The sun., 1919-01-27
PASTOR DEPLORES
LEADERSHIP LACK
DR.. Eaton Says America Is
More Unprepared for Peace
Than for War.
SEES NO NATIONAL POLICY
Governmental Inefficiency
Holds Back Business Men,
~ He Asserts,

Bolshevism Is a worse menace 10 the
world than the Prussian dream OF world
dominance, said the Rev. DIR. Charles
Eaton, preaching yesterday In the Madi-
son Avenue Baptist Church. with the
members Of the Canadian Society OF
New York in attendance as special guests
Of the congregation
I'VE are just now becoming conscious
4 the worldwide shattering effects OF
the German attempt at universal con-
quest said DR.. Eaton. Every human
institution has been unsettled. The
world In in chaos and uncertainty. There
Is very serious ground for anxiety. The
signing of the armistice, as far as bring
ing in a sudden period OF peace is con.
cerned. has ushered In time Of politl-
cal distress and difficulty.
During the war all classes IN the
allied nations were held together by q
common bond Of patriotic devotion to
duty When that Bond snapped the
bundle fell apart Everywhere we meet
irritation. suspicion, class antagonisms
and the recrudescence Of selflshness
But We must remember that the war has
not changed human nature in any ap-
probable degree. The world Is only ir
its infancy. What we now possess oil
freedom and civilization and honor has
been achieved after thousands OF year:
OF alternate failure and progress.
The whole trend OF human history
Is toward characterization of human lie
until every man and woman in the worlt
assumed his and her full responsibility
political, economical and social.
Different Democractes.
we need to draw the sharpest pos
III IL tai. a..
the Anglo Saxon sense and democrat,
In the Slavic sense. Democracy as tn,
English speaking and French peoples sc,
II has room for every man. great anr
small. 1t does not demand an artificial
equality. but gives to every man ar
| equality of opportunity according to tn,
measure Of his gifts. II recognizes in
dividualism as essential to any worth
while national existence. II loathes tn,
mechanical dream of State socialism
with the same fervor as IL hates Prus
slanism and Bolshevism.
THE Slavic theory OF democracy
which has leaped into the position of &
world menace over night. rests frankl!
upon a class rather than upon the Who'll,
nation. II hates the rich and the neaI
rich. II loves only the poor. One OF III
| singular Inconsistencies lies in the fac
that II Il destroys the rich by takin,
away their money and giving II to tn,
poor Il thereby creates a bourgeois civ
i!!zat!or, the very thing y processes :,
hate
Here In America We are more unpre
pared for peace than We were for war
We are demobilizing millions of mer
with apparently no national policy fol
their reinduction into our economic life
We lack leadership and guidance. TIL,
proposed theory is that our business mer
will know what to do for themselves, bu
when in practice they try TO do some
thing for themselves they are met b,
all kinds OF governmental inefficienc,
and interference.
I'VE have the greatest merchant ma
rine In the world partly financed and NJ
man knows what We are going TO do will
II after We get IT. Wages have beer
elevated to dizzy heights without am
thought for the increase OF output which
| alone can make such wages possible ",
have loose in the land great army o
| foreign agitators. preaching revolution
| and bedevilling the life. especially, of ou
| great cities. The avowed object of the 3,
people is to destroy American democrat,
| and substitute therefor the unspeakabl,
blessing of Russian Bolshevism.
sanity the Great Need.
Our first great need is a return to old
| fashioned sanity. simplicity In on
thinking and living. We can only cur,
he ills that press upon us by a wide DIFF
fusion OF intelligence and characte