Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-15
SHERWOOD EDDY
ADDRESSES COLBY
STUDENTS FRIDAY

absolutely, the only way to ever
settle the great Industrial problems
that America offers today is to ap-
ply the teachings of Jesus Christ in
the conductance Of business" declar-
ed Sherwood Eddy. last night In the
chapel at Colby college to about five
hundred students of the college. Mr..
Eddy then went on to say that this
has been done and Is being done
right along in big business where the
men In control are giving their en-
ployees a fair show in the manage
ment and fair living wage. The
five ways of preventing strikes, &C
cording to the lecturer are to treat
the employees with consideration,
meaning to pay them a fair living
wage. give the employees fair hours
of labor, allow them some voice in
tho control Of their work. give them
some sense of security Of the life of
their job and to allow them a fair
share Of the profits Of the concern.
Tho topic of industrial relations
and problems was only one of the
topics Of Mr.. Eddys talk of last
evening. He also treated to some
extent the racial and war problems,
dealing at considerable length on the
later question. In speaking of the
racial problems that face this coun-
try today. the speaker stated that
again the principals of God shonld
be carried out and that treating all
races as brothers in love, IL even
not In all respects. these troubles
would soon disappear entirely. He
said that 1t breeds trouble and much
hard feelings to keep the negro in
his place. as many would have him
kept The correct method in his es-
timation to deal with these negroes
Is to educate them to our standards
! but never to allow intermarriage be-
/. tween the two races as that would
be fatal to both races.
Blind super patriotism is one of
the foremost causes of war" he de-
clared in speaking of war ITO be
lead into n terrible contest with arms
by blind patriotism to country the
idea Of, My country, wrong or right,
my country. is fatal to world peace
as truth and war never go hand In
hand"
Mr.. Eddy pointed out forcibly that
was wrong because it left in it's wake
destruction and ruin and poverty for
generations after and that 1t was
Inevitable Wholesale destruction OF
human life and an inevitable victim
iZation of men. lie stated that truth
never was told in the course of a
war and that gallant acts Of the
enemy were kept hidden while all va
rietics of atrocities were credited TO
them-merely to help In the gaining
of the objective by the nation. He
pointed out that in the last war &C.
100000 people were killed while more
than 100000 orphans were left who
would suffer greatly in moral sense.
The speaker brought out start
ling fact when he said that then
Hunger blockade" which the allied
navies. including the American navy.
enforced upon Germany during the
last war killed ten times more babies
and women than te Germans ever
did In the Smelling and capturing of
enemy towns. lie stated that it was
propaganda which worked remark
ably we'll Mr.. Eddy quoted from
Lloyd George and other prominent
European governmental officials that
the story OF Germans cutting off the
hands of Belgian children was abb
solutcly false and started as propa-
ganda. In closing he stated that
war always left hatred, cruelty and
! atrocities in it's wake.
After the talk. Mr.. Edyd turned
The meeting into an open forum and
Tor the course of an hour he answer
ell numerous pertinent questions
asked him by interested parties. Yes
terday afternoon. the speaker met
| with numebr of Y. NJ. c. A. and
Y. w. &. a. students and outlined
his talks briefly to them. Mr. Eddy
, will he at Colby college until Sunday
afternoon and will speak again to-
day at eleven o'clock and again at
$50 this evening.