Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-03-11

tors, but by all thinking New Workers..
The mischief this resurrected flag.
end Of law threatens TO bring upon
this city is appalling. AS everybody
knows. an enormous amount OF sub
way construction Is under way. Many
important streets are torn up or TEN.
porarily covered. Business In many
sections must impatiently await the
completion OF subway operations TO
enable II to resume anything like its
normal course. Anything that halts
the work indefinitely means money
out Of thousands OF pockets
Moreover directly II becomes pub.
lished through the length and breadth
OF the country that labor is needed for
public works in this State, New York
City will be swamped under the influx
of the jobless from all parts. We shall
have to take care OF our present unem.
ployed. plus the aliens thrown out OF
work, plus the hordes OF job hunters
that will pour in.
Erase the alien labor clause from
the State statute book and make big
red mark to call attention to the fact
that 1t is gone-the quicker the bet.
ter.
New York, March 9.-What should
New York women give up during
Lent?
Not candy, not butter not ice cream
sodas, not silk frocks. Nothing so
easy. The pretty young lady who
thinks she qualities for a saints halo
by deliberately abstainlng from some
trivial diversion or luxury during the
forty days preceding Easter, merely
deludes herself.
The Lenten sacrifices which New
York women should make are those
! which aid growth. Even as the tangle
OF noxious weeds must be cleared out
/ of the garden, and the useless. dead
, limbs be sacrificed by a tree II II is
/ to attain its perfect development, so
, women should see Lent as a time In
! which to give up the things that choke
character-malice, selhshness, un'
charitableness. These sacrifices are
/ real and worth while.
r It is Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, for
, twenty-five years rector OF one of New
Yorks most notable sanctuarles, the
/ Church OF the Ascension, on lower
!. Fifth avenue who gives this sane and
invigorating counsel to New Yorh
women
Don't imagine you are performing
J. one OF the higher duties when you alb
D stain from candies or butter, or both,
I he told his congregation the first Sun
day in Lent. Overcome an obstacle
that stands in the way OF your best
service to your fellow men. Solve Z
problem that has impeded your spirit
ual development II you want to MAKE
these forty days red letter ones
And when talked with DR.. Grant il
front OF the big logs that hll the fire
place in his sitting room at No.
West Tenth street. found him eyer
more earnest in his denunciation o
the fad for giving up which has at
tanned such proportions in recen
years.
mo sacrifice for its own sake is o
any possible value" he declared
Sacrifice is important only as 1t lend
itself to the performance Of service
to humanity or to the purifying AM
ennobling Of the individual"
a"Lent was originally not only sea
son for personal Development con
tinued Mr.. Grant, but was intende'
to help persons to understand the doc
trines Of resurrection and immoI
tally.
"There are two methods of ethica
betterment-the eliminative and tn
constructive. Lent, unfortunately ha
come to be regarded as season o
elimination rather than creation O
uprootlng rather than planting, OF SUI
rreesion rather than OF growth.
ct has been the fashion for yariou
groups Of devout persons to arrang
and revise from time to time cats
logues Of pet yanities and pleasure
supposedly worldly. To abstain fror
these during the forty days precedin
Easter was to be taken as eyidenc
of a proper religious attitude. Tn
point Of view is not only false but
is spiritually and ethcally unhealthy