Evening journal., 1912-01-01

eN-No9 uoAhAub pitdChCu a StimOn "
his congregation suggesting as New
Year thought for Americans the ne
cessity of reforming our national
wastefulness of character, our spend
thrift use of material resources, and
our appalling carelessness with re-
gard to human life. DR.. Hall said in
part:
To what Purpose is This Waste
st. Matthew SO: 8.
This is, as you know, the question
of Judas at the amounting of Jesus
in Bethany. Though the Son of Man
has no home Of His own. He feels
the need of one and from time to
time goes where He knows He is vel.
come, and sits down by the fireside al
which friendship is a perfect, price
less gem,
"One Of the brightest spots that He
frequents is the hearthstone of Mar
tha and Mary. He there from the
beginning perceives that a large place
is open to Him. He is especially ven.
Grated by the two sisters after He
raises Lazarus their brother from
the dead. He spend the last Jewish
Sabbath in His life with them. In
the evening, He. Lazarus. Mary and
Martha attend a supper in His honor
at the house of a man named Simon
The twelve also are present. Not a
word is said about the dishes which
are served. They who give an ac.
count of the function stress the in
cident in which Mary is the chief
actor She not only takes costly oint-
ment and pours It over the Masters
feet. but she washes His feet with
her hair. II is the very best she can
do-the utmost possible expression oi
her love and devotion.
"While Jesus is deeply grateful for
the mark Of esteem. Judas thinks il
out Of place. Such an honor in his
estimation is proper enough wher
accorded to persons of distinction
hut it is incongruous when one Is
poor-so humble In dress and habits
as the Man from Galilee.
Il might take up this. the view oi
Judas, and say that he judges from q
wrong standard, that he chiefly has
an eye 10 money values; that a thing
]
the utilitarian test before il is wortf
while--I might do that. but !. false ai
the captious apostles conception is
as applied TO the episode in which
the noble soul. Mary. acts one of th'
highest and divinest parts. there ar,
times when the question he in Beth
any asks is pertinent. One OF the
charges against the age in which w
live is that II is wasteful; that w
on this. the western continent arr
especially prodigal of our natural re
sources: that we. in a generation nov
consume what is sufficient for two
that our forests are bare when hal
: of them ought to be overspread will
growing trees: that we are minni
our minerals at a rate that is not onl.
ertravagant but indicative Of on
i having no care about those who ar
coming after us. We in CONSEQUENCE
of our short-sightednes in this re
spect have serious problems on ou
hands-that of national conservation
for example.
There. moreover is human life. W
as a people waste 1t on an appalin
$ scale in conducting our varied Al
fairs. Though a mighty project
the heart of our greatest city ha
scarcely been begun the list of dea
. and manned already is far up in th
hundreds. Scarcely a day. accordin
10 a recent comment. passes withou
a fatality
Railroad trains, moreover. collide
automobiles come to grief, waite
dams break. walls collapse. fire
break out and rage. desperadoes Gu
and shoot, mobs FORM burn and Civ
play to their savage instincts--al
they and many more bring Il to pas
, that this wide and great land of our
is coming to be characterized as
, slaughter house.
No Blame for Life Loss.
One hundred and forty-eight oper
atives perished last Merch in a fac
tory that is located in one of on
populous centers. The state severa
days ago failed to fix the blame 70
the awful holocaust Though the iur
said that the indicted proprietor
were not guilty. their verdict does no
imply that there was no blame any
where. Such catastrophes never ar
accidents merely There always
/ fault at some point Some one in
variably does less than his duty-ex
ercises a care that comes short @
the exigency The community an
not the individual at times is tn
great culprit when a calamity like th
one in question occurs. 1t ought t
see to it. for instance, that no struc
ture is erected in which boys, girls
men or women. are imperilled Will
they ply their trade and contribut
their share TO the material necessi
, ties of the age Society owes it {
them that they while serving it ear
not simply a living wage but also pur
sue their vocation in workshops S
safe-guarded that harm In no shap
can touch them. Less than that
/ reprehensible recreancy. II expose
society to the charge that 1t is guilt
of inhumanity; that the humbl
2 human suffers. because society
, without the soul which demands tina
= the lowly come as literally into thei
, own as do the high.
"A daily journal several days ag
e contained an editorial under tn
. heading, American Barbarity. Thoug
: sane and conservative sheet, 1t !
one of the paragraphs said: Men ma
talk of the great problems that cor
,, front us, OF the mighty issues to whic
the intelligence and virtue of IN
country must address themselves. br
there is none to compare with III
! prevailing barbaric disregard
d human life'
"The utterance is timely. Needles