Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31
''FREE AIR." SAYS COOLIDGE.
WHAT AILS THE CHURCH?
UNCERTAIN, COY, AS USUAL.
MOTHER, FIRST, LAST.
THE BANKERS SING.

MO1ElENS FIND !, LAOls
THE BANKERS SING.
President Coolidge notifies the
world in general, including would
be monopolists of radio privileges,
that nobody will be "allowed to
monopolize the air"
That's welcome. Ordinary mo-
nopolies the people recognize as
national American institutions
electric light, railroads and other
things. But they WOULD like the
air to remain free, if possible.
Even in front of gasoline stations
you see the sign "Free Air" The
President should be congratulated
on having put that sign up out
side the White House.
What is the matter with the
Church? Many old fashioned
preachers ask that question. Cler-
gymen, secure in their pulpits,
like the distinguished Dean Inge,
of st. Paul's, in London, calmly tell
you that one of the great Apostles
was not inspired; he only had epi-
leptic fits. All this isn't new.
Clergymen are making every ef-
fort to restore religious enthus-
iasm.
In New York's Cathedral of st.
5Ohn the Divine, sixty Bishops,
magnifcently robed in brilliant col
ors, accompanied by Honorary
Canons" the clergy of the cathedral,
the choir, ETC., recently paraded
through a building that cost mil
lions of dollars. That was most
Impressive.
But perhaps half a dozen fisher
men, sitting in a rowboat that cost
less than $40, discussing religion
earnestly, might do more for faith
than any ten-million-dOllar cathe-
dral.
Woman, in her hours of ease,
continues to be coy and uncertain.
"a Paris, she is having her shoul-
ders rouged. In London. ~~tists
paint artificial freckles on ,Jom-
SRS &aceGs pecks and arms.
There is meaning in all this
petty puzzling feminine nonsense.
Olympias, mother of Alexander,
doing wild dances with snakes
wrapped around her, no other
clothing, and your great grand
mother with her hoop skirt trail
ing on the ground and smelling
salts, both represent progress in
some mysterious way.
Woman is a being more compli-
Gated than man. Her evolution is
longer, more intricate.
Anatole France dies, calling for
his mother. The great French
writer had lived 80 years, achieved
fame, a great name. All that
seemed small in the last minute of
the 80 years. The memory of his
mother stood out above all the
rest.
At the begilSing and at the end,
the mother comes first. In be-
tween, others have their turn.
The big Zeppelin ZR-3 started
for America to the tune of
Deutschland ueber Allies" If
that big unwieldly gas bag can
leave Germany on a Monday morn
ing and land in Lakehurst, four !
thousand miles away, on the fol- ]
lowing Wednesday morning, how
long do you think it will take high ]
powered, heavier than air ma
chimes to cross the Pacific or the
Atlantic with INT and poison gas
a few years from now? Y
Big bankers, thousands of them. :
gathered in Chicago recently, quite :
lappy. They sang songs waiting +
or the speaking to start, and told Z
Zach other, Business is fine" But
me little crumpled rose leaf is in
he soft financial mattress. "There .
S among the bankers uncertainty :
'ver social unrest" :
Sorry to disturb bankers, but
hat uncertainty is a good thing.
t makes bankers and other i'm
'ortant men think, it always has
made them think, and it's about
he only thing that DOES make
hem think-about the little peo- &
lie. Who notices a mule that p
Oesn't kick? t
There was much uncertainty a
mong the "better element" in the
ays of the Gracchi before Christ
vas born. There has been more
r less of that uncertainty ever
ince. And where the uncertainty
as been LACKING there has been
'ouble.
You can't change anything in
lis world suddenly. You can't
ven change a caterpillar into a
in five minutes. Argu-
lg with caterpillar, begging him
} be "class conscious" won't do
Setting a match to one end Of
le cocoon may ruin that cocoon,
1t it won't bring out the butter
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