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Show THR RINfiHAM RTTTXRTIN. nTNr.HAM CANYON. ITTAH Thursday, May 24. 1928 jj ;- - CAMPING GROUND" .$V; J : -- mt; yv-- f Wv. J Lust of Power Great Peril That Faces Stability of the American Nation By REV. DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK, New York. sins come out of weakness, but all the great tragedies MANY have come from the Mates who could say, "Knowest not that I have power?'' Look at our nation today. Where is the real peril of the republic? To be sure, we are facing a dangerous situation from the kind of crime that is bred in city slums, that rises in gangs of youth, often degenerate, who commit murder and spend most of their lives intermittently in prison. But the republic will not ultimately go to pieces over that situation. There are, however, men of ability they might even hold positions in the President's cabinet, they might even rise to the highest places in America's industrial life where, at the top, the competition is terrific and sieves out all but the ablest. "They are not feeble-minde- d, but like Pilate in the magnificent ad-ministrative system of Iiome, have risen to the top because strong, and such men in the last few years, defying the courts, despising the govern-ment, contempting the people, have presented to the world one of the most devastating spectacles of political corruption in the history of gov-ernment. And as they propose to get away with it you can hear the echo of the old words, "Knowest thou not that we have power?" There are two kinds of disaster one caused by destitution and weakness, the other by misused wealth and power. And sometimes it is hard to say which is worse. But there is always hope in power. Think of the opportunity some of you business men have in an industrial situa-tion whose crucial dillieultios come not from feebleness but from tremen-dous strength ; to stand in your influential place and say, "I have power to release Christ." Think of the opportunity that we as a nation have jn working for peace against war. That goal never can be reached without us. God further to their favorable end the present program of multilat-eral treaties outlawing war for we as a nation have power to release Christ. ICuteinaBaby-Awf-ul atThree --and it's Dangerous-ly UttthBrittain 0 Thumb sucking does look sweet In baby, but it is disgusting In the threes year-ol- d and sometimes, it hangs oa until fifteen or sixteen I The habit may cause an mouth or In-duce adenoids; and it always inter-feres with digestion. Pinning tha sleeve over the hand; attaching mit-tens, or putting on cardboard caffs, w hich prevent bending the arms at tha elbows, are some of the ways to stop the habit. Another bad habit Irregularity in bowel action is responsible for weak bowels and constipation in babies. Give the tiny bowels an opportunity to act at regular periods each day. 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Memories Memorial dayand down a shell torn road la Amiens a phantom ai marches aaio cut of the mist twlni tha Yank arm of 1918 -r-arm boys from tha prtlries and clerks from tha cltiea hard boiled fUjra and sweet faced mamma's boya khaki clad red rimmed eyes sunk deep In drawn hassard faces but, look) The ole tin bats are still cocked over one eye. and. listen They're still sing inf-"H- lrky Dinky Parley Vous" with barber shop chords slnflnf crusaders In a stranfs land while up In Iront Jerry machine funs keep lima as thee march dawn sweeps the sky over tha bow peaceful Field o' Flanders and the phantom army melts with the mist the rattle of ana. chine guns changes to the rattle of milk wagons and I am alone with my oumoriee Old Time Distinctions Between Right and Wrong Becoming Sadly Confused By BISHOP MANNING (Episcopal), New York. The old sanctions have lost their meaning for great numbers, who are tor'ay adrift both spiritually and morally. Once they knew what was right and what was wrong; now they are confused. They see things tol-erated, excused, defended by those in high places, by some even calling themselves Christian', which a short time ago would have been con-demned. We see such things as free love, companionate marriage easy divorce discussed, presented in reputable papers and mag-azines, as though there were two sides to those things. We need a clear call to the standards of Jesus Christ. lie leaves us in no doubt as to where we stand on those questions and others like them. Christ himself is our moral standard. People cannot advocate, defend and practice such things as compan-ionate marriage and easy divorce and still be respectable members of gociety. whose sacred trust their living com-rades still are currying on. Their Memory Revered. "The men now sleeping In France fell before they saw the tluwn of liberty for all the world.' said Mar-shal Foch. 'We will ever be faith-ful to tlielr memories.' "Again the standard-bearer- s raised their colors. A chaplain Intoned a benediction. Tups sounded from d the trees, and the ofllelals walked slowly uway while here and there, alone among the white crosses, remained the bowed forms of those stopping for a time at the resting place of tlielr dear ones." We next find Mr. Wood on still more familiar ground Chateau-Thierr- : "Charles .Martcll'g medieval cuMle still towers above the city, but the machine-gu- nests are gone from the grounds of the park, where strolling lovers gaze for miles over the peace-ful valley. Automobiles glide over a smooth asphalt road between Menus and I.aferte Sous Jouarre. When t lie Second division bumped over It In French trucks driven by drowsy slant-eye- Annninltes before dawn on June 1, ten years ago. Its worn macadam was llllod with teetli-erackin- holes. "Mmitrcuil bus I. Ions seems small like any other village today. The room where (leneral Itundy had his headquarters and directed the Second division through the subsequent weeks U r nv used as a schoolroom, and Is litlod with haltered benches. Water still drips from the old pump where the soldiers moistened their dust-parche- throats, but on the other side of the mutrie, or town hall, stands a new monument recording the mimes of thirty sons of that tiny village who were lost. Recalling Days of War. "From the windows of a modest village home tings wave, for the poo- - and then hell broke loose. And the gay celehrators now In France were the poor devils that went through that hell for six weeks until It was over. They deserve their holiday." "The coming of the American Le-gion to France,'' said Leland Stowe In a Paris dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, "has gripped France as few thlnjrs have gripped her these last ten years. In the coming of Per-shing and his men, the French people And an emotional appeal to tnelr Imaginations. And the soul of France Is peculiarly emotional." As the Washington Star explained: Earned French Gratitude. "TI.e Frenchman remembers the Americans in the gloomy days of 1017. lie remembers watching a dreary win-ter of suspense turn to a summer of hope as thousands of lean, bronzed young men from across the sea marched to the north to take their places alongside the soldiers of France. He remembers the victory they helped to make. Is there won-der that France cheers tliettt as they S N Legion s -- Tribute j to Fallen t) Comrades f pass? "France- has suffered, and It Is hu-man to blame some one when there Is suffering. This country lias shared her blame. Rut all that Is on the sur-face, ruder the surface there Is a sentiment and love founded on strong-er stuff." "These days In Paris," observed the Philadelphia Evening I'uolic Ledger, "are days of gayety." Rut "Other days will come. Pynasiles and governments will change. Rut the cemeteries In which the Amer-ican soldiers- lie mill always remain to remind the world of a people who sent mullitudes to die for lit) Ideal of human conduct. That Ideal tins not been realized. It may never be realized. Rut the American dead In France will keep It alive and alof. In men's minds us a thing to strive tor. This thought, or some thought much like it. Is what made the first Hpprir-ane- e of American troops In I'limpe- a thing lo marvel at. There never hud been ii'n.vllilng like It. There may never be iiii.Mhing like It again." j From Literary I!gest. pie have not forgotten the days when the mairle hninmeO with activity, when (dies of ammunition were stored on its stony lawn, and strings of carts were frantically taken for-ward, surgeons hastily applying emergenc-y- dressings in Its (dd wagon-she-while a few miles beyond there was the steady drum tire of artillery. "Rack of Lnloge farm three regi-ments of an American artillery bri-gade were in position In waving wheat fields. Cows now tramp the muddy farmyard, and chickens are scattered along the lane down which a Milwaukee marine marched one morning with an entire Herman com-pany us prisoners. In Torcy stands a church tower, and children are play-ing In the streets where iient forms and torn unifoiuis were lying thickly when the .'.niericaiis floally fought their way through the woods. "The I'.ois Relleau. the tangled un derhiii.-- of which Md hundreds of machine guns spitting death. Is now a patk maintained by an organization of American women. lovn In'low. rows of wooden crosses register l he names of those who :nade the woods hallowed ground. Two hundred mil dentlllcd Americans who fell at I'.el-lea-wood He In this cemetery. The number of their opponents who sold their lives so dearly will never lie known, us most of them never were found." A famous correspondent, Junius R. Wood, of tilt Chicago Daily News, said of the pilgrimage to Suresnes in:uh by the American Legion when they Islted France-- last year: "High on a green hillside, behind rrled lines of white marble crosses. t'e sweetly solemn notes of 'taps' t . hoed from an nrmy bugle. The sun I' nke through the clouds, and France ind America paid honor to the American soldiers and sailor dead In r' iresnes cemetery, three miles out-e.'d- e the western wall of Paris. War's Wreckage Gone. It was the same story all , along the "front." On the Konitne. In the Argonne, and on the Meuse the Le-gionnaires found that ten years had effected a groat change. "Grass cov-ers the trench-seared- , shell tortuied battlefields, mid thriving French vil-lages have replaced the wreekage of war,". observes the Norfolk Vlrgitilan-Pilot- . "Ten years ago," recalls the New York World The Argonne whs abustie wltli preparations for the drive which everybody knew was coming. By day there was uot much going on. hut by night there was a fever of activity. Every road was Jammed with trucks carrying supplies, soldiers, and the guns which were to lay down the terrific barrage of September 2(1. From dusk until the small hours of the morning you could hear the mo-tors as they dug their way forward Hut Just bef.ire dawn the noise ceased, and the front became silent. And there is n ulling so silent ns a battlefront Just before dawn. It Is like the last echo of 'taps' In all the graveyards of the world. "So for a few Indian summer days. "A color-guar- lowered four Arnerl- - :n flags and five Legion standard9 various departments, while vounded French veterans with (lags i f America and France on a single r'nff Joined In a line In front of the tjical;er's stand. m "The first task of the American T.pglon upon arriving In France Is to I it homage to the American and I "each dead,' said Sheldon White--l oiise, Ambassador llerrlck's represen-tative,, speaking from a little Hag-- , draped stand. 1 "A ripple of applause greeted Qen-- : era! Pershing, who ten years ago commanded those boys now sleeping In the beautiful park, where the Stars nnd Stripes float against a back-ground of towering elms. "We have come,' be 'to pay a loving tribute of remembrance to the Americans who lie In the ceme-teries of France.' "Howard Savage, retiring national commander of the American Legion, talked not to the living, standing with uncovered heads nnd moist eyes, but to the spirits of the buddies The Unknown Dead (Stanzas in commemoration of the Unknown American Soldier, interred at Arlington No 11. 1921 ) 1 am tbe numberless Unknowa Who have cast the ehrouda of things that aeem. My grave la planet'a cornerstone, Holding the aahea of a dream. Whose aacrificial fire blares from lone lo lone. I am the wastrel child whom War Hath rendered baptism, not In birth But death, where tha unseen hosts that pour Ubation on tha blood-dar- k earth, Intone through my muta lips the eternall Nevermorol Yea, Nevermore! By that mystic name Youth's hallow'd blood hath christened me Nevermore I Ya living, let It flame The challenge of your destiny Nevermore! to pride and pestilence and hate and shame! War Nevermore! O Uvea that pray For liberation, make that will Your watchword, till tha thing ye say Becomes tha law your deeds fulfill! Then I with Christ will rise In sanction from my clay. Fot I am dust of a deathless spark) Unmastered angina The bullet-mold- and his mark, - Shattered by dazzling creeds I shared With you and your own blindness muffles me In dark. But my dark shall have no need of the sun Neither of the moon to shine In It, If Christ His dawning Will be done, And this my clay-be- d shall be lit By the stars that blanket me, If my last fight be won. Masters of life! On your decree, Unknown and numberless, I waltl From war's earth-blin- d captivity Untnmb me! Let your love be fate And crown my risen youth with timeless victory! Percy Mackaye. "Old-Fashione- d" Winter Classed as Illusion Records kept by the United States weather bureau indicate that there hi:s been no appreciable permanent change In the weather of the north-ern hemisphere during the last fifty or sixty years. Weather records show j that the winters are as cold on the average as they were half a century ago. The severe win-ter that elderly people are fond of telling 'about Is a psychological Illu-sion. Winters seemed colder to the pioneers because they were not as well protected as people are now. The advance of civilization has relieved the Inhabitants of this country from many of the hardships formerly suf-fered because of cold weather. Also, the difference between the child and s udult mind has undoubtedly contrib-uted considerably to the Illusion. Things seen through the eyes of child-hood are likely to have a distorted ap-pearance. It is human nature for peo-ple in their reminiscences to exag-gerate past events, especially the hard-- I ships of early life. Present-Da- y America Given Over to the Idolatry of Pleasure By REV. DR. J. C. MASSEE, Boston. If I were asked to name the god of America, I would erect an idol of pleasure and say '"Here is your god, oh America." The idolatry of pleasure is more prevalent than any other idolatry in America these days; the mad scramble for indulgence of the senses; the wild pursuit of thrill; the idolatry of dress and of lawlessness. Pleasure in the life of America, in the church, and in the life of the individual, has a far greater forma-tive influence than Christ. The use of tohneco by women is a si.n that while men are becoming more conservative, women are tending in the other direction. I am not saying that women ought not to smoke. l!ut I would estimate that 50 per cent of the women do smoke, and I think that t lie most symptomatic thing in our age. If I read the signs rightly, it means that while men are going more and more toward conservatism, women are headed in the opposite direction. . No Wonder "My huslmnd was furious yesterday. He caiie across one of my love let-te- rs unopened !" "Rut If it were unopened what could he be angry about?" "It was one that he had sent to me !" Stockholm Kasper. I Dogs J "You are fond of dogs?" j "I am." j "Why?" j "Recatise they are dumb animals who, after receiving favors, never talk about you." Great Mission of Country's Women's Clubs Is Spread of Political Education Dy MRS. WILLIAM R. ALVORD, Women's Clubs Official. The education of women for the discreet use of their vote has progressed far since the passage cf the Nineteenth amendment Hut there is still a lot to do and it can licst be done through women's chilis through out the country. Women must realize that even when there is not a ch ar-cu- t line of deiriarkalion between two candidates for nn office, she should still studv the situation and the candidates' qualifications before she lets pass the chance to register her choice. There is extensive missionary work to be done by the organized women of the country among the unorganized. Club women have an op-portunity of gathering valuable information on the political situation and are taught the immense importance of a wise use of their vote. These women should instill t he same principles in the nonmembors, not for the purpose of obtaining their membership, but for the purpose of getting out the woman's vote. rW for Us V kdl Their Memory jhj YY Must Live My Wlilta against Ilia (rajr, Patchea on tha barnt Rrd amona tha roof-tilr- a By tha twitting Mama. Not another token Of the bearta there broken. Gold tha atanding wheat. Green tha fallen corn. ' Thick tha branchea meet By the twisting Mama. Do they ever tell here Of the men who fell here? Sudden, from on high. Birds of peace are caught Playing m the sky Where tbe war birds fought Past and present tryitlng Where the Marne la twisting. Anna Hard ka New York Herald Trfbuaa. j Giving Judge More Power Would Aid Adminis-tration of Criminal Law By EMORY R. BUCKNER, States Attorney. The judge should" he the thirteenth juror and the third lawyer in the American courtroom. The judge is perhaps the most experienced man in the courtroom, and yet he is padlocked tc such an extent he does noth-ing but preserve order and rule on objections while the partisan lawyers work on the jury. When the judge charges the jury he must not give the slightest indication of his own views. Instead, he con'lnes himself to the seldom-understoo- d law, or if it is a review of the facts he must not in-dicate his own judgment of truth. The administration of criminal law needs many other reforms, but unpadlocking our judges would work a miraculous change overnight. Ii the judge thinks that the defendant has heen proved guilty, let him tel. the jury so. Why the secret? Why the mystery? If he thinks the defendant has not heen proved guilty beyond a reasonable douht he already lias Uu po''er to direct an acquittal. |