Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-08-20
DIR. O.. s. DAVIS
ADDRESSES THE
WOMAN'S CLUB


icing in attendance.
At the business session tho prcs
dent, Mrs. Robert +. French, an
nounced that there would be Il club |
picnic at Joe's Pond sometime in
September and urged all to make |
plans to attend. One new member |
was elected to membership, MIS- |
G. f. Gifiin, and there were several !
appropriations passed. A report Of
the work of the district nurse wa
given by Miss Kate L. Wakefield.
Before the address of the afternoon
two solos were eXcellently rendered
by Miss Ruth Flint with Mrs. Eugc-
Mia Scott Stuart, accompanied.
Miss Mary T.. lde, chairman Of the
education committee, welcomed Rev.
DR.. Ozora S. Davis to St. Johnsbury
and the Woman's Club, and he pre-
faced his address with an apprccia-
ton of the pleasure in returning to
81. Johnsbury, loosely saying they
were receiving the Salutation OF 4
young man in ancient form.
His address upon the theme
Building the New World" was full
OF inspiring and helpful Thoughts,
scintillatcd with keen flashes of wit
and rcplctc with Illustrations from
classic works. He spoke il part Is
follows:
"No man can look at the world
today without being solemnized and
smitten with humility at situation
50 complex, so intricate and so vast.
| feel the present world situation to
the depths of my being. | feel that
anyone who dares to be tiippant or
Indifferent is unworthy to live. We
must think this problem through. |
accept the new world, rivcn AZ it is,
as the gift Of the young manhood Of
the world"
"Let US take brief survey for the
background OF our theme in our I'M
happy bewildcrment. To realize the
| economic condition you have but to
read the FIRST page Of the Boston
morning paper. You will need moth
| ing more from me to understand the
economic upheaval. Labor mast have
Il larger share in the direction. of pro-
| ducton and exchange ana Il l.,.yer
share in the profits. Did you read the
report of a group of English manu-
facturers who said we are resolved
that we will not run our business as
an intake of private interests, but
an output of public welfare IN
seeking after solution OF our prob
lem Bolshevism, which is class legis-
lation run mad, has no word of pro-
phecy. Neither has conservative cap
ital, which says we will do what we
please and hire hands And we must
also take into consideration the third
party which has never been consid-
cred before, the consumer.
"There has been great upheaval
in ethics. You have only to look at
the home to realize this. Here we once
stood on the basis of the ethics of
Jesus, THAT which God hath joined
together, let no man put asunder.
Has marriage become merely Il con-
tract OF convenience? This is time
of SCATTERING, unrest and change OF
our moral standards.
"There are sure signs of shifting
and change in the political order.
What, for instance, has happened to
our railroads? After literally work
ing my passage through New Eng
land from Lake Sunapee to Lake
George, back to Lake Sunapee and
then to st. Johnsbury, from now Oil
| regard Ford as Il benediction. The
people are controlling the railroads
and the very men who ought to pre-
serve the morale of the system sit
back and fiippantly say, It's up to
Uncle Sam
"There has been an ovcrturn in
our religious ideals. There is the
peril of slipping back to mere eccleSi-
asticism. Perhaps, even, some of the
credal foundations are shaking.
"In this reconstruction of our eco
nomc, ethical, political and religious
ideals what are some of the materials
with which to work out our saliva
ton. In the first place we rejoice at
the radical temper of the time. We
are coming back to the old challenge
of our constitutional and revolutions
, airy period when men demanded that
reason should pillow not the surface
but the depths of the field.
, "Another great principle is the pa
radox that at the very time when we
were sacrificing life with great pro-
digality we were discovering the val
, ue of the ordinary man,-the ulti-
mate imperishable value of the indi-
vidual. Beneath the surface we must
see the worth of the soul. This will
lead us to new construction of in
dustry We shall think of the work
man no longer as hand but as a
soul. The worth of the soul is being
revealed and we can never build the
new world on the idea that humanity
is cheap and cursed.
"The third great principle is new
sense of community interests and
values. There must be neighborli-
ness and a grasping of the fact that
the community is super-person. We
: know at last that the community
is super-person. We know at last
that the community without the in
dividual is nothing. We have talked
much about the self-determination of
the small nations, but what about
the self-determination of local