Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-12-24

map. Smallpox is no longer epidemic The
tropics have been made habitable for the white
man the death rate of the Panama Canal zone is
less than that of many cities of the temperate
zone. The health Of massed populations, long one
of the worlds greatest problems, has been
sured of the death rate of cities of 100000
people Chicago's is lowest with 11.2 thousand
Paris is highest with 14.3.
The toll of tuberculosis (Chicago 1924 fgures)
has been reduced to S.11 10000; of pneumonia
to 9.64; of cancer to 1889. Heart disease is
tie worst of the dread list; it kills 1878 Chicago
like other great American cities, is living too fast
working too hard playing too hard. Mans
avocationS are as strenuous as his vocations Our
modern civilization is too fast and furious to be
sane or safe.
Herein lies the value of the National Out
door Recreation conference which would make us
understand that wholesome outdoor recreation
amid scenes of natural beauty is the God-giver
antidote for many of the Ills of Twentieth
century civilization.
T~ENNYSON voices present-day world cry In
the line: "Ring out the thousand wars of old
ring in the Thousand years of peace" 1t is now
seven full years since the armiStice. These have
been years of all the passions of war without
Today for the first time the horizon is bright with
hope. Europe has come to realization of it's
desperate plight. 1t now that European
nation won the World war; that the contrary
that war Drought disaster TO all, VICTOR ana van
uushed alike No nation possesses the resources
to accomplish its rehabilitation unaded To re-
gain even approximation of their pre-war DOM
ination, of the world the nations of Europe must
combine and cooperate to extent hitherto
unthinkable. The situation has resolved itself to
a question of self-preservation
So the Locarno agreement is more than gesture
of Willingness to abstain from war. 1t means the
wish for constructive peace, the desire to begin
the work of rehabilitation and the hope of restored
world pre-eminence
The New Year will presumably see Pan
European congress, working Independently of the
League of Nations 1t will endeavor to break
down nationalistic divisions bring about general
disarmament and establish an organization some
what resembling Omitted States of Europe" No
Europe has not accomplished spiritual regenera-
ton. 1t is a plain of realization that some
thing of the kind must be done to avoid complete
collapse. United Europe against the world-or
Europe's day is done.
FINALLY, writes Tennyson, "Ring in the Christ
that is to be-" Would that the New Year bells
could fulfill his wish, for in Christianity lies the
only hope of reformed human nature and
regenerated world The World war has brought
forth the charge that Christianity is a failure
Certainly crime is rampant The churches and
factions within the churches are quarreling New
ertheless Christianity is still the driving force
of civilization The Bible continues to be by far
the worlds best seller. 1t has been translated into
most of the languages of earth and the presses
cannot begin to supply the demand Has the
Christianity of the Jesus Christ of that Bible ever
been tried by the world? One thing is sure: New
Years day is day when every good American
should take stock of himself and resolve to do
his mite toward making the wish of the poet
come true.