Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-11
NO ROOM FOR PESS|M|ST
IN THE UNITED STATES
Speaker Clark Talks to Record
Throng of Endeavorers at
Atlantic City.

ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., July 11.-Wlth
the big audience swayed to the tune OF
Dixie" Speaker Champ Clark was In
troduced to record throng on the Mil
lion-dollar Pier last night as the principal
speaker before the Christian Endeavor
convention. His speech was striking
throughout.
There is no room in the United States
for a pessimist or an tdler," he declared
at the outset. ANY man who misses two
general elections should be disfranchised.
Our forbears did not fight so we could
sit at home. They wanted US to have our
own say at election. That's what the
scrap was about. II / had one prayer
that 1 was sure to be answered 1t would
be that every citizen should acquire suf-
ficient education to read his own ballot
and cast 1t as an American citizen should.
Hoodlums Run Elections.
.'Hoodlums run nine-tenths Of our cleo
tons, and the hoodlum who goes out and
votes is q better man than the citizen
who fails to cast his ballot 1t is the
duty of every Christian citizen to take
hand III politics. These fine-ha1red citi-
zenS who say they are too busy TO enter
politics are bad citizens.
The great question before the Amer
lean republic is the question OF good
citizenship. l don't believe the United
States is going to the dogs no matter
whether a republican or a democrat
heads the next administration. be-
ueve the party in power will work for
the perpetuity of the American republic,
amelioration of the conditions of the poor
and the betterment of society,"
World Grows Better.
1.-THE world in general is growing bet
ter, and particularly our part OF the
country. My opinion is we will soon de-
wise a scheme that will give labor the
benefit of it's toll and keep riches from
a few greedy souls. Signs point that the
change is in sight, and the employer will
soon share his profits with his work
men The pension system already in
force on most of the big railroads puts
to blush the system maintained by the
United States government. This Is not
the age of controversial but practical re-
lision.
Fairbanks on Sunday Observance.
Former Vice President Charles w. Fair
banks criticised Sunday conditions at this
resort in an address before the Methodist
Christian Endeavorers in st. Paul's NJ. i.
Church.
When 1 arrived here yesterday he
said Il would never have known 1t was
Sunday save by looking at the calendar.
The conditions were shameful, worse
than in many European cities. Every
store, saloon and place of amusement
seemed to be running. Apparently the
part of America. They act as though
there were no laws. All this should pc
changed. 1t is a disgrace that this re-
sort should be allowed to fracture the
law with such impunity The place is
unfit to exist"
Mr.. Fairbanks followed the Rev. r. w
wilson of Canada, who also criticised
the Sunday conditions here.
His declaration fell like a bombshell in
the big audience that has enjoyed its
scattered and quickly subsidized.
Sectional Meetings Today.
Nine sectional meetings were held to-
day in conjunction with the Christian
Endeavor convention, the most inter-
esting in many ways being the esperanto
conference. The Esperanto Society of
Philadelphia attended the meeting in q
body, and endeavored to show how much
the Introduction of the universal Ian
guage" would aid the outstanding of
the world. Rev r p Anderson of Ros-
ton presided.
While this meeting was in session the
presidents of the different state Christian
Endeavor societies, the state secretaries
of the state societies, superintendent.
field secretaries and other workers We're
holding meetings at different points for
the purpose of mapping out plans for the
ensuing year.
Services of praise were held on one
of the piers this afternoon, and tonight
former Vice President Fairbanks will ad-
dress the convention. taking for his topic
How Foreign Missions Promote Fellow