The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-21
NO SUCH THING AS LOVE? STAR
EDITORIAL OF FORMER YEARS
AFFIRMS TT AND PROVES THAT
LOVE MAY BE STRONGER
THAN DEATH
BY CYNTHIA GREY

Andre Tridon French scientist started The dis
smch thing but il took The Star readers finish it, and fin
Ssh they hare IN grand style TO whch The many comments
f1prtnted beior triU bear tcitaesS
The lore discussion lopelv from every standpoint
Among the dozens Of letters received only eo crers were
inclined believe d@the scientist Of the lorees ed-
lures editorial printed in The Star about eight
ago enclosed in Of the letters BY reader ho prizes
II highly She asks that be reprinted connection Nth
discussion IL prores that there is such thing
and that lore may be stronger than death.
In this connections should IKE 10 inrite other Star rad
ers to send editorials etc. clipped from, The Star
of former whch they hare considered corhv Of er
scrap book They wA be carefully handled and returned to
The editora, lore foo,cs together nth high spots
Pn from the readers letter. Space would permit only
rem letters being printed LENGTH take this
acknowledging the Others and to thank heartily all Of those
rho contributed
LOVE MADE THIS HERO
Until few days ago there lived in Omaha humble e
named Morris Christensen. He had his friends no
doubt, but the world at large knew him than
knows of the countless human atoms that make
ciey Then in five minutes Morris Chrisanson became
of the worlds greatest heroes. fit stand with the
greatest And the next day. they buried him. Yet he did not
until he had given testimony the fact that the
greatest thing human life is the passion for the
desire to do good to others.
He walking about with his little son. and fell thru its
covering into cstern of water The sides smooth and
Shiny There nothing which to climb. He could not
swim-and the water was seven feet deep!
Animal nature coupled with human intelligence could
saved him. He could have put the child under his feet and
BY standing the boy raised his head above water His
reason must have told him this. His desire for fethe
first great law of him TO do it Even
the gross materasm of who would have excused
the human being of allegiance higher law than that
of sefpreserYationh law of Morris Chrstianson
making the heros choice embraced death He lifted the
child above his head and stood there drowning while aid
for the little boy. Think of III The roared
his with the thunders of thousand tempests His
lungs abored and the blood surged his heart head
and lungs until his agony seemed unbearabe that
thunder in his the tiger of Death Every
instinct called upon him TO strike with his arms seek
or crevce in the wall with his fingers put his
Get anything on which he might Standard live But he
not yield statue of dying humanity he with
Mild upborne, as the jewel Of love is upheld in over
hemed and submerged world and when aid lifted
The baby from the upstreched hands, great man under
them sank down into the water and died Morris Christian
son. rising for few moments to the height of human
bily went to the majority where If knowledge pene
aes the VEIL the spirits of those who have died others
must have met to greet kindred soul
John Fiske the evoluons did mich for modern scien
aelfshness the passion for service society with
the baby The human babe is weak tender be
cared for longthat round its cradle grew up all that
makes for sweetness and light and arus the family and
N society Unselfishness must finally redeem society itself
From the cradle has spread the passion until rules men as
well as women fathers well mothers and takes all
the world in divine impulse the part to lift up and
save drowning world Morris Christensen lifted and
saved his baby.
THE old tradition, full of flint and flaw Is passing away
The love Of the Omaha hero but the love
man for his child but it love- and it mastered him unto
DEATH And love- like hate be localized II is the
latest thing life and il will one day dominate the
world And in that day there will be no rich no Door no Ia
Dor question: but he who the all shall be
among
!. Ny Grey Love is ne
Dear
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