry.
Ralph Parks and family, of Ar
cadia, were guests for a number of
days with their friends, Mr. and Mrs
Alvin Bornemeier, where all enjoyed
a very fine time.
Olga, Mary and Jack Hitchcock,
from Havelock, are spending a week
with Mr. and Mrs. L. Neitzel. These
grandchildren enjoy their visits with
their grandparents.
In a kittenball game which was
played between Murdock and Elm
wood, the game was won by the Mur
dock team by a score of 14 to 12 for
the Elmwood team.
Rev. H. R. Knosp and family are
on a vacation to Minnesota and Chi
cago. L. Neitzel will conduct service
next Sunday, and Rev. F. L. Wiegert
on Sunday, August 27th.
H. R. Schmidt has been busy, for the
past week building a cess pool for the
home and has found the ground very
dry where he has been working and
the digging very difficult.
Bryan, Lacey and John Kruger
were over to Ashland last Sunday,
where they enjoyed some golf and
later witnessed a game of baseball
between Ashland and Valparaiso.
In a kittenball game which was
played between Weeping Water and
Murdock recently, the game was an
nounced as being won by the Weep
ing Water team by a score of 2S to
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schmidt and
the family were guests for the clay
and for a very fine dinner at the
country home of Postmaster and Mrs.
L. B. Gorthey, where all enjoyed a
very fine time.
Mrs. Mathew Schoeman, of Enid,
Oklahoma, and her daughter and
family, Carl Hoetler and wife and
their daughter, have been guests at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman R.
Schmidt for the past week.
Misses Winifred and Harriet Law
ton, who have been making their
home in Lincoln, were home for the
week end last Sunday and enjoyed a
very fine visit with their parents and
their -many friends in Murdock.
Miss Eleanor Hartunk, a grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Neitzel,
left for her 'home in Kansas City, Mo.,
after a visit of six weeks here. She
took the train at Elmwood, -for con
nections with the main line train at
Union.
The Murdock barber shop will be
open on Wednesday and Saturday
evenings in the future, as they are
expecting to conform to the agree
ment of the barbers of Cass county.
The prices will now be 20 cents for a
shave and 40 cents for a hair cut.
L. Neitzel put in a busy day last
Sunday. There was no service in the
local church, so he journeyed over to
Louisville, where he addressed the
Sunday school in the morning. In
the afternoon he attended the in
stallation of the new Lutheran min
ister and in the evening attend the
union service at Elmwood.
Beer or no beer has been the para
mount question in Murdock for the
past week, with petitions signed by
many people and remonstrances sign
ed by others for presentation to tin
town board for consideration. What
is to be done only time will tell, but
the matter will be determined in a
short time one way or the other.
The Way of the World
In the former days, the livery sta
ble was one cf the very essential
places of all towns for forty years ago
there was no means of going from
place to place except with horse and
buggy, automobiles then being un-
thcught-of, but in the late nineties
the gasoline propelled buggy made its
appearance as a threat to the popu
larity of old Dobbin. Soon the autos
increased in number and the livery
stable could net compete, but still
carried on, dying a hard death, but
one from wtiich there seems no resur
rection. The Murdock livery stable
13 just new being changed into a
garage, having withstood the chang
ing methods for many years. And so
the world moves on.
Ruys New Automobile
I. G. Hornbeck, Rock Island sta
tion agent at this place, has purchas
ed a new Chevrolet coupe of Law
rence Race, the local representative
of this popular make car that is
leading the field in sales.
Relinquishes Building
G. Bauer, who has been in business
in Murdock for many years, last week
gave up the building in which he was
located and has moved the goods into
ths rear cf the store room at the
back, while workmen are making
changes in the fore part of .the store
CLOVER SEED
leaned Free
Bring your Clover Seed to the
Murray Farmers Elevator
have it cleaned free. ' Get lib
eral payment on same now,
and when carload has been re
ceived, it will be shipped and
balance of payment made. Car
lot shipments sell at a much
better advantage and you will
receive the benefit. Ask about
this at the Elevator.
MURRAY
Fanners Elevator
Company
Murray - - - Nebraska
for the opening of a business by Emil
Kuehn in the near future. Mr. Kuehn
is making some changes and install
ing modern fixtures and will probably
during the fore part of September be
able to get the business inaugurated.
Announcement will appear as soon as
the arrangements have all been com
pleted. Good Milk Cow for Sale
I have an excellent Grade Hoi
stein cow, now giving plenty of good,
ilk. which I am offering for
sale well worth the money.
A. D. ZAAR.
a7-4t Mp Murdock, Neb
Murdock Loses to Lincoln
In a horseshoe game which was
staffed at the Murdock course be
tween the team of this city and one
from Lincoln, a very fine contest was
had, with the excitement runnin
high as the many good plays were
made on both sides. However, while
all played the game well, the visiting
team was in some ways better pitch
ers, as they were able to roll up a
total of 1,146 points to 841 for the
home team.
Grandparents Delighted Also
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Meyers are very
much pleased over the arrival of a son
at their home and all are doing well.
But their joy is none the more ap
parent than that of Grandfather and
Grandmother Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Mc
Donald, and why not, for the young
man is a very fine son and grandson.
Joy reigns supreme.
: Visiting in the North"
Miss Hilda Schmidt, who has been
employed in Lincoln at the R. D.
Woodruff home, with them is spend
ing several weeks in the lake region
of northern Minnesota, where she is
in charge of the small daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff, while there
is ancther young woman along as
cook. They will remain in the north
until about September 15th.
Wanted, Chickens and Eggs
Wanted, an unlimited amount of
chickens and eggs. We will call at
your heme with our truck for what
you have to sell. Call Murdock Pro
duce Co., phone 162.
HALT SALE OF INDIAN LAND
Washington. The American In
dian lands, long a subject of contro
versy between the red and white
races, are to be immediately protect
ed from further sale under an order
approved by Secretary Ickes of the
interior department. Acting wiih the
secretary'3 approval Commissioner
Collier of the Indian bureau ordered
all Indian superintendents to stop
immediately the sale of Indian lands
under the f;o tailed allotment law,
which affects property of a majority
of the Indians in all parts cf the
country.
The allotment law, passed in 1887
to establish Indian reservations, pro
vided each man, woman and child a
parcel of land which was held in
trust by the government. When the
owner died it became virtually man
datory to sell the land and neighbor
ing Indians having little or no cap
ital saw their land3 passing into the
hands of the white man. When the
law was passed the Indian lands in
the country totaled 133 million acres.
At p?2sent they are only 47 million
acre j and Collier asserts the sale of
the Indian home lands has been, one
of the principal causes of "the ruin
of tribes in all parts of the coun
try." Omaha By Product
28th and HI St.
So. Omaha, Nebraska
TELEPHONE
Market 3112
We remove dead animals
free. Reverse phone calls.
Lay Speaker to
Bring Message of
Catholic Church
David Goldstein, of Boston, and Theo
dore Dorsey, of Baltimore, to
Speak Here Sept. 9-10
David Goldstein, of Boston, the
"Catholic lay apostle to the man in
the street," and Theodore II. Dorsey,
of Baltimore, his assistant, are com
ing to riattsmouth, under the patron
age of the Catholic Daughters of
America. They will
speak on Saturday
md Sunday nights,
Sept. 9 and 10, at
the court house
from a specially
constructed broad
casting car which
they use to travel
about the country
in. They stop day
after day in the
streets, parks and
squares of city after city to explain
to the people what's what in the
teachings of the church of their
adoption and to answer all inquiries
and objections.
David Goldstein has represented
the Knights of Columbus on the pub
lie platform throughout the United
States and Canada in their defense of
religion and patriotism against the
enemy of God and Country. His form
er affiliation with Socialism caused
him to be hailed ;is a "convert from
Marx to Christ." Mr. Goldstein's
bocks, "Socialism, the Nation of
Fatherless Children," "Bolshevism,
Its Cure," "Campaigning for Christ"
and. "The Campaigners for Christ
Handbook," have , been highly com
mended by President Theodore Rooso-
velt, Samuel Gompers, Cardinal Mer
cier, the Catholic hierarchy of Amer
ica and the public press throughout
the English speaking world
Theodore II. Dorsey, the chairman
of the meetings, was formerly a semi
narian in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, where he worked as a lay
missionary at the time of his conver
sion to the Catholic church.
This meeting at Plattsmouth is an
nounced as part of the national edu
cational campaign which was start
ed in Boston two yars ago to demon
strate the practicability and- timeli
ness of carrying the Catholic message
to the man in the street. The present
motor apcstolate ' of these pioneer
Catholic laymen has carried them
along the concrete for over thirty-
five thousand miles in Oklahoma,
Texas, California, Washingaon, Idaho,
Iowa and other western and middle
states. The second lap of this unique
apostolatc began in Florida during
the first month of the present year
and it is announced to continue until
the people of America have a chance
to hear from Catholics themselves
what Catholics really believe and
practice.
The subject of this address will be
"The Credentials ' of the Catholic
Church." It will be followed by a
quiz when an opportunity will be
given the people who assemble at the
court house to ask questions either
by word of mouth or in writing.
When questioned about the work.
Mr. Goldstein said: "We have re
ceived a courteous hearing every
where except on the Plaza of Sacra
mento, California, where the Commu
nists manifested their preference for
Moscow rather than Rome. This re
spectful hearing is due to our deter
mination to offer not the slightest of
fense to those whose inheritance, en
vironment and sturiv have caused
them to be unfavorable to our church
We speak to the people who assemble
around our lecture car in an unmis
takable frank and courteous manner,
always positively proclaiming what
we believe in lr tlio teachings of
our dear Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ in a Christian spirit."
An intellectual treat is said to be
in store for all who go to this outdoor
meeting. Men and women of all re
ligious belief and no religious belief
are invited.
GR0GAN TO JAIL
Omaha. William Grogan of Om
aha', brother of Tommy Grogan, the
boxer, Wednesday was sentenced by
Police Judge Wheeler to fifteen days
in jail. According to the testimony,
Grogan, driving a rented car, ran into
an automobile driven by 2a.Tl Kelly
of Omaha. Grogan bad no money to
pay for the repairs, and preferred to
serve out his sentence.
MACHINERY FOR SALE
Farmall Tractor in first class con
dition; Fairbanks-Morse feed grind
er; 3-ur.It milking machine. See
L. C. LIKEWISE, Murray
T. H. POLLOCK, Plattsmouth
a!7-2t sw . . : j
STRUCK FOR NOT SALUTING
Berlin. Dr. Daniel Mulvihall, of
the Long Island college of medicine,
Brooklyn, N. Y., was struck in the
face upon failing to salute a nazi de
tachment on Unter Den Linden late
Tuesday night. IIi3 injuries were not
serious, and he was able to return
to his hotel. The American consulate
has been informed. Dr. Mulvlhill ar
rived in Germany two weeks ago and
has been studying in a Berlin hos
pital.
$65,000,000 is
Alloted to Push
Employment
$44,200,000 Set Aside for the Tri
Borough Bridge Project
in New York.
Washington. With President
Roosevelt applying the spurs to the
recovery drive, the public works ad
ministration announced allocations
of $65,000,000 for speeding employ
ment thru construction. Allocations
approved included $44,200,000 for
the Tri-Borough bridge project in
New York; $11,527,499 for twenty-
nine public buildings in twenty- two
states; and almost $10,000,000 for
the first group of housing projects to
eliminate Blums. These were the big
gest expenditures by far approved up
to this time for non-federal projects.
All have received favorable action at
the white house, either formally or
informally.
Secretary Ickes, public works ad
ministrator, in announcing the fed
eral projects, which include twenty
six postoffice buildings, a quarantine
station, a border station and an of
fice building, said they were needed
and therefore properly included. The
cabinet board in charge of the pub
lic works program also established a
scale of minimum wages for the con
struction projects under its jurisdic
tion, ranging from $1 to $1.20 an
hour for skilled labor and from 40
to 50 cents for unskilled.
The huge New York bridge proj
ect, for which funds were advanced
to the Tri-Borough bridge authority,
will connect the boroughs of Man
hattan, Bronx and Queens. Under
the terms of the recovery act, the
public works board agreed to make
an outright grant of $7,200,000, or
30 percent, toward the project and
lend $57,000,000 for twenty years
with interest at 4 percent on bonus
constituting a first lien against rev
enue from the bridge. Direct and in-
dirct employment from the project
was estimated by officials at IS, 000
man years of work. A "man year"
of work makes a full year's employ
ment for one man. The housing al
lotments were subject to a satisfac
tory contracts being made for the
projects and final approval by Presi
dent Roosevelt. The presidents ap
proval was considered a foregone con
clusion.
SECURITIES CLEO AGAIN
New York. Security markets re
sumed their upward swing under the
impetus of soaring grains and cot
ton, improvement in economic senti
ment generally and e relapse in in
ternational dollar rates. Stocks re
tained net gains of $1 to $5 or more
a share. Grains, excepting wheat,
advanced to around their allowable
daily maximums and cotton spurted
$3.20 to $3.75 a bale. The dollar
lost around 9 cents in terms of sterl
ing and was weak in relation to Eu
ropean gold currencies.
Shares were whirled upward at a
fast pace for about twenty minute
just before noon. The spurt ended,
however, almost as suddenly as it be
gan, but leading issues refused to re
linquish much of their gains and the
forward march was started again but
at a slower gait. The steady advance
was continued to the finish and most
equities closed at their peaks of the
day.
CORPORAL KILLS PRIVATE
New Rochelle, N. Y. A soldiers'
quarrel resulted in the death of Don
aid J. Zinn. private, and critical
wounding of Truman E. Smith, a cor
poral, at Fort Slocum, army officials
announced. Col. Frederick Griffiths
said that Zinn and Smith quarreled
after the latter had reprimanded
Zinn for the manner in which he per
formed a small task.
Smith, acting supply sergeant of
his company, obtained a service re
volver from the ordnance room. The
two soldiers were found in the base-
. . i 1 r?:nn Anfl wftfa
ment oi me wariutna, ucu, -
wounds in his back and chest, and
Smith shot twice in the left chest.
Colonel Griffiths pronounced the case
murder and attempted suicide. Smith
was not expected to recover.
Phone the news to No. 6.
Farmer Bor
rowers Treated
Most Liberally
General Swine Program Is Out
lined hy Secretary of Agri
culture Wallace.
Washington. Provisions of the
emergency program for curtailing;
the nation's swine population byi
speedy marketing of 5 million pigs
and sows will be announced by Sec
retary Wallace Friday. In an address
at the Chicago exposition, he plans
to disclose the amount and the ef-
fective date of a processing tax on;
hogs to finance the plan for mar-j
keting the swine by Oct. 1 to relieve'
the acute shortage of feed in the.
corn belt and to provide food for the
hungry. ;
He said Tuesday the processing
tax will not be levied before Oct. 1,!
but probably will begin about that'
date which i3 normally regarded as;
the opening of the marketing year
on swine. A tax of about one-half
cent per pound of live hog would
provide sufficient funds for the emer
gency program, he said, estimating
Its groa
000.
maximum cost at $50,000,
This is the fourth processing tax
arranged under the farm act. Levies
are in effect on wheat and cotton,
and farm administrators have an
nounced a third on cigar leaf tobacco,
probably beginning in October. An
other, on rice, is in the offing.
The program to be put into effect
and announced at Chicago by Wal
lace will follow the plan outlined by
the national corn-hog producers com
mittee of twenty-five and endorsed
by farm organizations last week. It
calls for payment of government
bonuses of $4 for a million sows to
farrow this fall to remove them and
their prospective progeny from the
potential supply. Producers also
asked for the purchase of 4 million
pigs weighing from 25 to 100 pounds
which ordinarily would be fed and
marketed at greater weights. These
would be purchased by the govern
ment at prices ranging from $6 to
$9 per hundredweight, prices to be
graduated according to weights.
The animals could be marketed
thru regular channels, under a sys
tem of "stagger" shipments to pre
vent swamping market and packing
facilities, but the whole movement
would ba completed about Oct. 1.
An agreement with packers to pro
cess the meat is being worked out.
Our Part in
T
ODAY men of all nations are
evidencing deep interest in the
affairs of their respective gov
ernments. This progressive attitude
has undoubtedly resulted from the
ceaseless, though not always recog
nized, influence of the wonderful
Christian teaching that In the sight
of God all men are equal. This does
not mean that every person as a citi
zen can have assigned to him a spe
cial public duty. However, to every
one comes the privilege, as well as
the duty, of being a supporter of
right government, and this Is indeed
a high office. To each citizen come
opportunities to support a righteous
government through intelligent
thinking. Through tlie cultivation
and exercise of such qualities of
thought as are Implied by the words
understanding, charity, citizenship,
and prayer, the individual can pre
pare himself to be a useful citizen in
his community.
Christian Science enables one to
regard these subjects in their true
light. As men begin to grasp tne
truth concerning God's government
and to prove their understanding by
bettering individual thinking, they
find themselves willing and ready to
accept the responsibilities of useful
citizenship.
Many opportunities are thus made
available by spiritual understanding
This understanding includes intelli
gent comprehension, enlightenment.
alertness. One who through tnris
tian Science seeks to understand his
government, its purposes, methods.
and aims, has an intelligent stana
ard whereby to measure its acts. He
Is not misled by false propaganda or
bv Dersonal influence. He casts his
ballot on the side of integrity, sound
sense, and progress. In this way he
rises above the limitations of a
merely material sense of government
and becins to demonstrate the trutn
concerning real government; for he
has learned the spiritual nature of
man as an intelligent son of an all-
wise God, the perfect Mind.
Charity, too, Is an- open door to
opportunities for serving. It may be
described as a true sense of love.
Charity is the attitude which rejoices
in the certainty of the ultimate tri
umph of Truth, even when evil seems
threatening. To charity, evil is only
a deceiving false sense which may be
progressively replaced with the true
sense of being as spiritual. When
charity governs thought, the citizen
may look critically upon his govern
ment in a helprul way. He may turn
the searchlight of critical inspection
on the nation's functionings, and by
keeping aglow in his own thought the
light of wisdom, fairness, patience,
and love he will be able to see not
only the errors to be eradicated, but
the good already accomplished. . . ,
Memories
The conducting of a funeral
is net a mere matter of prac
tical utility. Thi3 brief cere
mony will live for years in the
memory of the bereaved as the
final parting with a loved one.
V7e feel that the greatest
privilege and duty cf the fun
eral director is to make this
memory as consoling as pos
sible. Sattler Funeral
Home
4th and Vine Streets
Plattsmouth
Wallace said a large portion of the
meat may be distributed for relief
purposes depending on arrangements
being made with Relief Administrator
Hopkins for distribution of the meat
thru relief organizations. Some de
tails of financing also must be ar
ranged with treasury officials, he
said.
INDIAN STABBED AT MACY
Tender, Neb. Jess Jones, 23, mem
ber of the Oklahoma Indian tribe of
Colorado, is held here by Sheriff Kay
Elliott after allegedly stabbing an
other Indian, Herbart Smith, 30, at
an annual Macy Indian pow-wow.
Smith is in the Winnebago Indian
hospital. Physicians held out little
hope for his recovery.
Charges of stabbing with intent to
do great bodily injury have been
filed against Jones. Both men had
been drinking, the sheriff eaid.
PARTIES TO MERGE
Omaha. The peoples party, and
amalgamation of various independent
groups, will be consolidated into a
working' organization at meetings
scheduled for Sept. 2 to 4 in Chicago,
said Roy f la crop of, Omaha, national
chairman of the farmer-labor party.
which, will be one of the elements.
Harrop has received a call carrying
the names of fifty or more independ
ents, headed by John Dewey, New
York philosopher.
Government
Many doors to service are opened
by the qualities expressed in the word
"citizenship." Citizenship, as a way
of living, has to do with such oppor
tunities as come to the thinker In
the usual walks of life, in the home,
the school, or the shop. CHJzensh!,?
means bringing to bear upon these
activities the influence of a high
idealism. It means practicing Jesus'
Golden Rule, "All things whatsoever
ye would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them." For the stu
dent of Christian Science to be a
good citizen he must practice the
truth discovered and founded by
Mary Baker Eddy. That this religion
is the Science of Jesus' teachings has
been proved many times by the works
which its students have done and are
doing through the spiritual under
standing of God's law. He who prac
tices Christian Science, in ways small
or great, is well prepared to take his
place as a servant of mankind. Speak
ing of "a knowledge of the Science
of being," Mrs. Eddy says In "Sci
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" (p. 12S), "It raises the
thinker into his native air of insight
and perspicacity." Surely, one so
equipped can furnish strong support
to the right activities of civic gov
ernment. The doorway to the high
est service is opened through the
power for good in true prayer. Prayer
founds thought on the divinely sub
stantial Rock, Christ, the true idea
of God, the strong foundation for
the superstructure of harmonious
living. True prayer avails, and the
Christian Scientist learns to pray
availingly not alone for the good of
himself, but for the whole world. In
Christian Science, prayer is fervent
reverent aspiration; it is SDirituai
vision. Prayer is that mental attitude
wnicn rests on the conviction that
God, Love, is the only cause and cre
ator, and that every real effect is
Godlike. Prayer breaks the
ism of befogging material sense, and
luruuB" me mists u reveals God'
man. governed by God. Through
prayer consciousness is filled with
the holy facts of being; greed is re
placed with unselfed love, hat,
with brotherhood, lust with t.co
and Ignorance with wisdom.
Are we Benefited bv rrv
asks Mrs. Eddy on page 2 of Science
and Health; and her immediate
answer is. "Yes the deslrfe wm-k
goes forth hungering after righteous
ness is blessed of our Father, and it
does not return unto us void " a
men universally learn so to pray th
mental atmosphere of thX V.
world will be suffused with loving!
kindness, and all can then echo th
angelic rejoicing, recorded fay Je
Revelator. "The kinednm. T Ah.e
world are become the kingdom, of
our Lord, and of his Christ- and hi
shall reign for ever and I ever "rJ!
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