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Show EDITORIALS (By I. H. Masters.) CHILD AND HOME. 1 There is no doubt about the value that Jesus' appraisal puts upon, the child. The Christian conception of the home and the child would make the former function for the fundamental protection pro-tection and development of the latter. Home was made for the hild. Our system of education throws our children into contact with our neighbor's children, provides opportunity for continuous and methodical instruction, recognizes the duty o the state to educate its potential citizenship. Yet the home is in a most real sense the real educator. What books are on our home library shelf? What records are used on our victrolas? What pictures ire on our walls? What periodicals do we read and place within reach of our children? How closely do we. follow the history and geography and other text books our children use? Because our public school system is highly organized, the Christian home has only a greater duty to sweeten and chasten and supplement and round out the mental processes and equipment of our own dear ones. ... , Therefore parents should cultivate the acquaintance of the teachers of our boys and girls, should follow the deliberations of our boards of education, should take vital interest in the elec- tion and selection of school commissioners, in the choice of text books, should visit the schools, should be intelligent on the question ques-tion of teachers' salaries, and should wrestle with the great problem of religious education in connection with our schools. Our system of religious education revolves around the church and properly so. The progress made here is evident to all. THE TREATY. Humiliated nationally, by the senate, we can but hope that the world will not judge the American people by the actions of those senators who misrepresent us at Washington. The great admiration, the feeling of fellowship that our soldier boys won by their superb achievements on the battle fields of France have been frittered away. Our nation has been humiliated by the buffoonery of the strong arm senatorial - debaters As far as the United States senate is concerned the great was war fought in vain. Americans and their brilliant associates at arms died for naught. Our self-sacrifice has become a mockery. After eight months of debate the treaty has failed of rati-' rati-' fication. It may be dead. Perhaps it is only sleeping. Its resurrection resur-rection can only come if public sentiment be aroused to that pitch that will frighten the senatorial irreconcilables from their domineering domi-neering perch. We don't know what the senate expects to do. There are honest men in the senate. There are capable men. There are some who strove earnestly to effect a compromise so that the glory gained on the fields of France might not be blackened by political intrigue. But there was a domineering minority, few in numbers, but holding the balance of power willing to yield nothing, to concede nothing fighting only to destroy, to crush and to humiliate. They won. Whatever credit there may be for the defeat of the treaty can be accorded them. The shame is ' theirs. .... ; : ?' ' ' The great idealism that prompted America to enter the war ' ". . 'has been besmirched. ' The patriotism, that, made us a united na-, na-, tion, standing with our brothers across the seas for the salva-. salva-. tion of all humanity, has been defiled. The disgrace that has been imposed upon us has been intensified by the sordidness of 1 dirty politics. America stood brilliant while the war continued; With the war concluded, American people had a right to expect that peace should be concluded. We now have neither peace nor war. We keep Germany as an enemy and we betray the allies at whose side we fought. We stand a national outcast, our inaction embittering other nations, feeding fuel to the Bolshevism of the world.. But we should not give up all hope. Perhaps those senators, who are patriots more than they are politicians, will yet be able to save something out of the wreck and bring us peace. God .knows the American people want peace. Telegram. REAL DANGER. We sit complacently in our homes and read about the doings of the I. W. W., the Bolshevist and the Reds of all orders. .We give scant thought to the problems of maintaining a safe and staple form of government. Many of us think the reports of radical activities are largely exaggerated and that anyway the trouble is so far away it wont hurt us. A lot Of us thought the same thing about the European war at first. Now comes a declaration from the governor of Alaska stating that this farthest north section of our country needs more police protection to cope with the wave of radicalism that threatens to break out at any minute. The peril to civilization arising from bolshevist victories which have almost extinguished all opposition in Russia i3 not limited to Europe and Asia.. If bolshevism shall devour Poland, Rumania and the Baltic states which have split off from Russia, it may sweep on through Germany and the Danubian states, gaining gain-ing power as it advances until Great 'Britain, France, Italy and Spain cannot withstand it. If it shall overflow India, Afghanistan, Persia and Turkey, it may also extend eastward through China and Japan. The flood would then menace both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Industry and business scent this danger and have tried to rouse the aveage citizen to the necessity of combatting radicalism in whatever form it manifests itself. It is the laboring man and average citizen who have the most at stake for they are the ones who first feel the effect of chaootic , industrial conditions. - ' |
