oc-plain-dealer 1923-10-11

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher A Survey of Religious Education in the State of Indiana James Allen Geissinger. "The Religious Education in an American Commonwealth." Such is the title of a quarto volume of almost 600 pages, richly illustrated and supplied with charts and statistical tables issued by the press of George H. Doran. Its editors are Walter S. Athearn, E. S. Evenden, W. L. Hanson and W. E. Chambers. Here is a volume that no preacher, teacher or parents can well afford to pass up. It throws much light in many ways upon that question which is being asked on every hand: "How shall we look after and care for the moral and religious education of our oncoming American youth?" But it is not primarily a book of theory, hardly that at all. Its pages carry reports of actual field studies of conditions in the great commonwealth of Indiana. It is a survey by experts of actual conditions-buildings, equipment, teachers, schools and scholars engaged in religious education in that state. Indiana was selected as being centrally located, having a variety of geographical and occupational conditions, educationally progressive, and as showing Protestantism at its best and under its most favorable types. But let no one imagine that this book deals with facts simply of interest to Protestantism or to religious leaders. It rather probes around the roots of our American social order and assesses our ideals and the incentives of modern life. Indiana has 6402 Protestant Sunday schools. Not all of these were subjected to expert study but carefully selected representative communities and schools were taken as samples and any one who will take the pains to turn to this volume will see how carefully this sampling was done. Now what are the findings of the volume? At first the book seems to be an indictment of the whole Sunday school undertaking and it does mercilessly hold up the light to this one of the most characteristic of our American institutions. But the one great thing the volume surely will do for every thoughtful reader or student will be to make sun-clear the appalling inadequacy of all that is being done for the moral culture of the childhood of America. The volume frankly calls attention to the fact that many of these buildings used for religious educational purposes are inadequately heated and ventilated and equipped. The school sessions last but one hour, half of which is devoted to class recitations. Sixty-five per cent of these schools have an average attendance of less than one hundred pupils. Seventy per cent of them are ungraded. The teachers are poorly equipped and have but little time for preparation, while the children attend with marked irregularity. Nevertheless, the volume recognizes the immense influence for good of the Sunday school as an institution and aims to correct its defects and to increase its efficiency. But far more it reveals to every thoughtful reader the fact that something must be done to improve the situation for moral and religious education in America. Professor Athearn, the director of the survey, has done much already in a number of American communities to inspire parents and teachers to provide a form of religious and moral nurture that quately heated and ventilated and equipped. The school sessions last but one hour, half of which is devoted to class recitations. Sixty-five per cent of these schools have an average attendance of less than one hundred pupils. Severity per cent of them are ungraded. The teachers are poorly equipped and have but little time for preparation, while the children attend with marked irregularity. Nevertheless, the volume recognizes the immense influence for good of the Sunday school as an institution and aims to correct its defects and to increase its efficiency. But far more it reveals to every thoughtful reader the fact that something must be done to improve the situation for moral and religious education in America. Professor Athearn, the director of the survey, has done much already in a number of American communities to inspire parents and teachers to provide a form of religious and moral nurture that shall parallel that of the day school and be conducted on week days in a manner to supplement both the work of the Sunday school and of the public school. Without question every American child ought to receive training for life and for citizenship in tax supported schools. No parochial school, Protestant or Catholic should be looked upon as a substitute for this training. The Protestant Sunday school of the old order has done an incalculable service to the Republic, but it is not sufficient either as to time, methods or equipment. Nor do we solve the problem by a few moments of Bible reading without comment during the day school hours. Something far more adequate than anything thus far or proposed must be worked out. But the first step is to face the facts as they actually are. And that is what this volume does and by a skillful arrangement of materials helps the reader to see the situation with a minimum of expenditure of time and energy. Once we get the facts clearly before our minds as a people, a solution will be found for this, the most urgent problem in our present day life. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING CAMPING HABIT IS GROWING—Riverside Press The vacation season now drawing to a close has been a fine one for the motor-camper. Railroad schedules, hotel rates and stop-over privileges have ceased to trouble vacationers who furnish their own transportation facilities and carry along their simplified household equipment, in their camping kit. Everywhere, it is now found, small towns and big cities alike have free camping sites for the tourist. These vary only in degree of comfort; some of the more elaborate ones offering the sojourner electric lights, laundries and shower baths. At the same time the camper's equipment is improving: Manufacturers have not been slow to devise appliances which are convenient to carry and set up as well as comfortable to us. Of course there are luxurious and costly outfits, but there are simple and comparatively inexpensive ones suited to the average family's needs as well as purse. Practice as well as improved equipment are making camping available not only for hardy persons who can endure roughing it, but also for others who need the outdoor life but cannot stand the hardships of old style camping. It seems safe to say that motor camping is not a transient fad, but a permanent institution which will do its share toward increasing the nation's health and vacation enjoyment. WE SPECIALIZE IN AUTO SPRINGS AND WHEELS WE SPECIALIZE IN AUTO SPRINGS AND WHEELS Knox & Mayberry 224 S. Lemon St. Phone 81 Anaheim The EASY Vacuum Electric Washer Easy Terms AMERICA'S LEADING WASHER NO BELTS 10-SHEET CAPACITY Gas Heater The Fastest Washer Phone Today for Demonstration ANAHEIM ELECTRIC CO. 209 WEST CENTER ST.—Phone 59 ANAHEIM, CALIF. URES cept Sunday Publisher Plain Dealer THU Subscript Entered of "GOSH, WHAT AN AWFUL MESS I MADE OF IT!" DISCONTENT DISEASE SECESSION EUROPE REBELLION HATREDS CIVIL WARS ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL DEPRESSION DISCORD UNEMPLOYMENT CRIME DISSOLUTION STARVATION PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN Sanatorium: A place where men are confined as punishment for success. What becomes of all the ants when Autumn comes and they leave the sugar bowl? Hopelessly stout people may recall that a diet of worms reduced Luther for a time. Platonic love is just the mating instinct without the courage of its convictions. As a general thing a nervous breakdown is the price man pays for taking himself too seriously. Many a wonderful press agent has been sacrificed to make a mediocre presidential aspirant. The Malden’s Prayer is no longer a simple melody but a medley of popular heirs. The millennium is waiting patiently until the time comes when reform will begin where charity does. What excuse did kings have to grab territory in the old days before national honor was invented? And yet the man who bowls for equal opportunity moves over resentfully when you toot to pass his litney. When bothered with bolls. And you’re grouchy and ill, Just think of each boil. As a five dollar bill. Speech is a doubtful blessing. Evolution made much more progress before men learned to talk about it. Ancient saying “You may break a state law and get away with it.” ABE MARTIN It seems like th’ worse a feller stacks up th’ worse he’s sold on knickerbockers. Even travelin’ as plain Lord Renfrew, th’ Prince o’ Wales ‘ll have t’ carry a tuxedo suit an’ be afraid t’ order ham an’ eggs. DINNER STORIES An old-time Southerner, who had never learned to hurry, wanted to give his favorite recipe for home-brew to a friend, say Judge. He began the search for it in his right coat pocket, slowly removing every article from the right pocket to the left without results. Then- he reversed the operation, transferring the contents of the left pocket to the right. Still the recipe was not poems that live IN A LONDON SQUARE Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frosts are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that’s kind and fair. But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself and bear. December days were brief and chill, The winds of March were wild and drear, And, nearing and receding still, Spring never would, we thought, be here. The leaves that burst, the suns that shine, Had, not the less, their certain date; And thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, refrain thyself, and wait. —Arthur Hugh Clough. THE LAST WORD Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! All stands fast. Thou myself must break at last. And yet the man who howls for equal opportunity moves over resentfully when you toot to pass his litney. When bothered with boils. And you're grouchy and ill, Just think of each boil As a five dollar bill. Speech is a doubtful blessing. Evolution made much more progress before men learned to talk about it. Ancient saying "You may break a state law and get away with it, but you'd better not monkey with Uncle Sam." Still, bad prose is very little more attractive when chopped into short lengths and arranged as free verse. One objection to radio grand opera is that you can't hear anybody patting his foot to show how cultured he is. It isn't the style of the Bible that makes it unpopular with moderns, but the fact that it cramps their style. The modern thinks he is roughing it when he keeps the limousine windows open in spite of the frost in the air. We can't understand why the ancient wished to smite an enemy "hip and thigh" unless hip flasks were used in those days. That man-monkey theory is bosh. True, monkeys chatter increasingly about inconsequential things but they don't serve tea. Correct this sentence: "Don't trouble yourself, Dear," promised the husband, "I'll gather up the papers when I finish reading." Now diminutive man Oft' imitates The cinnamon bear That hibernates. Better to sleep with your windows open than with your mausoleum closed. An old-time Southerner, who had never learned to hurry, wanted to give his favorite recipe for home-brew to a friend, says Judge. He began the search for it in his right coat pocket, slowly removing every article from the right pocket to the left without results. Then he reversed the operation, transferring the contents of the left pocket to the right. Still the recipe was not forthcoming. He had started patiently and deliberately to empty the right pocket again when a smile lightened his face. He said: "This reminds me of the nigger boy who sweeps the drug store on the corner, I asked him the other day, why he never dusted the furniture, and he answered: 'Caze I jun' sweep' de flo and if I dus' de furniture de dus'll git back on de flo an' I have ter sweep de flo' agin and den de dus'll git on de furniture.' If it isn't in one place it's bound to be in the other." And he resumed the search and found the elusive bit of paper. CROSS EYES CORRECTED THIS MUSCULAR DEFECT CORRECED AND STRAIN RELEVED BY PROPERLY ADJUSTED GLASSES. DR WA BLAKELY OPTOMETRIST ANAMEIM CALIFORNIA And thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, refrain thyself, and wait. —Arthur Hugh Clough. THE LAST WORD Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! All stands fast. Thou myself must break at last. Let the long contentions cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still. They out-talk'd thee, hiss'd thee, torre thee? Better men fared thus before thee; Fired their ringing shot and pass'd, Hotly charged—and sank at last. Charge once more, then and be dumb! Let the victors when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall! —Mathew Arnold. "George," said his father, "I am sorry to hear that you were among those present at that disgraceful party at the Drinkwell's last night." "Father," pleaded the young man with somewhat bleary eyes, "I can assure you that I was only there as an observer." "Yes," replied his parent, "so I heard, and Tom was the pilot and the table was the aeroplane. No, don't bother driving me down this morning." And so another day was ruined. —Goblin (U. of Toronto.) THURSDAY, OCTOBER ELEVENTH, 1923 Subscription Rate—In No. Orange co., per Yr. $3; 6 Months, $1.75. Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as 2nd class matter. IN THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT PINHEAD PICTURES Boston Culture, books, baked bean repast, Baseball teams that come in last. Philadelphia. Scrapple, capan, Tendler (Lew). Sundays nothing much to do. Chicago. Twenty railroad stations, loop, Bathhouse John and bootleg coup. San Francisco Earthquakes, fires, real estate, Chinatown and Golden Gate. New York. White lights, jazz, rum fleet, unrest Murders, holdups—full of seizure. Detroit Flivvers, flivvers, Free on Board, Politics of Henry Ford. New Orleans. Creoles, river lary bliss, Ghost of old New Orleans flies. Zion City, Ill. Cigaretteless, solemn chat, Covered arms and world that's flat. Winsted, Conn. Legless cows and wingless files And a lot of other lies. Los Angeles Mary, Charlie, Jackie Doug. Gloria's ankles, Turpin's mug. "Starched Collar Comes Back."—Headline. But seldom from a laundry. Not so you'd ever recognize it, anyway. MORE OR LESS NEWS The Irish election started out to be quarrelsome and gory, but the radio's influence turned it about into a bedtime story. The police investigation shows no man protects his brother; for the recrimination goes: "I didn't," "You're another!" Some weeks ago to bet on a strike in coal appeared a cinch-o; but it seems that it may be stopped bellike by Governor Pinchot. Man's a contrary brute. His alarm clock goes off and he throws it out the window. Then he recovers it and finds that it won't go off any more; so he takes it around to the repair man to have it fixed so it will go off. It was an optimistic makeup man who followed the ad of "We've Got to Have money" with "Why Worry?" practically on the eve of receipt of notification that the outgo tax installment is due. The world's most impractical minor is the fellow who spends $2 worth of time trying to pry from an envelope a 1-cent stamp that was missed by the cancellation mark. AN OLD FRIEND RETURNS "Ah, I wish I could find some place where I could be cut off entirely from the world." "Try a telephone booth."—Kasper (Stockholm). The ancient wheeze quoted above originated in this column in 1917, and since that time has appeared in all the principal cities in the United States. We see it is now doing a tour of Europe. It Got to Have money" with "Why Worry?" practically on the eve of receipt of notification that the outgo tax installment is due. The world's most impractical minor is the fellow who spends $2 worth of time trying to pry from an envelope a 1-cent stamp that was missed by the cancellation mark. AN OLD FRIEND RETURNS "Ah, I wish I could find some place where I could be cut off entirely from the world." "Try a telephone booth."—Kasper (Stockholm.) The ancient wheeze quoted above originated in this column in 1917, and since that time has appeared in all the principal cities in the United States. We see it is now doing a tour of Europe. It comes back to us via the "Lit, Digest," not much worse for wear. We hope it is making a hit in Sweden. 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