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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Dwight W. Morrow All This Will Pass The Pacific Conquered Lovely Forgiveness Sudden death ends the useful life of Dwight W. Morrow, a hard working, sincere American citizen. Mr. Morrow made his own way in the world and achieved success I hat would have more than satisfied satis-fied many when he became an important partner in the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company. He relinquished that position, with its great .profits, when opportunity presented itsef to render service to hin country. He did admirably the work intrusted in-trusted to him in Mexico, bringing the nations closer to get her in friendship; acting as a tactful, efficient peacemaker in connection with regrettable religious reli-gious troubles. He diea with a brilliant career and great honor still before him His untimely death is a national calamity. By the way cf reminding you that it is possible to take things too gloomily, John M. Ellis, of 25 Broadway, New York City, sends an editorial ttatement from which extracts follow: "It is a gloomy moment in history. his-tory. Not for many years not in the lifetime of most men who read this paper has there been so much grave and deep apprehension; appre-hension; never the future has seemed so incalculable as at this time. In our country there is universal commercial prostration and panic, and thousands of our poorest fellow-citizens are turned out against the approaching winter win-ter without employment, and without the prospect of it. "In France the political caldron cal-dron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty; Russia hangs as usual, us-ual, like a cloud, dark and silent upon the horizon of Europe: while all the energies and influence influ-ence of the British Empire are sorey tried, and are yet to be tried more sorely. "It is a solemn moment, and no man can feel an indifference in the ifsuc of events. "Of our own troubles no man can see the end. They are, fortunately, for-tunately, as yet mainly commercial: commer-cial: and if we are only to lese money, and by painful poverty to be taught wisdom the wisdom of honor, of faith, of sympathy and of charity no man need seriously to despair. And yet the very haste to be rich, which is the occasion of this wide-si): wide-si): ead calanuty, has also tended u destroy the moral forces wnh which Ye are to resist and subdue sub-due tho calamity." j It mi.y comfort you a little j perhaps persuade ycu that the end I a the world has not yel cc-n. I t-j leain thai what you read j ititve was pu'uii: hea in Harper's : tVictly on October 10. 1337, sev- j eiity-fv,i:r years ao. j In spite of all that gloom and ions civil war panics that fc'-!r-.-.-(d it, the United States did eomo back. And. it will come back again, nore prosperous than ever, more intelligent. Also let us hope thft intelligence will tae the form f forbidding high financial rocks to dump tens of millions .f shares of worthless ttock on the gambling public. Clyde Panpborn and Hugh Herndon Jr., able American fly ers, tried and succeeded. Flying Fly-ing the Pacific in 41 hours, a nonstop non-stop flight, with only one suppl.v of fuel, the brave men came down at Wenutchee, in tha Stat-: of Washington, with a crash and a smile. What they had done iiad never been done before. The length, of their hop was 4,465 miles, and they conquered the wide Pacific Such an achievement should offset a gooc. deal of pessimistic gloom. The nation's prosperity and future depends or. the minds and hearts of its people. We-have We-have the right kind of people. Canon Rogers, chaplain to King George, says the nations should adopt a doctrine of forgiveness and Uncle Sam should lead in "constructive sympathy", in dealing deal-ing with other nations. Uncle Sam was "constructively sympathetic" to the tune of teii billions of dollars, and was called "Uncle Shylock" for his pains. Forgiveness has been in the Lord's prayer for a long time but not in active use. Forgiveness has little to do with world affairs, but intelligence should teach men that war doesn't pay and persuade them to abandon aban-don it. If real estate values impress you take off your hat to old Father Knickerbocker of New York City. New York's real estate for taxation taxa-tion is tentatively assessed over nineteen billion, two hundred and ninety-six million dollars, an in-crase in-crase of more than one billion one hundred million. That doesn't include personal property, or franchise fran-chise assessments, which would bring the total value up to twenty-one billions. No wonder New York States and New York City have good credit in the money market. Workers in Lancashire, in serious ser-ious rioting, brandish clubs, shouting shout-ing "remember 1914 to 1918." They mean that the country for which they fought then ought to feed them now. The rioting interests Gandhi's followers in India. Lack of employment em-ployment in Lancashire is due to the boycott that Gandhi has placed plac-ed on British goods. |