oc-plain-dealer 1921-10-31

"BACKFIRE" WALKER SERMON TOPIC SUN. "The Backfire" was the theme of the sermon last night at the Presbyterian church. "The children of Israel were not yet two months on their way from slavery," said Rev. Thomas H. Walker, the pastor, "when they began crying about the hardships of the way to liberty. Full of rage against their oppressors, and afame with enthusiasm for freedom, they left Egypt with song, but when real difficulties began and they discovered that liberty was not so easily won, enthusiasm began to cool and the fires of their idealism to die down. The price of freedom frightened them. They were quite ready now to surrender freedom for food; to barter their ideals for physical comfort and sacrifice the spirit of manhood free to the appetites of the flesh seared with the lash. Strip the story recorded in Exodus 16th chapter to its significant facts and it is the story of the battle between the material and the spiritual. It is a parable of the struggle going on in the hearts of individuals and as well in the history of nations. The flesh lusteth against the spirit, the great apostle wrote, and the spirit against the flesh." The sacrifice of freedom of spirit to the baser passions is a repeatedly recurring tragedy. Youth is a time of idealism—builds castles and cherishes ambitions. Young men shall see visions. 'Wait till I am a man,' said J. M. Barric, when a small boy, to his hard-working mother, 'and you shall lie on feathers.' He dreamed of conquering the world for his mother. Most of us find realization hard enough, so hard in fact, that by middle life we have abandoned our quest. The radiance, color and splendor has passed forever out of life and it is drab, drab—so we surrender our ideals and settle on our 'lees' and become contented with the 'flesh pots of Egypt,' and give up any idea of our 'promised land.' Tennyson's story of Sir Garvain is typical of so many. He sets out in search of the Holy land and purer living. He put the fear of God in their souls and they made a bonfire of all their vanities, their obscene books, their prudent pictures their instruments of vice in the great square of the city. But their enthusiasm cooled under the skilful propaganda of his enemies, and before many months had passed they burned Savanarola himself in that very same square. "Will we as speedily lose the high ideals we voice as a nation? Shall we be able to keep what we won of world ideals in the great war? Shall we lose our enthusiasm for right and truth and honor? "The backfire" is strongly in evidence today and it is desperately difficult to live on any upward-lifting program of national activities. "Let Whittier's lines stir our lagging spirits: "Hot, everytrue and loving soul, To Freedom's periled altar bear The Freeman's and the Christian's whole, Tongue, pen, and vote and prayer, One last great battle for the Right— One short, sharp struggle to be free. To do is to succeed—our gight Is waged in Heaven's approving sight The smile of God is victory."" START WORK SOON ON COAST HIGHWAY With the sale of $5,000,000 California state highway bonds to the London-Paris National bank, of San Francisco, at a premium of $476,000, a forward step has been taken in providing construction of the proposed highway between Long Beach and Buntington Beach. Disposal of the bonds will enable the state highway commissioners to proceed with advertisements for bids within the next 45 days. The proposed highway work consist of construction of sections of the Oxnard-San Juan Capitrano highway, from Oxnard to Santa Monica, and from Long Beach to Huntington Beach, the route following the shore line from Gaviota to San Diego. In addition, the proceeds from the bond sale will finance completion of the San Bernardino-Victorville highway, and the widening of the Mountain Springs grade of the San Diego El Centro highway. FORTUNE HUNTERS M. Barrie, when a small boy, to his hard-working mother, and you shall lie on feathers.' He dreamed of conquering the world for his mother. Most of us find realization hard enough, so hard in fact, that by middle life we have abandoned our quest. The radiance, color and splendor has passed forever out of life and it is drab, drab—so we surrender our ideals and settle on our 'lees' and become contented with the 'flesh pots of Egypt,' and give up any idea of our 'promised land.' Tennyson's story of Sir Garvain is typical of so many. He sets out in search of the Holy Grail, which means he determines to live a pure and holy life; but he soon wears of his quest and finding a silken pavilion in a field of merry maidens sporting there, spends his twelve-month and a day in sensuous ease and pleasure. On his return to King Arthur's court he scoffs at the very idea of "the quest" itself and calls it madness. Yet at the same time vents his disgust at his own weakness in time of temptation: 'But by mine eyes and by mine ears I swear I will be deafer than the blue eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noon-day owl, To holy virgins in their estates, Henceforward.' "Nations repeat this tragedy of the Israeli nation in modern times. Under the impulse of some great and noble passions, a nation is lifted to great heights of unselfish enthusiasm and acts in idealistic, sacrificial fashion. Under the pressure of time the nation is apt to sag and often breaks. Yet such enthusiasm is not to be made light of, for often they leave solid, permanent gains in their path. Savana Rola for an all-to-brief space, lived Florence with a desire for holable the state highway commissioners to proceed with advertisements for bids within the next 45 days. The proposed highway work consists of construction of sections of the Oxnard-San Juan Capistrano highway, from Oxnard to Santa Monica, and from Long Beach to Huntington Beach, the route following the shore line from Gaviota to San Diego. In addition, the proceeds from the bond sale will finance completion of the San Bernardino-Victorville highway, and the widening of the Mountain Springs grade of the San Diego El Centro highway. FORTUNE HUNTERS BUSILY ENGAGED NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 31.—Search for sunken treasure amounting to $3,000,000 which has been at bottom of the ocean eleven years, is vigorously going on at a point sixty miles east of the Virginia capes, where the steamer Merida went down following a collision. The treasure hunters on the salvage ship Ripple believe they have found the wreck of the sunken vessel, and expect soon to recover the fortune abandoned when the vessel sank. The Merida's treasure consists of a large quantity of silver, about one-half million dollars in gold and a quantity of precious stones. She was sunk in May, 1916, when bound from Mexico, via Havana for New York, by the steamer Admiral Farragut. The collision occurred about midnight, in a fog, the Merida remaining afloat for six hours. The Admiral Farragut was badly damaged, but remained afloat. The vessel had 4700 tons of copper in her hold, carried as ballast. 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LINNARTZ, Prop. Residence 211 E. Sycamore St. Our Attitude Towards the Home As an academic proposition, we still admit the importance of a home. “Society’s most essential foundation,” the bed rock of the state, the parent of all human insufficiency, but, having blessed it with smiles and epigrams, what is our real attitude? What are we doing to keep, protect and improve it in comparison with other institutions? Of all the millions that are donated to elevate and uplift humanity, how much goes to the homes? Of the still more numerous millions that are marshalled by the way of general credit, how much is the promotion of home-building? We take the home very seriously as a matter of tradition. Do we take it seriously as a matter of necessity? Isn’t our real attitude towards it one of tolerance rather than satisfaction? In our pursuits of business, or pleasure, aren’t we coming to look on the home as something to last for last? In our text books on political economy and social progress, in our fiction and nature, in our poetry and pastimes, aren’t we utilizing the home as something to be depended upon when there is nothing else left? When we engage in community affection Of the still more numerous millions that are marshalled by the way of general effort, the promotion of home-building? We take the home very seriously as a matter of tradition. Do we take it seriously as a matter of necessity? Isn’t our real attitude towards it one of tolerance rather than satisfaction? In our pursuits of business, or pleasure, aren’t we coming to look on the home as something to deal for last? In our text books on political economy and social progress, in our fiction and nature, in our poetry and pastimes, aren’t we specializing the home as something to be depended upon when there is nothing else left? When we engage in community affection form the boy, or save the girl, is it this home that we operate? In our thoughts for the moral elephantkind, what part does the home play? Why have we drifted into a situation more than half the American people are? Is it because we lack the money, or energy sourcefulness, or is it because our aspirations been centered upon other projects rather than promotion of home life? If the home is what we admit it to cool thought and right understanding, if society’s most essential foundation,” then it where it rightfully belongs in the front modern progress, and consider everything secondary importance until home own realized. Putting home ownership on a low bar and cent thoughts wouldn’t we have our movements of reform and uplift morals and with far greater results had our united been concentrated on the establishment of better homes? If the various agencies, societies and clubs whose aim is to help improve morals, aid those who are deserving and need to join forces and give home ownership and home life the consideration it deserves, their efforts would bring about that would be of far-reaching effect and they would be generously rewarded, for it is in the home that morals are fiddles receive their first teachings that makes of them worth-while men and women. You can best do this by enco-having money to loan to invest in home mortgage loans, and by co-operating with holding companies that those who are living homes and who have only a small amount of money to start with can secure assistance and pay out for their monthly payments. Both first and second mortgage paper is safe investments; very rarely is it that you hear of home through failure in meeting payments, and each payment substantially redoes things and adds to the security of hundreds of families right here in our city would start immediately building homes of their own if money was available; can do their share and will be happy in the thought that they have been instrumental in doing a wonderful good that you can do with more to humanity than helping the m to secure homes of their own. PROGRAM 1—Special Overture 2—Urban Movie Chats 3—Organ Selection 4—LARRY SEMON in "THE BAKERY" This is absolutely a riot-film 5—Special Stage Presentation 6—Rupert Hughes' great novel "DANGEROUS CURVES AHEAD" It will please you OPTOMETRIST Glasses Fitted Ten years a member of the North Dakota state board of examiners of optometry. Advanced optical knowledge together with twenty-three years' experience makes our name stand for SERVICE. 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