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North Shore News-Letter (1907), 7 Aug 1909, p. 4

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ers. Watch the appalling casual- ties accompanying very many of the industrial pursuits. Shall we therefore abolish all such pleasuresi and pursuits? The art of falling, learned 6n the foot ball grounds or in a gymnasium. has. _ enabled many a man to escape injury by the accidental falls in practical life. But what can we db to‘pret vent the loss of life incident to bathing in the lake? What can it is nota safe place for young people to bathe even though they are ”good swimmersé” unless some strong. mature and skillful ‘ swimmer is present to care for them- It may be said, and is said that young boys and girls should not be allowed to go bath- ing in the lake Theoretically that sounds well: but theory and facts are often at variance and as in this case, ought to be at variâ€" ance. There is no more enjoy- able sport to the young people - and no more healthful Sport under proper conditions than swimming; But swimming is something~m0te than a mere sport. It is a 'vigor- lous exercise, well calculated to develop every muscle of the body. It is a sanitary exercise It is a valuable art. Not only because every day men are, saved .from accidental drowning by being able to~sw‘im, but lives are conâ€" stantly being lost because no _ swimmer is-present to save them- But the question now is what can be done to ,stop this sad loss of life. It will not do to say we will prohibit bathing in the lake First we cannot prohibit. at any ' rate without an expense greater than the cost of preventing acci- dents- Secondly. we ought not to prohibit it, The fact that it is accompanied by danger is no final argument against it. Every x that matter is more or less hazard- on: Watch the list of. deaths among the base ball players, and L a little later among foot ball play- There is no more crumbling work than that of saving human life especially the lives at the young, the boys and the girls. Once again Bighland Park has been saddened by the drowning of Alfred Keller last Friday off our lake shore. We recall several victims of our treacherods lake shore within the last few years. Is l! not quite time that we made all possible effort to stop these ‘ sad tragedies? We all know that : our lake share 15 treacherous, that whom most of the benevblc'nt efforts are centered. ' ’ Never in the life of the human race, so far as history shows. has there been so much interest taken in the betterment of all classes and conditions as at the present‘ ‘time. Individual efforts for the uplift of humanity IS giving place, at least comparatively, to organ- ized philanthropic movements. The Christ doctrine of altruism is steadily becoming the dominant motive of life. A513 most natural and fitting the children, the boys , and the girls, are the ones on »; credited. and as date chum on the printed label with». a ”or hm FREDBRICK C._DE LANG. Amine £45m. Chum. ,. , mm: m a A Eurrddl (it Put Of“, ”33%;! Part. [W a: and um amm- Suhmpdon 3!. so a Yen 5c perCopy W_Evm5nmdayaflwm. NO TH‘SHO E NE S‘LETTEV block: W for *boen’ptéou are at once R. M. BURGESS Masking Editor. SATURDAY, AUG. 7, The Lake Question. H. P. DAVIDSON. Proprietor. the “justice of God._" There are always many Demons teddy to accept my ‘new cult which'cuts. adrift from authority 1and make a wide swath for what‘ is called "liberty"- f If we have read the great Chan- lning rightly there; is a sharp dis- tinction between the Unitarianism as hc preset! ts it and of a proposal 'to climinate all mediation, all 530-. raments, all authority, and even} “The new religion will land God's love and will not teach condemnation for the mass of mankind Based on the "to (area! commandments of loving God and ‘one's neighbor. the new religion will teach that be' is best who loves but and serves best, and the gyefimut service will be to increase the stock of good will. " “The new religion. wifl not even imag- ine the ‘justice of God.’ Civilized na‘ tions realize that lean} punishments now frequently fail of their purpose, and the new religion cannot prétend to under- stand God 3 jnsxice, [or there in martial! conception as a comparison. I “it will ‘ admtt no sacraments, 'except natural. hallowed-' customs and it will- deal With naturaf interpretation of such rites. The new religion will not attempt to reconcile people to present ill: by the pwm'tse of future compensation. \ t “This religion rejects the idea that man is-an alien or a fallen being who it hopelessly wickgd. It finds such beliefs inconsistent with a worthy ideiof God. F “The twentieth century religion ac~ 1cepts literally St. Paul’s statemém: ‘ln him we live and move and have our being.’ This new religion will be thor- oughl, monotheistic God will bcw' un- manent that to intermediary I'll] be needed. For every dun God will be a multiplication of infinities. ,nf common agreement His crit- ics dvclare and he himself admits' that it is essentialiy Unitarianism which is based on the two great 'commandmenis, the love of God and theservice of man- He says: ; E The discussion awakened-by Prof. Chas. ,W. Eliot’s regent prophecyof the _”New Religion’.’ seems to have one 'point at least But it is a fair questidn whether this is not altogether a mistake. May it not be that the most prac- tical thing on earth is that which sets a standard for human char~ aster P ’ We are accustomed to talk of practical things as those only ‘which appiy to materialv‘property. Business, ‘Politics. Medicine and 1 Law, are all practical, but to many of as moral: and religion are only speculative. ‘ - - ‘ " _ The loss of Alfred Keller brings to mind an incident in the life of that. noble philanthropist. the Honorable Horace Mann. In ad- dressing the members of aphilant thropic association on one occa- sion. after summing up the ex- penses of the association, he made I the statement that if one boy had‘ i been saved it was worth all the I test of the association. After F the meeting was over 'some one satdvtohim: "Mr. Mann, wasn't that too strong a statement when yOu said that the saving of one boy was worth all the costs of the association?” _”Not if it were my boy," promptly replied Mr. Mann. What loving father would, not give his last dollar to bring back his lost boy! What good ‘ tmzen tsnot mllmg to be taxed (to save every father's boy from being lost? "Inasmuch- as ye have done it unto one of the least of these. my brethren, yehave done it unto me." we do? We can do many things if we“ are _w.llliag to do; little tfiinkingaod make a httlesacnfice We hope’thc Park District Com- missioners recently elected will find it vilthin legal rights to do{ something towards providing‘sal'e bathing places (one or more) on the lake shore. If i} is not legal lto create bathing places by public ‘raxation. tfien let us do it by sub- scription and do it in time :9 avoid next season’ 5 sacrifice. Malia“ ' it her aunt InduERMI’. and Mn. W.‘ W. Willi" lot ’ several tech. re- turned Friday xohir home in Albion. |12-Le,, evening. Jilin Helen Meninxer entcmined Saturday evening. -Mnr ‘W. T, Underyood ememined Sunday evening in honor of her cousins, Mr. and Mn. Howardr‘o! New York. Mia Mildred Thay er is entertaining her friend Miss Had)! . Mn. finne'y at W. Lindenrlavenu'e gave; a luncheon Tuesday- Mia 'Malrtha Ingenoll, who was re- cently 'cmpioyed by the Telephone 00.. has left their service and taken a post u'on‘with the Meyer: Bank, Winnetka. Mb}; Hannah Steele .spem the week end,“ Ottawa Bosch. My Gertrude Williu, who I... be... MMIEGI‘II) W. 'Lindblom hll gone to Elyt'g‘a. Ohio with he; mm for a month. Sunday Rev. Dr. Goodwn conducted the vesper senice and Mn Underwood told the story of the Great Stone Face. to the delight 01 all who heard her. ‘. Mm. Annette Iona: of Bighlmd Park. wkh her No sons and a magicun. emer- tamed the children July 28th. Mn. Jones aim Sent twenty pounds of candy and on Sunday every chm} on ‘he grounds had a stick of candy. Highland Park ladies held a picnic at the grounds last week and shared their deiicious’ Tuncbeon with the Worken. , ‘ Moment. A large patty of Bohemians. members 0! the Bohemian Club a! Gad: Hill Center, came to the encampment July 27. With them Ins Mr. Lennoch. the We“ knontn Bohemian. newspaper writer. Mr. Lennoch is very enduniutic over‘ the good work that Gad: Hill Center Ind ‘ ‘Gadl Hill Association have done among his fieople and it mini: his influence, both' personal and as a nedspaper man. mgeuhe‘ well to-do Bohemian! mad the Million: financially. The Chicago papers have been commenting this week upon the ‘supposed action of the City Coun- cil prohibiting bathing. There in nothing to it. . Mayor Dooley says he has never even expressed; an opinion on the matter. And what is true of the home in this respect is true of society generally. Back of all law'and order and as a basis of ill morals we have the religious conscience. ‘ Even the faults attributed to re- ligion are not defects in the main principles which underlie it. but are errors of form and-teaching .and Wmugs committed through weaknesses. hypocrisy and op- pression's whiCh are berpctrated in its name. Home life would be anarchy without the exercise of 'authority and“): hope of reward. Cut out _all mediation and the cxistcnc; and thought of an advo- cate disappears. We. are 110': enamored of the methods which would win men to righteousum by promises. f Eliminate the thought of the justice of God and what have we feft as a basis or standard of what justice may mean? the North Shon News-Later I But. after all. could such an ’associatiqn be. in any true tense. a religion? An order. a brother- hood. a cult it might be. but does' not religion presuppose human dependence and divine authority? Wyn-km. And kiwi/h: that an associa- tion 9! men and women based upon some “guy ethical cider of this kind wank! find numerous foliowers who have already an 1educated sense of what it mean; and the mutual obligations whichi itimpliea We may admit that it embraces a staudard'far above the average practice of even civ- ilized and Christian nations. (Continued in. am 9‘8.) Adams was given an Hill V, v- m... wlll- 2- Blind. Wednudu end... W "title: gran-ad cake-m 'm ollhc WGnild of the Baptist 05qu nth: raidemeot In. Mn. 1. 2. COMM and cum Ru.- 'i" m "My lot Ozunquit. um f Mr. Ruby Hobbit!!! of Chm in whiting-"fl. I“ all A. 34 “01.5“. Judge 1nd Mn. Wan Ind their duh-1 In, Min Wan, ar'e enjoying a trip] WMWm. nuu Grace mum. who ha. bee}. env joying a mamh'n nation It her hoiué. has returned to the Mich-cl Rem Ho:- Dr. Quayle and his daughter Mom have sailed for England. when they will visit lot seven] months. There will be a In}: oervice under the Mrs. E. PJKn‘aop entertained {or fit. and Mm-How-td Mundny evening. Mr. Thom in nu M’hirIâ€"Jd ha many (dead: who will. congratume hint and his Kama bride. Mr. and Mn. Joseph Tunic [sound of Girud. Kama «mouse: the coming mud-gt of their damn: Alice to Kt; Ralph Thom of Higmand Park. 11).. on Wednesday moming‘ Aug. 11:13.. It the home of the bn’de‘t pamnu, 2U Na; Summit: Ave., Giana. Kama. Thci‘ wedding i: to be I quiet home link and the young couple will law.- at once Eat a trip in the North, spending main-neon theirhoney-moon QM which they will be at home-w their mnny. friends a 2“ No. Summin Ave., Giraud. Kama. Highland Park You... M... m EARL W. GSELL new norxmmn or on: “Lulu mm; mm He valor-one time with F. W. Scbn- ”uh.“ mm‘w . - vfltemmkh Many. meter, who am I W dug . 0! | 1m I C I of bI-inenin ngmmd Perk. ' ' chem-W And-don. Mm MLGIelliIngmdu-teof the North- {It We! Florence Refining. I“ Western Univenity Schobl of Pharmacy. Kenna. Mice laud. cum In“ mien “method Pu‘i mend whim" any. v. Klan ores-um ‘muc' zhe hand of fellowship end good will. returned Minn.» trip We welcome every honorable basin“ ‘0 5‘- M ’ CnWMMYW‘WIM among... - ”In. Mn JohnA. mama IV.- 5., GEO. B. CUMMINGS 23mm noun 030mm While we are uniting {or and. to demuduimdqlquun. um'nkler. mafia”? Maugham. of Roger Wifliull and Rubi! bun (re-fly W01 Md and: ion a bean- tifulmodem homeby Mr. racy, A (rent my people are containing about 1h: Ion. Imam-ion It the cou- cefu u Rubi: Park. I! do:- no: .m ”MOW mmmepfiéme Mr In! Kn. M Winyud Scuba“: Ind Winn“! “Mac a! Amber-thorn. Canada, madcafiwtvbithemlhiuweek ontheir '31me Lake manhosmayot ‘h'n Min We! Hummhum inSouth HMM. 5(mele Win-mm: vidtét hen Wednesday. nuehnnyouavilitinchelm dialing-nouns Remain. Edict KennuMlocMChumM “annihilate. Thaw“ “Manchu. Manama. L Brand. In. T. Mr WW Hn. Johnna. Wetland IV.- Mr. and In. 0. 3.31am! mama. tum vain: vhh “r. and Mn. M. 0mm amuse. WWO. Nip-Jun I“ he named from M. where .hehuheen term!“ [Lame Mr «Gad. mod "Pandora's Box" Thad-y Won tho bum at Mr. 'nnd In. G. E. Cole. 1110’ pamm a“ way wetland and the young people added over nine dolls" lo the Gad: Hill M. m- M Ma a Man. Helen HillaMGunColcn-Qdck. silver. W Cole u Hm. David Cole a Funny. 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