Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-15
LARGE AUDIENCE
HEARS CHRISTIAN
LEADER At COLBY

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LEADER At COLBY
Before one OF the largest crowds
that has ever filled Memorial chapel
at Colby college. Sherwood Eddy,
world-renowned lecturer and au-
thority on Christian leadership,
made his opening address to the
students of Colby college yesterday
morning shortly before noon. The
college chapel was jammed to the
doors with students of the college
who had turned out in a body to lis
ten to the noted speaker.
DR.. George F. Parmenter. chair
man of the executive committee of
the college. in the absence of Pres
/ ident Arthur J. Roberts, introduced
/ the speaker to the students.
Mr.. Eddy said that he was just
/ back from a years journey through
all OF the countries of Europe and
Asia and around the world, in which
he had taken the opportunity to
make a more intensive study into
the social and economical problems
of the nations of the world. He
pt"lNt tiilt III uii HuSil
of travelling about the world he
had never been so surprised with
the forward movements that had
, taken place in practically every
country that he had visited.
| He stated that the nations of the
world are fast mastering the more
, material forces and are gradually
coming into spiritual forces. The
fnt h;e
! was result CT youth CT these ma
tions growing tired of the continual
oppression, and military powers that
have ruleo the European nations
for hundreds of years. He stated
, that the world problems were divid-
ed into three classes-industrial
! racial and international strife The
/ speaker said that this was a youth
! movement against the old order. He
/ also said that the two primary or
| basic ideals of life were hunger and
! love but that during the last years
, this had been changed into selfish
, ness and lust and that the exploita-
ton OF nations and peoples had led
to periodic wars. The students of
the world have organized against
! the movement of materialism and
militarism to bring forth love and
peace.
In taking the countries of Europe
and Asia separately and describing
their conditions, the speaker first
mentioned Japan. He said that This
Far Eastern power had felt an up
heaval far greater but less phySi-
cally noticeable than the terrible
earthquake; that the new order was
coming to the front in rapid time
and that youth was opposed to the
i fcudal militarism which had been
/ the ideai of the nation.
! Mr.. Eddy spoke of the conditions
1 in Korea and told of the great
change in that country since their
declaration of independence more
IMAM hNe years ago. when more than
1000 persons quietly declared their
independence and peacefully went to
Japan prisons though ultimately
wore out the Japanese defiance
through peaceful methods. He stat
ed that several years ago Korea was
one of the worst nations in the
world for graft and crooked politi-
clans out this had all passed and the
people were now under the influ-
ence OF Christian leadership and
, were progressing rapidly.
Continuing with the smaller coun-
tries the speaker covered the Philli-
pines. China. India and Egypt. Then
turning to Russia. he spent consid-
eraple time in telling of the condi =
ions in that country. Russia. he de-
! CARED. is in a far different state than
. ore is lead to belive. He stated thai
the country and it's conditions were
n great surprise to him in that thew
were peacefully doing business and
that the city of Moscow had inoreas-
eu II population from one million
TO two million since the war. Ac
cording to Mr.. Eddy. the Red Terror
has passed and the anarchists are not
/ in control of the country. True. he
said that the Communists party in
| Russia ruled everything but that they
We're not what they have been paint
| ed by utterly false reports which
! nave reached this country. He sta :
TED that the Anarchists and the Boil
SheViSts. or members of the Com
nlunlstic party, were bitter enemies
and that the later did all possible to
rld the country of the Anarchists.
Mr.. Eddy pointed out that the Boil
she vistic party stood for law and
order while the Anarchists believed
, IN neither. The speaker went on to
say that the Communistic partv
stood for no religion. no marriarge
and the common distribution of prop =
erty but he absolutely refuted the
statement that has been made that
the women of Russia have been ma =
tionalized, or been made common
property.
He stated that the famine was also
past and that the peasants of the
country We're prosperous and happy.
The government has established a
standard Of currency that is far bet
ter than even that of the Cnietd
States and which aids the laboring
classes. In fact. the speaker stated,
al the laws that are passed are in
favor of the common laborer.
According to Mr.. Eddy. the revolu
ton was century overdue and that
1t was a wonder that il did not come
before the time 1t did. The common
neople of Russia had been exploited
for hundreds of years by the chosen
few on the belief that the rulers were
chosen to rule by devine right while
the ruled were and would always be
subjects of the rulers. He stated
! that previous to the revolution. that
If a person said anything against the
+, government he was shot before a
! stone wall and that thousands Of