PAGE TWELVE THE WORKMAN ANNIVERSARY NUMBER AUGUST 1928 Text of first and Second (Continued from page 5)
Is the Christian View True. By WADE. Always on Hand as are often left to do just as they please. Many children have not the opportunities of sufficient schooling, becuase they are made to work too early; hence their minds centered on money and its immediate uses and they think not of the future.
Many parents also lack ambition and their children grow up in the same way.
Under such unfavorable conditions, therefore, there can be but little or no desire in our youths for self improvements.
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Read y Made Clothing endom FIRST CLASS TAILORING COM Quality lasts long after the Price is forgetten PALAIS ROYAL PREIRA Corner Central Ave. and 9th Street The question has arisen in must recognise the significance these modern days toof race but not to the extent that whether Christianity has any we shall obscure the value of the contribution to make to the individual. The true life of a man solution of the many problems is in his relations with other which arise to day. None of the nien. One of the greatest evils of social philosophies of the past, to day is the impersonal method neither the conceptions of the of dealing with men in the mass.
mediaeval Church nor the ideas Many sections of the human race thus far evolved by modern have become. merely raw Protestantism are in the least material and property in human adequate to deal with the new form. This de humanising of life conditions. New thoughts that is specially marked in the rehave not yet been thought are lations between different races.
sill waiting to be born to be The individual becomes merged born to meet the modern need. and entirely lost in the mass. Men They will be drawn without any fall into the habit of talking of doubt from the Christian idea China or India, of America or not from the New Testament England, of black and white, and alone, thought it remains the in the use of these abstractions inexaustible fountain head of all there fades from their minds the Christian inspiration but from picture of myriads of individuals, still waiting to be born to each a world in himself, whose meet the modern need. personal fears and hopes and tions.
through which the longings and possibilities of conceptions of the New Testa growth give to human life its ment receive fresh illumination real interest and significance. If and disclose new depths of mean we wish to live in the world as ing in every age.
Christians and to create the conSo long as men are little ditions of a true civilization we disposed to put the larger good must learn as men to enter into above more immediate, personal relations with men. The inscripand selfish interests, so long as tion on the seal of the Antitheir minds continue to be sway. Slavery Society Am not a man ed by false ideas, certain achieve and a brother gives expression ents must remain beyond our to a profound and eternal truth.
reach. For a solution of the Race And this applies to everybody, problems of the world among to every individual of every race.
other vital problems a long We must rid ourselves from the process of education not only in tyranny of abstractionc and clas the narrower sense of schooling sifications and endeavor to rebut through the slowly ripening member that every man worth experience of life is part of the lies in his relation to God. It is necessary foundation on which because God loves menthat he harmony and effective co opera has no favorite and because of between the peoples of the what he can make of them that world must be built up. Three human lives have an infinite principles, at least, must be meaning.
considered to determine our atThis titude towards the questions in of the individual is largely the sense of the value volved in the relations between work of Christianity, and as we races.
come to understand the true First, we shall not ignore or spirit of Christianity better we under rate the importance of race. The biological inheritance barriers which separate men shall come to overleap all natural of different races is something from one another.
given, which we cannot alter.
We must respect it and seek to And last of all it must be inunderstand it as we do other sisted upon that differences need facts in the world that God has not divide; they may enrich. St.
made. The members of a par. Paul makes this clear in his ilticular race have not only a com lustration of the body. The body mon biological inheritance but is constituted by the difference also in the main common of its parts. Without its various history. These historical inheri members it would cease to be a tances cannot be ignored. The body. No organ can claim facts of history, the slow mould superiority over another since all ing influences of the centuries are necessary to the body, and have all to be taken into account the health of each part is the when we think of races as they concern of all. Viewed in this reare to day Human nature is ſlation, race and nationality, when plastic and hereditary and perverted to wrong purposes are historical influences have done the most potent causes of strife, much to make men what they but when viewd in thier relation are. But it is also true that to the common good are seen to human nature can be changed be an indispensable means of and it is the work of the states promoting the highest spiritual man and the educator to see development of mankind. In the things as they really are, and in last resort what is at stake to striving for a solution to base day is whether this Christian their work on truth.
view of the world and its great second principle is that we problems is true.
SECOND PRIZE (By Aminta Jump)
For some time past, much at tention has been directed towards this question.
Conditions in general have caused the absence of ambition in our youths. The attitude of our parents: Most parents either from ignorance or indifference, do not try to provoke desire nor discover ambition in their children. They have a very limited education, if any, and pay more attention to their material com modities than to the proper bringing up of their children.
Parents fail to exploit their children minds. They fail to find out their longings and in case they should find them out often laugh at them terming their longings as castles in the air.
Mothers who are all in all to their children neglect to create beautiful ideals and the child brought up in a home of this kind will naturally lack ambi tion. The inefficiency of schools is the cause that has contributed most to the lack of ambition in our youths. Our schools are inefficient from every angle, the knowledge imparted is very limited and the quality of such is poor. They have no particular aim, the studies are elementary and do not supply the means of realizing any ambition or satisfying any particular desire. They have no activities that tend to the development of the child ima gination. None that allows the child to feel the satisfaction of excelling of having accomplished something worthwhile.
They do not form the fighting spirit that knows no barrier.
The schools here have the greatest field in the development of our youths on account of the low cultural standard of the masses, but if they fail to make the child conscious of his long ings and desires, if they fail to show him that to live this life well he must have a purpose and aim in view, that he must labor and make great sacrifices on account of surrounding cir cumstances, if they fail to excite ambitions to develop aptitudes, to create an atmosphere of cooperation, of competition of love for the higher things of life our veuths will naturally lack ambi ion The reduced number of social educational and business activities which could incite the individual to take part in, and so arouse his ambitions. Economic condition: Our youths are compelled only too early to go out and earn a living on account of the meager wages that are offered their parents.
They haven the facility of earning bread and pursuing any par ticular course being the school do not offer those advantages.
Most parents cannot send their children abroad which they would necessarily have to do to transform their children dreams into realities.
Our youths see no way of realizing their ambitions here, do not try to cherish them.
BLANCHE RING Noted Star of the Stage or a writes. The life of an actress is one of nerve strain. If she sings, also, her worries are doubled. Her audiences reflect her moods. If she is mentallytired, she cannot help but convey her fa tigue to those out in front and the result is a form of ennui on both sides of the footlights. have found a sure cure for such fatigue, on the part of the player, is a good cigarette. For years have smoked Lucky Strikes and the mental balm and real enjoyment have derived from them have helped me marvelously. In addi.
tion they have protected my voice. use no other brand.
Glucademy LUCKY STRIKE Atmosphere: The majority instead of making the best of of our people here adopt that what little is here. whipped in the corner spirit.
That unrest, indecision and They consider themselves ill reluctance to do anything worthused and their only desire is to while have been transmitted to return to their native country their children and to our use in to live their lives fully there, general.
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