The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-03-05
AN INTERESTING SESSION.

The meeting of the Commercial Club
last Thursday evening was we'll at
tended and great deal of interest
was taken in the proceedings Tie
club Is working out constructive
program and every member is alive to
the importance of united action. A
new spirit of unity seems to have
been aroused among QUO people, they
at last are realizing the importapc,
Of an organization Of this kind and
.,how willingness to take hold and
do their part in aiding and encourag-
ing any movement that-.is suggested.
Discussion of subjects presented for
consideration Is general, members
showing no hesitancy In expressing
their views and offering suggestions.
To those who attended the meetings,
and every resident of the town should
make 1t a point to be among those
present. 1t is evident thatsthe reorgan-
ized club Is getting off on the right
foot. and will make record for ac-
complishment during the present year.
Several subjects were taken up and
considered at the last meeting and the
club went on record as being opposed
to all forms Of gambling.
At the opening of the meeting
Thursday night PresidentsW. A. CRUDE
delivered an able address that appeal
ed to and deeply touched every indi-
vidual present He presented the OBJ
jects and purposes of a. Commercial
Club as it relates to the business
world, and then boldly and eloquently
pointed out that there were other du-
ties that the organization owed to
the people of the town 1t, represented
in the way of demanding and insisting
upon the safeguarding OF the morals
Of its people, working for better
community both materially and NOR
ally. The address made srch a strong
impression upon the members of the
club that by motion it was declared
the sense Of the meeing that the ad-
dress should be published in the Ga
zette for the benefit of those who were
SO unfortunate as not to be present
and hear 1t develivered in the clear
ennunciation and clean cut words that
President CRUDE has the happy faculty
ty of expressing The following is that
address almost in the exact words as
delivered:
Gentlemen of the Commercial Club:-I
presume 1t Is the experience of all of you
that certain things stand out. In your rec
objection OF your school daw45n2d will not
be forgotten no matter h6w long YOU
live. remember that they used to teach
us that there are five institutions essen
tfal to the civilization Of mankind which,
in fact, constitute mans civilization.
They are the family, the state, the school,
the church and business world or busi-
ness community.
Now If I were to stop here there would
probably be some OF you who would jump
at the conclusion that 1t is with the last
named institution. the business world or
business community. only, that this or
ganization is concerned and wish to
take few minutes Of your time in an
attempt to show you that such a position
is absolutely and unquestionebly impos-
sible and at the same time to attempt to
explain the relation of this organization
to the other institutions in this commu-
nifty.
The family Is an institution bound to-
& ether by love Of one another which Is
afieo an ton the state is >, an instltuon
justice: the school Is an institution hound
together by love of knowledge which is
power thu church Is an institution hound
the business world or business coinmun-
ity Is an institution bound together by
love of-what? For our present pur-
poses we will say love Of wealth, which
but a very different kind Of power from
THAT l mentioned a moment ago.
Now, when we say that these institu-
tions are essential to mans civilization,
| txrtlt ltrvrk "A
crumble II these institutions were to be
destroyed. We mean more than that; we
mean these institutions are not only es-
sential to mans civilization but they are
essential to each other. We mean that
not one Of these institutions can survive
without the other four. We mean more
than that; we mean that no four Of these
institutions can survive without the other
one.
Destroy the family and you remove the
keystone Of our civilization. You take
away that which makes love between
man and woman sacred. You make wo-
human race to level with the brute
creation wherein we should have to be
prepared to fly at each others throats
| in defense Of those we love.
Destroy the state, that Is, take away
all our laws and the human race would
| be reduced to condition wherein the
| survival Of the fittest would be the only
principle recognized Men would forget
their school, their church and their busi-
ness and there could be no family.
I,estroy the school, that Is. remove all
| means Of acquiring knowledge through
| the experience of others. and we should
revert to barbarism and there could be
no state. no church, no business nor any
| family.
Destroy the church and you take away
mans faith in the hereafter. 1t is this
faith that circumscribes and keeps him
within due bounds with all mankind. Ev-
cry man has religion, whether he be-
longs to any denomination or not: Every
man has his conception of hell and
heaven and in as much as he abhors hell
and reveres heaven his adherence of hell
and his reverence of heaven become his
abiding consciousness and the underlying
principle of his conduct with his fellow
men. Take away the church and you take
away the foundation Of mans faith and
reduce him to the condition OF the pagan
who knows no law save his own desires
in which condition he could have no
school, no state, no business nor any
family.
Destroy the business world or business
community and you set the human race
back to the time when man lived in caves
and existed by his Drawn and cunning;
when he took what he could and surren-
dered it to his victor when he was van
quished.
Thebusiness world is sort of COM
missary department for all five of these
institutions, but don't you see that II any
one of these institutions is destroyed you
wouldn't have any use for commissary
department? To destroy the family. the
state, the school. the church or the busi-
ness world would be to demoralize 'anh
destroy all the other institutions which
] constitute mans civilization. Danger is
1 threatening these institutions now In
proof of which we have only to point to
Russia Never in the history, of the world
Iliave they been in as great danger as
they are right now Infection has been
found in America. Yet the only disinfec-
ton needed is sane thinking.
OF these five institutions. the business
world is among the Oldest 1t had its or
ligin at the time il was discovered that
the principle of division of labor was an
economic principle; when it was found
THAT one man could do one thing better
than he could other things, SO started In
ldoing that thing for others, leaving things
lhe could not do so well for some one
else to do. No one knows when that time