Show Today The Disaster Disaster Lisbon Earthquake A Womans Woman's Speech Speech Vacuum FlAp FlAp- l l Per r cr By DY ARTHUR BRISBANE XE Copyright 1926 l Dy By Tho Star Co The Th disaster In Miami and other parts of ot Florida proves to be bemore bemore more extensive ve than first reports Indicated Hundreds are killed gigantic property values wept swept away None Nono the Ie less Florida will not be discouraged The rest of the nation deeply sympathizing knows know that all parts of the tho country are exposed to the tb fury tury of nature natures nature's forces We 1 read with horror of or hun hun dreda killed and well ell ell may It Is wise to remember that one single Ingle shell bursting In war time may kill more than were killed In this Florida tornado One On heavy shell dropped from a bombing airplane could wipe out more life lire and property than the th great Florida wind destroyed Men become accustomed to 1 especially when It hap hap- happens hap pens ens at a a distance In o a space pace s and time We talk now calmly or of twenty million lives destroyed by bythe bytho bythe the tho great war ar and that number Is no exaggeration News of ot hun hun- hundred hun hundreds dred killed In Florida moves us more deeply deerly than did n news that tens of or thousands had been wiped out In a a single battle Man dreads especially ally the he stroke or of nature natures nature's power realizing his helplessness before i It At any mo- mo moment moment mo moment ment our great sea coast cities might be swept out of existence by a tidal wave And man can canno canno canno no more prepare against is 1 I than the tho ant ont can prepare his hie tiny city against the gardeners gardener's watering pot Men Ien have learned to take dis- dis disaster dis disaster aster asler philosophically and to find relief reller In effort erfort It was not so 0 In other days When the great treat earthquake of wiped out thousands of lives and destroyed a city many meny lost their faith In God and In eternal justice as others lost lest their lives s and property The Th earthquake and dreadful fire came camo on a holy day when the churches were packed with worshippers worshipper Roofs Roots of churches and cathedrals fell rell In crushing great numbers number even as they knelt imploring dl di dl Ino mercy The day has lIas passed when a natural disaster could be he made mad a convIncing argument for shallow hallow atheism Men len have lost much or of their superstition without losing their faith In eternal wisdom and Justice We know natures nature's nature laws law work eternally and evenly and It Is I forman for forman forman man to rely on his Intelligence and science not on protecting miracles When the heat of ot the th tropics caus causes s great Ireat volumes of or air to torise suddenly and other masse masses of air rush In creating a n tornado life liro and property must he be b de- de destroyed destroyed de destroyed The Th wisdom that rule rules iten ten billion suns luns In apace will floe no suspend the law laws las of or nature and or of physics for one tiny planet In one small solar system But there Is nothing Ins Ing about that nothing to dimin dimin- diminIsh diminish ish faith In eternal goodness i When a small smaIl mall child falls ralla tall It cries crie and waits for I Its father to pick It up A grow man Inan falls tall gets Bets up blames blame himself and Is more careful care- care tul rul Childlike ages allu aRe In calamity waited for their Heavenly Father to pick them up and end doubted Ills I goodne goodness when heJi when the tall rail was er very painful The human race grown older wiser wirer has hils ha outgrown that Is II li proud to rely upon itself grateful for life lire on a 11 planet so o marvelously safe sare ate In a universe managed with such Buch uch perfect justice netter Better a a of or struggle and AC ne- ne c In a world world with law laws the same nio for nil all than the h lire of an oriental dream type relying on some som lamp or other device to bring brim what le Is I needed Florida will rebuild forget and n go o 0 ahead Geor George o L 1 I Brennan of Chicago running for the Iho senate as a a 11 Demo Demo- crat I Is laid up following a operation And that will be b worth thousands thou- thou sands andi of or vote votes to him Because he hc cannot take lake the stump tump his hie hi wire wife will speak peak for him until he I leaves aves the hospital A quiet retirIng woman oman she he knows nothing about politics or speech speechmaking speechmaking making But Dut voters will crowd to hear her She Sho may only say My hus bus husbAnd husband band Is a 0 good food man a a good hus hus- husband hus- hus husband husband band and a good father and wIth that speech make mako more vote votes than Demosthenes would get set It if he could come back and do his best In New York Governor AI Smiths Smith's young daughter made one campaign speech In tn eight words I hope you ou will all vote for father and that speech vas Ta worth moro more totes otc than the best that Governor Smith himself could deliver de- de deliver de deliver liver The Th Right night Rev Re Ir P John John- Johnson John John-flon son lIOn a bishop and editor of ot The Witness an Episcopalian periodical periodical cal says aya there Is too much touch talk about whisky flappers lappers sex tfx etc All that America seem seems to think or care for tor Is sex ex cx relation It lanot Is not particularly new The Puritans were deeply concerned with the question They made mado as many drastic laws In trying to dispose of s sex x as 81 a we wo make today trying to abolish liquor with equal suc suc- suc which cess which Is no success stall at t all We W e should hould stop top regarding regarding the youth with a flask flok of or hooch In InI his pocket a flapper lapper by his side I and a vacuum In his head as or of any Im Importance D ortance Th Thus Thu us the bishop speaks peaks In Mr Ir Bonfils Denver Pot Post The vacuum In the young mans mons man head Is Indeed on an ancient Institution But Dut boys and girls iris In high school re hr drink drink- drinkIng Ing bootleg whisky and that Is now and ond Important and not to be brushed aside Bishop Johnson says lays sons on ons and daughters daughter of laboring men are th time real factors to consider Th Tb trouble Is that the laboring man mans man's sons and daughters able abie fortu- fortu fortunately fortu fortunately to go CO to high schools school now that good wages are paid also unfortunately come In contact with the tho b bootleg whisky It Is I a dis- dis disease dis disease ease caso that spreads rapidly |