Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-01
Wednesday. January I, 1879.
Tho Watehword Of Progress

Tho great moral ideals that govern
tho actions of men are lever born in
the brain Of any one person. They
fall simultaneously here. there and
everywhere out OF the air, maybe.
maybe from the hand OF the Alhw wise
Father. No single human head was
big enough to contain in its entirety
the So called Lutheran theology OF
sfhe sixteenth century. The idea Of.
and desire for. simpler and more sin
ccrc and satisfactory forms Of wor-
ship had been growing in the minds
OF all ChrIstcndom for two hundred
years previous 10 Luther's time. He
simply had the moral courage to Say
what many men believed. and to say
II when tho time was ripe for it,
The successful political revolutions
NJ 1176 IN America. and of 1898 in
Franco were successful because they
wCre launched at the right moment.
And they reacted upon each other.
Our Declaration Of independence Is
fuli Of the tca"hinGs. and even the
phrases Of Rousseau ana Noltaire and
We must remember that 5000 miles of
almost impossible ocean then Law be-
tween the two nations striving after
the same ideals.
Today the word that is on the air
Is not Justification nv faith" or lib
cv'y equality. fraternity" but one
word that IL big enough To include
religion. government. business. cdu-
cation. every side Of human activity.
That word IS COOPERATION. 1t ia
everywhere IN the thoughts and on
the lips of mon. Within a week the
writer has heard u sermon on IT,
heard "a lecture about it and read nu-
merous magazine articles all reiterat-
ms cooperation.
II IL Ia none Of us a new word, or
= VS. "'lh w WoIt NIOSe mean =
ing Is dini,ult Ia understand 1t is
perhaps y little more elegant than the
phrase team work" which has been
SO universally borrowed from the
athletic field. but Il means the same
thing
Cooperation is TO take the place Of
competition, We have had several
hundred years of competition. and
the race is hard and the fruits are
bitter
and the results are the unholy
schisms and deadly enm,ties between
the churches that subscribe to the
worship of the Prince Of Peace. We
have had educational competition and
The results are waste of time and ir-
:eparable loss of opportunity to stu
dents who have been used as labora-
tory specimens victims of somebody's
Notions. We have had business COM
petition with its attendant cutthroat
tactics among the competitors and
the injustices and sufferings inflicted
on an innocent public: We have bad
political competition that has brought
us nothing but incfiicicncy. graft and
loss Of Self-rcspect. We have had
competition among nations and the
result was the world war. COMPETE
ton ranks as one Of the worst evils Of
The old world that has just passed
away and it must not he allowed to
return.
Is cooperation anything more than
an ideal something to be talked
about? Will it work. Has it ever
been tried?
BY cooperation the Allies won the
war. BY cooperation they must make
and keep the peace.
AS long as each nation pursued an
independent policy it continued to
AoiA' W NC uSledleu UOtu III VHe main
object Of quelling the Central Powers
and in attaining its own particular
object. whatever that might be.
Unified command and the pooling
Of resources, together with the set
ting aside Of individual national aims
for the attainment of the common
end brought to a speedy and humili-
ating defeat the greatest military
power that ever trod the earth. and
demonstrated beyond a doubt the
necessity and the success Of coopera-
tion.
BY cooperation in our own part in
the war We accomplished numerous
acknowledged impossibilities. We
raised and trained mighty army and
sent it and its equipment to Europe:
we raised billions of dollars as easily
as II they had been thousands: we
fed and are still feeding much Of the
worlds population that is unable to
feed itself: we passed one self deny
ing ordinance after another. and ev-
erybody kept them because every
body else did. "C'est Ia guerre."
The war has taught US to cooper.
ate under the stress and strain ~ thu