Putnam patriot., 1921-02-25
WORLD FORGETTING
 THE FUNDAMENTALS
We Must Get Back To Spiritual Facts, Says Dr. Fallen
 In Talk Here
Small Gathering Listens To Able and
 Interesting Address

Small Gathering Listens To Able and
 Interesting Address
 Not to the pessimist, whom Dr. Pal len likened to the man who wears both belt and suspenders, nor to the op- timist, whom he likened to a man who wears neither, can we look for solu- tion of the problem of the peace of the world. But where is the middle way? asked the speaker. To find 1t is sim- pie matter, yet we have made com plex thing of it. The fact of the mat ter Is, although we have not realized it prior to the war, that we have all ways been in fight. We have been fighting barbarians since time be gan and we are still in the trenches fight ing them, and they are within as well as without, and the fight goes contin- ually on. Civilization has been in the trenches for centuries fighting the 5arbarians. The fact the speaker ought to drive home was that the only solution of the problem is return to the underlying fundamental spiritual facts that have been forgotten.
 Dr. Condo B. Fallen of New York, who spoke to less than two hundred people in Union hall, Monday eve lilg, should have been greeted by an audi ence that packed the hall. He was an impressive and magnetic speaker and is scholar and deep thinker on world problems. He came to Putnam under the auspices of Cargill Council, K. of C., and was introduced to the lament ably small audience by James J. Char ron. He took for his subject, "Carry- ing On"
 Taking his audience back to the birth of Christ. Dr. Fallen said:
 1.-Two thousand years ago the Ro- man empire was mistress of the civil ized world. Rome had subdued all nations around about her and had brought them under her yoke. She was .immense, powerful, wealthy and civilized in her way. Yet the vast ma jority of human beings in that great empire were chattel slaves. They were of no more value than a piece O! furniture. A master of thousand or ten thousand slaves could dispose of them at his will Even a master of slaves was not free man. He was himself subject to the imperial will. Caesars will was law, There was no freeing from Caesar. They had no idea of democracy.
 "How came it about that there is this great democracy in the United States? One of the provinces of that great Roman empire brought about the change in the empire. It was called Judea and was inhabited by the Jews In that province there was wonderful teaching that the individ- ual was of supreme importance; that in reality he was the equal of Caesar on his throne. It took three hundre l years to get that idea into the Roman body. That creed that came out of Judea became the recognized religion
 f the Roman empire. Rights and priv ileges were accorded the ehattel slaves. Instead of the citizens exist ing for the service of the st"te -''9 state was for the service of the citi- .ens. The trouble with the world Is hat it has forgotten those great fun lamental things The modern world has thought it we'll not to retain God in its knowledge. Religion has waned and waned because the world has thought it we'll to forget God.
 "We are up against the real thing. That is the message of the war. The first step in reconstruction is to un- 'erstand the situation The situation is spiritual, not economic. Life has become one vast problem. Everything is a problem. In days gone there were 1one of these problems.
 "What do you find now? You have he baby problem. They have an or ,anization to took after that problem, he eugenic society. It is pretty name for an ugly thing. When you "trip the mask of it Is race suicide. Then there is the scientific nurse Then comes Miss Education. There is mother problem: How we are going o educate our children.
 "The tendency today is to let the youngster have its way, it's own swe et way. Let him do what he wants, rather than what he ought. We be yin the wrong way by letting the child do what he wants rather than what he ought. We don't know yet how to ed- ucate our children,
 After his school years, when the child has learned to brush his teeth properly, he goes to college. He is met on the threshold and they ask him what he would like to study. He fol- .ows the course of least resistance through college. Finally he reaches the Fort of Missing Men. He has missed his education.
 After college comes the problem of life. There comes the sex prob