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braska Highways, includinf tk pae
inant of Main Thoroughfare loading
into Omaha with a Brick Surfaeo.
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TOO MUCH "GREENWICH VILLAGE."
In New York just now a little tempest is
said to be brewing in each and every separate
teapot in "the Village," by which title one
is supposed to designate that highly favored
portion of Gotham where the artistic foregather
and devote themselves, to art and the uplift and
Bergsen and a lot of other things, including
"table d'hote" and "van roozh." This is sup
posed to be "Bohemia," and there go the long
haired men and the short-haired women, to
wear spotted blouses and soiled smocks, smoke
cigarettes, and talk in a jargon no one can un
derstand about tnings concerning wnicn tney
know little and on which their opinions are of
no account to themselves or tf anyone else.
From the police report for the year 1919, just
published, this paragraph is taken:
A Chinese funeraj or a Hopi Indian snake
dance would be far more interesting or en
tertaining, but a certain foolish and degraded
appetite for the unusual or sensational,
mostly recruited from outside New York,
promoted by sightseeing grafters and other
parasites, kept these places alive and proved
that Barnum was right regarding the mental
capacity of some people.
And here lies the secret of "Bohemia." It is
a aiQit e ti va iu Q av.o.a v u.vkif v
glows softly over waters that are dark, and hides
the morass into which sink the weaklings who
are attracted , by its rays. Sensation-craving,
morbid-minded curiosity seekers visit Green
wich Village, just as they haunt the morgue or
hang around a court where a salacious trial is in
progress. Seldom, however, do any of these
venture far. They hover just on the edge. It
is the ardent who are caught, the ones in,
whose veins the blood runs hot, whose souls
are aflame with desire for the wine of life, and
who drink the cup to its dregs and find bitter
ness in the !eea - ,
It is not enough to tell us of the strong
who have come through this fire with only a
faint scent of burnt wool on their garments.
Greenwich Village has done more harm to the
cause of true art than all its greatest triumphs
ever can repair. Its malignant influence has
spread into every hamlet in the country, through
the magazines, the movies and other agencies
for the dissemination of its cult. This is not
the true art that did and does flourish there;
it is the pseudo variety, that bears no more re
semblance to painting, poetry, music or drama
than did the "red ink" formerly dispensed with
the cheap food hold to the vintage that enlisted
and warranted the songs of Horace or others
who have hymned in praise of the purple cup.
Greenwich Village is a" victim of itself, a
sufferer from its own "freedom," and will fail,
just as all similar groups have failed, because
the decadent, the unworthy and the unripe or
over-ripe displace the good and defeat the ef
fort that might have wrought out something
worth while. And American civilization is suf
fering greatly from an overdose of the mias
matic exhalation of this plague spot and those
set up in imitation thereof. Art will be the
gainer when It can be divorced from the ele
ments that have stifled the original impulse of
the "Village-
One Boy in Good Company.
One mother is to be congratulated. She came
to Omaha, hunting for her son who was missing
from home, and found him at Fort Crook, doing
"K. f." He had not yet been enlisted in the
army, although it was for no fault of his own.
He had been rejected temporarily because of an
ailment of the eyes, and had taken on the menial
task of peeling spuds and the other routiae of
the kitchen police until relieved of 'the trouble
when he hoped to become a soldier. The mother
might have found him, as many other mothers
have found boys who left home, immersed in
deep misfortune; for these impetuous but inex
perienced lads have a way of missing the right
path when turned loose in a city. This one,
though, came from home with a definite and
laudable purpoce, and was doing his best to put
it into execution. He will go back home with
his record clear, his courage established, and
probably a little better content to linger along
for awhile with that mother who followed him
here. And she will think just a little more of
her son because she found him in good com
pany, doing something worth while and looking
ahead to a greater task. When the right day
comes, if he still is ambitious to become a sol
dier, he will be welcome to any recruiting sta
tion, for the army needs just such boys.
Reorganization of Base Ball. '
s , Team owners, league presidents and others
who are concerned with the business manage
ment of base ball are engaged in a controversy
more or less unseemly in nature, and which is not
doing the game a bit of good. The public under
stands that the more or less sordid details flowing
from the box office and the manager's sanctum
are necessary that the game may be properly
sustained; patrons have ignored as far as pos
sible the exhibitions, of avarice that now and
then have marred the perfect picture, and have
borne with some patience the bickerings,
"squabbles, suits at law and other less seemly
'proceedings accompanying the transfer of
players, the settlement of contracts, and so
forth, because it might all be forgotten when
the umpire called "Play ball!"
Wtiat the public cannot forget, though, is
(Jut it has been cozzened by certain players.
who have admitted their crookedness, and
whose only possible justification may be found
in the fact that some of the big men of base
ball set a poor example for the players by their
own unworthy conduct in dealing with one an
other. Memory goes back readily t the early
summers of the centuries when "rubberlegitis"
was epidemic in base ball, encouraged by mag
nates who now protest their honesty of pur
pose and sincerity of desire to maintain the
high standards of base ball. The sad fact is
that professional sport looks upon such pro
ceedings as part of the game, however unsound
they may be ethically or morally. Last tum
mer the Mays case gave rite to a dispute in
the American league of such nature as would
have disrupted an organization less firmly
bound by the bonds of dollars and cents.
What the bare ball men should do is to
effect such a reorganization of the sport as will
give a guaranty of the honesty of all who are
connected with it. Unless that is done, public
confidence will wane and an institution of na
tional importance will suffer because it cannot
be trusted. A little unselfishness will be of
great value to base ball.
Opportunities of Plain Citizenship.
With strange lack of democracy, a number
of newspapers are now bewailing the fact that
there is no way under the American plan of
government to provide seats in congress for
defeated candidates with long records of public
service. The verdict of their constituents is not
taken as conclusive, but it is urged that the
English system, by which these rejected states
men could run for office in districts where they
do not live, but where the partisan bias is such
that they would be sure of election, be at least
considered.
The defeat of Champ Clark, and the similar
mishap to Joseph Cannon, also at one time
speaker of the house of representatives, are
taken as a text. Mr. Cannon later was re
turned to office by his neighbors in Illinois,
but the contention is that it was a waste of his
ability that he should have been kept out of
the national councils even for a short time.
"Our system is amazingly wasteful of states
men and trained administrators in all direc
tions," the Springfield, Mass., Republican de
clares. "Our former presidents become news
paper and magazine writers or perhaps teach
ers in some college. Experienced cabinet offi
cers are turned loose with nothing to do in
public life when their party loses power. ( All
this could be modified for the better, probably
by the simple change of making it easy for
public men to represent constituencies in con
gress in any state whatever."
The comment is added that the political
ideas and habits of the people would first
have to be changed, but in truth the alteration
would be more , fundamental than that, going
to the heart of the theory on which our govern
ment was founded. In order really to represent
a district in congress it is necessary for a man
to be intimately familiar with the people and
interests existing there. One part of the United
States is "not like another, and its needs and
whole outlook may differ widely from ,that of
other sections. This being the case, no states
man, however great, is fitted to interpret those
desires unless he has been in close contact with
the people he is called upon to represent.
. It is not a tragedy when some politician with
a long record of office holding has finally been
rejected. The voters know what they want,
and are entitled to it. Not all public life is
confined to official position. As writers, as
teachers, and even as plain citizens, it is pos
sible to exert a' profound influence for good,
shaping public opinion in some cases much
more than if actively in politics. The chief busi
ness of most men in office is to follow their
followers, while as leading citizens, these same
men can display an independence of thought
that the requirements of office holding seldom
permit.
Important Point of Law Involved.
Certain opponents of the alien land law re
cently adopted by referendum vote in California
are of the opinion that it can be overturned by
resort to court. They hope thus to obviate the
necessity of reflecting the anti-Japanese senti
ment of the Pacific coast in the treaty that is in
course of negotiation. With this in view a suit
is to be instituted for the purpose of testing
the constitutionality of the law. Advantage to
all will come with the final decision of such a
suit, for it will determine how far the nation
may control the individual in his actions, and
particularly in the management of his property.
. The main point is fairly well settled. No
property owner may use anything he owns, es
pecially real estate, to the detriment of the com
munity or against good public policy. The ques
tion as to whether a state has a right to exclude
a certain class of citizens also is established in
the' affirmative, in the immigration laws. While
the war was on the general government ac
complished by persuasion what it might have
done by compulsion, requiring farmers to devote
their acres to the production of particular crops.
Suppression of the traffic in alcoholic liquors is
similarly supported. The whole course of the
government in its invasion of the field of natural
rights, a reasonable extension of the social con
tract, favors the view that the people of Cali
fornia will not be disturbed in their determina
tion not to permit Japanese to become land own
ers, by direct or, indirect methods.
Iowans will have some interest in the suit,
for John P. Irish, in whose name it will be set
up, was for a long time an influential citizen of
that state, publisher of a democratic paper at
Iowa City, and several times a candidate-for
state office on the democratic ticket He went
to San Francisco some forty years ago, to be
come editor of the Alta Californian, and has
risen to a high place in the affair! of the Golden
State.
A Line 0' Type or Two
Haw to tha Line, lat tha ejulps fall whore the? ma jr.
Is the soda fountain impressive? Take a
look at the report that soft drinks paid a tax
of $51,000,000 during the year before you reply.
President Wilson is announced to be writing
a history of the war, and the American public
may now hope to be taken into his confidence.
Americans would feel more certain of the
president's returning health if they had not read
similar announcements for the last year.
Old Boreas having had his little kick-up, a
resumption of Indian summer is in order.
The Cork hunger strikers will find plenty to
eat when they get out of jail.
Juries show the workings of the hjjpian mind.
"OF SWEET OCCASIONS."
Of swaet occasions not a few there ara
For him who thinks and feels, and leads his Ufa
In love with good, unshaken by the utrlfe
In place where men'a wills are oft at Jar.
Ha shall have Joy through grating on a star
That looks his doorway In, or on his wife
As she works silent near him; or hia knife
May benefit his trees with wholesome near.
Music may bless his ear, and oftentimes
Old authors shall detain htm worthily
Twixt lamp and fire; or else, a score of rhymes
His father-lips shall croon, while children lie
Or sit, glad in his presence, till one climbs
His knee, half-drowsed the apple of his eye.
A. B.
"DO you remember," asks a fair corre
spondent (who protests that she is only
academically fair), "when we used to rear 'A
Shropshire Lad,' and A. E., and Arthur Symons,
andYeats?' And you used to print so many of
the beautiful things they wrote?" Ah, yes, we
do remember; but that, my dear, was a long,
long time ago, in the period which has just
closed, as Bennett puts it.. How worth while
those things used to seem, and what pleasant
days those were. Men say that they will come
again. But men said that Arthur would come
again.
YES, TES.
(Concerning the Pilgrim Tercentenary.)
Massasoit, a chieftain, was received with
honor and regaled with aqua vltae. of
which "he drank a great draught that made
him sweat all the while after." The chief
tain then signed the treaty as submitted.
It was from these Puritans that there
flowed a stream of ideals which have per
meated all parts of the United States.
THERE are persons so anti-British as to
forget that the lion preceded the Englishman in
the animal kingdom. The Chicago Art institute
is considered pro-British because it has lions
at its portals, and we have heard Mr. Carl Ake
lcv's Roosevelt monument criticized as oro-Brit-
ish because he has used the lion as a symbol of
T. R. "The old lion is dead," one of the Roose
velt boys cabled across when T. R. died. So
he was known in the family, which probably did
not realize that the idea was pro-British'.
Sh-h-b! They Think It Is Next Tuesday.
Sir: Overheard in the Perry, la., postofllce:
"Say, why didn't they fiotlfy the democrats that
there was goln to be an election ?"
JOEPOAKS.
WHAT'S THE MATTER 7 WHAT'S THE MAT
TER? WHAT'S THE MATTER?
(From the Owingsville, Ky., Outlook.)
I want to ask my friends what has
caused them to be unfriendly with me. If
I have given them any cause I do not know
what it is. I can't understand what is the
matter and if my kinfolk know they ought
to tell me and help me. I want my friends
to know they are unfriendly with me and
without a cause. It makes me cry and puts
me to wondering what is the matter.
MRS. I. D. GARNER.
OUR vagrant attention is called, by Jake, to
the Knee Heating Company of Grand Rapids.
Ypu should get in touch with this poncern, girls,
if you intend to roll 'em down this winter.
"Tlt-WlIlow."
Sir: Mr. Fisher is taking kiss Barnacle to
the faculty dance tonight, and the psychology
professor says he has in his class an Edgar Allan
Moe. But you and I are interested in higher re
search. Tou will Minnehaha, perhaps, to as
certain my latest thesis. After decades of sobet
reflection, it has occurred to me that nature is a
wonderful thing. As one of Prof. Hillhouse's,
who used to play upon the mandolin, students
said in a rhetoric theme, "Who does not love
the maple, the oak, the ash, the popular, the
pine, tho sycamore, the willow? I do." And in
deed tho willow is a seentimental shrub. Ko-Ko
waxed lyrical thereover and Whoozis sang In
Shakespeare of "Willow, willow!" Why, you
ask, sentimentalize over the willow? Because,
sir, triumphantly I rise to proclaim, because the
willow is itself given to lachrymose ecstacy. How
clear, now, the objective of my future research!
After further decades of investigation into the
literature of the subject I purpose to mono
graph: "When Did the Weeping Willow Start
to Weep and Why?" Possibly P. D. S. may
help us in opr search. So far I have further
discovered this clew: In a certain chophouse
and refectionery of the Minnecity, Prof. Bean
and myself after a pleasant evening at the
movies ordered a brace of chocolate malteds.
With the foaming brew was served a plate of
toothpicks. RIQUARIUS.
IF you are thinking of taking stock In the
Cereal Products and Candy Company of Spo
kane, you should know that 'the president of
the concern is Mr. Chester Nickum.
A FRIENDLY SUGGESTION".
(From the Hillsboro, 111., News.)
Any man, woman, or child, friend or
foe, white or black, found hunting on the
Brewer farm south of Hillsboro, will be
prosecuted. This not only applies to the
minting season but to all times of the year.
So take a damn fool's advice and stay off
Whitten Barringer.
IF we had not been glancing through the
real estate notes we should never have known
that Mystical Schriek lives in Evansvtlle, Ind.
OCR COMMERCIAL CLUB.
BY A PROFESSOR.
It's made of kindly business men
Who teach us others where and' when
And how and at what local prices
To buy all goods from soups to ices.
And other truths thev teach as well:
That all mail-orders lead to hell,
And that it is plain as day
Why 'Trade at Home" will always pay.
To wish to buy a can of peas
(They say) or anything you please
Away from them such a desire
Points straight unto the eternal fire.
Sometimes I've seen a renegade
Go to another town to trade.
He said he saved! But oh, my brother,
Howcan you so yur conscience smother!
For isn't it quite plain to see ,
That simple people such as wo
Should ante any prices when
We're asked by kindly business men?
PH. D.
WILLIAM BENZINE, who lives near Rio,
Wis., was filling his flivver tank by the light of
a lantern when But need we continue?
4 'BOARD! ,
Sir: Some enterprising corporation could
buy the wooden merchant ships and clean up a
lot of money by running them at excursion rates
up Salt River. URSUS. "
"THERE is no time." sings the impassioned
and inspired writer for Martin & Company, New
York, "when the well dressed woman is not
conscious of the comforting sense that she is
immaculately and attractively undepressed."
WE regret to learn that one of our Immor
tals, Mr. Tinder Tweed, of Harlan, Ky., has
been indicted for shooting on the highway.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS?
(From the Maquoketa, la., Sentinel.)
Miss Norma Galloway visited the dentist
in Maquoketa Saturday. She reports an en
joyable time.
"FOR SALE A bungalow in 9th ward; full
basement but no furnace." Eau Gaire Gazette.
Who caret- about a furnace?
LOOKSJike an open winter. B. L. T.
Wow I Is Somebody Hurt?
The Americanization of this country is be
coming a serious matter. Rich American women.'
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mail j UU1 uiiruvciisii(iu yci a, uu CI dD CA-
maple of luxurious extravagance', which is most
reprehensible, especially as our own aristocracy
is ruined. The Americans are capturing our
cinemas, and flooding the music halls with
American slang. American shopkeepers are buy
ing up shops to such an extent that soon there
won't, be an individual shop in Oxford or Re
gent street. American newspapers are dumping
their surplus issue in London at prices below
the cost of production. If this goes on, England
will become an annex of the United States.
London Saturday Review. . (
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
QtiMtlona concerning ttyficna, aanllation and prevention of dlaaata, aubm!ttd
to Dr. Evan by readers of Tha Baa, will ba aniwerad personally, subject to
proper limitation, where a stamjJed, addressed envelope is enclosed. Dr.
Evans will not make diagnosis of prescribe for individual diseaass. Address
letters in care of The Bee.
Copyright, 1820, by Dr. W. A. Evans.
THE BEAUTY PARLOR MAN
This is another story of the rev
elations of the dressing room of a
sleeping car. A sleeping car is a fine
place to find out about the intimate
lives of folks. When it comes to get
ting below the collar line the sleep
ing car dressing room is without a
peer.
This felow was already on deck
when I arrived. He had his grip
opened and his dressing parapher
nalia on display. I again was re
minded of a Dixjn Williams story,
to which I have already alluded,
but which follows:
An outsider had spent the night
at the cabin of a timber putter in
Arkansas. A boy in the family
having watched him make his
morning toilet, during which he
e-ised many different brushes and
tools,' asked: "Say, mister, is yo'
always that much trouble to
you "self?"
I wanted to ask this man if he was
always that much trouble to him
self. To begin with, he had eight bot
tles of stuff a regular peripatetic
toilet supply establishment.
Having shaved, he poured some
lotion from the first bottle and ap
plied it to his face. One bottle con
tained a liquid soap. (The company
furnishes a liquid soap but this man
probably preferred some other
brand.) Another bottle contained a
tooth wash. A fourth something he
rubbed into his ecalp. A fifth bottle
held a gargle. After brushing his
teeth he used this to gargle and in
cidentally to wash out his mouth.
A sixth, bottle contamed a nose
wash, which ho sniffed. From a
seventh bottle he poured an eye
wash. From tho eighth bottle he
poured a hand lotion, and, having
used it, his ablution performance was
at an end. A few different kinds of
brushings, a moderate amount of
preening and dressing and he was
ready for breakfast.
Now, no health shark and such
I can class myself has any quarrel
with people who spend time, energy
and money in keeping their bodies
in order, if they exercise Judgment
A duck will spend some time in go
ing over his feathers preening him
self. The health sharks would like
to see people emulate the duck. A
good engineer spends some time oil
ing and polishing his engine. They
would like to Roe people emulate
the engineer.
But why wash out tho eyes? The
tears are a better eye wash than the
one this man employed. Why wash
out the nose? Foreign chemicals
are not so good as the nose secretions
for that purpose. Why wash out the
throat? Scientific investigations
prove that the mucus of the throat
and nose is the first line of defense
against infections.
Send for Pamphlet.
K. B. writes: "Is there anything
that can be taken for painful men
struation? I am 21 and suffer se
verely. I often take aspirin tablets
and would like to know if they are
harmful."
REPLY.
The remedy npw in vogue is ben
zyl benzoate taken in about 10-drop
doses every few hours when neces
sary. Far better than doping with
any medicine is the carrying out of
a plan to prevent this trouble. This
plan consists in xhe frequent use of
warm baths, regulating the bowels,
and mental training. We give this
plan In a little pamphlet which we
send to those who ask for it, send
ing stamped self-addressed envelope.
A great many wiirien have written
us that following the plan outlined
they have cured themselves of minor
menstrual disorders.
Treating Sweaty Feet.
H. W. writes: "My feet sweat ex
cessively. I have trid all sorts of
lemedles. Can you prescribe any
formula for ridding me of that
trouble?"
REPLY.
Wash your feet twice daily. Wear
clean socks. Patent leather shoes
are harmful., ' Shoes that let in a
good deal of air are best. Once a
week or thereabouts apply a 25 per
cent solution of aluminum chloride
in distilled water. For this purpose
use a soft cloth or a bit of cotton.
Do not overdo this application.
When Doctor Meets Doctor.
Dr. B. A. B. writes: "In your re
ply to L. L. B., October 17. why did
you not suggest, recommend and
prescribe lime water? That child's
bones and teeth are crying for lime."
REPLY.
L. I B's baby was 16 months old,
was well, well grown and growing,
but had no teeth.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
Of more than 1,900,000 bales of
cotton consumed by Japan in the
year ended with July, about one
third were imported from the United
States.
An automobile tire pump Invented
by a Minneapolis man is operated by
two foot treads manipulated alter
nately by a person standing upon
them. i
What is believed to be I the only
natural fresh-water lake in Panama
was discovered recently by army avi
ators making an aerial I reconnais
sance. For the first time in the history of
the industry, Soith Africa's sugar
crop' last year exceeded domestic re
quirements, which also have grown
rapidly.
A pin for jewelry invented by a
New Jersey woman terminates in a
hook so that it will catch in cloth
ing should it become loose and pre
vent loss.
For-the first seven months of the
calendar year 1920 Belgian national
statistics show a total value of ex
ports to the United States of $19,
024.648 (diamonds are not included),
as against $2,172,400 for the corre
sponding period jf 1919. ,
LOOTED LEVITY.
Irate Dir.ei- Send the cook In here.
Waiter Certainly, 1r. Shall I send
In the automatic roaster, the mechan
ical fryer or the electrical toaster?
Life. -
Mistmse (to butler) Why la It. John,
every time I come home I find you sleep
ing? "Well, ma'am, lt'a this way: I don't
like to be a-doing nothing." La Journal
Amusant (Paris).
"I am raisin your rent next week. Mrs.
Brown," ald the landlord.
"Oh, I am glad to hear that, air, for
I don t know now op eartn i snan do ooie
to raise it myetf," replied the simple
tenant. London Tit-Bits.
"Did her. father give you any encourage
ment ?"
"Well, he asked me what I thought of
his new motor car."
"Go after the girl. Tou have nothing
to worry about" Birmingham Age-Herald.
First Girl I like a man with a past;
be la so Interesting.
Second Girl That's true, but he's not
go Interesting as a man with a future.
Third Girl I. like a mnn with a
present, and the more expensive the
present -la the more Interest I take In
him. Boston Transcript.
' TRAGEDIES.
When Adam did the apple eat
And In the garden fonght retreat,
To wait his doom with bated breath
And brought upon all mankind, death.
Some tragedy.
When Sodom burned down to the ground
'Cause in her ten could not be found
Who had not bowed the knee to Baal,
And lefi but Lot to tell the tale
f Some tragedy.
When Moses from the legions fled
Of Pharoah, to the sea called Red,
And safely parsed through on dry ground.
And all of Pharoah'a hosis were
drowned
Some tragedy.
When bold Napoleon marched from
France
With pomp and splendor, sword and lance.
And thousands for mere glory slew
And met his doom at Waterloo
Some tragedy.
That Jimmy Cox should live to see
Hio party join the G. O. P.
And with it wantonly lntriarue
To scrap his European League
Calamity. GEO. B. CHILD.
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The Christian and the Jew
(From the Pnltlmore American.)
Echolnsr the sentiment thut Cod Is
no respecter of persons, and puttlnK
it in broad terms of race and of na
tion, tho writer c f the Acts of the
Apostles declares that "God hath
made of que. Mood all the nntlons of
the earth to dwell tOKether In unity."
God is the father or all. He is the
God of the Jew and .if the Gentile.
If there should nrtse any question of
priority or of pr'.vileKe, it might be
settled by reference to the words of
the Apostle Paul In the third chapter
of the Kpistle to the Humans. "What
advantage, then, .lath the Jew? or of
what profit is there of circumcision?
Much every way; chiefly because
that unto them were committed the
oracles of God. Foi what, if some did
not believe? Shall their unbelief
make the faith ol God without ef
fect?" He continues the argument,
"What then? are we better than
they? No, in no wise; for we have
before proved both Jews and Gen
tiles that they ure both under sin."
Cno might hour at this point the
mighty undertone of the exhorta
tion of the propnet Isaiah: "Come,
let us reason together, saith the
Lord, though your sins be as scarlet
they shall be as -vhlte bh snow, and
though they be red like crimson they
shall be as wool." The preacher of
Moses and the preacher of Christ are
both evangels of the gospel of the
goodness of G-.xl for the salvation of
men from sin and sordidr.ess, from
selfishness and the sorrows that fol
low upon evil doing. "All have sinned
and come short .if he glory of God."
In view of the humanity and the
catholicity of the New Testament
Irachers, how strange, indeed, It is
to find at this late day the preaching
of th(- gospel of ;-.ate toward the Jew
by his Gentile neighbor? In view of
the fact that Jesus was a Jew, and
multitudes of those who do not ac
cept the theoloeical definitions of
'His divinity ar. attracted by His
teachings and the wonder of His
mission, how strange it is to And the
spirit of persecution where He en
joined love. When the disciples came
to Jesus and reported that they had
found some casting out devils in His
name and they had forbade them so
to do. He made reply: "Forbid them
not, for they th.tt rre not against us
are for us." The tine spirit of
tolerance toward all who named His
r.ame is the spirit thaf Jesus ever
manifested toward all of every race
and religion. There is no basis in
the teachings of Jesup 'or. aught
save the tenets of love and of broth
erly kindness.
Christianity :s the religion of
brotherly love or it. is nothing at
all. The porseevitlons carried on in
tta.uumo have lien the fruits of thi"
lusts and passions of men and In no
reuse reflections of the teachings or
counsels of Chr'st Jesus and his
disciples. Yet tho divisions and tlm
schisms have hen perpetuated and
made bitter through failure of tho
Christian churehe.i and their leaders
at all times to manifest the love of
Jesus. Knowing the fate rhortly to
befall him in Jerusalem, He wept for
it instead of v'siting maledictions
upon it. With Jmis there is neith
er Jew nor Gentile. It Is. Indeed,
peculiar nnd mortifying, as well,
that In the present year of grace
there Bhould be found In tho United
States, tho hom of religious free
dom, a campaign of hatred toward
the Jews, found -d upon medieval
forgeries nnd fictions, disseminated
by fanatical entei-prl.se. It is pecu
liarly mortifying that here in Haiti
more Jewish rabbis should need to
deplore the prevalence of tho spirit
of ostracism and of prejudice. Yet
Maryland gave to the Jew Its fran
chise so late ss 1 830!
How beaMful it would be for
Catholic and ,rotestant, Jew tynd
Gentile to be found living together
without the petty prejudice that, in
fact, show theinseives in many ways!
Th" time may come, it must conic,
when enlightenment and the spirit of
charity and forbearance will have
exerted its potent effects to bring
evtn this to pass. In tho meantime
let those who hold to the Christian
faith in sincerity beware lest they hn
swept away by the rising tide of tlio
power of the evil one; for, as surely
as human history is a recorder of
great spiritual surges nnd subsi
dences, is there some occult power at
work in human society today that
challenges good at every point, and
seeks to destroy the counsels of
righteousness.
They were first called Christians at
Antioch, and it .vas later remarked,
"How these Christians love one an
other." As Rabbi Wise of New YorW ,
has forcefully, declared: "The Jew
may .suffer wounds in his body, but
the very soul of Christendom is at
stake in the antisemitism that is
seeking to find a place In American
society. The 'enemy of the right
ways of the Lord, the aggregation of
subtle forces of evil is at work to
destroy the fraternity of all those
who, under different names, pay
tribute to the Lord God exalted over
all. These find their communion in
the thought that God is love. "
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