The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-08-07

part OF Il on the sands. where the ssSei
n'insle with a degree Of freedom tina
would not be tolerated on the street o,
even In ballroom. II Is time to cry out
in protest.
The spectacle OF haIf-naked women
and men lying about the beaches. and
often In each others arms. should not b,
tolerated. in any civilized community.
Canon Liddon has a passage which we
may well read and ponder:
When Greek thought was keenest, and
Greek art most triumphantly creative
and Greek political life so organized as
to favor in a degree elsewhere unknown
among men. the play OF mans highest
natural energies. Greek society was pen
etrated through and through by an In
visible enemy, more fatal in its rayage
TO thought, TO art, 10 freedom, than the
sword OF any Persian or Macedonian foe
And already in the age OF the EARL
Caesars Rome carried I'm her bosom ths
secret OF her impending decline and fan
In the coming centuries
st Paul detected and exposed n In
terms which are more explicit than thos,
employed by Tacitus and JuvenaL The
less nobly than on the battlefield Every
capacity for high and generous exertion
or Tor the cheerful endurance Of SUFFERING
at the bidding OF duty. all the stock o.
moral force on which a country can rely
IN its hour Of trial. may be Slapped. de
stroyed. annihilated by a domestic traitor
SO ~ Jared with imperial Rome The
fate OF the great empire was not really
decided on the Rhine OF on the Danube
Before the barbarians had as yet begun
10 muster their savage hordes along the
frontiers OF ancient civilization. theiI
work had well-nigh been completed, their
victory had been won. in the cities, the
palaces, nay, In the very temples OF the
empire
and upon what resources could the
old Pagan society fall back in its alarm
al and struggle with this formidable foe {.
10 could not depend upon the State The
Emperor was the State by fmpersona.
ton; and not unfrequently Il happened
mat the Emperor was the public friend
and patron OF the States worst enemy.
Nor could any reliance by placed upon
philosophy.
Doubtless philosophy means well in
some Of its phases in some Of its repre-.
sentatives. But philosophy is much too
feeble a thing TO enter the lists success
fully with animal passion; and as a mat.
ter OF fact. philosophy has more than
once been compelled or caioled into plac.
ing her intellectual weapons at the dis.
posal Of the sensualist
This enemy IS our enemy. II IS not
imaginary. 70 f. real. II is al our doors
70 stalks abroad without disguise It's
agents are legion Its power grows
apace. Never was it % bold. so strong
50 impudent az 81 Is here and now. Nor
are these manners confined TO the vulgar
East Siders.
Under the nag OF the Knights Of Colum.
bus some Of our own young men and wo-
men spend Sundays and holidays IN bun.
Ealows and tents az Coney Island and
Bockaway In this less than half dress
dancing and amusing themselves on the
sands.
Let others do what they will. we who
have the light to know evil and the power
60 overcome 70 should DO all We
can 20 limit &c..
evil e. not TO be- trided with
"a There is only one way 10 handle
&c. That is % avoid the placel
where 90 prevails and the persons
who ~ractice &c."