Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-06

tyrannical in his calendar.
"Because I believe the world is
growing better, I must believe the
church and the state represent in
creasing claims upon the intelligent
and the prosperous and that the habit
Of life or arrangement of claims upon
time and purse that subordinates these
permanent and lasting claims OF the
home, the church and the state to the
clearly secondary and oftentimes dis
migrating claims of business and
pleasure - yes, of health itself -
represent the disintegrating forces of
society.
."The world is growing not only bet
ter, but it is growing wiser. But thar
does not mean that the boy and girl OF
today who go to educational lnst1su-
lions and select the easiest courses be-
cause they can get their markings ana
get thru safely and still have time to
exploit the football team, to promote
the sproms' and to rush the fraternl-
ties and sororities acquire as good an
education as their fathers did who dug
away at Latin and Greek, mastered
Erclid and digested logarithms.
"The world is growing better, but
nat where the l.lighty statistics of the
t,.hacco, liquor end fashion trades find
their surest foundations. The world is
not growing better at those particular
points where alcohol in all it's forms
breeds the degradation and the death
i1.lLlied in our unchallenged stat'st IS
Of crime, disease and misery The doc
tors know very well about the 'tobac-
CO heart the tobacco liver and to-
bacco kidney brain and nerves; they
know of tobacco blindness. And the
man who. in the face of all this, per-
sists in his cigar and encourages by
example, if not by precept, the degea-
eracy of his son in the cigaret is not
helping the world to grow better.
David Starr Jordan in his last book
tells of the student in an Australian
university asking the professor: Why
did not the old texts tell that the sins
of the father We're visited upon the
children to the seventh and eighth
generation as we'll as to the third and
fourth? Because replied the profess
sor, there will be no seventh or eighth
generation. Sin extinguishes itself be-
fore it gets that far"
frencn view OF OuF Religion.
Religion, as it is understood by the
Gallo mind, does not appear to such an
observer to exist in the United States.
1t is granted by French writer Mr..
Marc Debrol, that this country is on
the whole religious" but religion here,
it is asserted "is adapted to the tenn
permanent of the nation" 1t is a COM
modify of practical utility. In La
Grande Revue Paris) this writer puts
the question, Are the people here re-
ligious in the real sense of the word ?"
He goes on to answer:
mo. The American is too taken up
with the practical side of life, too pre-
occupied with conquests and gain, to
be meditative. There is no introspec-
ton This practical view is distinctive.
It soon becomes the characteristic of
the immigrants who have settled in the
United States to make money. In this
race for the dollar the finer sensibllities
dry up; the days tasks take the mind
away from thoughts of the morrow or
of the future life. Yet altho
they lose their fervor, these trans
planted families bring with them their
penates, their crucifixes, and their