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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
A Jesuit on Dull Preaching.

Father FRANCIS r. DoNNELLY has
Just published a book for speakers
and writer's. 1t deals with what is
vulgarly known as pep" or "jazz" IN
language, although the scholarly
Jesuit does not use this slang. He
calls his volume 1.-THE Art of Interest
ing and he makes no bones about the
tiresomeness Of speakers-particu-
larly preachers-who are afraid to let
90 of trite forms Of expression. He
finds that wearisome preaching Is de-
Tended on the plea Of dignity:
Undoubtedly. But what is digni-
fed? Is II indecorous to speak of
washing dishes. mending clothes. fer
tilizlng fig trees. mixing bread. feed
ing pigs? Yet of these the Gospels
speak. 1t might be said that
there are worse things in preaching
than lack of dignity and one thing
which suggests itself for honorable
mention is slumberous triteness"
Father DoNNELLY urges preachers
not to take the life and emotion out
Of the Gospel by transmitting 1t into
the generic and abstract" He cites
the way in which the late Father VAN
RENSSELAER, told a Boston audience
about the Prodigal Son. He made
him Boston Prodigal SOLDERING up In
New York and looking up Father VAN
RENssELAER for carfare to get home
with.
An essay Is written for the eye; a
sermon Is spoken for the ear. There
fore, says Father DoNNEILY, BURKE's
ION the Sublime and Beautiful" does
not stand transmittal over the tele-
phone. Logic chills the heart" says
the author, "and If all our sermons
melted their logic In the lava Of feel
ing, all of which ST.. PAUL does, the
sermon would cease to be an essay"
The book recalls the fine preaching
qualities of that popular Jesuit. WILL
lam O'BRIEN PARDow. He was no.
above using the chicken incubator as
an analogy when he was trying to
represent the impersonal idea Of GoD.
Likewise Father DoNNELLY admires
CHEsTERToN, who has the power pf
bringing his philosophy, rs much MS
he has, down to the lowest common
denomination"
Father DoYNELLY evidently has
studied WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
closely. The Commoner, he says,
shines brightest when In conflict.
Nothing but antagonism causes him
to burst into real flame. That is why
his Cross of Gold speech is his best,
ut least from the viewpoint of ora
tory. But, says Father DoSNELLy,
side the orators Of Greece and Rome,
or Fox and CHATHAM, "BRYAN's
strongest passages are weak and ia
effective"
After Father DoNNELLY has stirred
up the pulpits he might get after the
political speakers. Where are the great
campaign orators Of other decades7
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
ANOTHER PROMISE.
Has the Government Kept Faith With
Its Disabled Soldiers7

To THE NEW York HERALD: I have
read Woodrow Wilson's appeal In which
he says Surely we shall not fail to
keep the promise sealed in the death OF
our incompatible soldiers, sailors and
marines who await our verdict under the
sod of France" These words recall to
me promise to living soldiers which
has not been kept
have been In the Government SER
vice in hospitals for n year and half.
The last hospital was In was Fox Hills,
Staten Island. And there II has been
almost impossible to get any kind of ap-
preparation from Washington for the
most necessary things. such as braces
and splinta
One boy was sent before the board
for discharge. but his right arm being
useless-hls elbow joint having been shot
away---he could not be discharged with
cut a permanent brace. This would cost
$40. One official sent note to another
official explaining that Sergeant -
could not be discharged without the
brace, but he could not BIO furnished
with the brace becs use there was not
$40 available with which TO buy 1t.
So the soldier was held In the hospi-
tai from May until the end Of septem-
Ter Just waiting. AS II looked after
waiting Ave months as IL there never
would be $40 with which 10 buy the
brace. no let the shop make him one 80
that the technical requirements for dis
charge were fulfilled. But when this
sergeant In a civilian no will have 10
spend $40. az the brace that was made
for him In unwearable.
Another boy had to have a specially
built shoe. ono costing from s25 TO $50.
Though at one time II was said every
thing shall be done for our boys, nothing
is too good for them" still they gave
this boy shoe costing ~. which he
cannot wear except for the few minutes
before the board so he can get his
discharge And IL this called keeping
the promise7
1 could quote more cases OF the same
kind. I might add there are not enough
educational and ocoupationai aids to
carry on the work. ALICE Hurst.
NEW YORK, October Q.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
SPEAKERS NAMED FOR
SPHINX CLUB DINNER
First of Series to Be Held on
Tuesday EUening.

Four hundred leading publishers and
advertisers members OF the Sphinx
Club will give the first OF a series OF
dinners at the Waldorf Tuesday eve
ming.
The speakers include Frank A. Mum
sey, proprietor OF THE NEW YORK
HERALD and THE SUN, who will speak on
the topic THE Function of the Newspaper
In the Community and the Nation and
Its Relation to Advertising and the Ad-
vertiser"; Paul r. Derrick of London.
proprietor of the largest advertising
agency In England, whose subject is
Applying American Advertising
Methods to British Business; Corbett
Mccarthy, director Of the Associated
Dry Goods Corporation, who will speak
on "A Merchants View OF Advertising"
and Roy Dickinson. associate editor of
Printers Ink, whose address will DO on
Social, Economic and Production
Problems"
r. F. r. Huntsman. president Of the
club. will preside.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

We LiFo In Aifne.
"a Reply.)
Like to that harp which but at morning
sings
And silent is when day has mounted high.
had friend I'm youth whose Memnon
strings
At touch aurorai sounded full reply.
But now no more. For how can muted
As once in answering salutation thriri7
He grieves not that no longer heavenwards
The fine strung wires respond-hencefor-
ward still.
But i win grieve because nor storm nor
shock
But trivial days and things those chords
hav. dulled-
As though drift OF dust or air borne flock
At length that morning music had annuliedi |
Yet he can chide. and smile. I'VE live In
Time.
Not In Eternity" And he would
clip
The wings % any aiming flight sublime.
I'VE have but Now is ever on his LID.
answer him AMI say that I Will do
What Now and Here require; but. this
achieved.
I have intent to rise into the blue.
Skim the broad day and CLEAN where stars
are Bheaved.
For 1 live out of rime-as well as In;
And so may any soul of mortal too;
At once can our Eternal Life begin
II all that Faith has sung to us be true.
Yet, grant that Faith but breathes q siren
strain.
And there awaits no Grown or Being dear
For any longing soul-thsn am fain
To make Eternity OF moments here
will not live In Time-not all the tinsi
II 40 I must. should ere death be
toss my coil Of magic rope-I climb
AS of some Indian fakir It was said. -
EDITH NJ. THOMAS.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
100000 OFFERED
LEGION BY K. OF G.
Money to Be Used for Erection
Of Memorial in Wash
ington.
TO HONOR WAR VICTIMS
Meeting Of Vice-Commanders
Called to Act on
Project.

The Knights Of Columbus yesterday
officially rendered to the American Le-
sion a gift OF 100000 for tho erection
OF memorial building in Washington,
d. G., to commemorate the men who
died In the war. Tho offer was made
from Knights Of Columbus headquarters
at the Hotel Commodore by James A.
Flaherty. Supreme knight of the order
and chairman Of the gift committee. to
Fred w. Galbraith. National Com
mander Of tho Legion.
Mr.. Galbraith said he would imrnedi-
ately call a meeting OF the vice-Com-
manders Of the Legion and notify them
Of the offer. He added that the head
quarters OF tho Legion would remain in
Indianapolis.
"The building Ia to be memorial that
win be proper tribute to those who
paid ths supreme sacrifice while serv-
Ing their country and will act as an In.
spiration to posterity." Mr.. Galbraith
said. This gift Of the knights OF CO.
lumbus is in line with the work tncy
did during the war. II Is q gift to the
ex-scrvlce men. and It is only made to
tho Anne lean Legion because It repre-
sents the greatest number OF ex-servics
men,
There are no strings to the offer ana
the Knights OF Columbus have not even
reserved the right to name the building.
This Is characteristic Of their gener-
osity both during the war and since"
Mr.. Flaherty said
THE knights OF Columbus, in making
The offer to the legion. have no intention
whatever Of trying to designate the
iegion's national headquarters. That is
matter for the legion itself to deter
mine. Our sole aim Is to present to
the nation. through the American
Legion. which IL unquestionable the or
ganization with the largest constituency
Of ex-service men, suitable memorial
IN the form Of building which will at
once be monumental and useful Our
offer to the legion Ii universal In It's
application to veteran organizations
The title to the building, when COM
rieted. will be vested solely In the Amer
lean Legion, but quarters will be avail
able in the building to the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, the Grand Army of the
Republic. the veterans OF the Confed-
eracy, the Spanish War Veterans and
other organizations.
THE plan Of the Knights OF Columbus
Is to appropriate 100000 It's war
fund money for the erection ond main
tenance Of the building. -Four million
dollars. or as much thereof as may be
necessary. Is to be used erect. furnish
and equip the building. The building is
to be erected on a plot Of land to be
secured by the American Legion, prefer
ably by act OF Congress devoting some
public land in Washington to this pur-
pose.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
To the Pro-LeagiIe Independents I:

To the Prologue Independents:
GENTLEMEN: Per your request / here
with respond by return mall" re-
spond with my emphatic Mol to your
request.
/ am an American national Democrat
believing in the principles OF the Demo-
cratic party and the principles and doc
:rines OF Washington, Jefferson and
jackson. Since my majority / have
voted at every election. national. State
and city, the Democratic ticket because
felt they stood for principles believed
in. But to my mind the League of Ma
tons is heresy. bordering on treason
to our country and In violation of our
Constitution, which have solemnly
sworn to support.
1t will iot bring peace. but on the
contrary eternal complications. strife,
chickering's and war; Intern. .tionalism is
an impracticable dream.
am an American national Demo-
crat. First we were told by the Presi-
dent that I'VE must repeal the Panama
tolls" at Englands dictum. Now we are
told we must swallow the League with
out the dotting of an "P' or the cross
ing of n st." AS an American national
Democrat cannot do this.
want America free and independent
This we cannot be II In league or part
nership with the ever conflicting nations
and tribes of Europe God knows, love
my party. Few have made greater sac
rifices for It than I have But better
and beyond my party or any party I
love my blessed country.
This Is a sad and serious moment
with me; It's my earnest prayer that
wisdom may prevail. ard that our coun-
Try may be spared from this awful wrong
and stupid blunder.
JAMES e. MARITIME,
PLAINFIELD, N. j., October 8.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1920.
As Men Think.

HERBERT PARSONS leaves the Repub-
lican party and joins the Cox forces
for the reason, he clearly explains,
that he considers the League the big
gest issue Of the day.
"a distinguished ex-Judge Of this
town and a lifelong Democrat says
that because he favors a league of
nations he is going to vote for HAIR
DING, feeling confident that the latter
can and will do more for some such
instrument than Cox could posi-
bly, do.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

In Olathe. Oklahoma, so many pupils
ride TO the high school in automobiles
that parking the cars has become
troublesome problem. The fathers and
mothers OF n good many OF these boys
and girls went TO district schools. and
for intermediate and secondary instruc-
ton were obliged to leave home. But
the gasolene engine has made possible
the Capitalization Of schools without
hardship to pupils. and thus has con-
tributed greatly to the Improvement of
educational facilities.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
EVENTS TODAY.

Bishop Charles Sumner Burch and Thomas
W. Lamont will speak at service In COM
memoration OF the ninth anniversary OF the
estabiishment of the Republic of China.
Cathedral Of 81. John the Divine, =. NJ.
city officials will present flag to Edwin
Frankie Goldman at O subscription concert In
Carnegie Hall, e.fb r. NJ.
the David w. Gentle Post OF the American
LEGION will dedicate tree In tho Victory
Gardens, Crotona Park, r. NJ.
Deputy Commissioner Sara Graham-Mul-
hall will open crusade In behalf Of mar
cotic habittes, North Presbyterian Church,
Sc5 west f55th street, 8 =. M.
when an Assyrian Prince Went Lion
Hunting" story hour by Anna 9. Chandler
Metropolitan Museum OF Art, 3 p. M.
New York Consumptive Relief League,
meeting. Hotel McAlpin, r. NJ,
organ recital by Mr.. Paul Martin, Jr,.
Washington Irving High School. Irving place
and sixteenth street. 8:1p p. M.
Illustrated lecture, Palestine and the New
Icrupalem," by Allan A. Hunter, r.. s.. 90,
Eidridge and Forsyth streets, s,iS II NJ;
League of Nations at Il. =. 101, liith street
near Lexington avenue, 10 7. -
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

From the london Chronicle.
A Norfolk vicar has been accustomed for
years TO take hls choir boys for trip 10
Yarmouth. Each year he has iouged 10
display TO them the fine parish church, but
has been srieved at tho indifference OF tho
boys to hallowed walls; always the first
thought was the sea, and only the sea.
This year, however, change was appar-
emit. As they allghted from the train the
boys begged earnestly 10 be shown tho
church. The vicar was delighted at this
first reward Of his influence: but as they
came near the church the new found zeal
was explained. One OF me boys said IN
tones o. anticipation
Father says thy'vs got stuffed shark
thsrsrs
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
The weathercock.
From the Montreal DAILY Sfar.

From the Montreal DAILY stav.
How oft I've seen, at early dawn.
or twiiights quiet hour.
The swallows, In their joyous gise,
Come darling round the tower.
As II, with thee, TO hall the sun.
And catch Its earliest light,
And offer ye the morns salute,
or bid ye both-good-night
And when around thee or above
No breath OF air has stirred.
Thou SEEM ~ TO watch the circlfng flight
OF each free, happy bird,
TIL, after twittering round thy head
In many May track,
The whole delighted company
Have settled on thy back.
ALnERT Gonror Cnusn
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
The Moral Obligation.

The Moral Obligation.
A moral obligation.
The President reports.
Has binding force SURPRISING
Tho merely legal sorts.
'Twould send moral army
BY moral high decree
To fight a moral battle
Across moral sea.
wed put our moral bullets
Inside our moral foe
neonu~e Of moral reasons
That nobody would know.
And when our moral doushbcu
For that had fought and bisA.
rfc'd have moral tombstone
Above his moral head.
McIASpsunau wirson.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

The authorities believe lighted Gig
arctic carelessly thrown into gas
filled hold caused the explosion in the
steamship G. II. Grove in which five
men were killed and thirty injured
Thursday. II Is to curb fools like the
author of this disaster that we have
Fire Prevention Day. DO they heed
the warnings and appeals for caution?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

Those persistent enemies of Ameri-
can institutions, EMMA GOLDMAN and
ALEXANDER BmKMAN, who were de-
ported to Russia, want TO get back
here. Agitating for revolution under
the protection OF our police is a better
Job than living under revolutionary
conditions offers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
Life.

From the Detroit Free Frees.
Laughter and song
A friend and n smile or two,
Then a lonely and long
Hard pull for a mile or two,
Danger and fear
The despair and the doubt Of n.
Then the skies clear
Meet what you must
As q man, as q friend,
BE strong and be just
Joy shall come In the END.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
AMERICA FIRST.
Ex-senator MARITIME Rejects an Invi-
tatIon to Help the League.

To THE NEW York HERALD: From the
Prologue Independents / have re-
ceived postal card asking me to Join
its committee. and I have returned the
reply card changed so as to read II will
do all can to defeat said League with
cut waiting for further suggestions"
In addition have sent letter, q copy
of which I enclose.
JAMES Z. MARITIME.
PLAINFIELD, N. j.. October 8.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

Tns Associated Press 10 exclusively entitled
"a the use Tor republication OF all news des-
Matches credited TO II or not otherwise
news published herein. -
Ali rights OF republication Of special dez-
patches hare1n 60 49, FseexveA
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

Cons providence emerge a self-con-
scious being, with a sense of right
and wrong and with q free choice.
He was not and he is not bound to
choose the wrong, but he has often
and habitually done so; he has fallen
from his opportunity of always choos-
ing the right"
1t Is interesting to compare these
liberal episcopal views with those
which prevailed generally half cen
fury ago. In the newly published
memoirs of w. H. MALLocK, the brill
liant nephew of FRoUDE, the historian,
he gives an account of his early relig-
ious experiences in the course of which
he says: That the universe was Gre
ated in the inside of a week 1904
years before the birth of CHRIST and
that every word of the Bible was
systematically dictated to the writer
were to me facts as certain as that
the earth is globular or that the date
Of the battle Of Hastings was 1885,
In the philosophical writings Of his
later life MALLocK has condemned all
scientific negations of religious belief
and insists that religion is necessary
as q practical basis of civilization.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

ryor. the Burlington Republican.
An children are admitted 10 the fair free
on Friday; bring the babies 10 the fair;
town fun a stxxnGprpt isoh yess eenxA
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
Presidential YerncItY.

Washington declared he couldn't tell q lie.
rYcu might leave Il 20 the voters OF MIS-
sourf 10 decide" suggested his father.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
The Comet.

Autumn Is a comet.
Ever ace II came
Rushing through the woodland
With rail- Of flame.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

After all, there are not as many
parlor Reds I'm America as there are
cellar brewers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
"In ADAMS fall
We sinned all"

runs the old rhyme. The sum and
substance of Canon HARNESS notable
sermon before the British association
is that we need not so believe in or
der to live and die good Christians.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

Columbus backed Harding.
II have always favored America frst-
no orfsA-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10

Citizens who did not register last week
cannot vote, and they need not look
for sympathy outside the dictionary.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-05

Mrs Jennings of Brattleboro are glad
to hear they are better.
Mrs Field nurse, of Brattleboro
came Wednesday to care for Mrs Ray
mond Willard and young daughter
Mrs. Willard is slowly improving.
Town meeting passed without any
particular excitement. The Ladies
Aid society of the Community church
cleared about 500 from the dinner.
Postals from 0. L. Buxton, who with
Mrs. Buxton and daughter, Muriel, j
i'll Florida, state they viii soon be
starting north. Mr.. Buxton intended
10 return in time to make sugar
Mrs. Drill J. Clark has returned from
Guilford, where she he'd been during
illness in the family of her husband ;.
brother, and has resumed work in tn,
W. A. Cole Paper Co. finishing room
Thomas Ames has returned from In
West with IA work horses and his sale
stable is live place Many found i
convenient to have a place to put the
horses town meeting day. Raymon,
LaValley, who was employed at tn
Smith Corporation shop. has fnishe
work there and is employed by Nj
| AmeS.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-05
Take a glass of Salts before Breakfast
If your Back aches or Bladder
Is troubling you.

No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make q mistake by flush
ing the kidneys occasionally, says a
well-known authority. Meat forms uric
acid which excites the kidneys, they
become Overworked from the strain, get
sluggish and fail to filter the waste and
poisons from the blood, then we get
sick. Nearly all rheumatism, headaches,
liver trouble, nervousness, dizziness,
sleeplessness and urinary disorders come
from sluggish kidneys
The moment you feel dull ache in
the kidneys or your back hurts or if
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended by sensation of scalding, stop
eating meat and get about four ounces
of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take a
tablespoonful in q glass of water before
breakfast and in a few days your kid
neys win act fine. This famous salts is
made from the acid of grapes and lemon
juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to flush and
Emulate the kidneys, also to neutralize
the acids in urine so it no longer causes
irritation, thus ending bladder weak
ness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
Iinjure; makes a delightful effervescent
| Whitewater drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
! kidneys clean and active and the blood
pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney
omphcations.-Adv
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-05
GRAFTON.

Miss Jane Terrill and Mss Eva Ho-
bart have returned to Washington d.
G..
Elizabeth Wright, Cary Palmer and
Walter Stowell were at home for the
weekend
Schools viii begin next Monday.
Several young people went for hike
on snowshoes Saturday evening. After
the hike lunch of warm sugar on
snow, doughnuts and pickles were
served at the home of George Hobart.
Captain Adams of Camp Devcns
spent the weekend at George Hobart 5.
The Grange win give the play, Lit
tie Trump, Friday evening, March -
in the town hall with the following
cast Rex Kenyon, Arthur Wright ;
Philip Cranston, George Hobart; Mar
uel Sanchez Ernest Morrison; Gush-
ington Splatterbee, Otis Wilson; James
Percivalc, VIII Dompier; Old Rube Pet
tengill, John Davis; Higgins, Gilbert
Dompier Grace Percivale, Gertrude
Divoll; Miss Minerva, Augusta Hakey;
Old Pepita, Maud futile; Little Trump
| Marie Merrifell An oyster supper
viii be served at Grange hall. Man.
digo 5 orchestra will furnish music FOL
dancing.