Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-08

part Of II on the sands. whore the sexos
mlnale with q degree Of freedom that
would not be tolerated on the street or
even In a ballroom. II 10 time to cry out
In protest.
"The spectacle Of half-naIced women
and men lying about the beaches, and,
often In each others arms, should not be-
tOlerated'In any civilized community.
Canon Liddon has a passage which We
may we'll 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. to freedom, than the
sword OF any Persian OF Macedonian foe.
And already In the age OF the early
Caesars Rome carried In her bosom ,he
secret OF her impending decline and fall
In the coming centuries.
st. Paul detected and exposed n IN
terms which are more explicit than those
employed by Tacitus and Juvenal. The
hfe'olood OF race may be drained away
less nobly than on the battlefield. Every
capacity Tor high and generous exerrion,
or for the cheerful endurance of sufferinS
at the bidding OF duty, all the stock OF
moral force on which country can rely
In It's hour OF trial, may be slapped. de-
stroyed, annihilated by a domestic traitor
So II Jared with imperial Rome. The
rate OF the great empire was not really
decided on the Rhine or on the Danube.
BEFORE the barbarians had as yet begun
70 muster their savage hordes along the
frontiers OF ancient civilization. their
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
at and struggle with this formidable foe?
II could not depend upon the State. The
emperor was the State by Impersona-
ton; and not unfrequently Il happened
tnat 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 it's phases, in some of fits repre-
sentatiyes. But philosophy is much too
feeble thing to enter the lists success
luiy Win animal passion; ana, as q mat
ter OF fact, philosophy has more than
once been compelled or cajoled into plac-
Ing her intellectual weapons at the dis
posal Of the sensualist.
This enemy is our enemy. II is not
imaginary. II is real. 1t is at our doors.
It stalks abroad without disguise. Its
agents are legion. It's power grows
apace. Never was It so bold, so strong,
so impudent as it is here and now. Nor
are these manners confined to the vulgar
East Siders.
Under the flag OF the Knights OF Column
bus some OF our own young men and wo-
men spend Sundays and holidays in bun
galows and tents at Coney Island and
Rockaway 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
to overcome IL should do all we
NJ can TO limit II.
"a EVIL is not to be trided with
- There is only one way to handle
It. That is to avoid the places
where II prevails and the persons
who practice IT,"