The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-12-27
REPORT OF RECENT
TEACHERS MEETING

NEfVNl VI NEUElNl
TEACHERS MEETING
(By r. G. Dykstra, Official Reporter(
DIR. II. ID. Sheldon of the Univer-
sity of Oregon was the principal
speaker of the forenoon. His treat
ment of the subject What the
World Thinks of Us" made the teach
ers sit up and knit" Here are Civ.
en- some of the epigrams from his
/ lecture:
"The public think us finicky."
Teachers like to correct others"
Teachers do not like to be cor
rected"
I'VE are thought to be very sot'
in our ways"
DR.. Sheldon strongly advised the
teachers to get the publics view
point, to get the other fellows opin-
ion, to travel much, belong to Com
mercial Club, do much reading, get
great amount of society and, last
ly, have hobby.
Rev. w. II. Boldly of the upper val
ley gave very excellent address on
the ideals in Patriotism" Notes on
his lecture are as follows:
Perhaps more people are thinking
today in terms of national and inter-
national problems than in any per-
iod of the worlds history. Men feel
upon them the compulsion of getting
beneath the crust Of things and dis
covering the flaws in the foundations
of society which make possible this
colossal crime with which the world
| is rocking and trembling. We feel
that If the war is to usher in a new
era, an era of peace and justice, it
will be because of a fundamental re-
Organization in the ideals of nations.
/ want to suggest some of the ways
in which this reorganization must
take place in reference to the emo
tions of love and loyalty which we
call patriotism.
1T seems to me that the patriotism
of the future must be more spiritual
and less economic. 1t must recog-
nize that behind all physical and
economic laws is an all-embracing
spiritual world, world that is fun
damentally moral.
Righteousness exalteth ma
tion.' That is more than superb
cial generalization. 1t embodies all
that makes for the well-being and
perpetuity of nations. Its implica-
ton is that a nation can survive on
lily in an atmosphere of justice and
truth and, also, that falsehood and
hypocrisy ultimately will be the un-
doing of any people.
The most perilous thing a ma
ton can do is to determine its for
eign policy by material interest" F"
said President Wilson in his Latin
America speech. But this perilous
thing is what the nations have been
doing throughout history. The re-
suits you know-jealousy, suspicion,
plotting and contemplating. Ma
tions have sometimes become little
more than gigantic. commercial RI
walls with armies and navies to back
I'D their claims to material aggrand-
izement. Patriotism an emotion
high and holy, has been sublimated
into the Shiny channels of greed.
New Beginning viii Be Made
when the tumult and the shout
| ing dies will come the supreme op-
portunity for a new beginning. That
new beginning must be a fundamen'
| tai change; it must recognize that
moral laws apply o nations and
that in those laws inhere rewards
and punishments.
"The doctrine that a sovereign
state can do no wrong because there
is no higher power to which it is
amenable is pernicious beyond mea
sure The application of that phil
osophy has made commendable the
ravaging of Belgium, the enslavcment
of her people, the shooting of Edith
Cavell and the bombing of Red Cross
hospitals. 'The state can do no
wrong that doctrine has made poss
ible the darkest crimes of history.
Nations must awaken to the fact
that above the several nations is the
Sovereign God; not God who is
mere rhetoric, not a God who is q
syllogism, not a national God who
shares in the petty jealousies of a
people, but the Great Spirit of Truth
who is making for righteousness in
the world.
with that fine insight which char
acterizes his writing. Isaiah says
The effect of righteousness shall be
peace and the work of Righteousness
ouietness and assurance forever.
Righteousness! Righteousness!
There is no escaping it. There are
no durable satisfactions without it.
"rhe newer patriotism, then, must