The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-09-04

every man as we'll as in every woman
In 1914 the world ideal was material.
Self-interest dominated every Impulse,
personal, communal and national IN
some nations this tendency had become
more pronounced than in others. In
lGermany, for instance, it had become
4 religion, or rather had taken the
place of religion. In America, a land
dedicated to liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness, the progress OF materiallsm
had grown SO insidiously as to blind us
even to the gross materialism OF Ger
many. We had become sodden with
selfishness, Tapped in luxury, nation
Of dollar chasers--and spenders. Our
| friends, what few we had, said we
were too soft to fight; our enemies thot
nothing would make us endanger oar
dividends. In short, our pursuit OF
happiness had become the pursuit of
the almighty dollar. 1t was our human
! ity seemed about to shrivel up. There
was no place fol-. it in sordid world
of business.
Then came the great awakening, the
electric shock that rocked the world to
| its very foundations and brought men
back to q realization of the fact that
nothing in this whole world "profiteth
a man if he loseth his own soul. 9th
err nations, nearer to the advancing
juggernaut of greed than we, came to
a realization of the fact sooner, but
when President Wilson, standing in the
august Senate Chamber, before the
Congress of the United States in joint
session, declared:
'sBut the right is more precious than
peace, and we shall fight for the cause
which we have always carried nearest
our hearts. =. !. To such task we can
dedicate our lives and our fortunes, ev-
erything that we are and everything
that we have
he spoke with voice hundred million
strong. The amazed world heard him
and applauded in anxiety and with lit
tie belief. Come in rapid succession,
Chateau Thierry, st. Mihiel, Cambria
VICTORY-th surrender of militarism
and all that it stood for of greed, sell
fishness and materiaism. The heart of
humanity had, conquered.
In the making of this monument to
the new spirit, the new inspiration, Mr..
Holubar would have failed utterly had
he attempted to paint merely war
picture. But, on the other hand, he
could not have sounded the recesses of
the greatest inspiration in the world
without drawing wonderful battle
scenes. But in tThe Heart of Human
ity" the battle scenes are the curtain
on which are registered in pulsating
throbs the giant beats of the real heart |
of humanity, drama pulsating with
reality. Against the vivid background |
of the war, he has crystallized won
derful story of human interest, as ma
ture, the infinite draughtsman, crys-
tallzed the frost on the window pane.
The keynote is love overcoming ev-
love triumphant, love mill
tant, love maternal, love fraternal,
sweetheart love, husband and wife love
love which through the awakening
agency of the war has blotted out and
destroyed forever all that was evil and
rotten in the world, blasted it out of
existence as the lightning blasts the
3ak in the stress Of the storm.
Love is universal, and for that rea-.
ION "The Heart Of Humanity has an
appeal to everyone There
g the love of the mother for her five
soldier sons. There is the love of the
'weetheart. We witness the love of the
wife for her husband who has answer
ID the call; the love of the man for
he wife behind. But greater than all
5 the love that prompts women to
cave their own children in order to
lelp the suffering-the great love
which beats in the heart of humanity.