The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-16
Lawlessness To Hit
 New High After War
Rev. Alfred Eels of Wolcott Urges Speedy Curative;
 Plays Women Drinkers at Saloon Bars

Lawlessness will rise to new nigh when the current World War is ended' stated Rev. Alfred M. Feels of the Wolcott Congregational ,hurch yesterday morning in his sermon entitled: The Church After the War the text of which was taken from the Philippians 4:5, Let Your Moderation Be Known to All Men.'
 Rev. MT. Feels sermon in full fol- OWS:
 Let us be moderate in national affairs. Avoid both rashness and but.s Sded conservatism. Upon us is the responsibility for postwar con- ditionS. What will be the terms of peace? The last war was terminated by the Allies offering President Will sons IA points as the condition of peace. Germany accepted those terms. But at the peace conferent ( that promise was forgotten. Because Clemenceau was an athiest even the opening of the conference by prayer was eliminated. Yet Christian na- tions all through the war had prayed for its end. During the con- ference the scofing Frenchman ridi- cuint the sincerity of our president ! He ftid of Wilson, God Almighty gave only ten commandments but this man has fourteen. He thinks he is a modern Messiah. He talks like Jesus" Then and now we need statesmen with courage enough to talk like Jesus"
 What was the result of the con- ference? Instead of the international pledge, territory and favorable poli- cies were meted to every victorious nation except ours. Herbert Hoover relates how one night he met Gen. eral Shuts and that both agreed that the promised terms would be repudiated and that there would be a greater and more terrible war. It is here. We must make the results different. Christ must be the su- preme Arbiter.
 Speedy Curative Urged
 Our thinking is not being trained for serious planning. Of course there are many commendable books, but they are in the minority. Consider fiction as the most popular branch of literature. Magazines and peri odicals are featuring stories of drinking, gambling and loose morals as never befor. We are urged to send such material to our combat forces. Will our men think that our coun- try is more worthy of fightiSy and dying for if such things become cus- somary?
 What are we doing to prevent race hatreds? The recent riots of Detroit and Harlem were the result of preju- dice and discrimination. They were a feeble prediction of what will oc- cur cn more tremendous scale un- less there is speedy curative.
 Our men in the Armed Forces will return. Coming from Europe, Africa, Russia, China. India, Alaska and the Paci&1c islands they will be the most traveled men in their communities. They will come with vivid impress sions. They will revise their ways of thinking. They will return with memories of killing those in front of their battles lines. They had to kill or be killed. Their thought grooves will be changed. Some will return grave, serious and humble. Others will come back more reckless of the lives of even innocent people. It is not easy to bomb cities, sink ships and destroy communities and then return to orderly habits over night. There will be faster tempo. They will be used to air speed of Hundreds of miles an hour. swift