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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-28

Peter Rabbit was tired of school. Yes, sir, Peter was tired of school Possibly you know just how he felt. School had been very fine at first, but now Peters head was beginning to feel much as his stomach does when he has eaten too much. He needed a vacation So Peter was very much pleased when he discov 1 cred that it was raining so hard that 1 tEere wasn't the least chance that Old | Mother Nature would expect any one to school that morning.
 Now, ordina arily, Peter isn't fond of wet weather. He much prefers to have jolly, round, bright MT. Sun, smiling down from the blue, blue sky. But this ! morning Peter wasn't doing all the snlfi- | ing. Oh, I forget little Mrs. Peter; shs was doing some smiling, too. You see, | she knew that as long as it rained Peter would stay in the dear old Briarpatch,
 and that would mean that she would | have nothing much to worry about She ] always worries when Peter is away l from tbs~ dear Old Briar patch
 Just before it was time for him to go
 to bed behind the Purple Hills jolly Mir. 1 Sun narted the rain clouds and then the Merry Little Freezes blew them away. All the birds began to sing and the Green
 Meadows and the Green Forest were
 lovelier than ever
 | l first of the Black Shadows to reach l the dear Old Brar patch before kick , ing up his long heels and starting for
 the Smiling Pond. He was going to call 1 on Jerry Muskrat. Seeing Paddy the ] Heaver the day before had reminded him l that it. was some time since he had 1 seen Jerry Muskrat, and Peter felt a sudden desire to know if all was well i with Jerry.
 l When he reached the Smiling Pond l there was no sign of Jerry. Peter sat still. He sat still a very long time, all
 the while looking and listening. Could l it be that something had happened to tJerry? Peter was beginning to get really anxious when he heard a faint splash among the rushes, where the Laughing 1 Brook enters the Smiling Pool Softly very softly, Peter tip-toed over to a place where he could see among those
 rushes and what was going on there. l At first he saw nothing at all Then among the Black Shadows he saw a sil-
 yer line. He knew that it was made by some one swimming It drew nearer and
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some peculiar experience like an emo-
 tional conversation.
 Facts seem to admit two theories
 only.
 That churches are clubs for worship
 which perpetuates stupid theological
 tranditions, oppose joy progress of
 knowledge. stifle the soy of living and
 inculcate petty selfishness.
 "Or. that there are Romanists, Prot estants. churchmen, Jews, Buddhists, and Agnostics all equally good Chris tian men; that in all churches and outside any of them. there are saints, their lives filled with love and self sacrifice. who alone are members of an invisible sut the only true church. But consider these other facts. "On the great truths of Christianity, such as the reality of providence and the validity of the ideal of self-sacri | flee. depend the way of life for the 1 individual. the nation. even the world "Worship. which includes not merely | the formal church services but mak- l ing accessible and popuiarizing books, | art, music. all that ennobles life, is as necessary as food and clothing. 1 There is work to be done. Not
 merely must wretcheaness be relieved
 but characters must be created The criminal the vicious. and the sub merged must be redeemed and thereby 1 poverty abolished.
 ITO accomplish these things de-
 mands not only individual initiative. | but also organized effort. "Whatever the church may or may
 not be, it ought to De an organiza- ton Of all Cthat is what the creed word Catholic means) wl-o have tha I holy purpose of studying, worship ping ana working in the spirit of Jesus Christ.
 | Act on this theory. Whatever l church you may be in. stay there, but labor to clean house. Out with :S- norance, superstition. intolerance, mar rowness, petty -meanness. Make your ! church fit to be part in the one big ] church. of the future.
 l If you are without the church l come in. Not to give consent to what | is, but to make of it what it should ] be. If any men are to be held ac- lcountable for the contemptible church of the present, they will be-the mem hers-not chiefly. l think. but the gool men outside the church. who were slackers. who failed to come in and help those of us who are trying to make the church holy and 'au-inclu- 1 sive.'
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nearer, and at last Peter could make out a brown head moving toward him through the water.
 Hello, Jerry Muskrat" called Peter softly
 Jerry stopped swimming and looked toward the place where that voice had come from. He thought he knew it. but he wanted to make sure. He wouldn't trust his ears alone. You see, Jerry is a wise little fellow. The instant he saw Peter he began swimming again. Hello. Peters" he said. You haven't been to see me for a long time. How are you, any way? Just as lazy as ever, I presume" Peter made face at Jerry. Whats the good Of working when you don't have to?'' he demanded
 Jerry chuckled. For one thing, it is the best way I know of to keep out Of mischief, and for another, it is the only way to get things one wants when they are not to be found lying around. Just take this little landing I am build ing. It is going to be very handy, but if I didn't build it l wouldn't have it."
 Then Peter noticed for the first time that Jerry was sitting a little land ing made of rushes and mud. Copyright 1920 by T. W. Burgess)
 The next story: An Adventure on Jerrys Landing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-28
WHY GO TO COLLEGE?"
 SERMON BY DIR. DILLARD

The advantages of a college educa- tion was the theme of thoughtful sermon preached yesterday morning by
 pr. J. E. billiard, pastor of the South ss6e Baptist Church. Dr. billiard said in part:
 There are hundred good reasons. I mention only few. l. A college ed- ucation will add to your earning ca pacity. It will help you to make money and help you to enjoy it, and use it right when you get it. Andrew Car negie said; The business men of AD'erca have at last come to realize that a college education has com mercial value.' Other things being equal, the college man has ten times the chance of succeeding in business or a profession of the man with only a high school education and he has 500 times the chances of the man with no schooling. The Western Electric Com paBy has tried out college men for d number of years, and after ten years experience gives the following conclu- 1 sion: Only 10 per cent of men with out college education made good. while 1 90 per cent of men with college educa- | tion made good
 | 70. A college education will help one l to get at home in the world. / col ] lcee education will help you to under otLHu lHt WOllu Ou i've III, It VIII qraint you with nature history, the
 sciences, philosophies, literatures. It
 will teach you what men have done, | thought and aspired to be. It will open your eyes to the beauties and wonder
 of the world you live in.
 l g. You will become acquainted with
 scholars of the highest character and
 attainments, and form friendships that will be lasting and influential. The
 men with ewhom you associate at col 1 loge will be the leaders in your de-
 nomination and state in few years. l "A. A college education will bring out aI6 develop your native ability. You will discover yourself, what you can
 do and cannot do, what is your pecu- | liar ability. It will help you to make
 tic most of yourself. It will keep you ! from being a round peg in a square hcle.
 | "5. A college education will help you | to be of great service to others. So
 many people would like to do some
 tling worth while and don't know how.
 A college will teach you how.
 e. An education in Christian col lrge helps develop the very highest | type of character. Much depends on the
 atmosphere of a school. A college
 founded in the prayers of Christian | reople and supported by the gifts of ] consecrated men and women; one pre-
 sided over by a president with the shepherd heart; a school where the < teachers are God fearing and devoted to ! Christ and His people, institution i where the great majority of the stu l dents are earnest Christians. an insti- 1 tn:ion of this kind ought and does pro- :
 duce the very highest type of Chris
 tian character
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-28

it up and down rough river bed for twenty minutes, at last bring it along side the boat, toss it in and one could seemed happy, but really he was not A happy man when compared to the fellow told you about,
 ''I once had friend who was broker who put every dollar he had into a cer- tain stock. A decision of the interstate commerce commission was about due which would wipe him out or make him d wealthy man, and I was with him when he learned that the decision was favor able and all he had to do was to cash in and live in luxury for life but there was nothing in his behavior which would indicate to nan up a tree that he was as happy as this youth I saw today" l Imogene folded her napkin and put it 1 in it's ring
 ''i wac once in the studio of a young artist when the hanging committee of l hig art exhibit accepted his first pie | ture, and his joy was great, but not so l great as the case I am speaking of | Imogene pushed her chair back from the table.
 l Real joy. bona fide happiness, does not express itself in wild yells, in tossing
 up of hats or in other great outward
 demonstrations. It shows though, in a lself-satisfied complacency, in Oh. that | vas nothing air a man wears about him; 1t sticks out all over and" 1 Imogene rose from the table. | rThs boy I speak of was sitting in the 1 first row of the top stand at the bah game and Bahe Ruth knocked a foul into
 the air; 1t described a parabola; there
 were shrieks from the feminine fans and ducking by the men fans, but he rose
 calmly in his seat, caught it, and then
 sat down amidst the applause of the
 multitude
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-28

God. There is no other real darkness.
 When a man takes to the forest he
 loses his sense of the eternal.- The for
 ects of materialfsm, with the comp'i-
 csted machinery of shop and market
 place shut out the light of God from u cir souls.
 The other peril of the woods of life is the underbrush. One gets caught and held by the low growths and finds himself in an entanglement from which he cannot escape Sometimes it is the entanglement of debt. Discouragemen aLc bitterness follow. The darkness of the wood enters his soul and he loses his sense of the best way. Further en- tar elements of imitation and gambling follow. and as usual the shortest way out leads to the longest term in the peIitentiary.
 Tn the woods the enemy strikes; We seldom get blow in the open. The en- enies of our souls love darkness. Christ says: I am the way the truth and the life.' and, This is the victory that overcometh the world even your faith
 l Let us therefore in our day, when the battle is spread over the face of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-28
Brief Accounts of Sermons
 Preached at Local Churches

ist-parsons. Calico. condemned as heretic because he taught the world was round and Billy Sunday invelgh- ing against evolution. The stages favorite type of narrowness and ny pocrisy. deacon.
 "A thousand facts like these rule out all those theories that a true church Is marked by it's acceptance of papal of Biblical authority, by apos- tolic or presbyterial succession. by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-28
Andreuu and Ln1ogene Little Life Condolences in the Experience of Couple Phil
 osoph;c, Though Married
By ROE FULKERsON

Relieve me" said Andrew that was some eats,' He looked admiringly at his wife who had prepared the dinner.
 'Yes,'' smiled his wife, "and I believe the happiest man in the world is one who has just eaten a good dinner"
 No" said Andrew thoughtfully. "I hardly believe that" He paused to light his after dinner cigarette.
 I know that there are few moments in mans life that are happier than the ones just after he has eaten a cork ing good dinner facing the woman he loves best, vet there are such times.
 I've seen a young man throw up a good job as assistant to plumber. with prospects of a useful life ahead of him, because some magazine had bought a short story from him. He would recall that it took him two hours to write it and he got $50 for it, which would mean S25 an hour. and ten-hour day " ould pay $250; and he would be seem ingly the happiest man in the world. yet this afternoon I saw happier one
 q have seen man who was filled with desire to pay some woman S beard. propose to a girl six times and at last be accepted and then come to the club and try to buy wine for every man in the house, and he seemed happy, but he was not, when you line him up along side the man I saw today.
 'in the old days when lottery tickets were easily bought as cigars are now, knew man who was working for Sy a week who won sl5.090 in real money, and you would suppose he was the worlds greatest sample of glee, but he was not: he was just exuberant and jubilant. while the case I looked lover this afternoon was all that and then some
 T once sat in the boat with man who caught a six-pound bass, saw him play
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-28
sCHURCH IDEALS" THEME OF
 SERMON BY REV. ]. T. WARE

At St. Andrews Episcopal Church nesterday morning the Rev. J. T. Ware preached an interesting sermon on
 churcn ideals. MT. Ware said in part:
 .Sects innume era ble. each maintain ing a peculiar doctrine which not even ;ts own adherents understand. Medic val poisoner- popes and modern feud-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-28

the whole land and we see the dark forest with all entanglements and snares devouring so many, come out into the open and stand clear and free and fight the good fight for faith and
 trl tn and love in the ranks of our Savior King, under the blood stained banner of His cross"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-28
More Truth Than Poetry
 -By JAMES J. MONTAGU
THE DISASTER


We crowded in the cabn
 a the bar, the splendid floating palace
 travelled
 Iris fearful thing ship board
 To be preyed by thirst, And hear the captains warning
 the threemile limit first Strong ment with fingers buttons their coats
 
  So the idle
 With one the clock Whenw heard below the grinding
 Anda sudden, dreadful shock And so slowly the pillows
 We began dip and lift, isoff, the captain shouted,
 The propelors broke adrift But the daughter,
 Who'dbe looking the log, "Weve passed the hree-mile limit drifting through the fog. Thenw kissed the little maiden, worth And w a
 Ere logged another mile! Apolop to the T. Fields
 ADDICT of Ohio, the well known mother falling for birth control stuff General Wood had begun calling each o liars Ut fore the they might votes " ~ f REDS TALK homeck for what she calls of Let's De ncuraoe (Copyright, 1920, The Bell Syndicate, Incl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-28
For the Good of
 the Community

I1lO ONIl11l1lO OllIll THE DUKE OF ARGYLL in his justly A celebrated book "The Reign of Law" takes the position that there is no such thing as chance.
 He declares that the most infinitesmal tag-ends of the thing we call the universe are so correlated that there is no isolation anywhere; no independence.
 Not a sparrow falleth' but the impact is on the whole fabric.
 Merchant coal mines have claimed that they were discriminated against in the placing of cars and that production was accordingly reduced
 Some of these merchant mines furnish coal to bunker ships in Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans. These ships have been tied up in harbors at heavy expense wait ing on cargoes of coal from these poorly served mines.
 At one port vessels, which receive their cargoes from railroad issuing through bills of lading via their line, have been
  ing railroads brings to the port.
 Whosoever or whatsoever is to blame fo1 the car shortage at merchant mines, it nevertheless follows that where one arm of transportation has fallen down, it af- fleets another.
 If any portion of the shortage is due to Wilful discrimination, that discrimination reverberates back to the railroad practic- ing it in delay of it's own rail and water frelghts.
 They began early in June to order empty cars rushed across the continent to relieve the strain on commerce. From the beginning of that special order pig iron and steel shipments from Alabama grew beautifully less until blast furnaces have been piling about half of their pro- duct on the yards
 Then came the coal car priority order. It sounded good for coal, but it has not sounded that way for sand, slag, the scrap dealer, the lumberman, the cast iron pipe maker and the fabricators of clay pro- ducts. Some plants closed down within few days after the issuance of the coal car order.
 The car assigning practice under which railroads have been allowed to prefer their own coal requirements to those of other interests, while it may have served the railroads in one way, has hampered another arm of transportation, and, in some instances, this other of transportation was portion of the anatomy of the railroads themselves.
 This priority business began with the war. It was first applied to movements of troops and am munitions The nation said aye to that. Then they figured on subordinate priorities and endless confusion resulted.
 The habit has come over from the war. Has 1t done any good? That is what the nation Is ask ing itself There are more than dozen kinds of industrial enterprises which at this time are ln- clined to think all are better off if all are treated alike.
 And again, the affected industries ask why these orders, coming from the nations bureaus are of such an ironclad nature They inquire of the subordinate arms of the government located IL o~, <horo ic mt some room for eaS-
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-09-17
THE FIELDING
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

The Alumni Association Of Fielding
Academy began its career with the
graduation Of the first class OF high
school students ever given diplomas
at the institution; the class Of 1909.
There were five members in the origi-
nal body. Since that time there has
not been year that has failed to add
tits quota to the membership until
today it boasts of about three hundred
members. From the first the one de-
sire of every alnmnus has been to re-
pay in worthy endeavor the incaIcu-
liable debt that each feels he owes to
the school that for four happy years
was to him second home.
The association has always played
an important part in the commence
ment exercises of each year, its an
nual banquet and ball being two of
the most important social functions OF
the community. On several occasions
reunions have been held during the
school term at which many of the old
grads have had the opportunity to
renew their associations with the
school and partake again of the famil.
lar atmospeher.
1t is with pleasure that the present
membership look forward to the year
ly accessions to their numbers. We
invite you to the great fellowship of
those who are striving to keep alive
the high traditions of our Alma Mater
and to carry them with us at all times
for the elevation of our daily tasks in
! the world beyond the campus gates.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-09-17
FoREwoRD

These are the days that de-
mand results. We are living i'm
what may. be called the age of
efficiency. No institution, no
idea, no career may expect to
survive long unless it can meet
the cold, pitiless test of results.
1t is only common honesty to
admit that this is one of the cri-
teal years for the Fielding
Academy. The question of its
survival, its continuance as an
institution will in large meas
|ure be determined by the de-
velopments of the coming
school year. In the following
pages, the Alumni Association
of he Fielding Academy is at
tempting to answer in a fair,
dispassionate manner the vital
question of results: Does the
record of the Fielding Acad-
envy in the past justify it's con-
tinuance in the future? To in
sure that the opinions contain
ed here should be touched as
little as possible by the natural
sentiment Of affection, sure to
characterize any one to who
owns the school as his Alma
Mater we have gone outside Of
the association and have called
for several contributions from
representative citizens whose
work has given them an oppor-
tunity to observe what has
been the influence of Fielding
upon the young men and
women who for many years
past have received tuition
within her walls. To this testi-
mony have been added brief
articles by members of the AS
|sociation who have themselves
been accorded recognition in
the world of affairs which they
entered after finishing their
school careers.
This publication IS addressed
primarily to two parties; the
prospective students and then
parents. To the former we aim
to present a truthful picture Of
of the real service that Field
ing Academy is prepared tt
render; to the later we hope te
show that the school is making
an honest endeavor to sur
round its students with thai
type of atmosphere that will
develope those qualities which
every parent whose children
have attained high.sehool age
fondly hopes to see realized in
the lives of his boys and girls.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-09-17

nifty to gain that advantage is
here today. In these pages we
bring to you q message and a
challenge: q message setting
forth the advantages offered
freely by a home institution; a
challenge to every young man
and woman in this Church
School District to come for
ward with the best that is in
him or her and to build at
Fielding Academy as others
have done before that strength
of character and that power of
mind which in years to come
cannot help but prove one of
the best possible margins of
success.
The chance of lifetime is
here. Will you grasp it.
NOW?
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-09-17
WHY FIELDING MUST LIVE
Continued from page u

is one Of life's richest possession.
Unless an institution fits and pre-
pares its students for greater service
to home, church, and nation, it's pur-
pose is lost. Surely the Fielding Acad-
envy Is fulfilling its mission in this re-
spect. The making of happy homes
has been one of the objects in view
in the outlining of the course Of study
for both boys and girls; emphasizing
not only the theoretical but the prac-
tical side also, what is more import
ant to the state than the building Of
sound, happy homes, for In the home
lies the strength of any nation.
A little observation will show that
among the prominent leaders In
church work in the wards thruout the
Academy district, are the graduates
and present students of Fielding. No
matter where you go they are the
ones that are shouldering response
bilities as bishop, high councilmen,
stake presidents of auxiliary organisa-
lions, and ward officers.
Think also of the. many mission
aries Fielding has sent out into the
world to preach the gospel Prepare
tory courses have been offered at the
school in the past for prospective mis-
sionaries, and many others have gone
after being graduated Our Alma
Mater must live for her future mis-
sionary work.
She must also continue to grow be-
cause she makes of her students bet
ter citizens Of our great nation. Many
who have attended the school are pro-
minent in civil AFFAIRS.
The Fielding Academy must live to
keep alive the past; to preserve her
ideals and traditions. It must live
that those in the past have enjoyed
and endeavored. to- appreciate. The
school must live to fulfill the pho
phecy made concerning her by Karl
g. Maeser, that at some future time
the Fielding Academy would become
school of fame.
No one wants to see the institution
discontinued for we all realize more
or less the benefits Of such school
in our valley. Then, let aslstrive untir-
ingly to make this the banner year at
Fielding that our dreams and hopes
for her future may be realized.
Mrs. Dora R. Hayward.