Evening star., 1924-10-25

at the Golden Rule dinner last night
follows:
ut would be difficult to choose a
theme more inspiring for such an
occasion as this than that which
has been made your text. I note
with pleasure that an impressive
number of the diplomatic corps In
! TINS Capital are present. To them
especially I extend greetings and
appreciations for the approval which
! their presence signifies.
| That rule of ethical guidance
which we have come to designate as
the Golden Rule is common to all the
great systems OF religion and to the
entire philosophy of human rela-
tionship. AS st. Matthew writes 1t
down, we read: Therefore, all things
| whatsoever ye would that men should
do to you. do ye even so to them. 1t
is rule worthy of all acceptance
and to be translated into the terms
of relationships among communities
ana peoples, among races and ma
tions Those among us who are re-
quired to give con nsideration to the
difficult and complicated relations
between the great communities OF
| the world; those whose concern is
for the maintenance of peace, OF mu-
tual helpfulneSs and generous Co
operation among the nations, will do
|
| our thoughts this simple precept.
The philosophers have examined it
and found 1t good. The writer's
| whose hands held the pen OF in
spiration have enjoined it upon us.
with the passing generations 1t
comes more and more into accept
ance as the soundese guide to hu-
man conduct. 80, on an occasion
such as this, designed to impress
| Of
men and states, it is most reassur-
ing to see gathered together so many
who are accredited spokesmen OF ma
| tional concerns, and so many others
who from their private stations in
life have sought by their works OF
charity to give meaning. force and
illumination to this noble concep-
ton. / know you will all join me
in the hope that what shall be said
here and at many other gatherings
which will have like inspiration and
purpose will be accepted as signifi-
cant of earnest hope and determined
intent to further in every possible
way the neighborly kindness, the
reciprocal helpfulness and the real
brotherhood of all humanity.
Anniversnry of War.
we have just come to the end of
a decade of the most momentous
events in the modern world. The
tenth anniversary of the beginning Of
the World War has been made occa-
sion for many surveys of this ex-
traordinary period. ! need not recall
the long period of unprecedented hor-
rors that was the war. We all have
our own pictures of that experience
We know the suffering it wrought
and the complexity of problems il en-
tailed You who are here require no
reminders of the fact that restored
peace involved tasks of reorganiza-
ton and restoration and rehabilita-
tion and readjustments that in many
ways were more difficult because they
were so much more complex than
those of the war itself. AS the years
shall pass over US, We and our sue
cessors will come to view it as a tre-
mendous episode, though occupying
comparatively but a brief period, as
historic developments are measured
But we will see IL also as concen-
tration of huge forces which, being
released in its explosion, set in motion
a train of consequences whose ulti-
mate significance will require many
generations for full unfolding and de-
velopment.
But even now we are able to per-
ceive the evidence that not all of these
ultimate consequences are going to be
bad. We are able already to realize
that a great boon has been conferred
on humanity in the wedding out OF
irresponsible autocratic government
Peoples will be slow to adjust them
selves fully TO the new conditions
Even those who have longest expert
ence with the republican institutions
of Government will require a long
time settling themselves into their
permanent places in a world COM
munity whose dominant ideal OF gov
ernment and of human relationship
rests on The rule of the people. But
we are able already to see clearly
that the world is moving toward a
Iconsummation of its aspiration for
the blessings of assured peace and
under a regime of free institutions.
| "It is moving in the right direction
and it is doing so because to a greater
extent than ever before. It has given
itself over to the ethical guidance of
that broad principle that has been
written into our Golden Rule! In
many of our relationships it is as yet
little more than an ideal; but 1t is
constantly approaching nearer and
nearer to universal acceptance as an
ideal and a guide. 1t Is the best basis
on which the individual may build for
| nence and safe progress, the world
for universal peace and widely diff
fused well being.
Seek to Help All.
America is profoundly concerned
| In behalf of whatever promises to
make the world a better neighbor-
hood, and its peoples better neigh
bors. We have no better wish than
to be good and helpful neighbors
with all. Though we may have
seemed aloof from the scenes Of con-
f1ict, our people insisted on bearing
their share in the world struggle
Later, when for time chaos
threatened in many parts and there
was loosening Of bonds that seemed
to menace the very basis of society,
! our people were ready with assist
| ance for the unfortunate and suner-
| ing, wherever they were. l have
seen the detailed tabulations which
showed. item by item, total of more
than seventeen billion dollars oil
American wealth poured out in aid
| of our associates in the war, and
| of suffering peoples wherever they
were to be found, since the war.
Aside from ten billion dollars OF
loans by our Government to foreign
| treasures, the total represented
| operations in private financing to the
| extent of probably three billions OF
dollars; three hundred millions of
dollars furnished to the Red Cross
governmental and private contribu-
tions to the American relief admin
stration, aggregating around two
hundred million dollars; the Near
| Ea-k a1iaf which mora