The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-01-04

0pohale' WASH, and from there he
came to Great Falls in 1914 and has
resided in this city ever since,
AS member of the Carnenters'
Union Mr.. Jensen always took an ar
tive part in organization work and
unselflshly gave his services to better
the conditions of all producing classes
lie took prominent part in the Mon |
tana Labor League which co-operated
with the Nonpartisan League in the
/ 1920 campaign
/ Funeral services were ba15 ~
/ O,C0nnors Funeral Parlors Saturday
/ afternoon, Dec. 10Th at 2:3O O'Clock. |
under the auspices of the CARPENTERS
Union and the services were conducted
/ by Atty. Norskog who delivered tbe /
last words to the departed craftsman
as follows:
This was said by Mr.. Norskog.
standing by the coffin:
Mr.. Jensen; mis- devoted friends,
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In order to eliminate all misunder-
standings, let me say to you, that I
am not minister of the GospeI. I'll
i speak to you as one of you, as a mem
Der OF the race to which we belong.
the great human family. I sponsor
no organized sect. l belong to none.
In the darkness of ages past, it was
said that the barbarian, STANDING at
the grave, knew as much as the most
highly civilized man, and that the In
dian, drawing a circle in the sand, said
that it represented what the Indian
knew, and drawing a much larger cir
Gle, said that it represented what the
white man knew, but that outside of
the two circles, the Indian knew as
much as the white man. This is no
longer true. We have lit the candle
Of research and peered into the ancient
darkness. We have asked mighty
questions and mighty men arose to
answer them; not from the pages of
the Nightmares of fear, but from the
records of calm investigation, in the
open sunlight. Our instruments are
not beads and bayonets, but micro
scopes, test tubes, sunlight, and ma
ture herself. We have fenced nobody
in or out, with doctrines. We have
placed no boundaries for truth We
nave used no racks, no thumbscrews
TO enforce faith, in This great frater-
nifty. We have no ceremonies. You
JON when you are fit and leave when
you are not. There are no credentials.
l am told that our friend in the cof-
i'm was member. If that be true,
he entered silently, through study and
service, through patience, labor and
} love of truth, asking neither whittier
nor whence, but following the light of
truth as it revealed itself, from day
!. to day.
l am told that our friend braved
the conventions of ancient mythology.
, What higher tribute could be paid to
J his independence. Standing upright
on earth, in a universe studded by
stars, he had no fear of caprice Gre
ated by the darkness of ignorance.
: He knew that nature was everywhere
sublime, and order always ruled in the
= universe
= The great Belgian philosopher
when asked what change he would
: make, if he created the world, said
r he would eliminate poverty and ig-
e norance. | say to you, if you elir1in.
r ate ignorance you will eliminate pov.
2 erty and pain, fear and prejudice. Ig.
norance has been the stumbling block
: of the ages. l cannot gild grief with
! words but | can shake the tree Of
:, knowledge and gather golden fruit.
: In olden times, on occasions like
> this the self constituted elect hearC
family the rustic of wings, but today
!. common men can see the wings bank
ed against tn esunlit clouds carrying
messages of joy, carrying thing
o from man to man, from where the!
+ are PLENTIFUL to where they are need
e ed.
The answer to prayer in the deco
10 logue of science is the performance
is We have eliminated famines. We hav
f. made pestilence depart. We are re
20 placing poverty with plenty. TIL
70 hands of liberated men are answerin,
: the prayers made to the gods. l be
> lieve in salvation through economi
and social freedom. l believe Johl
"a Ruskin, William Morris and Thoma
Le Edison should out rank Elijah, Hose
IS and Isaiah
al Our brother here beside me has no
10 departed; he has gone nowhere w
lg are living in eternity as much now a
we ever shall be. Nothing is los
ri Nothing can be lost. Science has dem
e. onstrated, you cannot lose an atom
q not an impulse, not grain of energ!
"a Death is part of life and just as goot
There is nothing but peace in natur,
- combined with the eternal struggl
~ towards a greater peace. This can OF
Ct ly come through mental and physic;
re freedom. A slave produces nothin,
X. Unless you are mentally liberate
tn you are a slave. | would sooner hay
ed chains on my feet than have my brai
1T imprisoned by prejudice, fetish an
fear.
dis AS modest representative of sc
er ence, say to you, in all our researC
we find no He'll. 1t was created /
~, the ignorance of the cave and Il
80 jungle and modern education will n,
% perpetuate it. The universe is order
% and all things are normal. There
". no He'll, but ignorance. There is ]
Poverty, but the poverty of intelle
thy tual development. Throughout all Il
lp- ages we have honored those who di
Inn regarded the conventions and follow
his truth as they saw it, so in this Ger
mony let me give to our now sile
no. friend in the coffin beside me, t
90 credit that is his, his by life
service, and his to the last.
In the name of all who have labo
" ed, suffered and persisted, to ma
iaI this world free from mental bonda
of ignorance and fetish; in the mar
sat of the unknown and the known 81
7as diers of the common good, who ha
ner by their labors, made it possible t