The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-12-11
New Men is the Great
Need Says Local Pastor
EpiScOpalian Pastor Makes Not
able Address to Alexandria XII
wants Club

Rev. Earl Jewell of the Alexan-
dria and Sank Centre Episcopal
churches, who leaves December 10th
for Red Wing, where he is to be
located in the future, gave a fare
well address to the Alexandria XII
wants Club Monday on the topic of
what Makes Big Towns Little,
and Little Towns Big.
That a small town can be a big
town, he claimed, if it grew new
men; men of courage and sincerity
Rome, he pointed out, became
the master and mistress of the
world, dominating the government
the art and literature of the whole
world. The Roman idea was that if
they could make the laws and en-
force them there would be peace
throughout the known world of
that time. This was done by force
Might made right, and a great EN-.
pire was built up. But today Rome
is dead, for might never solved
anything. Force is always a failure
Then men turned to the idea OF
Liberty. If liberty could be estab-
lished justice would follow for all
men. But liberty never solved any
thing. Here in the home of liberty
we have three million men out OF
work and hundreds of thousands
of children hungry in this land of
plenty. We know that there is no
such thing as liberty in the life of
men. We attempted to solve the
negro problem by giving them lib
erty from slavery yet today the
negro problem is greater than ever
with every tenth man black man
Liberty cannot be said to have
solved our problem Of justice FOR
all when Al Capone can terrorize
a great city like Chicago. That is a
slap in the face to government; it
gives the younger generation q
chance to laugh at uprightness.
Next came the theory that train.
ed intellects in healthy problems
would solve our problems and
school houses were built on every
hill until today millions are seeking
education.
Then along came the advocates
of applied science. They wanted to
make a merchandise world; to find
the distance to the stars; to create
inventions. But that led to the
scientific slaughter Of 1914-1929.
Applied science has failed.
What is needed is a new hope;
new aspirations. Force has failed;
liberty has failed; education and
science have failed. In Russia they
hoped that a change in the eco
nomic system would solve the pro-
blem. They held that a man is the
product of his environment. That
is Socialism in a nutshell: That a
man is just what his food and
clothes and house and surroundings
make him. The idea is at variance
with all education and all psy-
chology. 1t is falling fast. They
have learned that a general lack of
money does not change men. Italy
will find that its policy of Fascism
will fail, too.
What principle are we to apply
if force and liberty and education,
applied science and a new econom-
ic system have failed? What we
need is not new churches-we have
too many; not new schools, but new
men-men of new courage, a new
vision; the courage to stand by
their convictions; men who are not
content with economic and social
success, good standing in their pro-
fession, ease and comfort at home.
These are mere incidents. Your
main contribution to society is
yourself, your sincere manhood
the same under all conditions.
That is the only thing that has
never been tried; Men unashamed
to stand by their guns.-Park Re
gion Echo.