The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-08-29

war, that is one thing. But if we g
out hunting war that is anothe
thing"
Selfishness, like the poor, we hav,
always had with us, but it is politi
clans who are playing the game 81
detestably selfish and at the expens,
of the nations welfare. And is it moi
still more noticeable among certain
powerful classes, such as the pack
erG, who seek monopoly on the food
supply of this country, so far as lies
within their power to do SO?
But, as has been said, all of these
evils have their source in material
ism, or rather in the failure to set
this in the proper relation to other
forces that have to do with the lives
of nations-to their rise and to their
fall. The placing of too much en-
phasis upon materialism is sure to
result in evil, both to nations as we'll
rs TO individuals. William Ellery
Charming, in his lectures ION the
Elevation of the Laboring Glasses, "
says: Matter was made for spirit,
body and mind. The mind, the spirit,
is the end of this living organization
of flesh and bones, of nerves and mus
Giles; and the end of this vast system
Of coo apd land ond DIR opd cEiao
This unbounded creation of sun, and
moon, and stars, and clouds, and sea-
sons, was not ordained merely to feed
and clothe the body, but first and
supremacy to awaken, nourish, and
expand the soul, to be the school of
the intellect, the nurse of thought
and imagination, the field for active
powers, a revelation of the Creator,
and bond of social union. l main
tain that state of society which
leaves the mass of men to be crushed
and famished in soul by excessive
tolls on matter is at war with Gods
designs, and turns into means of
bondage what was meant to free and
expand the SOUL" But listen to the
words of the man from Nazareth:
Take heed and beware of covetous-
ness; for a mans life consistent not
in the abundance of the things which
he possesseth. The life is more than
meat and the body is more than
raiment."
Rightly or wrongly, we have come
to view Germany as the chief expon-
ent of materialism, which has among
its offsprings greed, militarism and
leaveneth the whole, can we not
therefore conclude that IL we wish
to foresee what the dominating forces
of civilization will be decades hence,
let us simply study German ideals
as they exist to-day? With the pro-
vision, of course, and may that pro-
vision speedily come, that civilization
is not turned into an opposite chan
mel in the meantime. o! unhappy
and miserable world should the time
ever come when most of the minds
and spirits of its population reach
that state shown in the rise and fall
of Germany and of her empire.
And so our efforts are not to cease
II we are to hold in peace what we
have gained in war. The war has
ended but the real struggle continues
with growing interest and intensity.
America and the allies have fought
German armies, now they must fight
German principles-the invisible foes
and who shall say that this strug-
gle is not the more difficult one? SO
brave man as Premier Clemanceau
recently said that it is harder to
make peace than to make war. May
we catch the spirit of writer in the
Detroit Free Press, as a memorial to
those who fought and fell for the
freedom of tho world, and desiring to
so live as to be worthy of their SUI
prone sacrifice, who gives, in what
he calls creed, these lines:
Lord, let mo not in service lag,
Let me be worthy of our flag;
Let me remember, when I'm tired,
The sons heroic who have died
In freedoms name, and in my way
Teach me to be as brave as they.
In all am, in all do
Unto our flag / would be true;
For God and country let me stand
Unstained of soul and clean Of hand.
Teach me to serve and guard and love
The Starry Flag which flies above.
OSCAR l.. RIVES.