Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-14
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~, - rstional congress he would urge
.sr,,.iate consideration OF oili
.i...-,-Gzing the construction OF eignt
a-..',,.I .,.lIsers and the conversion OF SIX
80 battleships into new addltions
: .be nayal equipment. =.
|" ~ action on the bill was De-
,.l-e5 last spring through pariiamen-
.y angles, and the naval authorities
- re urging immediate action in
'..rsasing the navy we're hsappoih-
Evidently this administration hopes
ircyease its naval facilities where
he interests of American capital
foreign lands can be protected.
CONTROLLER General McCarl has
..oJsre9 an opinion TO President Cool
tns n the effect that Armistiee day
: not a holiday. His action was
.aken just in time to quench the hopes
II government employees of obtaining
i = holiday on that occasion.
NcCarl offered the opinion that only
Congress could declare Armistice day
4 holiday. and that such action was
without the power Of a president;
Hundreds of government clerks
usre hoping to be relieved of the
pressure of duty on that day, ana
we're anxious for some of the depart
m4nt heads to let them off.
Holidays are not so rare In lhe
United States; but it may be urged
with good common sense that this day
which marks an era in the change OF
governments of the world should be
counted among the holidays.
Should newspapers become me-
dium Of advertising in the churches
This question has been raised and an
.xered by DIR. Charles l.. Goodsell,
secretary of the commission on evan
gehsm of the federal council oil the
churches. ,.
Now that the church has become
a business enterprise on large scale
il seems expedient to DR.. Goodseii
that the individual churches should
use space in the newspapers the same
as any other business. News columns
canno, as a rule carry the straight
gospel message" says the doctor. he
believes that space should be used and
paid for in the interest of spreading
the gospel. !,
Nothing whatever can stand IN tne
way of the church paying Tor space
in spreading their propaganda. But
it would be inexpedient for newspa-
pers to accept contributed articles on
debated questions.
1t seems that in the opinion of DIR,
Godsell the church has at last found
a way t6 utilize newspaper space
effectively in a manner to lay the re-
sponsibility upon the church and not
upon the newspaper. Whatever de-
| nomnational ideas are believed might
well be extended through the advertis-
! ing space of newspapers. Or course
the space would have to be paid for
but the majority of newspapers
would make special rates to churches.
Premier Herriot remembered the
United States by sending congratula-
tons Of his country to US on Nov. 10,
the day preceding Armistice day.
Il am happy to salute the great peo-
pie of the United States who share
with France her sufferings and hopes.
I'VE see today the first dawnings
Of real peace, a peace that can only
be founded upon right and by sincere
collaboration of free people"
This means that in a political man.
ner at least France acknowledges the
service rendered by America in saving
that country from disaster through
the German invasion.
Pneumonia is said now to be
prevalent in Williamson county. They
have had most everything there ex-
cept peace and bodily comfort, and
now the fates have turned against
them and stricken them with plague.
Between shot-guns and pneumonia
one can hardly have choice. One is
likely to be as fatal as the other. So
far as the disease is concerned there
is no recourse to the courts. 1t is
strange that the courts do not con-
demn person for being afflicted with
pneumonia.
doctor says however that the
pneumonia plague that has struck
Williamson county may be nothing
more than the flu. Looking backward
hVe years ago, however, it seems that
he flu is more dangerous than pneu-
nOnia
: motion picture producer in New
York was acquitted early this week
On charge of having exhibited i'm
moral pictures in his productions.
lhe jury -deliberated only three min
utes.
immoral pictures are determined by
the minds of the audience, and often
oy the minds of those who never see
more than the Autographs on sign
posters.
Imagination goes a long way in
our conceptions of what is moral and
immoral. With some it is a sin TO
eat meat. With others it is a greater
Snme to attend a Sunday ball game.
with others it is pictures. There
seems to be no stor"ing place in our
conceptions of right and wrong, but
very much of the evil in the world to-
Jay Is due solely to the imagination.