Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27
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tells these days. placards adjure
the guests to be conSiderate Of

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tells these days, placardS adjure
the guests to be considerate Of
IL the sleep Of their fellow travellers.
Such appeals are indeed to be
respected, but it seems to us that it is a
little the fault of the women that these
notices are necessary to be displayed.
Not that you are to infer that women
are usually more boisterous and turbu-
lent than men, but that they too often
forget their role of moderator and pre-
ceptor. If all women reared their chill
den with a real regard for the peace
and comfort of others: II by their ex-
ample and suasion they discouraged all
noise in their immediate surroundings,
little by little all the din and uproar In
the world at present would disappear.
And surely the places where these re-
forms are most needed are the halls,
stairways and Hobbies of hotels, where
far more frequently should be pro-
nounced the most beautiful word in the
French language: "Chut!" CHushD
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Man May Stray
But Always Returns to Religion.
El Nuevo Diario, Caracas.-Every-
thing that man does or thinks has for
its motive either the satisfaction OF his
necessities, or the avoidance Of evils
which menace him. AS his intelligence
has developed, at the expense Of his
physical prowess, his necessities have
Increased, and so have his susceptible
ties to pain and discomfort, both spir-
itual and physical. In this evolution,
until recently, at least, science and re-
ligion have kept pace, the one minis
tering to mans bodily needs, while the
other has afforded solace and comfort in
mental anxieties and spiritual uncer-
tainties of the future.
The race has not emerged long from
a british state when religious theories
and formulas began to be conceived, tax
ing definite form ultimately in a cosmic
theory which installed deity, first in
the semblance Of man, and then in the
conception Of an omnipresent spirit in
authority and jurisdiction throughout
the universe.
These religions soon created a sacer-
dotal caste which took upon itself the
function Of intermediary between the
people and the divinitieS, but as this
genius began to usurp and arrogate to
itself powers and privileges in secular, as
well as in spiritual affairs, demonstrate
ing the priesthood in many respects to
be no different and no better than ordi-
nary men, disbelief in their prerogatives
and even in the existence of the Su-
preme Being or Beings they profegsed
to represent, has been from time to time
a general manifestation.
But there has always been a return TO
some religious system. Sometimes man
has solaced himself with a religion of
mythology or superstition, and sought
to gain the favors and help of natural
forces or of inanimate things which he
has contrtved himself With the de-
velopment of reason and commemorative
vision, however. better ideals have pre-
vailed. The individual has perceived
the vanity Of all human efforts, desires
and pretenSions, and at the same time
has come TO realize the vaStneSs, har-
mony and beauty of his natural sur
roundings. In trying to reconcile these
discrepant standards of achievement
these projections of nature with the fu-
tilitieS of human science, he has been
forced to confess that there are powers
ana attributes in the physical world
UNNECESSARILY superior to any creations
possible in the functions and faculties
of man.
Thus, II science is incapable OF pro-
ducing anything except that which is
temporary. deficient and inadequate
while the works of nature are eternal,
perfect and suflcient, there must be in
nature some factor which does not exist
IN mans knowledge and calculations.
All the theories and opinions of science
| fail when they try 70 establish an acct
dental or mechanical formation OF the
world.
Such accounting never progresses be-
| yond the obscure point where it begins,
| for it disregardS entirely the presence
of a designing, impeIling, and performing
force N nature, omnipresent and ON
sn1posens@ ever beyond mans sotlity %