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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-02-13, Page 3THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1941 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE, THREE f .'DING CO tstrit ERitS �ECD'MMEND, MAGIC "Capitalist System Approved by Jesus" 1. V. )farce. in his column in The h.ohe and Mail discusses a recent artnt e s ly Prof. W. B. herr of Bui- fzco, ,aft of Mrs. 'James. Kerr of Sca- 6crr h. This article has also -been the i.^ikiject of • sermons front the 131110it. \1r, \liAree say:: "You have prob- ably heard socialism described as the economics of Christianity. Perhaps subtly and intentionally as a matter of propaganda, perhaps as 0 mat- ter of sincere belief, Social- ists for the past fifty years have sought to identify their movement with Christianity, It is no mere coin- cidence that many eminent Socialists have been men of singular purity in their private limes: and that an a whole Socialists are a more right- eous lot than Liberals, to say noth- ing of Conservative;. They have ang- ued and asserted from a thousand 'Platforms and intens of thousands of pamphlets that if Christ came to earth He wtouhcl ;(rive immediate ap- proval to the aims of the Socialist r`:rty iii .preference to all otter parties. This Propaganda seems to have passed without challenge. ,Mem- hers of more orthodox political groups have had no real -defense. They have merely mumbled that no 'doubt this is true, but that in the meantime ;before Christ does come to earth it would he ,hotter to continue with economic gospels more spited to an extremely worldly world and a 'humanity in which human nature is o observable. The 'Bible, elf canrse, is fu11 of 6. statements Which are cited io sup- •r port of the Socialist doctrine. It has been said fhat the devil can quote Scriptures to 'ere.• his own ends, and Shakespeare remarked that there was no error -o damnable that a 4 D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Office — Commercial Hotel Electra Therapist — Massage Hours—Mon. and Thurs. after- noons and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray Treatment. Phone 227. BUS TIME TABLE Leaves Seaforth for Stratford: Daily 9.25 nam, sod 0.15 p.m. !.eaves Seaforth for Goderich: Daily except Sunday End hal., 1.05 p.m, and 7.40 p.m. Sun. and bel., 7.05 p.m. and 9.20 p.m. nnnection at Stratford for Toronto, Hamilton. Bafflch. London. Detroit, Tsvisoek, Woodstock. Brantford Agents: queen's, Commercial, Dick Rouse priest could not be iaund to approve al citing a text in justification. But fire batteries from holy Writ em- 'ployed by the Socialists have -com- td formidable, indeed overwhelming. As a Matter of fart, we were on the point .oi surrendering to dem tvhen lot carte across an article lby 1)r. IW. It. herr, Irolrsxor 4)i Histary at the University of Buffalo, in the Dal- housie Review, now entering its chiral decade of distimmi sed exist. titre. Professor Kerr .d00S not deny the texts. Ile Merely denies that they mean what the Socialist, have said they mean. Ile finds that Christ either implicitly or explicitly approved the capitalist system which existed in His day; asserted the right of the enl- ploj%er tlo what he liked with his own, and If ile lived today would he in strung. opposition to all labor un- ions. 11e tries to show that a. a mat- ter of fact Jesus was indifferent to economics, and to the temporal pos- ition of t110Te 10 whom He spoke. He was concerned only dvitli the life af- ter the ,grave. Professor Kerr is not attacking the theories of the Socialists. He is mere- ly denying their right to cite Christ as a sort of primative Socialist, whose theories have 'been greatly im- proved upon by the !leaders of modern times, And, we must admit lie makes quite a good job of i1 He Agrees that on many occasions Jesus had harsh words .10 say about rich men, as, for instance, in the parable of the need'le's eye. But all that His 0011(15nutatian amounted to when carefully consid- ered is that He recognized that a rich matt was in danger of 'becoming a prey to etwetousness, that his •riches were apt to Seem 4o important - to him .that they would obscure the things of the spirit Out once the rich Ulan had recognized this danger, had given reasonably to the poor, and had shown that, as a !natter of fact, Itis wealth had not destroyed his soulful yearnings, the Saviour considered hint quite as good as a poor man—better, in 501110 ways, perhaps. for he w^as 10 a position 10 become a financial .backer of the disciples and other followers of Christ, a distinction from which poor hien were excluded. It seems clear enough by looking at the Parables that Jesus was no en- emy of the profit motive, that lie, in fast approved it. 'He speaks of a pearl -of great price which teas to be obtained by the sac- rifice of a wehole property. Here a business transaction with profit as the aim was likened to entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. More apt is the ,provet+b about the :nobleman ,who when he was ,going on a journey, left a suns of money with each of three servants. On his return she found that one had invested the money to such good purpose that she original stake had therm multiplied by ten. An- other had made a profit of '500 per rent, while the third lacking all bus- iness or speculative instinct, had Merely buried his 101011 in the ground. Jesus rebuked flim as an 'un- profitable servant. Another parable, which was probably a mere variation of this one, dealt with smaller profits, but the Lord's commendation of the =getters was plain, and tIiis distaste for the servant who showed no enter- prise cannot roe comforting to Soc- ialists. Another pr.>•velib approves (banking practice ars then carried en, ;lid praise-. a 'king for cdn0011112 ;c large debt frim a servant who, 011 the oilier hand, declined to write off 't smaller debt rowdier sereant o'.ced him. here aye edit'i nualy gaited approval of the banking sy+tent sari also of ,generrius dealings with debt- ors. On another occa-lon 2'ltrist 00(11 cd to become a referee• 111 a `dispute be- tween two brothers over an inherit- ance. ile declined to redress an in- justice. simply on the ground that it was nate of ii -lis business. There is also cited the story of the owner of the vineyard who hired smile laborers for the whole day and others for dif- ferent part: of the clay, ,One bot wondd work two or throe times long- er than others, haat the 'vineyard own- er paid them all at the rate of a pen- ny a day. 'Chi, art had the a110000a1 of Jesus wirer was plainly nen inter- ested in the theerry of equal pay for equal work. Tl are, and in other plates, 1 -le has emphasized the right of a elan to do what he wants with his own, surely a refutation of Socialist theory, It is not necessary to speak of tihe many occasions in ,which Jesus condemned and even scourged crtiel practices of !business, and for men en- riching themselves through the suf- ferings of others, ,hut it seems plain, nevertheless, that He saw no hare, in riches and the profit motive in them- selves. REVIEW OF THE WEEK Compulsory military training‘ per- iod for young men of 21 extended from 30 days to four months. First Period begins March 15, From 6,000 to 6.500 to be called up each month. Objectives for 1941; (a) Provision of 25 Canadian air squadrons for overseas service, graduates of British air training plan. (b) Present strength of 36,000 Wren in air train- ing plan to be doubled ami home operations strengthened. (c) Increase of Canadian Navy to 418 ships and 26,920 men by March 31, 1942, com- pared with present strength of 175 ships and 15,819 !nen. (d) Canada to build destroyers and long range bombers and concentrate on produc- ing weapons .qot obtainable in United States. To go overseas; Third Canadian Division now training in Canada with complement of corps droops; balance of corps troops for Canadian corps of two divisions now training in England; army tank brigade; Can- adian armored division. ]recruits needed in 1941 for active army: 40,000 to 50,000 according to wastage and casualties. Two hundred thousand additional men and woolen required during 1941 for war in- dustries. Army Training school .to trail tradesmen for all branches of army to be established at Hamilton, Ont- ario. School will accommodate 2,000 students, begin operations about May 1, 1941, War expenditures now running ap- proximately $1,000,000,000 (one bil- lion) a year. Adding other expencB- ture plus repatriation operations on Canadian securities held ie Britain. expenditures total $1.700,000,000 a year. Want and For Sale Ads, 1 week 25c We Are Selling Quality • ooks Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. • The Seaforth News SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. FORMER MEMBER DIES E. 1'1. Wigle, former mayor of Goderich, and ex'l.L.A. for Centre Huron„who died Saturday' night in hospital at London, ANNOUNCES FOUR MONTHS' TRAINING PERIOD Eetablisluvent of it four-month coutliulsorY military training period in place of the present 311 days, and complete roolganizatinn of the trail!- iiig program to graduate 7.„0!111 re - emits a year was announced by Primo Minister• h'iuciceuzie Ring. "Under this arrangement only those 1,1 21 years will receive compulsory training unless circumstances change. maternally 01. the numbers in this nge group prove unexpectedly small:”; Ahola 78,04)0 ]then 21 years old reg` istered last August during national registration. The now program will start operating on Muret 15 when t;,auo .to 6,500 hien will enter cramps. Additional groups of 111E. sante 11 11 will he called up for the 15th of each ensuing month, On July 15 the first group will have graduated, and a similar number will be turned our CM the 15tH of every month there- after, with at least. 24,0(10 men con- stantly 1n training, "It has always been recognized that 30 days' train- ing would not lit a man to take his place in a fighting unit," the prime minister said in a statement. There will be no exemptions for those called up for this training hat post- ponements may be allowed an prin- ciples to be worked out by the boards of review, chairmen of which have. been called to work out details of the new program. HOW FARMERS CAIN HELP THEMSELVES (Why Should we as farmers be in- terested in starting listening groups to hear the -series of farm broadcasts stat have already started over This is a question that should •merit the. serious consideration of all re- op0nsiblc intelligent citizens. A'lthougll there are secondary or minor benefits that should accrue, such as a real impetus given to good tyholesome community sociability it is possibly correct to say that an exten- sive development of listening groups will give a real boost to the organ- ization of our agricultural industry. As .most of you already know we have a dominion ,wide farmer organ- ization, namely. The Canadian Feder- ation of Agriculture. To make this federation a real virile powerful force it is necessary that we farmers on the back concessions !become better in- formed regarding our problems and the most effective way of sltrmount- ing our difficulties. We need to come to a realization that it is possible for each of ns to become a link in this national organization that is designed 90 .protect our interests as primary producers. A week ago the president of our Canadian Federation of Agriculture, 1Mr. H. H. (Hannam (as wrli as 501110 supporters) was in Ottawa pleading the case of Agriculture (before Prem- ier hint/ and the whole federal cabins et. Has it not struck us as ordinary farmer: that he could ,present 'his case with a great deal more effectiveness if the majority of us were staunch. Militant supporters of the 'Canadian Federation of Agriculture. - • After (neer ten. lean years of very difficult tines many farmers are dis- couraged and have adopted the cis- featist attitude. They will make re- marks something of this nature, "Far- mers .have tried to organize before and it failed because farmers will not be loyal or stick to any organization Of their own." Unfortunately many attempts 'sty organized agriculture acts better the farmers position have had disappointing results .but no pragres< can be made by adopting a defeatist attitude. :\71 legislative reforms and historical progress have (leen made by people who refused to accept de- feat. They had a vision of better things and day persistent and tent effort Made their vision become a reality. +1 t should he 11511)1111 for 1)3 to remember theinjnnrtion -Where there is no •0lsfim the people perish." While the prolrlenl of '!ringing. pros— perity to air industry may 1,e diff:- 5tr1t it is by no ute:ota incapable solution. in fact it is inIperativc aha' we bring about reform and a .greater. measure of equality and :parity prices in our economic relationships if we are ,going to perpetrate *len1a- cracy and make it wort;. The rule we are asked to take at -producers at this time is a very easy and simple one. We are aalri.e,l Its vnittn'tarily study rind thitik abort: our tarn) difficulties in it systematic :'way through the medium Of the radia and the listening groups. For further in- formation on formation of listenlne, groups write "Prov. Secretary. Iar- mers' Radio Forum. '` [Juke street. Toronto, Ont." A. tanners are we going to perpetuate injustice, inequal- ity .and 'hardship !because of our M action' or. are we willing and eager "To do what we can," (Kenneth E. Jackson: [ippon, °O4rtario. Joined R. 0, A. F.— Geo, T, Currie, sou of Mr. and Mrs. J, Currie SV. Gem man Por tar r Times. BARDIA'S BUGLES Came From Empire Shop Which Gives the World Music The Australian buglersers who sound- ed the advance 00 Bardia did it on bugles made in a London factory ov- erlooking the anti-aircraft batteries of Hyde Park. There is to -tray only one limit to the export of all kinds of British mus- ical instruments, the prior claims the Government who have mimed mane craftsmen to the peaking of war equipment. 'Well over £100,111111 worth of band instruments, flutes, oboes. bassoons, saxophones, cornetts and percussion instruments are now being exported from ''Britain every year. Bugles and military band instru- ments for the I}omininns forces conn from England. Even the which prides itself on the etcellenet• of Its Musical instruments, is calling on Britain for trumpets for its cel- ebrated symphony orchestras in Phil- adelphia and Boston. in South America exports of hand instruments have increased 50 per cent, in vc14 last t40 n1o01011111S.Cusses clue .10 enemy action have proved so small as to be negligible. Besides supplying the straight mus- ic market and the Empire forces. ,Britain is slaking musical instruments for the Free Forces of France and Poland and Czechoslovakia. has joined the R O,A.F. 'go was in the last war as police - fie is at present stationed at t Albert but expedts to be trans' ed soon, — Wingham Advance Want and, For Sale Ad., 1 week '\5c Here's Heal Relief L(ar SES THAT CLOG, DRY DP AFTER D,.•'<!K a� PURP®SE wiD MEDICINE How much. better you feel -when you clear nose of transient conges- tion at bedtime with Va-tro-nolo Va-tro-nol does 3 important things: (1) shrinks swollen membranes; (2) soothes irritation; (3) helps flush na- sal passages, clearing clogging mucus, relieving transient congestion. It makes breathing easier, invites sleep, If a cold threat- ens, Va-tro-nal til Usedatfirst sniffle or sneeze helps veto previnntgcolds e- VA -TRO -NOL . Weds Detroit Surgeon— Am/am/cement was made last week of the marriage of 1\irs. .Annie Laur- ine Dodge, former Gore Bay tele- phone operator, whose marriage in 11.3'8 to D:utietl Dodge of the wealthy atrt0nn4thile famiil of that name .was cut short by her husband's accid- ental death during the honeymoon, to Dr William A. Lange, a Detroit plastic surgeon. Mr,. Lange received ;2,5110,010(1 as her share of the !Dodge fortane. The -pride told reporters .s•he met Dr.- Lange eighteen months ago when she went to his office as a pat- ient, anti a short time later they carted •keeping cI 5111ty "on the quiet." They attended fete social functions together and not even .the physician's office staff knew of the impending marriage. In applying for a marriage license 1)r Lange gave a„0 ;n thirty-two. Mrs. Dodge's age 4(114 given a s twenty-three. A sister of the ;fanner 1,11r,,. Dodge is married to Fred 'H,11mes ot-'Windsor, whose father, the late Rev. J. E Holmes, w a. pastor of ,North street United church here some years ago and who is retncmber0d here as a popular yonn,g' vocalist. — Goderich Signal -Star. For some time strange birds had been following the ship, and one wo- man passenger got curious, asking everybody all sorts of questions. At dinner she began again. "Captain,” she said, "can't you tell me where those birds come front?" Tired of her questions, the captain turned to the first officer and asked plaintively: "Can you tell me where those birds come front?" "Eggs. sir" was the prompt reply. "THE PUREST FORM IN WHICH TOBACCO CAN BE SMOKED." FISHERMEN'S PATROL theA doughty little ship of the "Fishermen's pt 111•' Fleet of the ]loyal through Navy plows throu_the heaving Pacific. These. small vessels peep eoltstant watch over the bay4 and fillets of the. British Coluulhia coast. J. 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