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Show the glories of the resurrection could come to men. It is retribution a cleanser of the sins of nations a purifier puri-fier by firre a burning away of the dross. It is a destroyer of the shameful inequality among men everywhere. There can never be Peace. Progress and Plenty for all until conditions are made more equal. It will destroy the wicked and wickedness that standi in the way of a higher and saner progress. It is the avenger of all the wrongs and infamies which rulers have wrought upon their people. It will prove to be the bearer of a new torch of JLiberty, a new Covenant of Freedom. It is the birth pang of another New Orderjof the Ages. "They never fail who light Their lamp of faith on the unwavering flame Burnt on the altar service of the race." As long as England and America cling to aM these wrongs and oppressions they cannot expect to avoid the awful consequences conse-quences that are as sure to follow as night follows day. How London's showgirls really drrss on nothing a week, Mr. Arthur "Bugs" Baer, witty commentator, bemoans the fact that the only have60 clothes ration coupons a year but cheers perceptibly when he sees alluring photographs of how they manage to cling to glamour by making the most of a few beads, feathers and mosquito netting. See the same photographs photo-graphs yourself and read Mr- Baer's own characteristic way of giving these little girls a hand, in The American Weekly, the magazine distributed with next week's LOS ANGELES EXAMINER. " Some Things Worth Thinking' Think-ing' About Read and Ponder "Dreams are they? But ye cannot stay them, Or thrust the dawn hack for one hour! Truth, Love, and Justice, if ye slay them Return with more than earthly power. "The banking system is actively harmful to the state. It creates poverty and unemployment and is the root cause of war. Its experts have hopelesly failed. "Sound finance'' means nothing at all, and is merely a bankers slogan to disguise the injustices of the credit system. It always sees to it that the demand for credit and currency always exceeds the supply so that interest tribute may be exacted to the limit. The disastrous disast-rous boom and slump cycles are one of the greatest features of the bankers monetary system and are created so that they can grow rich on the ups an i downs of trade. There could be great changes for the better in the health, happiness, prosperity prosper-ity and wplfare of the individual, of the community and the nation if the monetary system was reformed and made to function foe the benefit of the people instead of the profit of greedy money-monopolists." A great author has .said: "There never was a time more cut off from Christ than ours, nor one whichneeded Him more." What a tragedy that He has been killed in so many of the hearts of men. His offense was that He loved people all people, and therefore they crucified Him. His method of government was "Love one another." His benediction was, "Peace be unto you." His last command, repeated three times was, "Feed my sheep." He preached His gospel to the poor. He comforted and sustained the widows in their affliction, and and blessed the little children to whom He likened the Kingdom King-dom of Heaven. He never let his hands or fingers touch the money of the world because He knew that of all the unclean things man has created, money is the most unclean. So much of what He was and what He stood for has been thrown into the discord by the war, but He will yet draw all men unto Him. '"The dreamer dies, but never dies she dream. Say nevermore That dreams are fragile things. What else endures Of all this broken world save only dreamsl America, as much as the 'people love it, and as much good and glory as it has, must be regenerated and have its soul restored. Just look at the corrupt and venal character of its politics, the vast extent of its economic slavery, its lawlesness, its staggering corruption in high places, its shameless surrender surren-der to the indecencies of sex, its.irreligion and pagan philosophy philoso-phy of dishonest success, its dollar aristocracy, its millions of paupers, and the fact of all its best interests being drowned in the infamous liquor traffic. If these things cannot be changed for the better then all of the efforts of the U. S. in this gigantic struggle will count for nothing. With our millions we aren't any nappier. A lot of money can't bring happiness. Happiness dosen't come from things we take out of life. For rea1, pure happiness I had to go back fifty years, back to a cornfield, back to the most wonderful mother in the world, back to the little old-fashioned home that was surrounded with pinks and hollyhocks, back to the fishing pond and to the evenings at sunset when we played . in our rocky front yard. Nothing that I can buy with money can add to my happiness." Couzens The collossal fortunes of British aristocracy which have so long oppressed and denied the poor, weie built on child slavery, brewing and distilling projects, opium traffic, conquests, con-quests, landlordism and other means of selfish and greedy wealth extraction and exploitation This massed wealth has been and is protected and nourished by the influence of church and state while the great souls, the immortals of England who struggled for more justice, more equality, more humanitarian human-itarian reforms, were killed, ostracised and broken-hearted for their efforts. If great changes for the better are not wrought out for the people then all the blood of the soldier-martyrs will have been spilt in vain. The aggressions of Japan are as much a part of Armageddon Armaged-don as those of the larger nations. Armageddon began in 1914 and will run well into 1948, and every nation on earth will be involved. Japan is aluo in a world-conquering mood and has actually planned the conquest of the U. S. She will do a great deal of harm whereever she attacks, but in the mixup she will be destroyed. She has sown death in China and she will reap what she has sown, either in war or catastrophies of nature. j When the government of the United Statei of America was set up it was a New Order of the Ages. It would have remained re-mained so had not the International bankers and the profiteer made it otherwise. It is now the duty of citizens to save all that is worth saving and build upon it abetter New Order with which to enter into the sunshine of the New Day. Something vastly better than the democracies have offered in the past, and better than they now are offering, must come out of the war or else all of its suffering, death and destruction will have been in vain. The masses are still in desperate straights everywhere, The world is still full of "brutes who trade on hunger, who fatten on famine, who convert into money the life-blood of the poor, the beauty of youth and the sweat of slaves." There is more meaning in the present war than there was in all the other wars of history. The meaning is so far-reaching that few can understand it anl fewer still will believe it. Just consider the following truths: It is the wrecker of the old structure which has served its time and done its best and its worst. Wrecks have to happen hap-pen occasionally even Christ's life had to be wrecked before |
