Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1909 — PLAIN TALK ABOUT SUNDAY RECREATION. [ARTICLE]

PLAIN TALK ABOUT SUNDAY RECREATION.

The War and Navy flepartiuems ehc-wci both common sense and a '<®jrtetlp.n spirit not long ago in meetlag thia very question of Sunday diYtrrion. Some religionists at Kansas City organized a committee and proceeded on to Washington, where they presented to the Secretary of War and .the Secretary of the Navy a manifesto protesting against the Departments permitting, “Sunday baseball playing r.n the part of the soldiers and sail .ors.” - That Kansas City, which does not ecme into imm. bate contact with Cither saTors-or soldiersrashoukA take O .„ - ■- - ■ . - ... v ... jr ’ - -- - n-cif' uienlisted c-what illustrative ; vr these -e-r. lb’s. .■ ■■ - Th* cratra-. . ? a; Wat hiiigtetb in-, r ra ' -p pet r * e 'u. ' ;• , ' .if' . bastll,,o-i the naval niu’ matte ■" eservaiions where such <on- ■ r —Tjr-nof ■ftr'-rTf-rt.* w: 1; TjT'r t ~iran“' ■l. rarra; . . of th- > i rah.” ' 'i ” m:tdd( :.';ra. f- ■ ■ of these ,.<>■ 7 inwisdoir Tram an ■' cccuomic, ' or hr: vlra-.Tt't. Take miZ' '_ l '- r t?i-n red'.ahLh ■’ k ■he era. r.try a few ;' ■■ ago. Tira howl<:.s v. ere toe ■ J.' g_ or Wai.hing'.on c.nd the canteen v. :? olirhrn. Ji' yen wiil write now ■ - —fr-ei'. ■ —V..'D— y ili tell : '.'•.it it v .?■ a IraipT'al action, ana ' s <>t ' r have dot.b the < e.i. was taken. Coin i -niter rw.-t tlirtyugh •:••.<-/ the -rt:l!g T ’T”-‘s are. .■"<•■•! o? the working clra.es . ' ■ -fx dr.y” ,:f rate week, from ran- . ... -.'l;, snout ■ in- :•■:!. an? ’..ran Sunday brings rdief from ra. —ml ra-ioL-wr+i—rhitt—- '■ ■ up rad gomg out fef-recrea- , \ .rath pt triple the o:>p,r- : of Irirmlc';- diversion on Sun- *. . to darj? n ov -i) ire... thoir_ gtwite Ivo -jjgniseme exiiffi!efte&‘o deprive them of tie physical :•■•'lon. they rraraii;; and still mon ?... . .ant in j; s effect von the chil.l----r .-. this <■’ ,<s. Eor eu h reason is .. iygroip h4 go - ir, vji liin hln, si - ■ for ci. ■••.snlindhs (in mind and t ': ml win i ?on:» living anion ; the rra g e-_”. r ; j'-ri of thes'c pre; ra :a the i- u c,f t;,r e Sunday r-. ■ .‘ion is \.‘ l. i ct any ' y ■; und'-r w’men eye ’■ i. fairgiupli 1-.p'-nis to fall take • . ::: i. .■ - ..’.l; ‘a th. pask cl ycra cPy. and note th.? v.ratefvl mroomc 1 rad the f ora iw s of the youngster c who romp and' roll nimii'’ the grara.—The Orbing ygrzrne. C. Depcndcp.-® -cn Vepeteblos. Ti e. distinction .generally drawn be—twe oa animal and vegetable food is apt to trad us to the fact that plants aro at ”■ ''ora :1 ‘ t al! ra:riwra' anc ti at if they w.'-'rc to cease to grow m. ’ kid v. rra. Says a writei in Tre Lancet (I radon): "The modern, chemist points proudly to I;'.;- synthetic triumphs, but with al) 'his 'kill an • knowledge he has not yet st r d--d in pre-errng in praetiea’ qv: : ics !'<•;- fiis fcdlow nen a foods'..: ::0:i its elements. The synthetk P'< es of the plant arc so far inimi . rad the p’rat ! after all both 11:" direct end inlirwt foryl of the - - rr’w-ra—T’rr> relatioms between - p’:ra-'» - ra . •.. imals form r. b< a ti.'u’ dis; <<:..-•• • ::. ... rati f< :■ the ' • get&blt klM<oh> r. should hold a d< ;p reverence at’. 1 d- b> -‘t to extend rr i ; romu'.e i - : -.1 'u2r ■ t’wr lU' “ ' ■ arc :. fra:.- of .rajl".: i-c di tof •v. i or <.f a <;’c: /.m'njting 1 vtb rt- : ■ ti'id vegeto ."e oroJt-c- he eras th" • world t ra than o-c e ' :. lie is r..- the mercy- of the ve,.C•f. ’ for his ;■ nd. whether it he rmi- ; 7 '■ ' ' • ‘ 1 '' e r’ C ot-j. ' t. withra: which the vital j.:< -b.s of his oreraism could not. Ip . talned. It is thus conceivable t!; ■o. f e animal kingdom rx’s: ■ 1 civ bv Of a cratinu.'.l c'm’ra. fen p ■ in which air is t-aken up while era-xr. d mxid is liberated, the los.- of an - .■ney which not only removes th:.-, product of respiration but sends hud; cyygen in its*blace would be dls-‘ a troun This agency is of course the plant, and, in short, the animal and the plant are interdependent on each otbe-. On this line of yeas'tilng aninrnl life would be extinguished it vegetable life ueased and veg table life would fall if animal products were not available for its sustenance. This is an interesting cycle of events, but the performance of a cycle implies a force and the motive power of these alternate and great synth »tical and analytical procecses is light. It may happen, therefore, that a horrible struggle for existence between plants and animals might ensue if for any considerable period the sun was shut out from the world, for then ■ tins agrrcable Intqrchajige of mutually advar.tr.gnoug would cease 'wnTt-ratth' it ait life. Were- t-hwo who worshipped the sen Ignorant of these things? or did they realise that it was the source of both food and air?’’