The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-10-14
LOQUENT APPEAL
FOR The YOUNG.
DARIUS A. BROWN MAKES
FORCIBLE ADDRESS TO
CROWDED HOUSE.

Speaking under the auspices of
the Ely Moose lodge at the Au-
ditorium Friday evening, Darius A.
Brown, a former mayor of Kansas
City, Mo-, made one of the finest
addresses ever listened to here
using Mooseheart as a theme with
which he hammered home facts
and figures and plain truths re-
lating to the subject of his adj
dress, ''The Men and Women of
Tomorrow"
81 will speak in a perfectly
frank, straightforward manner"
said Mr.. Brown, at the beginning
of his address, ION what believe
to be a solution of the social and
industrial problems. / believe
know of a system which we might
call an insurance, altho it is not
life insurance or sick and accident
insurance, by which any honest
working man may, within his
means, know for Certainty that no
matter what may happen to him or
know the pain Of poverty nor the
ignOminy of ignorance.
He said in part: "This system
Of social insurance has been
worked out by the l.. o. NJ, one
of the greatest fraternities of the
world. The Moose have developed
the system and the credit is due
the Moose, not only of having the
protection in operation as a shell
ter over the heads of millions of
children but as well this great or
ganization can point with pride to
thousand or more boys and girls
who have, thru this plan, been
lifted from the depths and started
on Their way to the right, the true
and the beautiful
"There are three subjects of
controversy, the discussions of
which are prohibited and barred,
and those three subjects are Sec
tartan religion, partisan politics
and the controversies between
worker and employer. The Jew
and the Gentle, the Catholic and
Protestant, the Christian Scientist,
and the adherents of every re-
ligious faith meet upon a common
level, each tolerant of the religious
faith or opinion of the other and
each recognizing the right privi-
lege of the other to worship God
according to the dictates of his
conscience and according to his
understanding of Gods divine viii.
All we require is that each shall
realize that we are all in the
hands of higher being, Of a
higher power
The doctrine / am pleading for
and the doctrine of the L. o. o.
NJ. is that no matter how low a
man or woman may have fallen in
the human scale, just so long as
ne or she shows an intention and
disposition to live an honest, de-
cent, upright life in the commu-
nifty, let's wash the slate clean
and give them a chance. He that
is without sin, let him cast the first
stone.
"Altho we Americans eat better
food, wear better clothes, live in
better furnished homes and enjoy
more comforts, conveniences and
Injuries than anybody else in
Gods earth, yet we are brought
face to face with facts and stats
tics which force the blush OF
shame to the cheek of every real
American. In the operation OF
the draft law it was found that
20 per cent of the boys of the
land were physically and mentally
unfit for the service of their
country in her time of need. A
disgracefully large percentage were
unable to read and write the Ian.
guage of their country. Seventy.
/ five per cent of all arrangements
before our criminal courts are OF
boys under the age Of 81 years
One boy in every three is need OF
medical attention. Sixty per cent
OF the public school children are
underfed and underweight. -Four
out of FIVE receive only a gram.
mar school education. Less thar
! ten. per cent receive q high schooj
diploma. Less than three per cert