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Show Pag e Two THE MID VAL E JOU RNA L E e NE Frid ay, Aug ust 16, 1 T PRO BLE M FAC ING CiT Y CI-lURCH B1 E REV. C. H. SEARS. General Secretary Bapti•t Missions Society • • T HE task of supply ing a therap eutic for the degene rative disease s of the soul of the city man is big enough to require the co-ope ration of all religio us faiths. It bas been assume d that the- problem of the city church has grown out of the rapid commu nity change s of the last few years. The problem is much deeper ; the P.roblem of the · church grows out of the change s in the city man who has to do with things and people not known and with forces not unders tood. In his daily quest for the utilitie s, values and thrills which the city has to offer, he joins the daily rhythm of city life, a tidal m ement ~f the crowds . Under such conditi ons an individ ual to sink into anonymity and to cease to feel llimscl f a person . Moral restrai nts are seriously weaken ed when contac ts become thus impers onal and conflic ti }'he city man lives in a social whirlp ool. Stimul atioil" bas gone beyond the danger point, both for health and for morals . Neithe r ph proxim ity nor the mecha nics of commu nicatio n makes for sympa thy. The city man lives in isolatiOD within a multitu de of contac ts; a city is where men die of lonelin ess in the crowd. Aggres sivenes s on the part of one person or group is met by a defens ive attitud e on the part of othen;. Self-as sertion is a charac teristic sin of the city man. Nor is there a compe nsating moral control for the city man. It is doubtf ul if religio n, with its tenden cy toward other worldli ness and the church , with its traditio nal aloofne ss, have hPlped to make availab le spiritual forces release d by the discove ries and inventi ons of a l!cientific age. The task of supply ing a therap eutic for the degene rative disease s of the soul of the city man is big enough for th!' f'O-ope ration of all religio us faiths. It is even bigger than co-ope rative Protes tantism . ten!s Const~uction ' .() . Tra•r'l on the Uttio n Pac1 fic By ELMO SCOTT WATSO N . .... ...... . .... ... .... ..... When the Engin es Met ~ tile western frontie r and, as his biograp her stat~s. IXTY years ago there took place In "no • single factor was more 'llital in the constru cWHA T THE ENGINES SAID the state of Utah an event which • tion of the Union Pacific than the campai gn that • What was it th<! engines &aid, marked the completion of what has • Genera l Dodge made agai.nst the Indians In 1805· Pilots tou.:h:ng head to head? • "'· been aptly deS<'rihed as ''the mighti· • • GO." Grant had selected Dodge as the man he Facing on the a·D~le track, est work of utility ever underta ken Half a world behind eacll back• though t best qualified to meet them in their own • by man." I•'or on May 10, 18G9, at This ia what the engines &aid, • kind of warfar e and the result justifie d his choice. • Unr~ported ar.:d unl·ead. Promon tory Point, not far from the Before he could comple te the job, however, the B,. LEONARD W. DE GAST. Y. M. C. A. General Secretary. • Great ::ialt lake. a ~olden spi!;e was • Union Pacific claimed him as chief enginee r for With a prefatory screech, • driven in n railroad tie which con· (• In a florid Western speech, the railroa d which !t was beginni ng to build. He I • nected the Central Pacitk railroad Said the enrine from t!t.e West: assume d this post on May 1, 1866, and the great • ••J am from ~lerra's crest, The old-fas hioned boy who believe d in Santa Claus, had lofty ideal!! with ·the Union Pacific and for the • • advent ure of spannin g the contine nt with steel And if altitude's a test, first time In history a rihhon of steel nnd thrived on hard work, is having quite a strugg le to survive the com .. • began. \Vhy I reclmn it's co'lfessed , • lay clear across the contine nt of That l've done my )~vel best." From the west coast the Central Pacific Railwa y plex swirl of modern -day life. with its sophis ticatio n and pleasur es. These • North America. • compan y, a Califor nia organi?.ation, was buildin g were the finding s made • Said the en~inc from the East: The completion of the fi•·st transco ntinent al by Y. :U. C. A. secreta ries at their a!i.nual coneast on the same terms g1·anted the Union Pacific ••They who worl( best, talk the least. • • railr·oad not only marked an epoch In American vention in Colum bus reeentl y. Su?POE"C you wh:stle down your brakes, • by the bill of 18G2. Each railroad was to go as history but It wan the crowniu~ achieve ment in Wh.!:t you've d Jne is no sreat shakes• far and as fast as it could until it met the othE-r But this does not mean that boys are "going to the dogs." It indi• the life of one of the great enginee rs of all time, Pretty fair, but let our meeting, • and every extra mile won meant a fortune in govBe a differen! kin:J of greeting. the man whose surveys , totaling npwaru of 00,000 cates that youth is adjust ing itself to changi ng times and is develo ping • ernmen t bonds. Thus was the stage set for the Let these fnllts with cbam;>ag ne stuffing, miles, were basic in railroad pathfinlling and build· • Not the enacine• do the puffin&. greates t race in history. The Central Pacific had a propen sity for taking care of itself. ing through out the West. Grenvi lle l\1. nouge was • to climb the Sierras more than 7,000 feet high, There is less contac t now betwee n boys and their parent s. I recom• his nnme and his career, co>ering more than half ••Listc:~ where Atk.n~a IM!ats,. • • but withou t waiting for the completion of the mend more comrad eship betwee n boys Shores of snow and summer heats • a century of amazin g acti,·ity , er1titles him to a • • and their fathers . tunnels Its huiluer s dragged materia l over the Where the Indian autumn skies place on the roll of great Amerh::nns. RE-cently • • Six "trend s" which the Y. M. C. A. has noted in boys are: Paint the woods "·ith wampum dyes. peaks and laid track!l heyond. Its iron and steel • • there has been published hy the Bobbs-1\lerriil I have chased the flying sun, • it had to bring around Cape Horn or across PanBoys are a sophis ticated crowd. They are a differe nt article from compan y n hook \vhich tells the story of that See:ng all that he locked upOn, • ama. The Cnion Pacific was compel led • to carry • Blessing all that he blcot cart>er. It is approp riately called "Trails , Hails those of other days, but this is not a questio n of better or worse. • • Its rails and even the ties on flat hoats on the Nursinc in my iran bre<lst, and War-T he Life of GcnPrnl G. l\1. Dodge," writ· • Their time iR compe ted for not only by comme rcial amusem ents but All his vivi£yinz heat. l\li!'souri or haul them over the prairie s from Iowa. • ten by J. R. Perkins and pul.Jllshed under the A!J his clouds about my crest • It wns eonstnn tly harasse d by hostile Indian at· by a host of organiz ation;;. auspice s of the Histori cal, ~1emorial and Art de• • And before my flyinac feet tacks. "We marche • d to work to the tap of the pa•tme nt of Iowa. Every abadow must retreat."' "Havi ng a good time" plays a big part in all the life of today. • drum with our men armt>d," writes Genera l DodgE'. • The Old Bay stnte, which gave to the nation IW Boys are up agains t a definit e Said the Wcsbrn e~~rine, --Phew!'" and highly vocal opposi tion to ChrisEvery con!'tru rtion train was a moving arsenal • many statesme.1, also gave it ··~r g•·eatest railroad • And a lonac whist!• blew, and every track tianity layer and worl>ed the church with firearm -indee s d near to all forms of idealis m . • uccme now, re.:~.lly thnt'a the oddest builder. !<'or Dot!ge was horn in .1\la~<suchusetts • at h-and. • Ta!k fo• The one world ao modest. is more comple x and many boys are confus ea as to their on April 12, 1831, eight genera tions removE-d from • The dramat ic scenes which took place at the You brag of your Ea! t, you dn, • a Richard Dndge who arrh·ed in Salem in 1G38. place in the schl:'me of things. • Why, I brin!l the Eaot to you. close of the mce is descJ·ibed by Dodge's biog• \Vhen he was thirteen years old he hired out to All th .. Orie.1t, all Cathay There is less contac t of men and boys than in the past genera tion . rapher as follows : • • work on a farm n!'ar Danver s and there he met Find me tl-.rougb the shortest way • • And thP sun you follow here • with experie nces that gave directio n to his whole On the first day of April (1869 ), the two road'\ • Rises in my hemisphe re_ were nearly equidis tant from Promon tory Point, life. "The farm was operate d by a Mrs. Lnncler, • • Really if one must be rude, the Central Pacific being 54 miles to the west and • • onu she seems to have been the high and mighty Lena:h, my fr:end. ain't longitude .'' • • the L'nlon Pacific 57 miles to the east, The con· Indy ot all that section ," says his biograp her. • structio n cre,vs, numeri< 'ally, ·were about the same • • Said the Union. ••oon't reflect, oY "She had two sons, Freueri ck and Chal'les. The strPugt h, not 10,000 to a side, as has often been • • I'll run over some director. " said, for so va"t an army would have hnpE'de d • former had attende d Norwich un!vers itv for two Said the Central. l'm Pacific, rather than aC'celer ated. track laying. In the final • years and was just -:bout to sta-rt upon u career By SECRETARY OF THE l!'<TERIOR RAY L\'~!AN WILBUR . But when riled, rm quite terrific• • • contest there wer·e o.hout 2,500 men on each side. • • of civil enginee ring. The Iutter v.·as in the lee Y ct today we shall n~t quarrel ThP Central Pacific had ueed Chinam en, who • Just to show these folks this moral were adt>pt enough at plclc and shovel but when It busines s. He purcha sed an abando ned church, • How two came to track laying the Irish of the Union Pacific ena-ines in their vision • •t moved it to Wenha m lake, and converte•l It Into Once have met without collision. '" proved superio r, so the former road now perfecte d • The Ameri can medica l profess ion. ultra-m odern in science , is woean Ice house. Frederi ck sm·veyed nnd c•>nstruct• • its system by emplo~·ing fifty of the ablest Irish Th.'4.t is what the en!: ine.s said, • fully archaic in econom ics. Medici ne has never been adjuste d to the ed a siding from the Eastern railroad to his I.Jrothtrack layer" in the country ; and it is said that Unreport ed and unread, • • 'l'homa s Durant IMt $10,000 in a wager that this Spoken slightly thro'-'&b the nose, er's ice house and Dodge, then fourtee n, assisted • • Central Pacific gang could not lay ten miles or strides oi modern busines s. As a result th-! cost to the public of obtain ing \Vith a w!listle at the close • • • In the work. It was his first survey !" • track • in a day . -£ret Harte • the benefit of medica l care is exorbi tant. . The profess ion has progres sed • Influenced by Frederi ck Lander . Dodge decided April, 1869, was the month that witness ed the • • fastest track laying in the history of railroad ing mighti ly in scienti fic discove ri€s, in comba ting disease to enter Norwich and become an enginee r. "Per.. ., .. .. .. and prolongin~ and each road went forward on an average of f!\·e haps in no school in the nation was tte enthusi life. It has stood so far as adjust ing its financi al aspect is concer ned. and Issued a singula r order- that three piers or the miles a daY. Materia ls were now plentifu l, for in asm for railroad expans ion at so great a pitch as bridge "within the state of Jowa" be remove d, th•Js anticip ation of the battle, the Central Pacific A survey of the medica l expens es of a group of govern ment employ ets affordin g navigat ion up and down on the west side at Norwich univers ity In 1850. The str,den ts dismonths before. had started great ships around the of the river. Horn Four with years later, when Abraha m LinIron from the East, while the Union Pa- showed that they had spent on the wide range from cussed steam transpo rtation and expans ion of rail0. 7 per cent of tlwi: coln becnma Pre,.ide nt, the United States Suprem e cific linked up thE: Northw estern at Council Bluf:'s roads from the Atlanti c to the Pacific with all the court reverse d the decision . By this time it had and kept a steady stream or flat cars ladEl'O with annual sala~ies to 33.9 per cent. This grossly uneven burden s.J1ows thf ardor that studen ts today discuss airplan es, air become apparen t to mn.ny politici ans, and others, materia ls coming up to the front. And the eyes of that the Lord wanted travel east and west as well the nation If not of the world, centere d on the extrem e hardsh ip impose d on those familie s in the higher bracke ts. routes and oversea flyln~. True, there were no conteRt . . . . On May 9, the rival crews came as north and south. We have planne d a five-ye ar progra m coverin g all angles of the medi· lines west of Chicago and but few enst of this within sight of each other and the rails or both Dorlge completed his survey across Iowa on point tllflt were of any consequence, but there roads extende d down into a little valley on Promcal cost proble m. At the end of that time we expect to be able to mcke Non•m her 22. 18;)3, at Council Bluffs. "Six year~ were dreams and dreame rs; there were explore rs ontory Point. \Vhen the sun went down that day the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific were just a definit e recomm endatio n to the profess ion and to the public wl!ich will later Abraha m Lincoln was to visit this village and pioneers, and they w€re as heroic and as for· 100 feet apart. The crowds cheered each other and ward-Iooldng as are the men today who thin!; in and to meet the youn~ enginee r who had won the remedy the situati on. did not fight. That night they slept but a few terms of worlrt flying. Dodge's school days fell sun·eyi ng ra<'e to the .1\Ii~souri, and ten years Inter yards apart but when the mornin g of May 10 Medica l men must face the problem , and f'an gain nothin g stubdawned there was the greates t of activity , for it ln the beginni ng of all this excitem ent and he Lin<'oln. as Presiclent of the UnitE-d States. would born, unreas onable resistan ce. I have often told audien ces of physci aus: was the day appoint ed when the last rail would be designa te this \'illage ns the eastern terminu s of was stirred to the depths of his beln~." laid that linked the two oceans for the first time the Union Paelfic railroad . whose chief enginee r So when he was graduat efl from ~orwich in 18fi1 "Eithe r you are going to do it, or it's going to be done to you." in their history with a great transpo rtation system . he surpris ed his parents by announ cing that' he Dorlge was to become." The engines of the rival roads were brough t up Meanw hile, all experi mrnts and plans, many of which are in process to the ends of their respect ive tracks and betwee n was "going way out west to Chicago." Two of Dm·ing the f'arly fifties the bnilrling of a transthem there crowde d the most notable group of of being launch ed, can do no harm by being given trials. They l'hould contine ntal railway was n nationa l Issue. mixed his friends who had precede d him In this "gorailroad builder s in the world . . . and in an up with the slave•·y dispute hE'tween the North west-yo ung-ma o" move invited him to join them all prove useful in arrivin g at the ultima te solutio n. ever widenin g circle were all the others that had and the South and in 18:JG both Democ ratic and made the transco ntinent al possibl e: soldiers from at the town of Peru where they were workin g Fort Dougla s, Mormon bishops and elders from Republi<'an Nutional conven tions placerl in their for an uncle, who was n surveyo r, a land agent Salt Lake, Chinese from San Francis co, Irish !rorri platfor ms the ~tntement that a rallroart to the and one of the project ors of the Rock Island Boston. llfexica ns from the Rio Grande , negroes railroa d which was just beginni ng to build west Pncific was n nationa l necE>sslty. The South want· from Dixie. Indians !rbm the deserts and the mounta!ns and the omnipr esent Jewi~h traders from ed the eastern terminu s of snch a railroad nn the from the prairie town of Chicago. Howev er, It many lands. good humore d and thrifty, but widelower Mississippi and the ~orth wanted it on the was with the Illinois Central , which had just eyed and wonder ing at the genius of a Nordic race. upper Mississippi. Before the dispute could be receive d its land grant from the go,•ernment, that Gen. Ja<'k Caseme nt, whose genius for railroad B;r REV. GEORGE W. JOHNSON (Baptist), Detroit. settled one way or the other the Civil wnr was Dodge first got an enginee ring job, but after a ronstru ction pushed the Union Pacific from .Missouri to Salt Lake, seven years earlier than the precipi tate(!. Then on .June 24. 18G2, with mo!;t year he left that railroad because he was more govern ment expecte d, mounte d the pilot or one of I Interes ted In the Rock Island which was buildin g of the souther n represe ntntive s absent. a I.Jill was the engines and called the assemb ly to order; Edwest than he was with the Illinois Central which pushed through congres s for the constru ction of a gar Mills, toastm aster of the Last Spike program Despis ed and critic-ized for frank disrega rd of conven tionali ties, the asked Rev. Mr. Todd of Massac husetts to offer was buildin g south. In 185;{ he was given a job road with the eastt>rn terminu s "a point on the youth of today is unsurp assed by the youth of any other day. There never prayer, and men of all creeds and of none, stood one hundre dth meridia n with a surveyo r for the Hock Island and helped hetween the silent and re~pectful while a clergym an from the south margin of the valley of the nei.-Ihliean river was a finer body of young~tPrs than the boys and girls of our day. They run he lines of the Mississ ippi and Missouri River old Puritan town of P(ttl'lfle ld prayed. railroa d (organi zed by the Rock Island) across and the north margin of the valley of the Platte A man at the p-reach er's left, Doctor Harkne ss of simply are more honest and sincere and less secreti ve than former genera · Sacram ento, cl<>ared his throat and said: "Gentle Iowa. river In the tei-rlto•·y of Nebras ka." men of the Pacific railroad , the last rail needed to tions. It was this connection which brough t him Into Although this foresharlotrerl the selE-ction of • comple te the greates t railroad enterpr ise in the contact with a future great American who was Council muffs as the enst<>rn terminu~ as Dodge The "youth proble m" i:> not a new one. For proof of this read the world is about to be Ia id; the last spike needed to , unite the Atlanti c and the Pacific is about to be . to play an import ant part In his future career. had desired it and as he had pointed out to Lin· Book of Pr?ver bs, written in 1,000 B. C. Concer n for youth is.. well driven.' " Dodge began his survey from the wooden brld~e coin at the timf' of Lincoln's visit to ('onn<'il He turned, handed a golden spike to Presld~ont 1 founde d, alwaye has been, for the years of adolesc ence and soung manho od which the Rock Island was buildin g across the Biuffs. It was to be !'everal )'<'nrs hefor~: the huilrl· Stanfor d of the Central Pacific while Govern or :Mississippi betwee n Rock Island, Ill., and Davening of that railrond '1\'0uld ht>gin. In the mean· Trittle of Nevada held out a Flher spike to Thoma s determ ine later eharar· ter. Young people rannot afTQfd to expo t.bemDurant, vice pn>si<le nt of liH' Union Pacific. The port, Iowa. This bridge was time Dodge had enter<>d the Union nrmy ns colonel selves to too murh tempta tion, pay too much for pleasur e, refu~e all Nevada E'xecuti ve said: "To the iron of the Ea~t of the Fourth Iown infantr y, He ro><<> rapicll~' to and the gold of the \Ve~t. Nevada add~ her link of The famous wooden structu re that was burned in • rPstrai nt. The years of youth slip by quickly . See to it that even at thirty the po:;ition of hrigndi er ;:o!'neral and commander] ~ilver .. to span the rontine nt and wed the o<'eans ., 1856, when the steamb oat Effie Afton swung agains• a division at the rnttle of Atl:mtn. But it was.- ""' it, caught flre and destroy ed one or Its spans. Jn or thirty-f ive you are not compel led to despise yourse lf because of wa::;teJ Voe, of the Pacific Union !expres s compan y, gave the suit that followe d. a young lawyer from Sana railroad huiluer that he made hiln<;t>lf inrJi,.;ppnStanfo)r d a sliver ~ledge; Heed, SUIJerm tendent of I opportu nitieo: and a none too good name. gamon county represe nted th<l bridge compan y and sahle to ll:~lley, Grant an<l Sherma n in tit<> armi<>!' constru ction for the Union Pacific, and ~trowbridgP;, the noel< Island railroad . Lincoln argued that the Paul's advice to Timoth y was good, for the good opinion of real of the West. Grant nrHl ~herman es]Jer·iall:v were of th<• Centrnl Paeific, shoved the last tie to pv~;i people had a right to travel east and west as well 1 tion-on e or Cnllfor nia laurel, finely polishe d ~,..n4 his fast friends and ~herman has told how Dod;!e as north and south and freight tile nece~slties of people is worth having . And the advice meant : "Comm on respert a:; a bearing a silv~r plate with the inscript ion "The life. The opposit ion contend ed that the Lord made repaire d railroad s nnd llllilt hrldges alrno!<t as taRt tie laid in the comple tion of the Pacific railyoung Christi an ministe r, by your charnc ter and ability .'' , To better coun1 the river for navigat ion and that it should not he fast as his troops marche d on tt1e famous expedi· ~. M:ty 10, 1R69.'" obstruc ted by a bridge -even a drawbr idge. ThE're sel can he given to all pm>en t-day youth. Comm and respect of others, tlon to Geor;!;ia. A wir<> wa!! attache d to the gold spike and when ·was no d~clslon, and the controv ersy over this Stanfor d struck it an E'lectric spark signalle d the At tlre close of the war Grant ~;:ent Dodge to '11,-idge echoed in congres s. and self respect , becaus e of whnt y~u are and becaus e of real ability . Fol nation that the first transco ntinent al railroad waa lud~re Love ot Iowa finally rendere il a cleclaio n take ca.re o:t the campai gn agalnil' the Indians on comple ted. L low Christ sincere ly and find in H'm all needed aid and inspira tion. -- YOU TH IN ADJ UST MEN T PER IOD .. ,1.!::::==================================:!.1 1 . I PRO BLE M OF MED ICA L COS T " 11 .... ....... . ...... . .. .. . PER IL MOD ERN YOU TH FAC ES l I I |