Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1921 — Page 5

BRYAN ADVISES CHURCHMEN TO ENTER POLITICS Says World’s Biggest Need Is Greater Faith in Creator. SCORES DARWIN THEORY The bis need of the world today i to ret back to God, and prayer; real belief in immortality and brotherhood lr the only hope for world prorrees and world peace, accordinr to William Jennings Bryan, former Secretary of State, in an address to an audience that completely filled Tomlinson Hall last night, at the twenty-eighth quadrennial general conference of the United Brethren Church, the Commoner using as his subject, “Brother or Brute.” Taking exactly the opposite position from the statements expressed by Albert J. Beveridge, former United States Senator from Indiana, in his address Tuesday night, Mr. Bryan urged ministers of the gospel to take an active part in the political affairs of the Nation. URGES MINISTERS TO ASSIST GOVERNMENT. “I have been anxious that ministers take a larger part in shaping governmental principles,” Mr. Bryan said. “To whom shall we look for leadership in moral things if not to the guardians of the Ark of the Covenant? . “Ministers cannot shirk their duty In Vchis respect. What kind of a country would we have if Christians attended alone to Christianity and left politics for the politicians alone. Every minister should enter and lend bis influence to politics. “My purpose is to emphasize the fact that there are but two attitudes to assume which deal with fellow men, namely, that of the brother or that of the brute. He is either restrained by the feeling of brotherhood or kinship, or he is hunting his prey with the savage longing of the beast.” BUSINESS “DETOURERS" DENOUNCED AS "BRUTES.” He then illustrated this statement by reference to acts described as brutish, beginning with the story of the cannibal who defended the title to a piece of land by saying “When I ate the owner of the land the title passed to me.” Mr. Bryan quoted from the Scriptures to show that David and Solomon described some men as brutish. He denounced those who devour widow’s houses then for a pretense, make a long prayer. The pure food law, the anti-trust law, child labor and white slave law were cited as illustrations of the fact that it Is necessary to restrain brutish men by criminal law, even in this country. “The pnre food law,” said Mr. Bryan, “was passed because the people learned that other people were poisoning food la their greed for money. Adulteration of food was Jeopardizing the lives of the American people. SUPREME COURT IS NOT “ALE HIGHEST.” "The pure food law stands as a reflection on the morals of this country, but It Is to our credit that we had courage to pass a law which will make criminals out of business men who would endanger the health of the people. “There Is a fact that this is far more Important than the decision of the Uajted States Supreme Court in declaring the child labor law unconstitutional. That fact is that humanity is greater than the Supreme Court, and we will yet have a child labor law in this country.” The anti-trust law and the white slave law were discussed by Mr. Bryan, who said the latter law was passed to protect womanhood and society from the brutishness of men, and added that the necessity for the passage this law also is a reflection on the morals of the Nation. “And there is another law on the way.” •aid the Commoner. “It has passed the

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Earle ■Williams has a strenuous Job fighting food profiteers in his latest picture “It Can Be Done,” a comedy drama, which is at the Alhambra Thursday and for the rest of the week. At first glance this would not appear to be a very romantic Job, but Mr. Williams finds plenty of romance in it. Tho story deals with a campaign waged In relentless fashion against a band of profiteers by the editor of a newspaper in a small American city. The star is cast as Austin Crane, author of a series of super-Rafiles stories that have attracted the editor's attention, and seeking to enlist Crane’s ability In his fight he engages the author to write a series of articles exposing the methods of the food sharks. Crane enters into the contract with but little enthusiasm for the reason that one of the chief offenders is the father of a girl whom he intends to marry. After his first article he suffers from an attack of “cold feet” and discarding his writing plans, he takes matters into his own hands and shows how it is possible for one man to bring about a general reduction in the price of foodstuffs without publicity of a sort which would

House and is now In the Senate. It Is a law to protect the farmer against gamblers—gamblers who make more in two hours gambling on the price of farm products than the farnSer can make in ten years raising the produce. “It's time to consider the farmer. In IS9O I tried to impress on the country the business importance of the farmer. “1 repeat today what I said then, that you can destroy the cities and leave the country, and the cities can be built again, but if you destroy the country, and shut off the bread, you can’t build walls thick enough to shut out the cries of distress that will arise. Law will eventually take the gambler off the back of the farmer.” SHOWS MEN AS BRUTES IN WAR. Mr. Bryan then took up war, and showed that during war, the brute in man is unloosed, pointing the outstanding features of the recent World War. After establishing the fact that there is much brutishness in the world today, he presented brotherhood as the only alternative and the only salvation of the world. He urged the application of the spirit of brotherhood to business, industry and in international relations. He outlined the ethics of accumulation and philosophic foundation based on the proposition that one can not rightfully withdraw from society more than he honestly earns. He urged Investigation of all disputes between labor and capital, not compulsory arbitration, but investigation based on the principle of the thirty treaties provided for unrest, but which do not bind either party to accept the findings. PROPOSES WORLD CONFERENCE FOR PEACE. Discussing war, Mr. Bryan favored the Immediate entry into cooperation with other nations In the promotion of world peace, and favored disarmament as a means to that end. For this purpose he advocated agreements with other nations “In some respects we are worse than the European nations that still are fighting. We can't get out of war. We stand in the way of world peace. And all because of a provision of our Constitution which provides that we can enter war by a majority vote, but it takes a twothirds vote to get out. “And we are .".sked to spend four times as much now for armament as we did before we fought the war which was to stop war. The bottomless abj as of bankruptcy is ahead of the world if the rivalry of armament is not stopped. “WHY NOT TRY CHRIST’S PLAN.” "There is only one alternative. There is only one plan to stop armament and that is Christ’s plan. The world Is

tend to disgrace innocent persons. The story was written by Fred Jackson. Mr. Williams’ leading woman Is Elinor Fair, while Jack Mathies, Henry Barrows, Florence Hart and others appear In the supporting cast. The program also Includes “His Dlzay Finish” a Hall Room Boys farce, the Fox news weekly and the Sherwoods and their singring orchestra. -I- -I- -IOther attractions on view today include: “Happiness,” at English's; “Civilian Clothes,” at the Murat; ‘‘A Tale of Three Cities,” at the Lyric; “The Smarter Set,” at the Park; new movies and vaudeville, at Loew’s State; “Too Wise Wives,” at the Isis; “Through the Back Door,” at the Colonial; “Peck’s Bad Boy,” at the Circle; “The North Wind’s Malice,” at the Ohio; “Dice of Destiny,” at Mister Smith's, and “The Midnight Riders,” at the Regent. The new bill at B. F. Keith’s today Includes Farrell and Carley, in “A ItagPainting Oddity;” Mack and Salle; Hall, Ermine and Brice, in “A Night on Broadway;” Silver and Duvall Company, in “The Star Boarder;” Jack Binns and Henry Bert, and Fun Foto Films.

borne down with the weight of militarism, and all it needs is a nation with the courage to give Christ's plan a chance, and with the courage to test God's promises. “I favor disarmament bj agreement. If possibiß, anj by example, if necessary,” said Mr. Bryan. After showing the need of brotherhood as an alternative to brutishness, Mr. Bryan concluded with an arraignment of the L>arwin.ian hypothesis, as the greatest menace to brotherhood and civilization and asserted that there is no support in the Bible or in nature for the doctrine that man is descended from brute, and gave instances in support of his statement that those who attempt to link man with the ape have written “wilder fiction than la to be found in the Arabian Nights.” RIDICULES CLARIS OF ANCESTRY. Extracts from the “guesses’ 0 f these writers were quoted by the speaker, to show how ridiculous are their claims, lie pointed out what he regards as the logical effect of these teachings in the student and concluded with a quotation from a book written by James Leuba of Bryn Mawr College, entitled “Belief in God and Evolution,” in which Leuba has made a canvass of scientists, historians, psychologists, sociologists and students and his figures show that more than onehalf of the prominent representatives of these classes do not believe In a personal God and in which he asserts that his inquiries show that from 40 to 50 per cent of the young mn who graduate go our from college without a belief in a personal God or Immortality. SHOULD NOT BE HARD TO BELIEVE BIBLE. “If men would serve half the time connecting men with God that they spend trying to establish a connection of man with the monkey, the world would be better off. “If any man can believe Darwin's theory and writings, it should not be hard for him to believe the Bible, for it is a lot easier to believe the word of God than it 1* the word of the evolutionists. ‘■Darwinism is undermining the Christian faith of the earth, by substituting for Christianity. There is nothing can substitute Christianity in the human heart.” Mr. Bryan declared that Nietzsche merely carries Darwinism to a logical conclusion when he became the leader of materialism in Germany, and gale the philosophic foundation on which German militarists built their defense or, sot -e and frightfulness. “The big need of the world today is to get back to God,” said Mr. Bryan. “Prayer, a real relief in immortality and brotherhood is the only hope for world progress and for world peace.”

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PANAMA ACTS TO SAVE STRIP Appeals to South America in Costa Rica Row—Asks U. S. Intervention. PANAMA, May 19.—Panama today appealed to South American nations to intervene with the United States over disposition of a strip of Central America claimed by both Panama and Costa Rica. The government sent envoys to Peru, Argentina, Brazil an(F Chile to ask those countries to demand that final disposition of the disputed province be left to a commission from the Latin-American nations and the United States. At the same time Secretary of Agriculture Garay sailed for Washington to appeal Secretary Hughes’ ultimatum that Panama vacate tho disputed territory. It was reported Garay would request further consideration by Upited States authorities, politely refusing to vacate until the request was granted.

Plans Reserve Flying Corps for Fifth Area Plaas for the organization of a reserve flying corps in the Fifth Army corps area are being made by Maj. Ira Longnecker, commander of the air service of the corps area at Ft. Benjamin Hurrison. He asks former aviators who wish to Join such an organization to communicate with J. W. Ebaugh, secretary of the Marlon County Council of the American Legion, 831 Knights of Pythias building. Waives Hearing Albert Wathen, 17, C3 South Bradley avenue, waived preliminary hearing on charges of vehicle taking in city court yesterday afternoon and was bound over to the grand Jury under SI,OOO bond by Judge Walter Pritchard. Wathen was arrested Tuesday in Franklin. It is said he stole an automobile from Jack Irwin, 17 North State avenue, which was parked in the rear of the Jones-Whitaker salesroom, at 353 North Capitol avenue. May 10.

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on bond of $5,000. The motion to quash the Indictment set forth that the charge was too Indefinite. Graham U a student in the Columbus High school.

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