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Show Selected Thoughts. Cooperation stands for drawing all men into a Cooperative Commenwealth by uniting all who care to join it in a volur-! volur-! ' tary com'iiori effort and leaving everyone else to go his own I way. It stands over aginst the laissez-faire Capitalism by .competing successfully with it. It stands over against all jn-i'ssure groups itself. It asks no special laws to protect it; it is not interested in politics, it has no blocks in legislatures ainwherp. It will deal with anyone an 1 asks no odds in so J doiiig. It is democratic in theory and in practice and knows ! how to use the expert something that political democracy has j to learn. When the present war broke it was in every civilized country in the world and numbered a hundred mil i lions of adherents. It is he democracy of which we are all talking, of course it is crushed out in all the conquered countries "The love of money is the root of all evil" is just as true today as it ever was. Capitalism and poveity came in on the same train, one riding in the palace car, the other on the break-beam. break-beam. They stock the earth hand-in-hand; one cannot exist without the other; destroy one and the other is dead. Capitalism, Capi-talism, the "love of money" is the root-cause of all wars, poverty, pov-erty, aDd all the evils that go with them. Why not look into the activities of the ''economic royalists'" roy-alists'" and give the labor unions and the Nf w Deal a rest? I am sure if Mr. Pegler were to go to the records and learn that our corporations are, many of them at least, as bad if not worse gangsters than any labor leader in existence today Yes or anyone going unchanged he would not be so critical of those better. Boyd Dennett. St. George "This is from Ehe American Friends Committee, Quakers: We took large bands of youth to France in 1917 and rebuilt re-built the villages in the MarneValley which had been destroyed destroy-ed in the Battle of the Marne, and there we rehabilitated the wrecked families. We stayed after the war was over and rebuilt re-built the villages of the Verdun District. We brought cows into Vienna to get milk for the children. We brought in coal for the hospitals and helped life to start afresh in that desol-! desol-! ated city of two millions people. We fed the German children ; whom the blockade had starved, more than a million of them, and we carried the feeding on for four years. We helped the Serbians rebuild their destroyed homes. We helped the Polish peasants plow their abandoned fields, and we stayed with them and fought the typhus epidemic. We carried food to Russia in their great famine, and we remained after the famine was over to organize clinics for their children. Professor McKinney, of Hunter College, New York, has given some very interesting figures pertaining to the present church affiliations of our congressmen. In the Senate 11 per ' cent are Catholic, 77 per cent Protestants. In the lower House 20 per cent are Catholic, 7o per cent Protestants. There are twice as many Methodists as Catholicsenators. In the House the Methodists are out numbered by Catholics, 86 to 72. Taking Tak-ing the house and Senate together there are 380 Protestants and 97 Catholics. The religion of 30 members was not secured by the compiler Seven Jews, five Mormons, two Christian Scientist and eight of no religious affiliation complete thetal y . Britain at war: Every fit man between 18 1-2 and 41 has been drafted into the forces unless irreplaceable in an essential es-sential job. Five and a half million women are working in industry. One home out off every five has been destroyed or damaged in air raids; 44,000 civilians have been killed and over 50.000 wounded. . . 6,500,000 workers in essential industry indus-try cannot quit their jobs or be dismissed except by permission permis-sion of the government. . . . Six million more acres are being farmed than before the war. . . . Under clothing rationing is a oman bought two pairs of stockings a month and one apron a year she would have no coupons left to buy other clothes. On an income of $3000 a married man pays $955 an income tax The "Old Order" is gone; and the old social standards, economic practices, governmental set-ups and religious systems which have endured for so many centuries, are breaking down before our very eyes. The isueis not saving the "Old Order1' but rather of determining what the "New Order" shall be. Worlds leaders everywhere are zealously striving to make the world over, and all of them are either totally ignorant of, or else completely ignore, the only program which can save mankind from a return to the ' Dark Ages," namely, "THE ORDER OF THE LORD." ; The complete plans and specifications for this "New Or der"' are found in the Holy Scriptures; and with world leaders and statesmen bankrupt of ideas, except a return to the old Assyrian syrtem of dictatorship and regimentation, it is high time that we turn to the "sure word of prophecy" for light and guidance. Interpreter. Think of potatoes selling at a dollar a bushel on an Eastern East-ern farm and at $6 a bu.bel in the Washing ton market. Think of milk bing sold by the producer at 4i or 5c a quart and retailed at 12c or 13c a quart, Think of eggs produced at 18c to 25c a dozen retailing at 60c. And millions upon millions going without. Some system. Insanity. "What is thy will for the people, God? When wilt thou come to save the earth?" And the Lord God whispered and said to me: ' No help shall come from the scarlet skies Till the people rise! Till the people rise My arm arm is weak; I cannot speak till the people speak; When men are dumb My voice is dumb I cannot come till my people come. When I dreamed the dream of Liberty I planned a people to utter Me. |