New Britain herald., 1926-09-20
SAYS GOVERNMENT
 LIED ID SOLDIERS
Prof. Vaughn Delivers First
 Talk to Bible Glass

The government lied in it's prom ise to the soldiers that the World War was a war to end war, accord ing 10 Prof. David D. Vaughan of the sociological department Of the school of theology. Boston univer- sity, in his opening address 10 Everyman's Bible class yesterday morning.
 pr. Vaughan opened his address with q brief statement in which he referred 10 the spirit of the men who head tn" class and of the CO., oo.ration of the ministers who are back of 1t.
 he warned his hearers frankly that he possibly would say some things with which all might not agree. but added "I do not know it all. I have no notion but from time to time you and l may see things in a different angle. The thing l want to do Is 10 have you and me work together and We shall grow togeth- CT"
 He said 1t didn't make any differ ence to him whether men believed they came from mud or monkeys. People who worried about evolution did so because they did not under stand it, he intimated
 Continuing he added:
 Now for the topic of the morning. The topic announced in the news paper was The History That No- body Knows with apologies to Bruce Barton. Some time ago Oliver Wendell Holmes said he wished that somebody would write list of the things that everybody says but mo- body believes, and another list of the things everybody believes but nobody says.
 T think, friends. we have made aome mistakes in the way we have written history. I don't think We are writing history today in the way we ought to write it. When you write history you ought to tell the truth. We have heard of that case where they threw a history out because t said that the British were very brave when they were climbing Bunker Hill!
 When you and I studied history as boys we studied about kings and their paromours and the stories of battles. That is not history. You want to know what caused the bat tie, the human heart throbs and emotions behind the whole thing.
 Years ago l was pastor in the stock yards in the city of Chicago, In Upton Sinclair's Jungle District l became acquainted with men who worked in the fertilizer plant. It is where they grind up the bones and take the waste of the animals and grind it up in the form of dust. The dust fills the air and il gets into the pores of the mems skin and into their hair. A man may quit his job and bathe for week and you can still smell the fertilizer on him. But men would work there, and carry their pay home and throw it unop- ened into the wife's lap. What do men do these things for? For love! In other words, the history that mo- body knows is the history of unseen forces, the things that you do not measure in the laboratory. The big things in life are not the things that we see about us; they are not build ings and railroads and mountains. The big things that really count in life are the things that the preachers and school teachers talk about.
 People like 10 brag in this mod ern civilization about the big things we have done. They will show you the big bridges, and here in this town you will point 10 the big fac tories, and you will look at them all and smile and say, We did that But what was the real first cause behind the whole thing-the something un- seen?
 Most Of the things, friends, we do in life we don't do for ourselves, we do for somebody else. You take that hidden force that we call love-in other words, the History That No- body Knows' It is a record of ideals. IL is the struggle to realize those IllllSS ludL are ulUSL HOly tul JuOSl sacred in life.
 Cant Hire Soldiers.
 Suppose during this last war wo had tried to hire soldiers for 1000 apiece 10 80 to France. You would have had a few. But when it comes to killing another man most Ameri- cans will hold back. You would not have gotten very many soldiers al B10,o00 apiece to get out and kill men. How dii we set our soldiers Not on the basis Of money reward but on the basis of ideals.
 Philosophers used 10 have C great deal to say (those who accept ed the evolutionary viewpoinD about 4ha struggle of nature They talked about competition the big man kill. ing th" little man. etc. Sociologists and philosophers In recent years have been reminding us of the new emphasis in the field Of philosophy mot individual competition, but the Consciousness or kind as great mutual aid. The animals that praC. ticed mutual aid and worked to. gether were the animals that sur.