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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-04-28
Gods Voice In The Soul.

I believe in immortality because
there is the universal instinct for eter-
nal life, and. this aspiration is both
perpetual and inextinguishable. May
we not reasonably call this the Divine
guarantee of future life? Does not
this universal desire at it's best make
valid our claim of eternal life? It is
the voice Of God in the soul. Certain
ly God has not planted. craving in
the heart Of his children for which He
has not made provision. There is. a
law of nature that for natural de-
mand there is provided a supply.
"Can anyone name single human de-
sire. which is normal, widespread and
persistent which does not have stand
ing over against it corresponding
satisfaction" How came thirst?
Without the water to satisfy it, thirst
would hav disappeared. Why do we
hunger? Because, food exists to salts
fy it. Why is there such thing as
tlrowsiness Because there is such a
thing as sleep. We have fragrance to
satisfy the nostril, beauty for the
eyes, thought for the mind and love
for the~heart. There are external re-
alities corresponding to these instincts
of humanity. Shall the deepest in
stinct of the soul go unsatisfed? The
faith in future life is one link in the
faultless chain.
To repeat, Immortality is the oldest
thought of history. It is as. universal
as the race and as persistent as his
tory. It is expressed in every. Ian
guage and written in every heart of
every age. The SOULS great enlarg-
ing thought is life eternal. ALL great
world-religions in varying creeds and
forms have borne witness to- this
truth. Art. music and literature of all
ages voice the universal faith in eter-
nal life. AS one has so beautifully
said, "In exquisite imagery they tell
us that "sleep is. the brother Of death, !"
to be followed by the dawn Of some
new and better day." And when we
go far afield in history, turning back
the religious beliefs Of ancient Baby
Ion, Egypt, Israel, Greeks, Romans
the desire for life. eternal is. there. in
it's full strength. Wordsworth breaths
it in his "Intimations of Immortality"
Carlyle expressed faith in it when he
said, with the hope Of meeting in a
brighter scene of existence, look up
on death. as the. most. inestimable
privilege Of man." Shakespeare said,
"Mount, mount, mount up, thy seat is
up on high" Henry Drummond wrote,
death is sunrise" "Never say of me
[ am Dead" said Browning.
ut must be SO, Plato, thou reasonest
we'll,
Else whence this pleasing hope, this
"There is no death! What seems so
is transition.
This life of mortal breath
Is but the suburb of the life Elysian
Whose portal we call death"
Then, too, Addison sang well when
he. said,
"The stars shall fade away, the sun
himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink
in years,
But thou shalt flourish in immortal
youth
Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-04-28
The Instinct Of Ultimate Justice

also demanded by our human instinct
for. ultimate. justice. We believe that
right ought to prevails and justice
ought always to be. done. The heart Of
man has always cried out for judg-
ment of righteousness and love. JUS
tice is to Plato the foundation Of all
existence and its inevitable end. The
Jews believed in final judgment that
should put all things right. The Ro-
mans believed that God had still a
word to say when man had done his
worst. To repeat, we believe, that JUS
tice demands a future settlement of
all earthly accounts. In fact, we de-
mand, both by heart and by reason,
another world wherein to redress the
wrongs and tragedies Of this life.
There is something in us that makes
US rebel against injustice. The sense
of justice seems to belong to our ma
tire Whence comes this instinct for
ultimate justice? Certainly we are
atle to trace it back to the spirit of
God in the course Of our lives. It is
God speaking in us, making us con-
scious of and responsible for justice.
We seek justice always-thus we have
our courts, our governments and our
wars.
If God is what Jesus knew Him to
be, We can believe He is a Being pow
erful, wise and beneficient. With
these unerring attributes God must
do right. Indeed, He cannot do other
wise. Certainly He has not done
right if this life is all there is. Know
ing God as we do, can we think of
Him thrusting thousands upon thous-
ands Of believing men and women in
to eternal nothingnass"? Could any
true father take his own offspring or
another's and destroy them forever :?
1 think not if it lay within his power
to keep them alive. Christ was con-
tinually pointing forward to the day
of reckoning: He taught there will be
another life in which to right wrongs
and vindicate the moral government
of God. God will some day redress
the injustice and inequalities of this
life. The heart of man, believing that
God must be just, ;nstinctively looks
beyond to a life Of superior adjust
ments when wrongs shall be righted
and where supreme goodness shall
have the chance it deserves. We be-
lieve that death does not level all.
Take, for instance, the suffering and
death of Christ? Can we believe that
human life is a. voyage Of derelicts,
with. no chart, no helm, no. port? The
fact is, Gods own character is involv-
ed. Jesus was cruelty killed through
Pilates selfish concern. Is the judg-
ment seat of, Plate to be the last
word? Christ was cowardly and has
thy fumbled into the hands of a con-
temptible official like. PLATE, and was
hustled off to the cross to perish mis-
erably.
(To be continued)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-04-28
Why | Believe In. Immortality
---By REV. PIERCE S. ELLIS

The wreck of matter, the crush of
worlds"
Somewhere have read this quota
ton which helps me,
There is no room for death,
Nor atom that His might could rem
der void;
Thou-Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art shall never be de-
stroyed."
But to me the most sublime and
comforting proof for life to come is
found in the words of Tennyson:-
IF e'er when faith hath fallen asleep,
I heard o. voice believe no more,
And heard an ever breaking shore
That tumbled in the goddess deep,
A warmth within the heart would
The freezing seasons colder part,
And like man in wrath the heart
Stood up and answered, 81 have felt. u
The sense of permanence in life is
a necessary demand of the moral ma
ture Of mankind.
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
The Widening of Streets to
Relieve Traffic Congestion
By BILL PRICE.

The Washington Board of Trade unanimously adopted
report of its traffic committee which includes among other
things the widening OF these streets in
busy sections of Washington
street from Fifth to Fourteenth;
Tenth street. from street to Massachusetts avenue;
Twelfth street. from New York to Massachusetts
avenue
Thirteenth street. Massachusetts,
Fifteenth street. from New York avenue to street.
The widening of streets the congested part of Wash
ngon has been consistently advocated in this newspaper
and its position receives the strong backing OF power
full trade body
Thirteenth several times referred to in these
columns ideal street for widening that traffic conditions
thoroughfare enhanced If Thirteenth street should
be wdened though the Improvement should extend much
farther south than f street
Traffic troubles will decrease in Washington They
will multiply with the steadily increasing number Of
beS and the growth OF business activities In part OF the
city where congestion becomes greater each year.
The sidewalks of many Washington streets unnecessarily
wide. Thirteenth street fair sample The sidewalk space
of that street. in the neighborhoods mentioned wide
entire cities It has been estimated
much thirty feet may be added to the roadway of
Thirteenth That number of feet be taken
the sidewalks of of the streets mentioned in the thorough
" prepared report Of Mr.. w. PEARCE RAYNER and his
associates but the roaways substantially wdened
and plenty of width remain for pedestrians.
The engineers Of the District government will doubt
give greater attention. in future street development this
question Of the widest possible roadways The automobile
Is part Of the business and social life of the American
people It's hardly decrease unless
along with another continuance for quick
At any rate it is evident that legs grow out Of
except for dancing, football baseball and golf we must
prepare for Of streets congested with swift
the fellow who persists walking; they be for
business establishments which seek the convenient contact
with the buying public the easier will be the lot Of motorists
who must go to and fro missions Of business pleasure
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
FAIL TO FIND
EARLY DRY
STATUTE
Opyright. 1928. by Star Company.

HARTFORD. Conn.-If the
records of English news
IL papers in the case are au-
thentic, which some doubt, the
spirit Of prohibition was active
in America long before Mr.. Vol
stead first saw the light.
A New England jurist, return
ing recently from London, re-
ported having read the following
in a British publication which
prints daily a column Of news
reputed to be 100 years old:
"A law has been passed re-
Gently by the legislature of Con.
necticut which provides that idle
and drunken persons shall be
publicly posted, and that all who
sell spirits to any person who
has been so posted, shall be
fined seven dollars for each Of
tense; and II sold by a licensed
victualer, his license shall be void.
The trial may be had before any
justice Of the peace, and there is
no appeal from his decision"
Local lawyers have been unsuc-
cessful thus far in searching for
the statue. It may have existed,
say some. merely in the minds Of
the writer, as in the case Of the
famous old blue Laws" which,
1t Is held, seem to have been con-
Jured up in the Imagination OF q
British tourist.
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
LUCY LOWELL ON GOOD TASTE
AND SMOKING

A FTER all, it's possible that
"a what IL criticized az a slap
L n in the face of morality may
be only a f1nger-snapping at good
taste.
And good taste. actually, il q
matter Of geography.
I'm thinking specially Of the
matter Of feminine cigarette eInolk.
ing.
Most women do not smoke. but
many of them do, And It's be-
cause women who do smoke ex-
ercise their habit in places where
the modern Observation-Disclosures
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES policy has
not yet sanctioned tho feminine
cigarette that they are criticised
by other women,
And by men-the real stand-nat.
ters of the day.
It's bravado, Of eourse-a kid
dish gesture intended to show the
offenders don't care who sees or
what 10 aaid, But Il only proves
that they do care very much in
deed!
1t was braVada, suppose, that
caused an eighteeR.Fearold girl
to light up" ON a ferryboat the
other day, 1t surely was not
ignorance of rule of etiquette
which cautioRs against brewing at
tention, for she had eh1eyed every
educational advantage Of family.
wealth and position.
Her rakish gesture only landed
her in court, however,, where 1t
struck the anti-climax of a 81 fine.
But it is likely that the poor
modern woman" eaIne in far q
The Washington times., 1923-11-15

thorough ralSing over the Goals be-
cause Of what this silly girl did!
Something of the same bTaVado
sends a pretty little stenographer
I know into the rest room where
abe works, to smoke the cigar
cite she declares she can't got on
ono - looking.
The dozen or more girls In the
same office do not smoke.
tsSozno of them think I'm awful
and don't speak to me, but / don't
care"
She had this to say about the
"aftuation" she has created tor
herself among her co-workers. But
ahe does care or abe wouldn't
bother to keep II upl
But in London perfectly proper
and admirable women have
annexed for years. even in such
public places as have not yet
harbored the feminine smoker In
America, Some OF the places are
hotel hobbies. The feminine cigar
cite has been seen 30 often and for
SO long a time there that It Ia
good form.
So, when these English smokers
were criticized as exponenta of
(legeneracy. it seems to me that
the critic. an American clergy
nan Of radical tendencies. was
the one who affronted the social
code, since ne was IN the position
Of an alien against custom.
Doing as the Romans DO when
TN Rome is a good old guide
trite but safe.
Econypight 1873, king FeatHroa
SVndiOatA. Inca
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN

A POWERFUL and sagacious
A mind anticipates coming
"A events by forethought. CON-
advance of what may possible
happen in either case. and what
ought to be done in that event.
1t Is the duty Of a man to do
what is Straightforward and hon
orable.
We should never, by stunning
dangers, cause ourselves TO seem
coWardly and timid, but we
should also avoid unnecessarily
exposing ourselves to danger,
than which nothing can be more
foolish.
Censure- and criticism never
hurt anybody. If false. they can
not harm you, unless you are
wanting in character. And II
true, they show a man his weak
points, and forewarn him against
failure and trouble.
The hardest thing in the world
10 W seI pOS"oS1 Va
Oh, how hard II Is to die. and
not to be able to leave the world
any better for one little life
in it,
Hope is q pleasant acQuaint-
ance, but an unsafe friend. Hope
is not the man for your banker.
but he may do very well for
travelling companion.
What commonly prevents US
from exhibiting the bottom of our
hearts to our friends is not so
much any distrust we have Of
them as the distrust we have of
ourselves.
Good taste springs more from
Judgment than from intellect.
Copyright 1923. by Newspaper
Feature Service. Incl
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON HOW
PORTENTS ARE BUILT UP
By Garrett p. Serviss.
Comet" Described in Letter Not Forerunner of
Disasters Which Seemed Follow.
and Writer on Scientific Topics

Famous Astronomer and Writer on >
III ERE is a letter which is
significant of the state
~ of mind Of too many peo-
pie to be thrown aside without
reply. Comes from Berkeley, CAL
"On Saturday, August %, 1923.
between 7:15 and 8 o'clock p. m, I
saw on the sky what looked at first
like an airplane with a bright
streaming light behind. But as 1t
did not move but stayed station
airy, l began to think it was a
comet star. Was something like
this. Here the writer inserts q
sketch very like the ordinary repre-
sentat1on of comet with a
straight, gradually widening taiD.
The brightness was like the
moon on a star. l called q CO.
workers attention to 1t. Then
TWO or three others, l believe, saw
II. 1t was visible from three to
i've minutes, then vanished.
The next day / was telling my
wlre about 1t, and her mother said
that she believed 1t was a sign,
or warning, OF some great disaster
which was coming.
was IL Warnmg3
within a day or 80 the terrible
electric and thunder storm visited
the East Bay, the worst ever
known In that district. Then the
next saturday. September 1, the
great Japan disaster came. Then.
1ep'eHoer 8, great explosion at
alhoie powder works. Yesterday,
Septemoer 10. eclipse of the sun,
LArst or Its kind in 100 years
ana When last evenings paper
came II was headed: Navy dis
aster. sea crash etc.
since all these disasters have
happened since l saw the peculiar
nEht IN the heavens on August
10 IL mas made me take notice.
1nereIore | am writing to you to
ASK was 1t really comet / saw,
OF was 1t warning of the forth
it,"
II the writer had only waited a
niue longer he could have In
cluded the great fire In Berkeley
III ms most formidable list of dis
aSters' all announced by the
warning light that he saw in the
SKY! This seems to have been &
Wno!esaie portent, to whose not
ali 1lsh were alike welcome. It's
range In space and time was no
1858 wonderful than in the species
OF olsaster included. First.
nehtnlng struck nearby, at East
Bay; then the earth heaVed on the
other side OF the globe and Japan
was overwhelmed with a terrible
catastrophe; after that, back
nome came the wave of disaster,
much reduced. however. since
now It caused only a local powder
explosion. But consider the nsxt
event In this extraordinary chain
81 naked calamity ana marvel,
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
sPARKLETs.

SPARKLE TS.
The fetIo1v 1Oho thinks himself
o. X. should be awakened from
has conceit by a K. O.
The fellow stepping ON tho gas
Assumed the speeder'9 role,
But soon he passed from this cold
Today he shOveIs coal.
LOVE. IT is said,
IS A beautiful
THING THAT mere
MAN CANNOT define,
BUT
1T SEEMS to me
THAT A ton of coal
is AS beautiful
AND ALMOST as
EXPENSIVE.
A BUGHOUSE FABLE-A
noted lecturer recently said that
he believed that the average golfer
was by far more truthful than the
rest Of mankind.
The bride brought forth her biscuits,
And he, the poor old bl0ke,
Found them to be quite perfect,
Now can't you see the Joke?
Uncle Nose says: eft am all
very we'll TO- some people to
plead To- peace, but dey ought to
know dat ALL of US po' Oh mar
ried men can't afford to get a
divorce" JOE H. HOLMAN.
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
Once-Overs
DO NOT SHIFT TO YOUR WIFE THE BURDEN OF
ENTERTAINING YOUR PARENTS

Sons you who are living in cities and whose parents
from the small town the coming to visit Won,
during the winter, listen.
What are you going to do with them going to
your wife the burden of entertaining them?
Are you going to put the that you cannot get
away from the shop office long enough show them
of the sights of the city?
Now you do not want to admit it, but isn't because
really do not want to take them about that make
excuses?
Of not ashamed of them YOU are not
pleased with the way they dress and their nsophscated
ways and there other things you would rather do if
you could take day off.
Say, son, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Dad and mother like to go about with your wife but
they want to be along for you most
20 them
Think it before you shift the entertainment of your
parents to some one else, even to your WIFE
The Washington times., 1923-11-15

entiftc Topics or Popular Interest.
the eclipse Of the sun, First of It's
kind in 100 years.! After that
leap into space the succeeding
performance of the demon of the
portent seems insignificant, in
deed-only a crash of vessels at
sea.
Superstition Only.
It is difficult to treat seriously
the kind Of thinking that could
link such incongruous occurrences
together and call them fulfill
ments of a warning which took
the form OF puzzling light mo-
mentarily seen in the sky by only
three or four persons, none Of
whom was personally affected by
any Of the subsequent disasters.
or was in a position to make the
warning" effective by giving II
immediate and wide publicity
1t is characteristic of the super
stitious mind to disregard the
plainest teachings of fact and
reason. The eclipse of the sun
on September 10 was included in
the list Of disasters" probably
because eclipses rave always been
dreaded by ignorance. for the
simple reason that their causes
seem mysterious to those who
know nothing about astronomy.
AS to the nature of the comet.
like light that was seen by the
writer of the letter, I can express
no decided opinion, lacking suffi-
cient data. In these days of air
planes, light projectors. etc. 1t is
not easy to say what n particular
illumination briefly seen in the
day may have been due to. 1t
certainly was not a comet, and
it's motionlessness shows that 1t
was not meteorite. In such
cases the observer should care
fully note all the attending cir
cumstanoes. There Is nothing
requiring more rigid criticism than
the reports which the eyes send
to the brain concerning unex-
pected and unfamiliar phenomena.
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
SAP AND SALT
BY Bert Moses.

Men in the right are rarely 30
stubborn as men in the wrong.
Outside Of the Joke column old
maids and mothers.in-law are
mighty nice folks.
Those who fight on the right
side always win, oven when de-
feated,
There Ia no glory in "Srinning
and bearing" a misfortune when
you can help yourself.
Some peoples religion is like
a life'preSorVer--to be used only
when danger threatens.
The absence OF intelligence is
characteristic of mon who nave q
perpetual itch for arguing.
The smell of coffee and the
sizzling OF frying ham take first
place in the glories of the days
dawn.
1T 10 hard to see how Germany,
II victorious. could have wrought
more woe than her defeat has
done.
Hez Heck says! It's a fool
flea that parks On Q shOrtshatred
dog"
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
Ban Nah JOng

~ UALA LUMPUK, Malay
~ Cinnamon In Malay, and par
IN ticularly in Kuala Lumpuk
have a crouch. for 1t has been
decided that 1t 10 Illegal for them
to play their national two-thou-
sand-year old game-Mah Jong-
In any house In which the occu-
pant takes a percentage,
Eight Chinese were hailed to
court by the Malay cops for in
dulRing IN the pastime. with the
result that tho occupant of the
house was fined $3.50. each player
IS, while some 800 found on the
playing table was c0nfiscated,
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
1924, and the Ku KluX
How Powerful Will They Be-

At Fort Wayne Ku Klux speaker Endorsed presidential
candidate for 1924 Ex-Governor Frank O. Lowden, a con-
spcuous candidate of 1920 Whether Mr. Lowden knows
that the Ku Klux Khan approves him. wants them
him. he has not said Don't judge hastily this first
official by the Khan concerning 1924
well informed the Klan has power enough prevent
the election of anybody opposed to them.
You observe all possible and impossible presidential cand
dates have had little nothing all say the Ku
K1ux movement.
Ned McLeans Cincinnati Enquirer published in powerful
Ku Kux Khan territory Let pity be bestowed upon
the hapess individuals who candidates for public
in 1924 A. D. The Ku Kux Khan notified or cand
dates will suffer loss of their ambitions
Nineteen hundred and twenty four be complicated
year, it seems even if Henry Ford does stay
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
Here's Hope of Immortality
This Mothers Will Live Forever.

Mrs Carrie McFeely of Chicago the wife of tuber
cuar husband and the mother of five tubercuar children To
keep her family she has been working laundress
charwoman The doctors found her in weakened condition
and learned that she had been selling her blood for
five dollars pint in order enough money food
and fuel for her children and their father
This poor woman in her misery dgnfes human nature
than all the famous who fox-trot and glitter
hmelight
More than argument and than prophecy, fine
white soul like that of this points toward mmor
tally It shows that the soul perpetuating If
this not the last word in devotion then have
heard it.
Some day society will become sufficiently civilized treat
its mothers with much respect and it devoes to its
cattle and its hogs!
You be that great Chicago will greatest
suffer!
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
GRATITUDE

am grateful. deeply grateful, an NM
worthy tho I be
When o scholar and poet dOffB his
classic lid to me.
L am hOnOred,. highly hOnOreds and 10
makes my heart rejoice
To listen to the music Of his SOFT,
sweet Irish voice.
am grateful, deeply grateful, am
living in q town,
Where everything IL going mp and
bOOtleg's going down;
Where the price of food Is getting high
and higher every day,
And the Coal League and the Rent
Board try to keep the wolves away.
/ am grateful, deeply grateful, that
the Kaiser's coming back
To reaeguEf1e possession of the old
historic shack.
IL viii be repetition on . somewhat
smaller scale
OF Maps come back" from EIba, with
the allies on his trail.
i am grateful, deeply, that Cur Wood
row got q chance
To radio his compliments to Italy and
France.
Perhaps they didn't hear him, Or
IMAGINED whom he spoke,
He simply save expression TO q diplO-
matte Joke.
WILL 7. WHELAN.
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
Present Villa

~ OME.-Rome municipal au.
thor1ties have decided to
~ purchase and restore an
ancient villa at Caminata for
presentation to Mussolini. Musso-
lini has siRnified his grateful &C.
ceptance Of tho gift OF the villa,
which 10 not Tar from his birth
DlAcA
The Washington times., 1923-11-15
Record Drinker

W ELFAST-South Tyrone's an
nual drinking competition
~ was won by q man who
drank fourteen bottles of stout.
He emptied the liquor into q
basin mixed it with eggs and con-
sumed II in record time.
The Washington times., 1923-11-15

Dear Bill: TVe made q bet
that the best society pro
noMnces It "etikwet," and not
etiquette. Do / aUim?
JESSTCA.