The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-12-25

tific improvements and high-pressure
methods. Civilization is like a run.
away engine, making fast time but
bound for destruction.
Jazz mania, sex abnormalities, mob
~hysterias, and the flouting of all the
conventions are the inevitable con
sequence, we are told. The only hope
for the race is to go back to the
simplicity, yes, even the crudeness
and discomfort, of the life of our
fathers.
But, wait a minute, let US examine
the actual conditions a little more
closely. Travel at sixty miles an hour
never put any mar in an asylum,
and there is no more immortality in
flying through the air than in run
ming along the surface of the earth.
Exposed plumbing is not vicious,
electric lights are not ~demoralizing,
and a sermon heard over the radio
may be just as uplifting as though
heard in a church. The automobile,
in itself, is not a contrivance of the
devil, and the travelling crane and
pneumatic hammer are not tools of
diabolism.
1t is rather interesting to note that
every advance in human power and
comfort has ben met with this kind
of a complaint. In 1882 a group of
men in Lancaster, Ohio, asked the
school board for the use of the school
house in which to hold a meeting to
promote a railroad in the vicinity.
The board answered by letter as
follows:
You are liberty to use the school
house to hold meetings for all proper
purposes. But railroad and tele-
are impossible and rank in
fidelity. If God had intended His in
telligent creatures should travel at
the frightful speed of sixteen miles
an hour He would clearly have fore
told it in the Holy Prophets. 1t is a
device of Satan to lead immortal
down to He'll.
What are the facts concerning
modern life?
A fair days work never hurt any
man. The fact that a man by
he use of machinery can move a
hundred tons of pig iron where IN
lines past he could only move ten,
loes not produce a deleterious effect
ipon his mind or morals. The fact
hat a business manager by use OF
telephones, telegraphs, pnuematlc
ubes, dictaphones, typewriters and
calculating machines can accomplish
lore in one day than his. father
ould in a week, does not wear his
Ierves to a FRAGILE.
The truth is, that the creeping
mental and moral paralysis that is
threatening our civilization is due
1ore to bootleg whiskey, all-night
midnight jazz, o~ver-indul-
ence in rich and highly spiced foods,
nventilated rooms, sheer avarice
nd cupidity, uncontrolled passion
nd lust, inordinate ambition, and an
v~erweening desire to outshine our
eighbors, than to all the speed and
Efficiency the world has known.
Here is where our schools have a
.gnificant work to- do, by teaching
ur children that the prizes of life,
re not money and power and place,
or are its sa~tisfactions found in ex-
.tement, stimulus and hys-
,ria; that things purchased at the
ost of health or honor r too dear;
nd that true satisfaction consists in
of body, peace of heart, seren-
v of spirit, a mind well stored with
fly sentiments and unselfish $
a soul made strong by faith
Id love, whereby a man Is beloved
children, honored by the aged, is
aster of himself In any company,
al home in the woods or by the sea,
nds companionship in a good book
I'd is happy alone under the stars,
UNITS. his wealth not In dollars but
the affection Of his employees and
sociabes and the consciousness Of a
life we'll lived, whose heart h
ats true, whose nerves vibrate with
e, whose sleep is AZ deep and
noiesome az a little child's, and who
oks levelly into the eyes Of every
an. A simple, wholesome. normal
tural existence.
SO to hve, Is Life.--Nev Age T
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