Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-18

Happy Habit Symposium In the Ma
tlonal Magazine for April.
Work. Not The natural inference Is
Charity that when the trouble
Is Needed. began In the autumn the
average workingman
had more money fin his possession than
was generally supposed. Bankers have
even attributed the financial stringency
IN part to this fact and 60 the failure
of this comparatively opulent laborer
TO open a bank account for his surplus
earnings. 1t has proved at any rate q
most fortunate thing that In this period
OF slack work, laborers have had some-
thing TO fan back upon and 1t VIII be
fortunate II work begins before all such
resources have been exhausted. Ger
tainly as yet there has been no general
resumption OF industry or building OPP
erations and the best informed opinion
Is that we may expect only very slight
Improvement for some months to come.
The problem Is one with which dlreo-
tors OF railways and factories, bankers
and financiers, and officials RESPONSE
BILE for the making Of public contracts
must deal. Philanthropy can mitigate
the distress into which individuals and
families are brought when It reaches
the point OF restitution, but Ii has no
remedy for financial and industrial fall
ure. Whatever explanation we may
adopt of the panic which was signalized
by the suspension of the Knickerbocker
Trust company in October 1t ls certain
that it's consequences have fallen upon
many who were in no way responsible
for II. Ii would be pleasant TO believe
that the reopening of this trust com
pany last week marked the end OF the
period OF suffering and anxiety, I'm
fortunately recovery from the effects
of a panic Is usually painful and slow.
10 ,sfti shh 10
Problems Many are calling on the
Before the church to assert itself
Churches. for the benefit of the
new century. The cry
is that the church should accept the
findings OF science and the tendencies
of democracy. Many. perhaps most, of
the criticisms are surly and Hin
formed. The critics ask too much, and
ask 1t harshly. They forget the long
history OF unselfishness on the part OF
the Roman Catholic church. which SUI
premely among institutions has dealt
frankly with poverty and has never
averted her face from the people. Her
pale heroines are In the slums of all
the world. Her priests have been
among the friends of the race. And the
Protestant church has strewed many
lands with good works. 1t has been
bold in utterances and swift to aid,
and has helped To base charity upon
results. And not only that. The church
has never lacked not does 1t lack for
individual souls with the practice OF
the presence of Cod in the old mys-
tic phrase. But 1t has seemed to many
that the church today is deficient IN
its understanding of the Worldwide
social awakening. The forces of right
eousness are making spirited ad-
vance against congestion. disease, pow
Mi lal.. ND IL
treatment of women In industry: but IN
all such cognizaBce as has been taken
bv the church has had no deep effect
At the very time when the most UNI
expected and average man is becom-
ing stirred with the new glorles that
pierce and brighten. the church cnoons
in 81 minor key to an age that IL dying.
Voices mako themselves heard with the
authority that is always granted 10
faIr-lnindedness and the absence Of the
note of bitterness. From inside the
church which they love, In entire good
humor. they are pleading for n more
omen and inspiring policy We may
instance the letter OF a group OF ltal-
ian priests, entitled, What We Want,
the book of Pastor Kutter, OF Iunch;
Switzerland called. THE Must" and
the stirring but gentle book of Profess
sor Rauschenbusch, of Rochester Theo-
logical Seminary, entitled. Christian
ia, and the Social Crisis"-such pub
LEGATIONS. issuing from the heart of the
church. mean that both Roman Catho-
licism and Professionalism viii ADAPT
themselves to the present social and m
tellectual tendencies, or that new
cleavage will come inside the ranks OF
the orthodox.--Editorial in Easter COL
lier's.
Real Home The deepest meaning
Is the Place OF home is associated
For Children. with children - with
their freedom and
spontaneity, their sunshine and shad-
ows, their joys and tears; with the
FOSTERING, rollicking exuberance OF
bows, and the gentler play-loving nat
ure of girls II is these things that
enrich and endear home life to both
parents and children, and that take
AWAY from ii the boarding house at
mosphere. Children can receive from
their parents the heritage OF culture
10 which they are entitled only oy
living with them. The best that has
come to parents and teachers through
heredity, education and experience can
be passed on to their children not by
formal instruction but through COM
radeship and intimate association
with them In all of the relations and
interests which enlarge and enrich
home life. The most precious thing
you can give child is yourself. Wise
rnrents will enter into the games and
ma stimns OF their children, will swim
and skate and coast with them, VIII