The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-12-22
Rev. McMenamin Talks
to Temple Sisterhood
"WE HAVE FOUGHT FOR HIGH
AND NOBLE IDEALS AND
IDEALS NEVER DE-" HE DE-
CLARES.


At the meeting of the Slsterhood of
Temple Emanuel Father Hugh l.. Nc
Menamin delivered an address on the
probabilities of World Peace He
said in part:
am asked to discuss for you ''Ihe
Probabilities of World Peace Vast
as is the topic l will discuss it very
briefly. l regret that my con'ictiohs
are such that | cannot be both sincere
and popular today.
Do l believe that the day is nenr
when an aroused public CO rscicnce will
demand univ4rsa. disarmament. the
destruction of our nnvies, the disperse-
mcnt of our armies? l do not.
But let us suppose that universal
disarmament did take place. What
then? Will nations cease to be jc,ll-
Gus, to be antugonistic, to be selfish,
merely because they no longer hold Ill
their hands the red sword of war!
Certainly not. A.d then would come
10 pass a conflict that would put to
shame the barbarity of the war, Whose
horrors still make us tremble.
Remedy Is Not Dollar Sign.
The other day in Geneva. confer
cnce of thirty-nine nations was hela
under the auspices of the League OF
Nations, and financiers from every
part of the globe sat down to find
remedy to heal the wounds of the
world. 1t was found that thirty out
of the thirty nine nations, instead or
recuperating from the national debt,
were sinking into it deeper and deep
or. And the conclusion that sane
statesmen and economists arrived at
is: that unless something information.
ally drastic be done aId soon, the bot
tom will drop out, and the house of
tnrds that we call Goth Century CIVIL
cation will topple. But the remedy
for the wounds of the world will not
be found in the dollar sign. And /;
is the dollar sign. more than anything
el.e, that is Determining nationai
-3olicies.- -sseifishness- iaHaasansi zfi.
diyidunl selfishness--is the thing w"
10 rid the world of war.
Land Belong to All Gods Children.
Again we know that the most pro
life cause of war in, Europe Is :la-
tional discomfort. We know that ma
tional discomfort is bred of poverty
and privntion. We know that poverty
and privution is due to the over-crowd
cd and coagcstcd condition of the co,ln
tries. We know that emigration would
relieve that congestion. We know
that there are millions of acres or
tilLble land in America that could be
turned into granaries to feed the
world, but we will decide to close
;lle doors to emigration whilst people
sturve. Oh, / know the arguments
that are advanced in support of this
measure, but cannot but believe that
the land of all the world belongs to
Gods Children wherever they are
found. and I want to believe that were
we unsclfish, some more humane meth
cd could be found to tide us over the
perilous days ahead, instead of the
method we seem bent upon adopting.
A nation, dear friends, can never
rise above the standards of its citizen
ship. If nation is to be unseltish'
the body polite must first be imbued
with that characteristic. And, ms l
view the worlds difficulties today,
they are not to be found in forms of
government am quite convinced that
the forms of government, as they exist
today, with II few exceptions, are cap-
pble of taking care of the people. The
difficulty is not there, but it rests Ill
the absence of unselfishness, in the
absence of the complete conservation
of mans self to the public good, in
the tendency of men, even of mel
whom nations, states, and municipal
tiles have put in very high places, to
count those high places their priv
ileges. and to draw tnerefrom, not
help for humanity and the people over
whom they rule, but their own mean
personal advancement. Oh, IL there
be any force that can penetrate to the
bottom of society, If there be any
force that can so regenerate society
that all men will be faithful, unsel1-
ish and true. Why, then the mistake
that men might make in Judgment will
be no obstacle to our attniniag peace,
plenty and contentment Such mis-
takes would disturb us temporarily, to
he sure, but we go on unerringly III
the pursuit of life, liberty and hap
piness.
Religion Has Power Of Regeneration.
There is no power that can thus re
generate society, there Is no such
forco of which men hive cYnr lrenm IN.