Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-14
NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Talks With Thinking Philadephars Subjects They
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Gently say that only three women in cvery
thousand in Egypt can read. Not much
hope for the woman's movement there. In
our own land of opportunity the draft of
several years ago revealed an illiteracy that
astounded the nation. Think also of the
other millions who can do little more than
read write.
Think of the false ideas afloat on printed
page and public platform today-morc
dangerous than the invisible germs that war
on the flesh.
Let us war against the forces that de-
Stroy the souls of men. There are such
forces. Every man wrestlcs against those
prlncipalities and powers that are not flesh
ana blood. He Is aware of that downward
pull and drift in his nature which every
bridge builder wisely takes into cOnsidcra-
tion. The thief cometh not but for to steal
and to XIII and to destroy. ! am come that
they might have life, and that they might
have 1t more abundantly.' 1t is Jesus Christ
who can give the clean heart and the right
spirit that can make our national and in
ternationnl life what IL ought to be. Ex-
PRESIDENT Patton was right when he said,
What the world needs is not an antiscptic,
nut an antitoxin. The blood must be puri
ned, for war 1t not a biological necessity.
but a spiritual disease.
Large ornaments have failed to preserve
peace. The blood soaked pages of history
pronounce that method lic America and
the world have leaped at the plan Of Sec
rrtary Hughes TO scrap instruments Of war
fare and to curtal construction. But Is not
the time ripe when we need to go further?
When some one speaks angrily to you, it's
fine thing to hold on to your temper 1t Is
better and more constructive thing to give
the soft answer that turns away wrath.
Must Restrain Passions
at Is a great thing for n man to hold his
passions in the iron grip of an unyielding
will. 1t is greater thing for him to be hred
with the expulsivG power Of new affection.
1t Is one thing TO scrap our battleships It
is another thing to show good will to sister
nation in n positive and practical way. Jesus
Christ points the way when he says: Bless
them that curse you, do good to them that
hate you. BE not overcome of evil but
overcome evil with good
"The United States of America has an un-
parallced opportunity TO demonstrate good
will and to go the second mile Joseph Cook
said The nineteenth century has mAde
this world one great ncghborhood; the
| twentieth century must make this neighbor-
hood brotherhood if the neighborhOod Is TO
| be safe
'On the boundary line Of Argentina and
| Chile there stands monument cast from
| cannon of the two republics into one colossal
| bronze statue twenty six feet In height and
| 10000 feet above the level of the sea The
Prince of Peace stands upon the granite
base; and in the stone one may read these
words:
"'Soonpr shall these mountains crumbIe
| into dust than Argentinians and Chileans
| break the peace to which they have pledged
| themselves at the feet Of Christ, the Re-
| decmer,'
To BE Real Monument
| There are more enduring and meaningful
| monuments than those of bronze, more prac-
| tiCal and convincing evidence of Il nations
| good will.
II offer the following suggestion to the
| American people in the confidence that IL
| will call to their hearts and appeal to their
| - a me- nE /,