The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1922-02-02

Bar association he said that
Contempt for law and the present revolt against
the spirit Of authority make this age emlnsntiy
zone Of sham and counterfeit" He rejected the
easy theory that these symptoms Of q grave NAL.
Ady are merely reaction Of the World war. ar
from causing the moral sickness Of the age says
the solicitor general. the World war was In ITSELF
perhaps. btt one Of it, many symptoms. Some Of
the cO0trf6atOry causes Of the worlds disorder arc
reluctance to obey laws regarded a. unreasonable
o. sexatioas the laws delays and laxity In ad.
ainistraticn which have bred spirit Of contempt,
and the rampant individualism which began In the
Eighteenth century. with Its excessive emphasis
On the rights Of man and small stress On man's
duties. In proof Of his contention. Mr.. Beck In.
stances the records Of the criminal courts and
police dsckets; violations Of the sumptuary lava
which Ia the case Of the prohibition statute have
resulted In dnes aggreyating an estimate Of more
than $oOOOOOOOO: and ian increase In nine years
OF nearly 40 per cent 10 the comparatively mar.
row sphere Of the federal criminal Jurisdiction"
"in the greater sphere Of social life We nnd
the same revolt against the Institutions which
have the sanction Of the past" says Mr., Beck.
Laws which mark the decent restraints Of print.
speech and dress have In recent decades been In.
ereasingy disrexarded. The very foundations Of
the great and primitive institutions Of mankind
like the family. the church and the state-havs
bsee shaken. Nature itself 10 dened. Thus, the
Fundamental difference Of sex Il dsregarded BY
permanent Differentiation Of social function o..
dainsd BY God himself"
Five plaques are aGiicting humanity, said the
pops last year In . public >utterance before the
College 1t Cardinals The arst, Mr.. Beck recslisL
b the unprecedented challenge to authority: ssc.
o"d. hatred between man and man: third. alb
sormal averslOn to work fourth, the excessive
thirst for pleasure; nfth. gross materiasm which
denies the reality Of the spiritual In human nfs,
All these charges. says the lawyer, are proved In
secent experience.
II Ia. however. to Q widespread change In social
conditions rather than to any change Of mans e.
oentia nature that the solicitor general attributes
the malady Of our time. II seems to him that
"the morale Of our industrial civilization has been
shattered Work for works sake. a. the most
glorious privilege OF human faculties has zone
both ~ an ideal and a. 4 potent spirit. The con-
ception Of work ~ . degrading servitude TO be
done with reluctance and grudging inehiciency
secms to be the ideal of millions Of men Of ali
classes and In all cOuntries"
The great enigma. then which this situation
propounds TO us, and which, "like the riddle Of
the Sphinx. we viii solve or he destroyed" II this:
elias the Increase In the potential Of human now.
or. through thermodynnmicS. been accomplished BY
corresponding Increase In the potential Of human
charncter?" Then Mr.. Beck goes ON 70 SAY:
"A mass morality has been substituted for in.
dividnnl morality ana group morality generally In.
srnsnes the vices more than the virtues Of man.
What was true OF Germany was true-aithoush
N lesser degrec-of all civilized nationa In ali
If them. the individual had been submerged In
group formations. and the effect upon the chsrac.
ter "f man has not been beneficial
There nre many pnllintivcs for the evils which
have discussed. To rckindle In men the love Of
work for works sake and the spirit Of discipline,
which the lost sense Of human solidarity once IL.
srtred. would do much to solve the problem, for
work Ia the greatest moral force In the world.
II We Of this generation can only recognize that
the evil exists then the situation II not Past .sm.
edy.
II have faith In the inextnguishable spark OF
the Divine which 10 In the human soul and which
our complex mechanical civilization has not q.
tin9ulshed. OF this. the World war was In itself
. proof. All tho horrible resources Of mechan.
tcs and chemistry were utilized to coerce the
human soul, and all proved Intellectual"
A everyone knows, law. abiding citisena In .
number Of big American cities have hcen driven
by conditions TO organise iaw.cnforccmcnt com.
miitecS-a fact which would seem TO corroborats
Mr. Reck. Denver is the latest city to feel the ne
cessty Of such nm organization. The Indictment
against the city administration Is mildly expressed
BY Mrs. Mabel Stearns Noble, executive secretary
Of the Womnn's Cooperative league. who puts II
thus;
'Drunkcnnssa. immortality and gambling ure our