The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-02-18
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
.HE longer I live the more
firmly do I believe in tht
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.THE longer I live the more
firmly do I believe in the
l. nearness of God and the
power of prayer. The rule that
was given us by an obscure car
penter, who never wrote a line
or had an influential friend, and
who died the death of a common
criminal, is still the only true
rule by which we humans may
live in security and peace.
When anyone says to me that he
would like to have seen miracle,
I think of THIS miracle, that we hold
no name in all our history worthy
to be mentioned in the same breath
with that of Christ. Poor and I'M
known, yet his words still ring about
the world, and his law, so utterly
opposed to all natural human law,
is the one thing that can save US
yet.
When this war is over, and the
monstrous evil that darkens the world
is suppressed, let us hope that those
in power will remember that unless
the law of Christ influences their
councils, there will be no peace, and
that before today's babies are out of
high school the whole horror will be-
gin all over again. No matter how
they dress their treaties in magnifi-
cent phrases, no matter how many
willing and unwilling signatories they
obtain for them, unless forgiveness
and brotherhood become the univer-
sal law, there will be no peace. The
secret lies there, in the Sermon on
the Mount, and it lies nowhere else.
When peace comes let's try to feed
our workers as well as they are be-
ing fed in war. Let's not forget, and
slip back into the selfish old ways.
Let's not ever tolerate poverty and
idleness, sluns and squalor again.
Let's hold fast in peace to the gen.
crosby, the intelligence, the self-sac-
rifice and cooperation that we ex-
hibit so eagerly In war.
Constant International Visits.
We shall have to keep up an inn
mense army for long, long time.
Even peace-loving woman like my
self, who has suffered great deal
for her championship of the nom
Intervention cause, can see that. We
shall have to have half-a-million men
ready to take to the air; why not
have them visit foreign countries to
bring friendship and help, steadily,
as a regular thing, so that the flag
that these countries have come to
know through war shall become to
them symbol of everything that
is forgiving and helpful.
In war there is a demand for limit
less labor, to rush the work of de-
tense and destruction. We pay for
it gladly, readily, and what we buy
is blown to bits and sunk into the
oceans by the hundreds of millions.
Why can't we keep up this mag
nifcent plentitude of employment
in peace times, paying for roads,
schools, bridges, libraries, until there
is no hamlet in all America where
learning and usefulness cannot be
found by the hurnblest conner?
In wartime we women knit thou
sands-millions-o warm garments;
we gather little coats and boots;
we ship them to the far corners of
the earth to comfort cold little crea-
lures who, in wartime only, seem so
akin to our own Why can't we keep
that up in days of peace? There is no
tiny, shivering Chinese child, button
ing a generous wool-lined coat about
her, who cannot be told that America
has sent her that because America
believes in shining God who said
that all men are brothers.
In wartime we take to food re-
strictions joyfully, and the markets
are filed with philosophic women
who are quite ready to face any pri-
walton if it is demanded by t'the
boys" In wartime we stop our
cars and smilingly invite the uni