The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-11-29
SUNDAY NIGHT MUSINGS
By c. T. RAWALT
KANSAS JUDGE SAYS U. S. is AMUSEMENT MAD

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The average home is nothing than place to
eat and sleep it has ceased to be shrine
These statements were made Monday by Judge W. C.
tion, at the opening of the annual convention.
People have gone amusement mad" Judge Harris
Jazz life, cheap reading and cheap thinking the
chief Ts Sharaeterlstcs ] III sol Of modern people
ou law of people in the world who pretend
The speaker quoted murder statistics showing SO
killed in England in one year, 5s5 in France and 164o in
What need is revival the home that teaches
morality religion and reverence for law and God" he
The judge is right but he certainly given but SUI
percal thought to the subject his prescription would
have been qualified by something in the way prepare
tory treatment similar that with which the skilled
surgeon approaches major operation 1t has taken
good many to away from the when good
old fashioned religion had influence with the people
Times change and the home the judge thinks of gone
never to return until calamity destroys
the superficial growth that has taken place Respect
for law will when the of cataclysm de-
sroys the tones of foolish present exist
ing the law books of every the Union Al
mighty God succeeded in putting in ten short
all the laws he deemed necessary govern creation
The balance he left to the inexorable of
laws not beyond the comprehension of all His chill
dren The have made beyond the compre-
henson of even learned urists like Judge Harris We
have doubt he has been frequently by
perior courts) The Judge thinking about prohibition
when he spoke of law vioator At least he considered
his associates the opportunity to living judges
All law ought to be mandatory prohibory And law
ought to be plain The ten Thou
Shalt in the other Thou Shalt Not" People can
understand laws like that without hiring some legal light
to interpret them. They have had experience with
laws that understand that they have to
ignore all laws unless they happen invoke
them for their benefit benefit of discussion
let get back to first principles 1t be conceded
that crime, SINFUL unnatural crime is ourishing this
country before The Judge has doubtless
correctly diagnosed the primary But how may
hope regain the lost of quiet decent orderly
homelike home? We hope Judge Harris old enough to
remember the days when that of homes
in his least. The Judge indicts jazz
What brought it about? When life normal the joys
of life found in the homes of the land The boys
and girls gathered evenings and in and and
story, in modest dances usually under the of par
who participated mentally at least in their pleas
they spent far enjoyable evenings than they
now do in the poisonous atmosphere of crowded ball
The girls of that period did silk stock
ings. They did not need them Their skirts long
enough render silk hosiery entirely unnecessary They
did not have to their hind legs
the attention of he thing to the possibility of there
being something better higher up. Their cheap
est may have been trae loose throat
but the dairy door not left partially The boys
who played and danced with them invited by
personal display of the girls undue intimacy Respect
for their sweethearts dominating characteristic
and eroc thought suppressed because contributing
fuence invited it, The cheapness of their pleasures did
not lead the boys consider ways for acquiring money
beyond their earning capacity Today boy who has
not access to parental purse well filed is under
strong temptation get money other than honestly He
beseged with demands for expenditure which he
with the product his toll, he considers
gambling crooked tricks and lastly the conversion of
the property of others to his personal Religion of
today has little if any influence the youth because it
has been commerciazed to extent that it has lost
all the respect people used feel for it Preaching
profession be skilfully followed and cultivated until
soft berth refined and oaoulent people rewards
industry in the Vineyard of the Lord" The old time
preacher is a the old time home Music has
been prosttuted along with everything else and indecent
takes the of melody that pointed the listener
to the very gates of heaven worship took place
in modest buildings sanctifed by the which they
put. The log cabin in the frame struc-
ture sod building the plains Today those who still
attend church erected at expense of
hundreds of thousands with spires high they tickle the
angels feet, and which in themselves constitute
preston of utter aoofness from the people in
whom is the bone and sinew of the oldtme religion
the judge reincarnate. No your Honor
primeval innocence and simple honesty. The
world Old and good things permanently de-
soyed and artcality in morals and religion have taken
their place Much study be had to evolve plan for
preparing the patient-socety at large-for the
shall health decency a sick and
suffering world
VIM G. McADOO is at present the strong man for the
Democratic nomination for president And already
are being laid by the bewethers of the Democracy to
sdetrack him for something suits big business bet
ter If they used