Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-07-16
WHATS THE MATTER WITH AMERICA

What's the matter with America ?" query intel
lectuals, reiormers. preachers. social workers
Socioogists and other thinkers. The various dag
noses still blame the war blame industrial instabil-
ity. blame jazz blame loose morality, blame the
dollar quest, blame what not
The real trouble with America in a nut she'll is
that America has departed from the teachings Of
Jesus Christ for the purity and freedom 10 accept
which teachings. as man willcd, this nation was
primarily founded On that theory Of what's the
matter with America such brilliantly edited and
eHan ,-uar journals as the Manufacturers Rec
ord agrees. So. OF course, do the majority Of all
reformers preachers and socioogi,ts. 1t is prob
able That even II. c. Wells. were hA 10 make an
analysis of the situation in America would agree
that radical departure from the ethical principle,
cnunciated by Christ is the underlying cause Of
what's the matter with America?
That there is something the matter viii imerica
is indisputable except perhaps by some so-callcd
patriots who arc so narrow minded their thoughts
never get beyond the shores OF the Atlantic and
Pacific.
Witness such record as this: In London last
year there were nine murders, in Chicago less than
one-third the size OF London there were Jos mur-
ders. In Wichita Kan, probably a higher standard
city morally than the average city It's size in this
country there were ten murders. or one more than
IN the English city 100 times as big as Wichita.
The obvious reason for this vast difference Is
that justice is more summary in England Clever
lawyers money, law technicaitcs and lack oi the
feeling Of moral obligation to society ON the part
81 Jurors and courts all tend 10 the thwartiug Of
Justice.
1t might be argued that retrbu,ion by law is OF
lie cd Mosaic law and is the antithesis OF the
teachings Of Christ But there is no conflict in the
golden Rule and the punishment Of crime. II is a
,rryice to the race that crime lie prohibited even
fhen nemesis must be brought into such prohbi
ION. Ii the execution OF criminal ended in giving
ctribuuon or getting vengeance for the individual
harmed, then would the great ethical doctrine OF
Christ be violated. But the individual is but an
nifty in tire composite whole which must be reck
med with iather than the separated individual
Employers and laborerS alike admit that the
only pumauct solution ior such nm industrial up
heaga as rock, the nation in the railway strike
IS The application of Chri,ls principles The Rail
way Labor Board may be able to prevent some
Strikes and settle others. The Government, with its
mailed fist may end strikes. But there is no per
manent solution save in the application OF the
Golden Rule.
That IS no deastic, romantic. theological dream
q disordered brain. Cold blooded business men.
economi-'s, all thinkers though they may them
selves not accept the DIVINITY cf Jesus Christ are
practically at one in saying the permanent solution
OF this fearful struggle between capital and labor,
THIS period OF travail through which the working
man Is going as he is born into new freedom the
permanent and only solution, Is the teachings 81
Jesus Chest.
no industrial oppression, unreaSonableness oi
'-D.i, .44z, sorry courts the World War or what
No IS not what's the matter with America
Bring back one OF the Pilgrim Fathers Let him
s'and'on those shores once rugged and wild where
etce he stood now cultivated aud eeinuing L. show
me -gns Of civilization that is Liable - become
eifc'e bet him rear JAZZ. rilald laughter where
once he heard the church bell e, him see EMPLOYER
End employe graphing together ,,hcre once he saw
facid working together for the e,'p end, let him
- aarderers 'sesIe justice. political grafttrs, high
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