Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-09


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EUGENlSTs MEAN WELL, BUT
EARTH,-BlG ALMA MATER
WHY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
BUT CAN YOU ENFORCE 1T?
The eugenists in the birth control
convention plan for a better race by
artificial selection which would
mean picking the right husband for
the right wife.
You can do that with cows, horses
etc. But with them you only breed a
body. Among human beings you pro,
duce that very mysterious thing called
a soul, and that's different.
You might marry John L. Sullivan
to Hypatia, or a Michael Angelo Moses
to the Venus of Milo, and be bitterly
disappointed in results.
On the other hand, tall, fierce coun
try girl, Nancy Hanks. probably un-
able to read or write, marries a local
ne'er do well and the result is Abra-
ham Lincoln. The Lord seems to re-
serve for himself certain problems.
Harvard will spend $12,0O0,0OO to i'm.
prove the study of agriculture That's
sensible.
English-speaking nations study Lat
in and Greek. The Greek philosophers
studied the Egyptian language and
hieroglyhics. Millions are spent teach
ing many KINDS of knowledge little
used after the student leaves school. !
1t is about time to begin studying
seriously old Mother Earth, the origi-
nal Alma Mater from which we spring
upon which we depend absolutely dur
ing life, and to which we all return
In Paris, a young girl, fifteen years
old, Irene Laurent, evidently OF the
Madame Curie type, has produced a
new fuel for automobile engines. IT.
is made from sugar, and is cheaper
and more efficient than any substitute
for gasoline thus far discovered.
If events justify the prediction of
Professor Haldane that chemistry will
soon make sugar as cheap as sawdust,
the gasoline problem may temporarily
be solved by sugar power
Religious organizations, convinced
that public schools should include re-
lligious training in the daily routine
demand that the Ten Commandments
be read to the children at least once
week
Wouldn't ssTher Sermon on the
Mount" be better reading for.children
than the Ten Commandments? In a
general way every child of ten knows
of the Ten Commandments, or as
many as a child should understand.
Two or three of the Commandments
are fortunately not necessary to the
child up to fifteen.
Why not leave religion to religious
teachers, and public school education
to public school teachers, and keep the
two separate, which has been the
American plan thus far?
A man, just dead, was at one time
a clergymen in the Protestant Episco7
pal Church. Later he belonged to the
Greek Orthodox Church, and when he
died he was one of the Gray Friairs
in a Roman Catholic monastery.
You admire such earnest seeking
after truth and wonder what this man
of three religions learned about re-
ligion when he passed over to the
other world.
Did he find that only one religion is
Officially recognized above, or is one
better than the others, or does it all
depend on how you act toward your
fellow man, the Creator of the Uni
verse not being SO much interested in
what you think about Him? Definite
answers would be interesting.
President Coolidge says the States
should help the national Government
to enforce the dry law. So they should
out of respect for Constitution and law
But while the necessary seventy
five per cent of the States ratified
the Constitutional Amendment nearly
one hundred per cent violate it, and
their juries sympathize with the viola
tors.
The question for the President and
the nation is this How can the use
of whiskey be stamped out? What is
to be done to stop drunkenness and
open drinking of bootleg whiskey
among school children? Prohibition