Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Talegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Cities and Towns — -Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. RETURN TO IDEALS OF NATION Is Plea Made by President Groce of Depauw, in Address. Richmond, April 10—Denouncing radicalism and declaring that “the splendid idealism which sent the youths of the nation into the world war is being obscured if not lost, in the tragic failure of peaceful government to realize the worthy alms of war,” Dr. George R. Groce, president of Depauw university, here Friday pleaded for a return to the Ideals of the nation. " He was making the annual report of the committee on the state of the country of which he is chairman to the Northern Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference. The revival of commercial greed, the clamor of partisan Interests, the furious competition and consciencelesa profiteering in trade, the senseless extravagance and the . “mad rueh” for exciting pleasures were hit by the report. “In spite of the seeming prosperity the report reads, “There is a widespread discontent manifesting itself in Industrial strife, in appeal to the forces of disorder, in disregarding the honorable traditions of the nation and in open defiance of the Institutions of society. “We deplore the failure of our national government to meet our responsibility as a nation in completing a just and honorable peace ytect which would at the same time safeguard every national right and interest and help to restore and rebuild the wasted nations of Europe.” The report expressed “rejoicing” at the progress of woman suffrage, over prohibition, and pleaded for law and order.