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Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25

possessions, oftentimes in the ur1-
scrupulous and cruel ways in which
they seek to increase their posses
sions. Among those who have not,
this disease is manifest in the bitter
ness with which they look upon
those who have, in the false shame
which they feel because of their fail
ure to acquire, sometimes in the
parasitic and sycopilantic spirit they
manifest toward hose who have
succeeded in the unhealthy efforts in
which they themselves have failed.
The disease is the same. 1t is the
disease of putting trust in riches, of
seeking wealth as the chief end of
life. It is the same disease that was
manifest $500 years ago, that has
been manifest in every period OF hui
man history wherever the exercise
of the normal human instinct has
been successful in achieving material
wealth.
A second characteristic of human
life which the propheD saw in that
ancient time was the exercise of the
instinct for self development which
expresses itself in the gaining power.
This always follows upon the ae-
QUESTION of wealth. Wealth gives
power. 1t is power exercised over
material things and in its higher de-
velopment it is power exercised over
other men. Not only does wealth
give power but talent also gives
power; talent in the gift of unusual
cleverness or unusual prudence, or
unusual gifts of personality. These
all contribute to give men power
first over the situation in which they
are placed and then in larger and
larger areas over the lives of other
men. Here again we have the posi-
bility of disease. 1t is the normal
sane and healthy thing for a man
to exercise whatever powers God
has given him. whatever capacities
for unusual efficiency have been
born in him. It is the abnormal, in
sane, unhealthy exercise OF such
power that becomes disease. II
/, leauS TO tne tyrdnnieS OF leuQallSfrli
to the exclusive pride OF aristocracy
| to the cruelties OF autocracy and to
the corruption which has never been
absent from historic democracies
This disease was observed by the
prophet $500 years ago and the
mere passage OF time has not availed
to cure it in human life. 1t is here
and around US today. We get rid
of one form of it in the shaking
down of the autocracies of the old
world only TO discover that i,
changes its form and appears in the
old democracy of the new world ant
in the new democracies of the ole
world. The disease is the same
/ whether in Palestine in the ancien,
world, or in Europe or in America
in the modern world. 1t is the dis.
ease of the man who having power
glories in it and so makes an alb.
normal, Insane and unhealthy use o!
his power.
| The same thing is true with 50 fine
. thing in human life as wisdom
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25

"What is the chief end of mani"
Said the prophet, "Let him that
g,orieth glory in this that he hath
understanding and knoweth Me, that
| am Jehovah who exerciseth loving
kindness, justice and righteousness
in the earth. For in these things I
delight, saith Jehovah" To know
God is the remedy for human dis
ease. Religion is the cure for hui
man ills. God is the ultimate salts
faction of life. He alone can satisfy
the desires of the soul, the labor and
the energy and the desire OF man
run to no purpose, nay mote, they
accomplish a curse except as they
run out towards God and seek after
Him and come to know Him.
Moreover it is true that not all
religions thus have power to satisfy
human life and enrich it. 1t is that
religion that reveals God as the God
of loving kindness, of justice and of
righteousness which has the power
to satisfy the human heart and to
bless human life. This is the religion
which was dimly seen and earnestly
sought after by the old prophet of
sorrow, Jeremiah. This is the re-
ligion that hath been manifest and
offered to men in the Christian gos-
pei. This is the religion that has
power to cure the disease. This is
the religion that can inform life with
health and sanity; with satisfaction
and blessing.
For this is the religion, this that
we know as Christianity, which re-
veals God as exercising justice,
righteousness and love in the earth.
This is the religion which reveals
God as moving in these qualities in
human life. God has no way of ex-
ercising justice and righteousness
and love through the earth except by
moving through His Spirit upon the
spirits of men in such wise tlQt they
will do righteously and administer
their trust justly and exercise toward
one another the spirit Of love. So
does Jehovah exercise these quail
ties in the earth; SO is He revealed
! in exercising these qualities in the
gospel OF Jesus.
Now apply the remedy to the
forms of the disease. What has the
old phophet to tell us about the
abuse Of riches? He has to tell US
| that we shall get rid of this disease
not by abolishing riches, but by
ceasing to glory in them if we've
got them and by casing to covet
! them If we've not got them, by ceas-
/ ing to think of riches as the end and
goal of life's effort: and this we
shall best do by undertaking to
handle riches in accordance with the
rule of righteousness, to administer
riches, if they have been entrusted to
us. in accordance with the ideal OF
justice, by seeking to use riches in
obedience to the law Of love. That's
what it is to know God, the God
who exercises righteousness and
justice and love on the earth A
man can't know God, that kind of a
God. the christian kind of a God,
who fails as he exercises these great
instincts ,of life in their relation to
riches, to exercise them in obedience
to the rifles and laws which these
great virtues cnjoin. If he has riches
let him ask himself; have they been
secured righteously, is he admins
tering them justly, is he using theul
to express loving kindness toward
his fellows If he has not riches lei
him ask himself whether he is seek
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25

front Of his shoulder and the other
end dragging on the ground, he
marched out to the placed called
Calvary where / saw the attend
ants lift the cross from his back and
give him a rest. After while it
was again placed on his back and
shoulder and slowly he dragged it
back to the Morada. Others ap-
peared with whips made from the f.
Der of the soap plant, whipping their
bare backs at every step.
Il was told that there had been in
stances of persons being nailed to
the cross for short periods of time.
In one town l passed a church in
which one of these victims is said
to have died on the cross. Many lives
have thus been sacrificed. Many
have been seen walking barefooted
over cactus thorns."
During his travels Rev. Mr.. Proper
fell down a flight of 10 steps, was
thrown from spring wagon and
was in railroad wreck.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25

Rev. D. D. Proper, associate edi-
fee secretary of the American Bap-
tbs: Home Mission society, is one
Of Omaha's most extensive travel
ers. He will be 76 years old on the
last day of this month, has been in
missionary work Al years, and he
is equal to $4,000 miles of travelling
during a years work Last year he
covered more than $4,000 miles on
railroad lines, in automobiles, in
horse-drawn vehicles and on foot.
He began his missionary work in
Iowa during 1879, as state Sunday
school missionary and has been in
nearly every state in the union.
He has seen many interesting
sights and had many experiences
during long career. He related
the following account of visit to
the "Penitentes:"
Self inflicted Torture.
Several years ago / had desire
to see the Penitentes, a secret re-
ligious order or sect among the
Mexicans. This order was founded
in Spain more than 500 years ago
and is sometimes called the Third
Order of Franciscans, and some
times The Penitente brothers. They
believe in self-inficted torture Of
the body to expiate the sins OF the
soul.
"In company with Rev. w. B.
Pope. state missionary of Colorado,
we visited Velarde, N. NJ, where
our Baptist Mexican mission school
was located. On Thursday before
Easter we visited Alcalde, an adobe
village, where some Of these people
lived and where they usually went
through their performances during
the week before Easter. As we
drove up to the place, | saw COM
pany OF men with bodies barred to
the waist. marching with punches of
cactus thorns strapped to their
backs to keep them from falling.
They had made the trip from the
Morada. or lodge house, out of
Calvary, place where a cross had
seen erected, and were returnig,
thus making one mile for the round
trip, with thorns puncturing the
skin at every step.
Die on the Cross.
".After this there was the cross
bearing exercise. The poor victim
Of superstition was a man about 40
years old. The cross was a hewed
log about Is feet long, with a cross
beam near the top. With one end
an his back and the crossbeam il
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25

with the aid of the government i'm
mediately set to work to take ad-
vantage of The splendid opportuni-
ties which this method affords in
gaining and holding supremacy in
the worlds commerce. Now it's
squarely up to America to go to
work along these same lines and
it is the duty of the government to
cooperate with the business inter-
ests of the country in developing our
aerial transportation industry as
rapidly as brains, mechanical skill
and money will permit.
No Excuse for Waiting.
The United States is equipped to
construct airships as cheaply and
as swiftly as any other nation. But
the mere fact that this is the case is
no excuse for waiting for the other
nations of the world to take the lead
in this vitality important industry.
Italy is straining every nerve to get
into this game; France is preparing
to enter the world trade field via the
aerial route; Germany. whose Zep-
pelins have proven to be the best so
far produced will certainly not be
behind the vanguard in her efforts
to regain her lost trade in the COM
mercia1 centers of the world and she
will attempt to regain her commerce
by methods that come most readily
to hand.
That this aerial navigation applied
to commercial problems is no dream
will be readily recognized by the
student of world commercial affairs.
Last April, when the foreign trade
convention was in session at Chica-
go. Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale
university addressed the convention
on this subject and warned the as
sembled business men, some $500 in
number, representing the largest
commercial, industrial and banking
interests of the country, of the
danger that faced them if they neg
lected to take aerial transportation
into their calculations when plan
ming foreign trade campaigns.
One of the features of the use OF
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25
THE TRUE GLORY OF MAN
A Sermon by Rockwell Harmon, d. S., Minister
of the First Church of Christ in Hartford Conn.

Text, Jeremiah tx, 1874: "Thus
saith Jehovah, let not the wise man
glory in his wisdom, neither let the
mighty man glory in his might; let
not the rich man glory in his riche
es; but let him that glorieth glory
in this, that he hath understanding,
and knoweth me, that I am Je-
hovah. who exerciseth loving kind
ness, justice and righteousness in
the earth.'
Evidently the three major OBJ
jects of mans desire and labor have
not much changed in the past $500
years. Here is a declaration from
a man who lived and saw life and
knew it 20 generations ago, and the
inference of his declaration is that
in his time men spent their labor for
three things: wisdom, power, and
riches. These three objects are
chiefest among the objects for which
men labor today. Let us consider
them in the reverse order, which is
the order in which they Usually ap-
pear in our thought:
Men seek for riches. In the time
Of Jeremiah. the life Of his nation,
the nation of Judah. had been de-
veloping along commercial and i'll
dustrial lines for somewhat more
than 100 years. In the period be-
tween the time OF the prophets
Amos and Hosea and the prophets
Jeremiah and Ezekiel, a period of
little more than l25 years-about the
same period of time as that between
the American revolution and our
own day-the life Of the Hebrew
people had been developing primi-
tive forms Of manufacture, had been
engaging in commerce with other
nations as we'll as in domestic trade
and had been developing city life as
distinct from the nomadic and agri-
cultural life which had characterized
the nation in the earlier generations.
Now directly you have the develop
rnent of industry and commerce, you
have the development of accumu-
lated national wealth, and through
this century and quarter the prob.
lem of wealth in its effect upon the
minds and hearts of the people, and
upon national character, was a prob
lem to be faced. Amos and Hosea
faced it in the Northern Kingdom
IN the years that Immediately pre-
ceded its fall. Isaiah and Micah
faced it in the Southern Kingdom
Immediately after the siege and de-
portation Of the northern people
After nearly 100 years more hac
passed, Jeremiah faced it again ir
the years OF prosperity that charac'
terized the reign OF Josiah imme'
diately before the fall of the South,
ern Kingdom.
| Wealth stirs primitive instincts il
Human life. The instinct OF self
preservation seeks to lay up stor.
against the future. The instinct o.
self-propagation seeks to provide
fortunes for the coming generations
These powerful instincts which arr
| God-irnplanted, the exercise o.
which is necessary for the continu
lance OF human life, do thus both O
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25

This also is the result of the exercise
OF the God-implanted instinct of
self-development which leads men
to acquire knowledge and to disci-
pline themselves in the effective use
Of the knowledge they acquire. But
this also may become abnormal, in
sane and unhealthy. To seek knowl-
edge for the sake of knowledge or
even wisdom for the sake of wisdom,
using that word IN its narrower
meaning as an understanding of the
effective ways of using mans equip
lnent of knowledge-ttis also is ab-
normal, insane, and unhealthy. 1t
creates pride and arrogance, it pro-
notes class consciousness which de-
velops and ilardens into caste feel
ing and has had its great part in
making the oligarchies and aristoc-
racies and autocracies Of the world
bitter and hard and cruel in their re-
lation to the masses of mankind. It
was recognized by the prophet $500
years ago as human disease and
we can recognize it now as human
disease though far less prevalent
that the similar disease which de-
velops in relation to wealth and in
relation to power. The root of the
disease is not in wisdom itself nor
in the search for wisdom, but in the
undue, the abnormal and insane
emphasis upon wisdom which let's a
man glory in it and seek to find the
supreme satisfactions Of his life in it.
This wisdom can never give, there
fore the search is doomed to failure,
brings upon itself its own curse.
Are there not many men in our
time who are passing through this
three-fold development and who are
caught in one or another of its fate
full stages? The young man in a
normal way seeks wealth; presently
he comes abnormally to seek it. He
begins to glory in it. The disease
is upon him 1t may change its
form. He seeks normally to gain
power. He begins to glory in the ex-
crcise OF it. The diseas. is upon
him. Again it changes its form. He
seeks to gain wisdom. He assumes
the philosophical temper. He ac-
counts himself wiser than his fell
lows. He begins to glory in his wis
dom. The disease is upon him. He
becomes proud, arrogant, hard and
cold in his judgments of life or he
becomes cynical. sco-nful, isolated.
selfish, exclusive in his attitude to-
ward his fellows. 1t is the one. dis
ease manifesting itself in these vary
ing forms, old as the civilized life
of the race, new as the newest ma
tons that are now being born, al
ways cursing those whom it touches,
often deceiving those who are most
in peril of its ravages with false Sc
curities until, when it seems almost
too late, they are conscious that they
have missed life's best gifts and ac-
count all life not worth the living.
What is the remedy for this dis
ease? The old catechism which
some of us learned undertook in its
first question to set forth the an
swer. what is the chief end OF
man." was the question. "The chief
end of man." said the catechism, "is
to glorify God and enjoy Him for
ever" Now l venture humbly to
submit that more than 1000 years
before the Westminster Confession
and its catechisms, longer and
shorter. wete fashioned. the old
prophet jeremiah gave a more pene-
trating answer to che question
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25

promptly loaded into giant dirigibles
many of which carry from 80 to lO0
tons, and 'r sported inland in {,
few days, y &c it would take weeks
TO get it delivered by the old meth
ods. Lighter. smaller airplanes will
also be employed as express carriers
for mail and special information Of
importance, such as blue prints,
plans and specifications for engineer
ing works or machine designs for
special machinery to be manufac-
turcd to order,
What does this mean to the mer-
chants of America who have been
laying plans for an organized and
consistent foreign trade campaign
1t means that their plans will come
to naught and their hopes of build
ing up and maintaining vast over
seas trade will be blasted unless we
go quietly to work to develop air
as we'll as ocean transportation IA
cilities that will guarantee prompt
delivery of merchandise shipped to
the ports of the world and destined
for inland points.
This applies particularly to South
America, where inland transporta-
ton conditions are slow, cumber-
some, inadequate or else entirely
lacking. Under present conditions
goods i.tvnded for points inland are
often transported on the backs OF
mules, burros or llamas. Where
vehicle transportation is in use the
roads are so poor. that days, weeks
and even months are sometimes con-
sumed in delivering goods to their
destination.
Solve Transportation Problems.
Where a consignment OF machin-
cry is to be delivered to a mine say,
up in the higher reaches of the
Cordilleras, it must be boxed or
Grated in parcels not to exceed 2Oo
pounds in weight and the size OF
each parcel must be carefully cal
culated SO that it will be readily
handled and properly adapted to
the means of transportation. Many
American business houses, whose
shipping departments failed to take
these conditions into consideration,
have suffered total loss on shipments
because when the goods arrived at
the port whence they were to- be
transported inland they were SO
packed as to render their being, car
rled impossible.
Think Of the appalling problem
that confronts our merchants in at
tempting to deliver gooAa .eld to a
merchant in Manaos, Brazil, a city
OF some $4,000 inhabitants, situated
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25
Fear Air Raid On World Commerce Because of Activities of
Great Britain In Promotion of Extensive Aviation Program
United States Is Only Country Now In
Position to- Compete With Plans Being
Made to Envelop World With Airlines

South Trade First Object Arrangements Have
Many Her Aircraft Stations for Both Air
planes DgPassengr Route Now Ready From England New
YBrs Embracing Far Corners of the World Dotted With
Aviation Guide Posts Aerial Light Houses
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25
Omaha Baptist Secretary
Most Extensive Traveller

Will Be rs Years Old This Month-In Missionary
Work Al Years-Covered More Than $4,000 Miles
Last Year-Describes Secret Religious Order of
Mexico
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25

gone to work to make it part of
their system of transportation.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1920-10-20

Mr.. Dcarmont studied the methods OF
bank organization and management IN
the school in New York City run by the
National City Bank, and is making a
further study Of banking system under
their supervision in London. He will
return TO the United States this spring
for a month. and then go TO the Far
East for practical work in bank organ.
ization and management. Mr.. Dear
mont was a member Of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity.
The geology department Of the Univer-
sity is to publish a brochure this fall.
containing a list Of all former students
who have studied geology and are now
engaged in geological work. A complete
history of each graduate since his de-
parture from school will be given.
+. l. Wright, assistant state boys and
girls club leader, went to Chillicothe
yesterday to attend three-day pig club
round up. In the mornings there will
be pig showing contests and judging
contests. The afternoons Will be deyot-
ed to the sale of the pigs
T. S. Townsley. poultry specialist, will
be in Cole and St. Charles counties this
week selecting hens for the certified
breeding project. He will also visit the
farm of William ]. Lemp in St. Louis
County to advise on the hen and poultry
flock.
John P. Shea has been appointed as.
sistant to Ralph Loomis as extension
specialist in marketing. Mr.. Loomis will
go to Carroll, Crundy and Buchanan
counties this week to organize a cooper
alive marketing association. Mr.. Shea
will assist in Buchanan County, Thurs
day and Friday.
Richard Ruiledge has been elected |
president of the Chamberlain Geology |
Club for this year. Roy Hall was elect
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1920-10-20

sides this it said that "All notices must
be typewriter or printed" Hand print
ing is permissible II neatly done The
advertising Of any besides the Missouri
Store and Cooperative Store is strictly
forbidden except by special permission.
The size Of the posters was regulated
by the students themselves in 1910.
The green boards on the entrance py-
Ions al Eighth street are not bulletin,
boards. When the entrance was built il
was thought that bronze tablets would be
soon substituted for the wooden doors.
but there have never been sufficient
funds to allow il. The stone pillars
themselves were built by fund left for
the purpose during the Civil War.
IF the organizations which use the
boards for advertising purposes would
remove. their posters after the date Of
the event i, would improve the appear
ance Of the boards" Mr.. Major said.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1920-10-20
NEW WHEAT CIRCULAR READY
Bulletins Issued on Hog Cholera and
Immature Corn.

A new circular, Cost Of Producing
Wheat and Oats in Missouri; 1920" by
o. r. johnson. is ready for distribution
by the Agricultural Experiment Station.
In the circular Mr.. johnson says that less
than one-6fth Of the No. 2 wheat crop
will bring a price equal to the cost Of
production and that not one county in
the state could get the cost of production
for its cat crop at the October !, 1920,
prices.
AT present labor prices continues the
circular, 'the cost of production cannot
be reduced enough to enable the wheat
crop to be sold at a prcii. Neither ag.
riculture as a class nor the general pub
lie can afford to maintain prices which
will only pay the cost Of producing the
cheapest bushel Of grain. Likewise they
cannot afford a price which will make
profitable the most expensive bushels
Station bulletin ia on Hog Cholera
and Immature Corn" by DIR. ]. W. Con.