Evening journal., 1917-02-26
SAYS world
IS Growing BETTER
DR.. Randolph Reaches This
Conclusion From Opinions
Of Leading Citizens
MANY PESSIMISTS
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"The opinion OF leading men OF this
community in spite of the spirit OF .
pessimism spread throughout the
work by the European war, is that
the world is growing better
This was the statement Of the Rev
Herbert f. Randolph, pastor OF
Grace NJ. y. Church at the service
last night The address was delivered
as one Of the series DR.. Randolph has
been delivering for several weeks on
different subjects basing the sub
stance of the address on answers to
questions sent out to leading men OF
the community The question dis
cussed lasht night was, us the World
Growing Eetter?'
Most of the replies were doubtful.
! Mr. Randolph said Only a few of
them were positively certain that the
world was growing better Most OF
the correspondents had believed that
conditions were improving until the
European war came.
Here is reply from one of my
correspondents" said DR.. Randolph,
that is full of optimism. Says this
b man.
Eyes. in spite Of tho present war,
the world is growing better. ] have
seen such indications in my own life.
, There has been marvellous progress
1 i'm social reform. I'm business there
are higher standards; better hours
for labor and advanced wages. In po-
litical life men like Taft, Hughes
4 Wilson and Baldwin mean a new day
v and in society, the spirit OF social ser
], wee is far more vibrant than ever be-
fore. Sometimes we are staggered
u but the young life convinces us that
: the world is growing better
"Aonther says:
d "'This is q difficult question, espe
cially in face Of the present great
e war Yet, / think the world is grow
{ ing better in many ways that arc fai
o more important than a cOmplacen
e peace. This war is but a ferment o.
u forces that must in the end bring gooG
2 to the surface. Reasons for thinking
! so are: BY more honest methods IL
y every function Of business. 1t ha
y been found that honesty, aside from
q the morality of the question, is tn
n best policy. Honest methods are fol
. lowed because they are profitable an
10 presently begets a love for honesty II
IS self.
".By the decadence Of stand pa
81 partisanship: by the cutting loos
4. from old party ties and refusing
m support unfit men for public ofiC
Id merely because they bear the par
n endorsement; and by a more stri
nd accountability demanded OF publ
a servants. ,,,,
ma follows:
he cit is hard TO be a rascal todf
ed Public and private sentiment Is
powerful and counteracts all attemI
III at wrOng-doing. Take the booze qui
WI ton divorce, impure literature, {
ed lottery system as samples of how [
es. world is improving Evidences a
IA, shown i'm the labels on products, ho
an estv i'm advertising and the condemn
ne ton OF shoddy methods of all Sc
oil respecting firms.
no 1.-The world is growing better
nd cause Of the defeat Of powerful p
litical bosses by their party. A hig
ly er social standard prevails. Eve
great wealth IS unable to force societ
us The day when every door was barre
he with gold and opened to but gold'
IL keys is of the past
as zone correspondent writes:
"Sexual purity is demanded mo
ST. strenuously than ever in our histoI
sh :. The moral leper is a pariah he
ID Stunned. Even the drink custom
dis vastly bettered. Few offer the soc
lily glass compared with two generatio
EN- ago
his Here is a reply from a man W
does not agree with the former op
led ions. He says:
ere NO. the world is not growing mott
nd ably better. The idea that everything
en- growing steadily better is a pleasing
of fusion. It has been hard for a clear
eel toned man to share in that delusion 81
August, 1914 There WIS never any
ground to believe in the steady prol
ton of goodness in the world. L
vas notion comes from the self-nattery
ex- which men amuse themselves. But Il
rift is no satisfactory evidence that
and world is growing worse. 1 think, a
tho matter OF fact that tho devil is b
not held pretty level in this old world.
Gel things arc not better, certainly they
ere no worse. The millennium is coming,
day gradually. but suddenly, and all at
,oln on some blessed day
n,-T,1DI, eoIorfoI HE for-f for