Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-16
REFORMS THAT
NEED OUR MD"
G. E. Topic This Week Deals
With Important
Civic Duties.


man being is found.
But let us first start Mt home, our
spiritual home, the church.
Reforms are always being madc in
every good advancing business, SO that
is the reason the church excerpts reforms,
for the best is even not good enough for
the house of God.
One of the reforms now going ON in
most all churches, is the placing of young
people in more responsible positions
They should be on the different bodies
that make up the church organizations
They always meet the condition oil things
in way that looks forward and never
backward.
Then most churches haven't any meet
ing room for the young folks, and some
do not take an interest in the variotis
game or sports. All these things help TO
make clean, strong minds and bodies and
should not be neglected.
When YOU enter one of our churches IN
the Western part of the city, You are al
ways greeted by young men and ushered
to seat by another, the smile and hearty
handshake make YOU feel at home.
Youth has the spirit of q hearty welcome
that the older and more set IN their WAYS
cannot have.
So much for our home, let lis look
around and see where our aid Is needed
Business needs clean and upright
minds to manage it Methods that are
just To each one, employer, employc or
customer
Under the head civic improvements, we
add the temperance, child labor, and OBJ
servance of the Sabbath.
The temperance question should not
| need much explanation, for In the past
| month IL has explained itself
1t does not seem possible that men made
| in the immage Of God, should oppose
doing away with a thing that grips them
| like drink, and would pnt the dollar
! ahead OF the life of their own SONS
The curse and what drink does to
man was never more fully demonstrated
than in Wilmington when sickness and
| death All round the health officers eloard
| the saloon in an effort 10 help wire out the
| disaster. Men became INV breakers to
| satisfy the desire for drink
When ANYTHING grips man SO harl,
| that even death Of nearly thousand
| persons, besides the suffering Of thousands
| more, through sickness. places him So that
| his little self must he satisfied. no matter
| about others. then that thing or curse,
| for the sake Of our future generation,
must be wiped out
After wears Of work and laws to curt
| the sale Of cigarettes II would seem all was
| upset and We were back where We started
! But the truth will ALWAYS come out, and
| in srrte Of the sale to our soldiers, n
| proves what We always have SAIL, that
| they act on the nerves and that u what
| they saw now, that they help TO quiet
| the soldiers nerve so we have no fear, but
with little help il Will hang itself as the
/ saloon has done
Then the work in the prisons II Of great
value, and we should always try TO help
| the prisoners and not try 10 keep them
down Always remember that life IS a
game. and the difference between them
and us, is they PLAYED It without God and
lost, while we, with God have and al
ways will win. We should try to lead
them to see God. and should not hold
back from speaking a word OF help and
give them true Christian kndeavor
handshake, always remember that Christ
said that even the pnblicans do these
things.
The child labor laws certainly need
watching, and our youthful eyes will do
world of good TO help enforce them This
is place where the employer needs to be
reformed.
w nv We III ttIlttl3d SAiobid dliOn III
enslaving OF the child is beyond my mind,
a company which insists that it be allowed
TO work children OF any age or for any
number of hours they wish, is not a fit
company to be in American markets.
Jesus SAID, Suffer the little children
to come unto me, and forbid them not
The profteer says let them come unto
me that they NAV suffer.
Today one of our States permits chll-
dren under Ia, To labor in cotton mills,
what chance has the child raised under
such conditions?
Things were so bad that Congress
! passed an act to regulate child labor.
Right after the passage OF this act a
father, on behalf of his two minor sons,
one under Ii and the other under IA years,
moved to have the act declared un-
constitutional.
Other acts have been passed and upheld
so why should one regulating our future
America Nav God touch the hearts of
these whose hearts and souls are eneased
with greed for gold
Then we must always help by our
actions and voice, the laws To keep the
Sabbath holy.
Pay no heed to the falsity that 1t IS
needed for the working man.
The laws are called blue, and true blue,
they stand and add our color red and
white those colors red. white and blue,
stand for the ideals that are high and
that help keep our eyes Heavenward.
May our prayers be that as Ghrlstian
Endeayorers, we may grow IN His knowl-
edge and as We take our place IN the bust
ness life Of our land, We may be a blessing
to those for whom We work and those who
work for us.
Endcavorers, LET us not forget to thank
God for granting us victory IN this awful
conflict, and may our prayer be that our
| boys may soon be home again. Let us