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Prize Fight as Nation's Cai buncle. By Rev. John Roach Straton, D. I Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church New York City. Ringside, Jersey City, July 2.r What then are an old-fashiom preacher's impressions of this affai: As I sat in the arena-a gre saucer covering acres of ground ai lilied to the very brim with 90,0( "human beings-the impression th ?ame to me was that thc Dempse Carpentier meet was a moral ca ibuncle. It was more than a mere "boi .on the body social. A boil has bi one head and one channel for tl discharge of corruption. But a ca buncle has several. It is a comple: ?It gathers corruption from all ov< the human \ body, finds the weake: / '.spot in the system, breaks down tl remaining healthy tissues there, gei erates its awful corruption until Jheads up in a half dozen differer spots; and unless it is lanced an drained and disinfected it will poiso the entire body and finally produc death. .This prize fight was just that soi of thing. It meant not simply th presence of one class of our defe< ives and moral degenerates, but i gathered all the poison elements o .our modern society. And Some Pastor?. The gamblers were there, the hors racers, the touts, the "light houses, the pimps and the prostitutes; th home neglecters, the baby killers, th the pug-dog nursers; the buglars, th pickpockets and the strong arm men the promoters ; and plutocrats an profiteers; the liquorites, the Amale kites and the painted Amazons; th double livers, the society divorcee and the polygamous movie stars, tb vaudeville performers, the proprie tors of the degraded theatres and al . j the other exploiters of women, am ' above all, the . Sabbath breakers,, tb church scorners and the God defiers ;all of those elements whose influence: are making for the overthrow of oui American ideals and customs-wer< ? on hand in full force. The poison from all the land drain ed to that huge amphitheatre. Thi: moral carbuncle naturally came to f "neai at the weakest spot in our bods politic--the state of New Jersey, witt its pro-liquor, its anti-constitution anti-Sabbath governor. Oh, yes, I know that there were some of the other classes of people there, but this was pre-eminently the day of tough elements. And Thousands of Women. The saddest feature of this whole affair was the widely-heralded fact that thousands of women attended. World-famous society leaders were theTe, giving their sanction and en dorsement to the whole thing. The presence of Chistian women at this disgraceful exhibition is the culmination of that spirit of world liness which started in card playing, .dancing, theatre-going and other .selfish indulgences. Think of women, whose influence ls worldwide because of their wealth and position-women who belong to the church of Christ, who have put Him on in baptism and renunciation of the world, and who come to His \ holy communion table-think of such ?women, I say, sitting at a ringside watching and applauding two prac tically naked men,. pounding and 'braising each other and struggling in heat and blood until one was beat ;i en down by cruel cunning and sheer -?jweight of superior brute force. The Rebuke. 1 take this opportunity by reason ..'of my position as a minister of Christ, to rebuke those church women for their presence at this disgraceful ? orgy of blood and bestiality. in studying the psychology of the - crowd at the fight I watched atten < tively h?w ^great waves of emotion ." .swept over that multitude when par f-ticularly .vicious blows were being < struck- All round there were set faces i and .clenched teeth, with such ex clamations as "Go after him Jack," '^'Finish him up," and "That gets T-hkri," as-.a .^vicious uppercut was landed. A.td,finally there was an ex ultant war .'whoop when the brave I'Frarichinan, bloody, groggy and stag gering, was finally knocked senseless I by a tremendous blow-these things .I say, illustrate the deepening of the 'blood lust. And we are only at the ^beginning of it in this country. if these things continue not only will our men be debauched, but our women also, as is clearly indicated by the attendance of more than 5,000 opon the present fight.* . Our society belles of the coming day-the descendants of the smart set of today-who attended the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, shorn of all woman delicacy and gentleness, . will gloat with their male consorts in the fever of the blood lust, and they will tum down their jeweled .thumbs as a sign that the defeated gladiators in the arena before them must die. I have seen the big Dempsey-Car pentier mill. I went early to watch even the preliminaries and to study the psychology of that great crowd. Why He Went. I was invited by Universal Service who invited me to* attend the fight and give my impressions of it from the standpoint of a preacher and one who is" interested in conserving the moral ideals of, the nation. I was told that my story would be read by millions of people. I felt, therefore, a supreme opportunity to reach the American jar with a Christian pro test against the horror and the in famy of the whole thing. I did not go to see the fight. What I went to see, in order that I might rebuke it, was a mob of 90,000 bet ting, sweating, scrambling, swearing, screeching human beings who had thrown every high ideal to the humil iation and hurt of a fellow man. That Wicked War. That war knocked the props from beneath our moral idealism and like a rocket, we have shown down the greased ways toward hell. We* are not merely on the toboggan-we have already landed; we have hit the bot tom with a thud. Yes, I know there are still deeper depths and we will reach them soon, unless the evil influences which are dragging us down are stayed and social sanity and old-fashioned right eousness replace the madness and sin of today. Some Dairy Pointers. Florida Experiment Station. 1. The individual cow is the foun dation of dairying. 2. The dairy is a factory, and like j all factories, the larger the produc tion of each machine (the individual cow) the lower is the cost of pro duction. 3. Only by keeping records of pro duction can the value of individual cows be known. 4. The feeding of scrub cows and the "scrub" feeding of good cows are two of the commonest mistakes in dairying. 5. Save all heifer calves from the best producing cows in the herd to replace the unprofitable cows| 6. Use a good sire. Without a good sire improvement in the herd is im possible. 7. Get rid of the unprofitable cows in the dairy. . The milk scales and Babcock test will point them out. 8. Proof that kindness and regu larity in milking and feeding is ap preciated by the dairy cows will be shown in the larger flow of milk. 9. Don't milk average cows. They return no profit. Keep only the best. 10. Grow plenty of feed for the dairy herd. Feeding from the sack takes the biggest part of the profits. 11. Every dairyman should have a silo. 12. Good milk cannot be produced in unsanitary surroundings. 13. It is not s question of how many cows you can support, but how many cows it will take to support you. 14. Profit by the experience of others. Have the courage to change faulty methods for better ones. Discusses Surplus of Federal Reserve. Washington", July 1.-Declaring that he had been informed by the treasury that the federal reserve sys tem had a surplus of about $1,000, 000,000 "in excess of all require ments," Senator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, declared today in the ?enate that there should be an inves igraion of the rediscount rates main tained by the reserve board. Senator Watson, Democrat, Geor gia, said he had read a letter by a federal reserve board member to a, Georgia representative in which Sen ator Watson said the member "had threatened to make war against that Georgia congressman for having crit icised the board. The letter, Senator Watson said was "insulting" to the congressman. Senator Smith said he was inform ed that the gold reserve of the feder al banking system was 61.4 per cent when the legal requirements was 40 per cent. Rediscount rates, Senator Smith said, should be lowered to 4 per cent. Excessive surpluses, he add edj were caused by the board's poli cy of "deflation and contraction." In defense of the reserve board, Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah, said there were "two sides to this question." "This is a world condition,' said the Utah, senator. "The trouble is that foreign countries can not buy our agricultural and other products." There is danger in "piling up" of gold in,America, Senator Smoot said, declaring there was too much gold here. 0R.K1WS NEWt OlSCOVEtitt ?Will Surely Sloo Tba! Co?te. Peace Resolution Finally acted. Washington, July 1.-Enactr of the compromise resolution en the state of war with Germany Austria finally was completed t< by Congress and the measure wi] gent by special messenger to F dent Harding at Raritan, N. J., morrow. He is expected to sig immediately. At the White . House where resolution was received tonigh! was said that the messenger wi leave here at 9 o'clock tomorrow, riving about 2 o'clock at Rari where President Harding is the g of Senator Freylinghuysen over holiday. Final action on, the measure passed by the senate which adoi the conference report by a vote 38 to 19, after a day of debate which the Democratic members m a last assault on the resolution. ' house acted yesterday, the vote ing 263 to 59. Opposition by Democrats. The signing of the measure by president will open the way for sumption of diplomaic relations ^ both Germany and Austria but ! ministration officres have indica that plans for this have not b< worked out. All opponents of the i olution were Democrats, but th: Democrats, Shields o? Tenness Walsh of Massachusetts and Wat? of Georgia voted with the Repul cans for adoption. Senator Re Democrat, was paired in its fav Announcements were made tl all other senators paired or abs( favored or opposed the resoluti according to their party affiliatio: Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, ? thor of the original resolution, v? absent, but was/ paired with Sena! Pomerene, Democrat, Ohio. TheJ resolution after the sens vote was signed by Representati Towner, Republican, Iowa, speak pro tem, in the house in the absen of Speaker Gillett, who had- gone New Jersey with President Hardin It was then signed by Vice Preside Coolidge during an executive sessh of the senate and sent to tho Whi House. Final debate today was principal by Democratic opponents who d dared that the Republican plan WJ futile and would necessitate a se; arate tea ty of peace later or rati] cation of the treaty of Versailles. Defense From Republicans. For the Republicans Senator Brai degee of Connecticut made ; the prii cipal address, declaring there woul not be a treaty of "peace," but pfol ably one or more of "commerce, which, he said, would deal with que; ti ons arising out of the war. Sen] ?tor Lodge of Massachusetts, Republ can leader, entered the discussio briefly, mainly to support Senate Brandegee's contentions. Arguin that a peace treaty was not neces sary to conclude wars, Mr. Lodge sai that the United States had negotiate treaties of commerce with Great Brit ain in 1812 and 1815 and also witl Spain after the Spanish war. In response to a query from Sena tor Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi Senator Lodge said he knew of n< plans by the administration to resub mit the treaty of Versailles to th< senate. Withdrawal of American troops now in Germany was discussed bj Senators Brandegee, McKellar, Dem ocrat, Tennessee and others. Dis claiming to speak for the president, Senator Brandegee said he believed the peace resolution would necessi tate retirement of American troops from German territory. Closing the debate, Senator La Follette, Republican, Wisconsin, ex pressed "dissent and denunciation" of the provisions reserving American rights to German property seized by the alien property custodian. Such action, he declared, was in violation of the treaty of 1828 with Prussia and also of international law. He added that he would reserve freedom of action in case' future treaties deal ing with Germ?n property should be presented. THE LIFE THAT COUNTS. The life that counts must toil and fight; Must hate the wrong and love the right; Must stand for truth by day and night; This is the life that counts. The life that counts must aim to rise Above the earth to sunlit skies; Must fix its gaze on Paradise That is the life that counts. The life that counts must helpful be ; j In darkest night make melody; Must wait the dawn on bended knee, This is the life that counts. ! The life that counts must helpful be, The cares and needs of others see; Must seek the slave of sin to free That is the life that counts. -Christian Cynosure. 1| Let Us Print Your Office Stationery Look about your office and see what you need! in office stationery. We are better equipped than ever to supply your printing needs. We have re ceived new type faces and carry a well selected as sortment of paper of all kinds. 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