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Show Page 3 FreeS ronts Coercion pi r t i fSupport Says Fosdick Church And Home Constitute Dike Against Encroachment. BY HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK d 1 -- Coerced worship Is conscience. not worsh p. The headmaster at Eton College once stood in (hls chapel pulpit and said to His students, "Its your duty to be pure In heart. If you are not pure In heart. Ill flog you." But that will not do. Purity of heart cannot be coerced. The essential quality of the spiritual life is unforced willingness, and this voluntary area of mans free spirit is pressed upon today by a rising tide of compulsion and regimentation. Many to whose lips phrases like "spiritual life" do not naturally come, are worried.- - The finest thing in them their voluntary life, that gives to human be- Ings-thedignity and UisCncLlon is threatened. They look out across the world and see great systems of totalitarianism endangering It. They look mors ir closely borne and see how precariously this free life of the spirit maintains Itself against ths antagonistic pressures ( of our time. which Is Voluntariness, the Indisputable quality of the spiritual life, faces a world that swings mors and more toward coercion. My central thesis is that wa cannot escape that menace mere-- three-fourth- of ly by the negative method fighting against coercion. This Is true In part because coercion has a rightful place in life. When one loves ones friends or worships God, one must be free and un- compelled, but then one drives If he Is in a good home ones motor car, one must obey pleases. measure of such voluntarithe the regulations. As the complex-tty- - ness that he can enjoy is largely of modern fife Increases,-suc-h In his own control. It his volunareas of regulation Increase tary Hie is fine, If he knows how to nandle it, if he can push out -also, and man cannot save this tn the frontiers of h is 4 reely chosner realm Df the voluntary spirit en living so that hla family and friends lejoicer to see it, then coby fighting against that. ercion withdraws before that Moreover, even v. hen coercion strong and admirable advance of 1 wrong and "vicious, when dichis uncoerced life. But. if that tatorship attacks democracy, it youths voluntary life Is poor, is a precarious method to deal weak, unstable. If his freely chosen couibes cannot be trusted, with that by fighting back. For then inevitably coreclon closes in. when we make war against Here Is a truth without seeing -- which 1 think we cannot undcr-tancoercion, w e use" Corecion; and the major problem of our sothus widen the area of coercion -life cial today, When coercio- nso that the voluntary life of the Increases and multiplies its impowe are defending Is the sitions, uat Is because the volunspirit more Imperiled by the methods tary, that is to say tne spiritual life has failed. See, my friends, wt employ. This is, of course, the into two divided how life Is supreme tragedy of war. The parts: The- compulsory and the not the voluntary. They areJIke the sea greatest evil of war deaths it causes, cruel as they and the land; they shai e the earth between them. The more there Is are. for all who die In war should of one, the less there is of the soon or late have died anyway. other. We, therefore, have our The supreme evil of war is not choice. We can develop in ourthe suffering it causes, tragic selves and In our nation a strong and fruitful spiritual life that though "that isi for that Is only a creates uncompclled character TieedleWaadltionTor the great and public spirit, or, if we fail in mass of human misery every- that, coreclon will come flooding where and always present The in like an encroaching Sea. That is the Inexorable alternative. One suprembe evil of war la that It acwishes one could shout It from centuates trust In and widens the housetops. Either we are gothe area of, compulsive force, so ing to have more free spiritual ln any war. smong allco: lyifge or else more legalistic comEither we are going to vicpulsion' batsnts, the one Inevitable nave more volunteers or more tim is the free life of the volunconscription. tary spirit that is the glory of Is not this the central problem mankind. of democracy? No other form of social organization depends so In the American pulpit, where much on the willing spirit of the the of war do today compulsions people. Trust in that, democracy not rest upon us, let us turn to says, and minimize the need of cothe positive confrontation of this ercion. All of which is admit so long as in the people we menace. The only ultimate way have a voluntary spnit we can In which the free life of the spirno trust. But when that it can be saves from being matter how much we falls, call , ourselves a democracy coercion will swamped by force Is the enlargecome flooding In like the seas in ment, deepening and replenishHolland when the dikes have ment of ths voluntary life itself broken down. Is too be until It swampstrong to As a minister of Christ I do ed. not ish to press this home mereThe poet, who wrote the Fifty-firly to plead my special cause. I Psahn prayed about that. am thinking of business and promen and women who The Fifty-first, Psalm la one of fessional use phrases like "spiritual life," the noblest upreaches of spiritual with a certain shyness and timilife in the Old Tegument, and at dity. But this thing we are talkthe heart of it is this prayer: ing of today Is a stubborn and realistic tact. Our fathers at , . . uphold me with a willing their best had a powerful volun. spirit tary life. They said that govn ThafIs To say, enlarge-I!Tnmentwas best that governed least. In this country they widen the voluntary life, help me to live ed for us, as never had been done powerfqlly and freely from withbefore in history, the realm of in. As Dr, Moffatt translates liv. , , give we a willing spirit as ing. They trusted us to go on with that. But that order of life my strength. Is not merely a political system, America had better lift that main self perpeuating. The tenance of that order of life deprayer for an inner life that will issue in uncompelled character, pends upon the maintenance of the free and voluntary spirit In uncompclled goodwill, uncoerced the people, creating uncoreced public spirit When men go into war the cry Is lifted. Wanted, character and public spirit. Deconscripts; but In this conflict mocracy depends upon volunto save the voluntary life .of teers. Democracys essential praymans free spirit another cry Is er is. . . . uphold me with a willing lifted. Wanted, volunteers! As we endeavor to see the spirit. our of this for Let us go further and no.te that prayer meaning contemporary life, consider, in. the recognition of this fact in the first place, that whenever covolves a fresh appreciation of the ercion increases, as it does today, importation of those voluntary that means that voluntariness social groups that are underpinhas failed. Whenever, In any ning of a recent social order. realm the world cannot get Our outstanding peril of our enough volunteers. It necessarily day is that our eyes Sre naturalturns to conscription. This is obly focused on armies and navies, viously true In personal life. Evthe major agencies of coercion, as ery adolescent youth wishes to be though the future of mankind de-- d Js, S , st for Our Success During the Past Year - We Thank You! nr it i icSph, ': t '! x THE HOSE HOTEL It is to our many friends ' that we owe our for a successful year. May we take this opportunity of thanking appro--datio- n you now. With our improved facilities we are in an even better position to serye you in 1941. free, Independent tadoashe Monte Youngs Rides and Shows Special Features and Famous Attraction! add la the spirit a! all Celebrations. Rodeos, Jubilees, Carnivals. Stale and County Fairs. 3L HOTEL WE CAN HELP YOU MAKE YOUR CELEBRATIONS A BIGGER SUCCESS CalL Writs or Wirt lor Particulars Mm. I. H. Waters. Pres. L Holman Waters, W. Roee Sutton, , Mgrs. MOVIE VOUVC PROVO, UTAH 4 were given adequate fire protection. guch protection, official said, would cost but a few cent n acre per year In most areas. Fire not only destroy" valuable stands of mature timber. It was declared, but they cause greater and far reaching damage by destroying young growth on which future timber crop depend. Witt) the burning of thi undei growth and food plants, the water holding capacity of hillside watersheds Is reduced ' and spring freshet turn into, roaring floods that annually destroy millions ,of dollars In property an4 reap untold horrors in human privation and misery. CCC Builds 63 Landing Fields Miirster, Riverside Church. New York City, a renewal A common remark today is that, we deeply-neeot the spiritual life In a broadcast from Paris the otnur nt-- ht even a war correspondent was lamenting the increase, i pf man's material power and the decrease of spiritual quality . nandle it. That kind of remark, however, is so vague and general that commonly it slip off Os without biting in any vhere. I wish we could put teeth into it today. Why do so many different kinds of people feel that we need a renewal of the spiritual life? j' Is not the reason associated with the faet that the essential quality of the spiritual life Is its voluntariness? Whatever else the spiritu al tlfe is, it must be unforeed and free. If a man lovea his friends, or loves beauty in nature, or creates beauty In art, he must-d- o that willingly, without compul- aion. tf a man seeks truf hr b must be In that realm, uncompelled. freely dedicating himself to his research. Jf a man loves goodness, or worships God, that too must come spontaneously from within. Coerced love Is not love, Coerced science Is not science. . poerced conscience Is not New Methods Have Curbed Forest Fires 1940 both personal and social, is thus pendencies is collectivism. Every divided Into two areas the comyear the Inventions of science the weaves more Inextricably pulsory and the voluntary. In web that binds man to man, WASHINGTON (INS) Nine-t- y the last war a young French grouo to group, nation to naper cent of all forest fires last weak white and soldier upon lay tion. Collectivism is a major year occurred on property hava hospital bed. , The surgeon fact Communism is a surrening no fire protection, the Unit'his who shattered amputated der o the Idea that it must be arm looked States Forest Service revealed ed at with "sympathy handled by despotism. Collectiv , today. I face , drawn the and said, 1 Ism the towering social probA special survey recently conto m lose had that Comyou sorry lem of the modern world. the unearthed ducted service by your arm." And the young felmunism is the false solution. this startling tribute to modern low opened his eyes and said But we cannot escape that fire prevention methods. Accordaccent an "1 of witn protest, menace merely by fighting ing to the survey, lest than one did not lose it. I gave It. There against communism. The probper cent of 433,256,00(Lacres of In a is fine thaf. To quality lem of collectivism still is here, protected forest suffered damage, face a grievous compulsion and nowhere more ir crescendo than while 17 per cent of 152,167,000 flood so with it willingness we do In the United States. If acres of unprotected woodland is that the stronger voluntary solved not want that problem were burned over. reTo WASHINGTON than fhg' necessary that (INS) Although fires, during the year by despotism, then It must be fine veals facilitate the new technique of quality. jx fiee 30,000 acres of forest ravaged posrlvely solved by the fighting forest fires by airplane, IJfenry D. Thoreau put it into land and destroyed timber valuspirit of willing men, socially the Civilian Conservation Corps a dog runs ed at nearly $40,000,000 ninety minded, and cooperative enough art aphorism: "When him. has constructed 63 airplane land- whistle for at you, Well, per cent of the area burned and voluntarily to make despotism lng fields in the great national, can some that do with Is s you of the damages needless. Once more, it only' northern forests of Montana, an must If Jose arm, you dogs. were incurred by properties still In '.he enlargement, deepening, Idaho, and eastern Washington. lose If can it you graciously. and revitalizing of the voluntary lacking organized fire protection. The fields, it was explained by you must grow old, you can do There were 212,671 forest fires life that we can hope to keep James J. McEntee, director of It If must wash avyou beautifully. our Lberty, the CCC, sre to be used by fir during 1939, It was disclosed, How many groups - face this dishes, -- you can learn to like eraging one every two and one-hafighting officials to move men It. Some at that rush dogs you, Youminutes. This W'as 19,558 and equipment nearer to fire roblem . today! physicians you can whistle for. But some fires under the 1938 toll and 3,- - when approach by other methace It. The American people coercions cannot. are There yotw acres burned were have 500.000 ods would be difficult. It is fewer some day ary going to will also be of threatening us today which we but Forest Service officials pointscientific medicine at the disthey expected have no business to whistle for. material aid to the Forest Served out that damages last year posal of all their families. They were $3,000,000- - greater than In They threatenhe extinction of ices plan to drop fire fighter are not going on by the millions, the dearest values In human 1938. Altogether enough lumber that by parachute at small fires to loas true today know-ta. calize the Maze and start baek- went up ln smoke to construct there are remedies and tieat-men- -life. fires before it has a chance to 333.000 frame houses. As a minster of Christ thinks that 'could have the live Human carelessness and Incenspread. of helr children but thaf they of them, how can he forbear feel diaries were responsible for the cannot get at. That Is an Ining the profound importance of these of But you the religious life and gospel for Tires, tolerable situation! greatest portion officials said, lightning and whlcn he stands? For this free physicians are right In fearing ROAD SERVICE n causes prob-leof man the voluntary ot that, accounting for what spirit that w e havebeen speaking of --onlyJS percent of the toll. Re" by governmental regimentaGARAGE tion will do to the scientific springs from the great deeps, porting on the 85,677 fires which occurred on protected state and us, standards of your profession. from faiths that inspire wish revealof not underlife that Well, then. If you do philosophies private lands, the survey ed that smokers caused about 26 that problem solved despoticalgird us, motives that spontaper cent of these fires; debris neously rise within us, spiritual ly, it must be solved voluntarily and Mechanical Service burning, 15 per cent; campers, 9 by the free cooperation of your resources that replenish us. This per cent; railroads, 5 per cent; profession and the people, by free life of the spirit Is a mans Complete Body and O America, lumbering, 2 per cent; and Incenvoluntary systems of insurance, essential religion. Fender 25 cent. was lu.d estibetter Jook to that! It Repair Service It or what you will! Theie. too, you diaries, per is no accident that the writer mated that Incendiaries were rethe only way we can successful of the Fifty-firs- t Psalm who Iv wiihstand coercive regiments sponsible for burning 1,195,660 STORAGE acres-tionisTiyvoluntary cooperatio- n- - prayed, protected land, WEEK MOXTH BAT . of a Much this waste of a great that will make It needless. uphold me with willing this. SDlnt, and valuable natural resource You business men face Tire Lubrication Battery could be avoided, the' service deYou do not like these restrictive Polish lug Ssrvica , Washing a me of clean heart, 0 Create in clared, if the 26 per cent regulations imposed upon you. United States forest still unpaSome of them, I doubt not, are God; E, 2nd So. Ph. And renew a right spirit withtrolled, and those sections of foi the necessary consequence of mo. est lacking complete facilities, the fact that economically wp in live In complicated structures one for where the old cry. Every himself! will no longfer do. But Another Utah Product, that Leads the World in Quality come some of those coercions from another cause altogether a moral and spiritual cause the You wouldnt ballava hew COMFORTABLE your homo will he alter placing breakdown of voluntary char a 4" blanket ef this material between your coiling loiite, and 11 cost so Httle. acterT of voluntary cooperation, We'D save one. third and of uncompelled honesty your fuolt rodueo your U. S. ROCK WOOL rummer temperature. public spirit, of a willing care for what happens to all the TVs (fireproof) NiVER UNDERSOLD Manuiae turora easily try to brush Ceoole. As Rotatloi Wholosalon. sea with a broom as to tiv to brush back governmental coercion if one forgets that. For here. tpo. In business, we will either have more voh unteers or we will have more conscripts. So. St. How strangely human life,- - Voluntary Life Needs ? ' Saturday, December 14 The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utali pended itpon them. I maintain, upon the contrary, that the future of mankind depends far more upon homes than upon armies. Now, a family in its origin Is a volunits tary group, and out of it, at vobest, has come a quality of luntary living that is todav the strongest underpinning of democracy. For our democracy still has strength in it .There are men and women Who do possess a that issues In uncompelled character and uncoerced public spirit A recent writer on political theory dropped Into tne midst of his 'erudite discourse this true and "A man statement: homely should not say. 'I live in a deI mocracy, but experienced delast Tuesday aftermocracy So! Last Tuesday afternoon. noon I met a man whose voluntary life was so fine that one could count on it. He fulfilled the great saying that The free man socially minded is the hope of the world. He may hade been rich or poor, learned or uneducated, a laborer with his hands or an executive In his office, but as one saw his voluntary living one said, The more of such, the more secure are the foundations of the commonwealth. Now-- , woman whenever in any man or we thus .expe icrice de- mocracy, we may be fairly sure . lf -- it that life came from a good home! Plenty of people today pressed upon by gigantic coercions of the world, cry. What can we do? Weil, If you are in a family, you are at the center of what most needs to be done. The volunta 7- life must come out of the untary groups. Wj Americans are not going Into this present war. Right! We had better stay out. But let us get Into another war that in the long run will do more for democracy than any outer war for will ever do the conflict homes, schools, churches, uncompelled public usefulness, professional codes of honor, and codes business freely entered Into and loyally maintained the voluntary agencies, that Is. that, like dikes, protect u from the sea, of coercion. If compulsion mounts among us It Is because those agencies have failed. If they have failed have it is because- - the people been too blind to see that therein lies the hope of their freepublic-spirite- g six-roo- the-solutl- on. 24Hour d Wrecker of -- 170-18- 0 dom. HOME INSULATION Indeed, let a special word be said about the churches. We have often miserably broken down, but in this area we have done one thing we need not be asham ed of Here is one dike that again and again the encroaching sea of coercion has come upon and found it would not give, Phone-- men and women who have said what Nicmoeller said to- - Hitler. You, dare ,not-- coerce conscience' You dare not coerce God worship! We must obey rather, than man! Take but a single incident out of contemporary history. Mussolini says thlt "The Fascist conception of Is outthe state side of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much , less have value. There arises the dreaded depotism of statehood. of Confronting that statement Mussolini Karl Barth said, in the name of all good religion: "I maintain that the Evangelical Church ought rather to be thinned down till it be a tiny Catagroup and go Into the combs rather than make a pact, even covertly, with this doctrine." The more there Is of that spirit, the less coercion; the less of that spirit the more coercion. 0 America, look to your voluntary groups! W will cither have more such volunteers, or we will have more conscrip- namly: 40 main BBSS Concerning Progress s in Local Transportation INTERESTING FACTS LtmmnlLr-f- . , tion. Let us turn, now, to look what probably Is the greatest dificulty confronting our truth. When coercion Increases, as it does today, that Is due not simply to the breakdown of the voluntary spiritual llfp. but to certain Inevitable conditions In our modem world. Dean Wicks of Princeton put the matter Into a neat picture Our faIn he said thers, went effect, school-housto school In a and when fire broke out the cty was raised, Every one for nimself! But now we go to school in vast, complicated structures, four or five thousand children lit a single building. and when fire breaks out we cannot cry. Every one for himelf! If we are to be saved at ill we must be saved together, by drill and regulation. That 4s a true picture of our modem world. The old Individualism that cried. Every man for himself! will not do. If we aie to le saved at all we must be saved together. Ho.v better canthis tnajnr-fahe put Into a single h than by setting in contrast two words that too often are regarded as synonymous: "collectivism and "communism." As I see the matter they aie very different. Collectivism is a realistic fact. We do go to school collectively in vast complicated structures. Telephone and systems (are Railroad systems sre niiiecUvisms. Giant - power its woiking unescapable interde one-roo- TODAY'S MODERN GAS BUS Today Salt Lake City enjoys mass transportation service as modern as that of any city in the United States. YESTERDAY'S In 1872 mass MULE CAR . transportation was started in Salt Lake Cty, line. This was a one-stre"system. et e, ei paia-grap- Salt Lake-Bingha- 100 MILES of streets are now served daily by the Utah Light and Traction Company. Eight routes were extended, and ten new gasoline buses were purchased in' 1940 in this companys effort to better serve the public. Trips Doily to Bingham Canyon Potato Licensed, Insured Carrier DtUfny furrteu" 630 V. N. Temple Ph. "Duar-te-boa- r POINTS $31,340,000 have been spent in this community by the Utah Light and Traction Company for taxes, wages and materials in the past 26 years. $2,635,000 in taxes have been paid by the Utah Light and Traction Company (exclusive of gasoline and sales taxes). 133,000,000 is the total mileage Utah Light and Traction a distance' Company vehicles have traveled since 1914 greater than 275 round trips to, the moon. Garage in Connection . INTERESTING The first electric street cars began operation in Salt Lake trolley buses were City in 1889. The first pneumatic-tire- d in into 1928. operation put m Ab4 Iahmndiat City each day by the Utah Light and Traction Company's 102 gas buses, 26 trolley coaches and 8 street cars. (This of the distance ground the world.) is two-thir- OTHER Freight Line 3 16,000 MILES is now the distance traveled in Salt Lake $17,815,000 PAYROLL has been distributed by the Utah Light and Traction Company since its organization September 18, 1914. 730,000,000 riders have been carried by Utah Light and Traction Company vehicles without a single passenger fatality., -- 4 |