Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-31
KIWANIS HEARS
WORLD OHAVE
NATURALIZATION
Rev. Mecklenberg Says Faults
of Today Basis for Better
Order of Things.

In the midst of revolt against estab-
Iished leadership, of doubt and OF re-
sentiment and discomfort, the world ID
lyet in better condition than it has found
itself in the last 1900 years, the hey.
George Mecklenberg, pastor or me
First Methodist church, told the Al
| wants club at its luncheon meeting
Monday.
The Rev. Mr.. Mecklenberg spoke on
"Some Hopeful Signs in the Worpd
To-day"
ut is a day of discomfort ne sara.
"How many of us lived back IN the Gays
Of 1892 and 1898? Those were Gays
as bad as these-the farmers could no!
obtain a market for their products, anu
potatoes and grain sold for a few cents
a bushel.
But there was a difference In the
mood of people. They talked about
things, of course. They ,joked about
them some and they talked remedies.
They prayed for better times.
People Are Angry
How different is it today. They
are not praying. They are not kindly.
They're midway through. / was
through North Dakota last year in con-
Injection with church work and / tell you
that at that time it would not have
taken much to have organized an army
of those farmers and sent them raging
against the government
The Rev. Mr.. Mecklenberg then out-
lined some of the world conditions. IN
Guiding what he termed was a revolt
against the white race. He said that
some writers also see a revolt against
| civilization itself. This expressed itself
in Russia, where. it is estimated. 1,7oO,-
coo of the business men, i~ntellIgensla,
and ~literati have been killed in that
country, he said. Then he pointed out
the growing doubt of people of the
world in accepted standards and insti-
tutions.
At the root of faulty conditions, he
said, is the loss of faith, according to
the writing of the day.
Then turning from the gloomy pic
ture of the condition of the day as
presented by the literature and social
works. he gave his own view of the
| significance of events:
1.-THE revolt that is worrying many of
our observers today is but the birth
pain of a new civilization. In 1914,
we had gone as far as we could an the
DEVELOPMENT of the materialism that
Germany had been so effective an ex-
ponent of.
II cannot think that wen the loss
of faith is entirely a bad situation.
You professional and business men
know that even in the last 10 years
there have been such development that
there are things you all believed IN
then that are better to disbeheve today.
You medical men know that some OF
the pet theories of that time are not
followed today. You men in educational
lines know that certain principles OF
education are quite different IN their
application and ever in acceptance from
what they were then.
I'VE in the church know that some
of the things we believed 10 years ago
are better today than they were then.
We are glad that today we are free to
think as we were not free to think eten
so short a time ago. Ministers can
preach and can think religion as they
see it.
Best of all in the affairs of the
world today, is that never before in the
history of the world were the minds
of leaders so open to new ideas, SO bent
on reaching the best for mankind
Carl Riddick, republican nominee for
United States senator. spoke. Men
tioning events in Washington, Riddick
spoke of the selfishness of the per-
sons coming to the capital. |
People Are Selfish
what impresses one is the tire
mendous selfishness of people" Rid
dick said. THAT is the outstanding |
feature of the groups which come TO
us. Labor unions want to travel their
own course without consideration for
others. Coal miners are willing to stop
work and let people freeze to attain
their ends. Railway workers are eager
to stop the railways of the country
from moving to gain an advantage for
themselves.
Farmers organize and come. to
Washington urging that taxes be piled
on the people to see that the farmers
get higher prices for their produce than
it is worth"
Riddick then spoke at some length
on the subject of Americanism in gen
eral terms. He spoke feelingly of the
nations forefathers and the glorious
past. He intimated that he Wore no
mans collar.
DIR. c. /. Titus and DIR. A. 8. Chi
chester were named to have charge of
the kiwanis program November II.
when both fathers and sons week and