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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, . OlDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. ]**. 13 NEW YORK LAWYERS CALL FOR NON-PARTISAN JUDGES By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH icy HY statutes have been my son* I verober election to Increase the number *«— of justices of the supreme court. There In the house of my pilgrim age," exclaimed one of the ,ser< of Hebrew history. He convert ed law Into music by observing It un til he loved it. When the statutes of a people become the songs of Its Judges, then order and harmony are translated Into all the activities and Interests of the state. The Judiciary of a country deter mines the level and strength of Its civilization. When those In charge of the fortunes of Egypt, more than twenty year3 ago, were struggling to raise the grade of Its civic life to the height of a well ordered state, It was recognized that the first thing In order was an Incorruptible, capable court. The great powers, therefore, were each asked to recommend a first-class judge. These Judges, representing the leading nations of the earth, constituted the court before which all cases of an In ternational character were to be tried. The difficulties between native Egyp tians were to be left |o their own Judges. But the standing of this court soon became so high that the natives of the country resorted to all kinds of de vices to get cases of litigation between themselves before It. One Egyptian, for Instance, with the consent of his opponent, would transfer his Interests for the time being to some foreigner In order to have judges In whom both parties had confidence pass upon and settle the question about which they disagreed. Anthony M. Klely, brother to Bishop Klely, of Savannah, Ga., was for a long time the American Judge on this court. This able, learned. Impartial company of Judges have hnd more to do with bringing security and moral order to the Egyptian government than any other power at work for Ita better ment. The political- affiliations In his own country of any one of the Judges was not considered as a matter of Im portance. The judges were known to be pure, high-minded, unprejudiced lawyers. That was sufficient. The last legislature of the state of New York authorized the people of New York county at the coming No- *** iC ^' ,scn ten new Judges, two to fill vacancies caused by the explrn- tion of terms, and eight to nil addi tional Judgeships authorized by the last legislature. There are to be elect- ed also at the same time one surro- rate, whose duties are limited to the administration of Estates and kindred subjects, and two judges of the court of general sessions, who will sit only In criminal eases. Excepting minor cases, the supreme court Judges conduct the trial of all civil causes in the county, and be cause of the uinount of their work, li. spite of the eighteen supreme court judges now sitting, the general calen dar of the court is over two years In arrears. So distressing has this delay become that lawyers and all others who have come In contact with the law In New York county reward the Justice which the supreme court ad ministers aa nothing less often than solemn mockery. Cases do not come up for trial until three or four or five years after they are commenced. Wit nesses nnd parties die, and, worse still, witnesses forget and civil trials degen erate from tests of truth toward tests of advocacy and perjury. This state of things has been repeatedly Investi gated, and now at last these hew Judges of the supreme court are to be elected to clear the situation, to do away with arrears and make justice a new and living thing In New York county. With these ten new judges the whole number of supreme court Judges In the county (apart from those sitting In the appellate division) will be twentv- slx ; so that the new <<idges will form more than one-third of the active ju dicial system of the county. An election so Important has perhaps never been held before In this, the most highly organized human center on the face of the earth. These ten new judges will decide, day by day, questions of greater moment than any Judges on the planet. More money and more human differences will depend upon their word than upon that of any body of judges In the world, except the supreme court at Washington, and the house of lords In Great Britain. These Judges are to be elected for fourteen years at an annual salary each of S <,000. The new Judges will largely determine the character and efficiency of the administration of Justice In this seething center of human activity for nearly half a generation to come. It Is to these men that corporate wealth' must look for the defense of its rights against public clamor, nnd through these men the poor and weak must obtain their complete rights against the Insolence and aggression of cor porate wealth. It Is not at all strange, therefore, that the leading lawyers of New York should be prosecuting a most vigorous campaign for non-psrtlsan judges, face of the power of the party boss and the party machine, manipulated by the boss, It would be an evidence of the loss of all sense of responsi bility If they were Indifferent. What ever of tarnlshment rests upon any of the rourts of our country, grows out of the fact that candidates of mere party organizations have been selected because of their party service and po litical Influence, and not upon the grounds of their ability and Integrity as lawyers. The party bosses have no regard whotever for professional ca pacity. It is their purpose to nominate such men ns they can count on to make, out of their salaries, the larg est payments for campaign nnd party purposes. It Is the conviction of those moat active In this campnlgn for non-partl- san judges, that the functions of a Judge In his court are as far removed from the Influences of party politics as are the functions of a chemist In his laboratory, or of an astronomer In his observatory, or of a preacher In his pulpit, or as are the functions of an organ master before his Instru ment removed from party politics. There Is no more such a thing as par ty justice, than there Is such a thing as party mathematics, or party geolo gy, Or party music, or party sunshine, or party luminiferous ether. Justice Is as colorless as the laws of gravity, and as unbiased as the snow. Justice ran no more be monopolized or cornered by a political party, than can time or space or cause be pressed Into the sperlnl service of Democracy or Re publicanism. Justice stands for uni versal and everlasting righteousness, nnd those who administer It should be DR. J. W. LEE. as free to act without reference friend or foe os le the magnetic needle that guides the course of the ship on the surging deep. To trifle with the compose Is to Invite death. prejudiced, biased, politically warped Judge le more dangerous than a pirate or a highwayman. He per forms the functions of his position un der the guise of an honest man. while the pirate and the highway robber as sume no airs to hide their real char acter. They hold up ships on tho sea or trains In the mountains without any pretensions to being other than plain, every-day, unwashed villains. Society Is on Its gunrd against them, but the judge comes as the representative of order—the advocate of righteousness. He stands 1>efore the people as the mouthpiece of the eternal judge of atl tho earth. The principles he brings to apply to human relations are such as were ordained before the foundations of the earth were laid. He should no more be elected because of his power to olmrm. or to shake hands, or manipulate the pulleys and ropes of the party machine, than should a surgeon be sent to the battlefield for any other reason than his professional skill. The peril of a ‘ partisan Judge may not be so Immediately apparent as that of a partisan. Incapable doctor, but It la really grenter. Tho worst than an Ignorant doctor can do Is to kill a certain number of .Individuals, but an Incapable, time-serving, party- biased Judge has It within his power to contribute toward the disruption of the very bonds of social existence. It were really more to be preferred that Ignorant physicians should put the people out of the way, one by one, than for corrupt judges to be placed In n position to reduce the social whole to chaos by taking from around It the principles that hold It together. Society Is an organism, as the body of an Individual Is an organism. The persons composing society are inem bars one of another, as- the Angers, eves, ears, feet and arms of an Indi vidual are membenr one of another. Social existence, which means the liv ing together of Individuals In harmoni ous, reciprocal, organic relations. Impossible without conformity tc perfect network of complicated laws. The place of a Judge Is to understand these laws, and the nature and condi tions of the social relations to which they are to be applied. The surgeon before his Individual patient has dell cate work to do demanding skill no greater than the Judge before his larger patlen^ of organized social life. The relation of the Judiciary to so ciety la more Important, If ■ ny com parison were In order, than that of the legislative or executive functions of government. The legislative section of the state might enact harmful laws, and these the executive department might approve, but If the Judiciary were sound nnd able, their evil conse quences might be arrested. The judges of a country constitute the dikes which keep back the waves of passion and anarchy from submerging the lives and estates of the people. It Is In view of the fearful conse quences that may come to the organ ized, social life of the people through u yers of New York have Issued a call to all parties and to all tho people concerned for the selection of non- pnrtlann Judges at the Novoinbcr elec tion. In their rail they sy: "We have Ignored In our deliberations political considerations, and have sought only to select from those who would con sent to accept nominations tho men best fltted professionally for the ttozl- tlons to be filled. No new candidate Is proposed whose age will not permit him to serve a full term of fourteen years, and nblllty to dispatch business promptly and efficiently Mas been deemed an essential qualification." Thirty-live persons sign the call. Each Is known throughout tho Ameri can Union ns a fair, honorable and able man and patriot. The chairman Is Joseph II. Choate, a Republican, and the vice chairman Is Alton B. Parker, a Democrat. The remainder of the committee of 85 nre ns follows: John M. Bowers, A. von Brleson, Charles I’. Brown, John L. Cadwalla- der. David McClure, James McKeen. John G. Mllburn, John E. Parsons, William G. Choate, William N. Cohen. Robert W. DsForest, John F. Dillon, B. F. Einstein, Austen O. Kox, Paul Ful ler, Wlllinin D. Guthrie, William B. Hornblower, Charles B. Hughes, Adrian H. Jollne, Joseph Larocque, Wallace McFnrlnne, Eugene A. Phllbin, Harrington Putnam, John McLean Nash, Hamilton Odell. G. U Rives, Ell- hu Root, Jnmea R. Sheffield, Edward M. Shepnrd, Henry W. Taft, Leopold Wallach, John DeWItt Warner. Ed mund Wetmore. The motives of not n single one of these men can be questioned. The Jus tices they suggest to occupy places on the supreme court of New York county, they propose to put In nomination by petition as Independent candidates. If the two leading polltlral parties of New York eounty have any time sense left, and uny power to read off the hours on the clock of the modern day, they will Indorse these candidates put forwnrd by their fellow lawyers. The success of Mr. Jerome In his light with the partisan bosses for the district attorneyship was Itself a lesson thnt should not go unheeded. The right of these lawyers to suggest proper men were to be rhosen at the November election, who would be so well quall- flod to name the physicians to be voted for as of the ablest doctors in the city? If the neerz to tu New York, persons to -s the ward he neers of the th as for ten engi- r the whole of I he the proper Ight candidates, leading engl- tunnellng under narrow/»mal!-mlnded, polltlcally-blas-1 to be chosen can not be questioned, ed Judiciary that 35 of the leading law- Suppose Instead of Judges ten doctors New York It would bo thought Insanity to select anybody else than expert en gineers. The best doctors, only are called to perform **.TlcuIt operations on the bodies of people. If a mnn should start out to build a forty-story cloud piercer without conslutlng the most experienced architects he would he‘deemed crazy. The call for non-partisan Judges sim ply means therefore that In the esteem of those In New York who have the best right to an opinion the time has come to trust only experts In adjusting and harmonizing the dellccate rela tions and differences which grow out of our social life. It Is the sign of the dawning of a better day when In tin* commercial capital of the Union a campaign for non-pnrtisnn Judges is being presou- ted. It Is a movement thnt needs to be Inaugurated not only In New York, but In every great center of .population where more emphasis Is placed on the political affiliation* of candidates by this party or that, t|»an for their ca pacity to fill the office of Judge. The attempt of the New York law yers to select Judges who shall be so consecrated to the Impartial adminis tration of the law as to turn, in the language of the Hebrew Seer, statutes Into songs, will be watched by the whole country. It Is a high nnd ad mirable enterprise. Under the touch of Paderewski's fingers even noise is taken to pieces and turned Into music. The master ran do this because his soul Is consecrated to song. What he does with sound waves the Judges are to do with statutes—use them to re duce thb disorders and disagreements of human beings to harmony. When Justices nit In the courts In love with law, and the settlement of human troubles In accordance with it. as Paderewski sits before the piano In love with the music he can make with It, then the people will rejoice. THE DIVINE "MUST” “He that planted the ear, ehall He not hear, He that formed the eye shall He not •••?" —Pealme 04: 0. By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH I N one of our magazines there was published a little poem with the title “There must be mountains/' It told the story of a man who had been horn and reared In the low level lands near the sea and who had never traveled outside hfs dull plains. But by some strange Instinct he conceived and cherished the belief that some where there must be mountains, a country where the skies kissed the earth, where the atmosphere was clean and sweet and where flowers and fruit and great trees fluorlshed. He pined for this mountain Jand of his dreams and at length In faith began to look for It. His neighbors laughed at him, called him mad, but ho clung to his faith and persisted In his search. At last, far oqt at sea, he discerned In the distant mists the shadowy outline of mountains rising high. He begged his neighbors to go with him to And them. But they were blind and could not see. Alone In a little boat he put to sea and was gone for many days. They *al<l that he had perished In the foolish quest: that the sea had swallowed him up. Hut one day his boat was seen heating up to the shore and himself standing proudly nt the helm. As It drew near the people gathered and saw hanging upon mnst and spar festoons of strange flowers and the boat was full of rare fruits and beautiful gems, such as they had never seen before. He fell down In their midst crying In ecstacy: "There are mountains! There are mountains!” and died with his fare radiant and his eyes fixed upon t he wide seas beyond which he had found the desire of his heart. This little poem Is more than a poet's fancy. It Is the picturing' of one of life's subllmest truths. It be longs In the same casket of truth with the poetry of the text, "He that plant ed ihe ear shall He not hear: Ho thnt farmed the eye shall He not see?" The link of correspondence between the t'reator and the creature Is abso lute. 1 'ur deepest thoughts and aspirations nre not mocking fancies full of pain, but prophecies and potences of fact. The Law of Correspondence, We are all familiar with the law of correspondence In the physical world. There is a dualism that runs through nature, God made everything In pairs. “Male and female created He them.' Mutually each prophesies and requires the other. The fact of one Is proof that the other exists. God makes no half joints. That a thing needs to ex ist In order to justify the existence of something else. Is the logic by which all science guides Its search. Give Cuvier the great tooth, which demands a great jaw, and he knows the jaw was Just so, and so manufactures one to fit the great tooth; and then a great head to fit the great Jaw; and a great neck to fit the great head and thus from the tooth of the prehistoric mas- todon Cuvier fashioned In detail the great animal that did exist In a by gone age. Leverrler noting the conditions af fecting the planet Uranus, said: “There must be another planet to explain the strange actions of Uranus.” No one could see It, but he said It must be there somewhere. In 1816 he made his 'computation nnd fixed the place In the henvens at which It must be found and asked Dr. Galle, of Berlin, to point his telescope at that place nnd he would find it. He did so, and there was the new planet which we call Neptune. It had to be there, Uranus demanded It. Some one has said that "every tlmv n child Is born n new world Is created." In merely physical fact a man Is all over to a demand on God for every thing his physical capacities can cor respond with. If there exists an or gan or a power Its correlate will be found somewhere provided. Lungs Im ply that there la an atmosphere. Hands Imply something to grasp; feet that there Is something to stand on. Hung er points to food; thirst to water; eyes prove that there must he things to see; ears that there must be sounds. So of all desires nnd necessities of the soul, fnr In the realm of the spiritual, this truth of correspondence is In force. Followed out faithfully nnd accu rately, this principle will bring Inev itably face to face with the great fact that God not only exists, but He exists In an order of mathematical conslder- ateneas In which man has been perfect ly provided for. Our needs have nil been met. our desires are all guaranteed. It Is true even to our evil desires. Sim ply and powerfully the truth stands out that every profound craving of a man Is Invincible proof that Its satis faction exists. Pardon and Peace Mu,t B*. Let us lay the emphasis on the word "must." There must be pardon for sin. The ancient thinkers on this sub ject felt that there must be some way for the forgiveness of sins, but they magnified the difficulties In the way of It. Socrates said that the gods might forgive sins, but he was not sure It would be safe for them to do so. In much of our present-day thought Is detected a survival of that old Idea that the atonement for sin was an after thought of God—a change of mind, an unanticipated program. When you read of "The Lamb Slain From the Foundation of the World" what do you make of It? This Is what I make of it: The cross of Christ was divinely natural. If I may so speak. Its neces sity resided In the very rreatlon of man as a free agent. Man being what he was, sin was Inevitable. God being whnt He was, forgiveness wns Inevi table. The Incarnation anil the sacrl flee of Christ were the logic of crea tion. As It Is sometimes phrased, "God does not love the world because Christ died for It. Christ died for It because God loved It." It heightens nil my thought of God, and deepens my trust to find In Jesus Christ what some one has called "casmlc free grace," which Is another way of saying that "the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind." Human nature demands an atone ment. Human nature craves pardon for sin. Bln creates in every man a liability: the crdSs of Christ and Its pnrdpnlng grace Is the answering asset. Sin made a debt; "Jesus paid It all; sin had left a crimson stnln; He wash ed It white as snow." Oh, what won derful action and reaction between man and God I The law of correspond ence underlies redemption. The logic of humnn nature Is Christ. Tertulllan said that the testimony of the mind was naturally Christian. He was right. All Ihe facts In the moral uni verse tend toward Christ. The very thought of a sinner prophecies a Sa vior. Pardon must be. I speak to every discouraged and fnllen man who may hear me, and declare that It Is no more certain that hunger Implies food, that an eagle's wing Implies n supporting atmosphere, that the roots of a tree Implies a soil for them to penetrate, that the long flexible claws of a bird Implies branches for them lo cling lo, that love and Its passion Im- REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE. plies the existence of n Beloved, than It Is certain that his repentant long ing for peace from the remorse of sins Is an absolute guarantee that there Is pardon and peace ivltli God for him. "There must be pardon: there Is for giveness with Thee, O Lord, that thou inayest be feared." 3. Hell Must Be. Hell Is an ugly word; but It Is not as ugly ns the thing for which It stands. Hell Is Ihe hardest word in the English language; It represents the hardest fact of the moral universe. Robert G. Ingersnir, long before Henry Ward Beecher suggested "Robert Burns" as the fitting Inscription for his tomb, said: “I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born In Ihe glittering eyes of snakes that run In frightful colls watching for their prey. I believe It was born In the yelping nnd howling and growling and snarl ing of wild beasts. I believe It was born In the grin of hyenas and In th« malicious chatter of depraved apes. I despise It. I defy It, and I hate It.” This Is a fine example of Infidel rheto ric, and. nt the same time a fair Illus tration of Infidel loglr. Suppose 1 do despise, defy nnd hate the Idea of hell, what has that to do with the fact? The glittering eyes of snakes, tho howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts, the grin of hyenns nnd the chat ter of depraved apes are not pleasant to think of, but they are facts never theless. I never, as some do, roll the word hell as a sweet morsel under my tongue In a desire to bo shocking ly picturesque nnd boldly regnrdless of sensitive women nnd easily fright ened children. L am not a materialist, devoted to the llterntllam of lire nnd brimstone. Milton didn't write my Bi ble. But with all conviction I ar-ert the fact of hell, the sternest, mnst aw ful necessity of the universe. Hell has not been nbollshcd In nny creed known to me this side of reckless unbelief. Tho Idea that there Is a new theology that cuts hell out Is a mistake. Unlla- rlnnlsm and Unlvermillam and nil the other tnngentlal creeds contain the teaching that there Is a hell, a place of torment. True, they suggest thnt opportunity to escape from It Will be afforded after death, but hell as a fact and a terrible fact Is a truth whlqh even the new theology has not been able to avoid. Hell must he. It Is a fart demanded "by the nature of tho mind of God, by Ihe moral forces of Ihe universe, by the prophetic mcnaco of the human conscience and by the anal ogies. of nil law." It Is certain that after death we must every one of us «-o somewhere. Do yon think we can all go together? If all could go to heaven, It would not be heaven nor happiness to the man who had hell In his heart, and It would not be heaven very long for anybody, for he would make a hell there In short order. I bellow In hell as a place, because the Scriptures so speak of It and berause locality la a necessity of exact thought, but I believe every man who goes there carries his flro and his fuel with him. "I, sent my soul through Ihe Invisible Some letter of the after life to spell; And after many dayh my soul returned And said: ‘Behold myself am heaven and hell.'" The wretched old man In the Valdos ta Jail who says he knows he Is going to hall, and who begs the governor to let him die. Is by no means the first Instance of conscious humanity stand ing at the brink with Ihe certainty of hell flaming In his heart. Of the san est and the ablest, one In history cried: 'T am taking a fearful leap In the dark," and nnotlier, “Remorse! Re morse!" Utopian dreamers picture a Socialism In which the state will have no jails, but they forget always to take Into nrrount the fart of human nature. To think of a moral law with out a hell a man must first sand-bag conscience nnd stifle one of the deep est-laid of all the Instructive human faculties. Hell must be. Hell Is. Htavsn Mutt Bs. This Is the thought that affords the tired soul a double cure—a refuge to look toward and n refuge to fall back upon. Heaven! Heaven! Christmas Evans overawed, twenty thousand Welchmen by lifting hla one biasing eye and repealing the word "Eternity" thirty limes slowly and solemnly, feel thnt I might tempt nn overjoy should I stand and say again and again till you felt It In your souls the glad dest word I know, "Heaven! Heaven!" Heaven must be. It also Is a neces sity of the law of correspondence. Why do we believe In Heaven? We believe In Heaven for one reason be rause It Is the one thing about which Jesus Christ said that He would have especially corrected our minds If Heav en had not been a real fact. "If It wore not so, I would have told you." We believe In Heaven for another reason. There Is emptiness unspeakable In human life without It. Heaven Is the fulfillment of life. The thought and fart of Heaven Is the healing harmony fnr earthly discords. Existence In u world from which the thought of Heav en had been banished would be Insup portable. A world that could believe Its thought and faith of Heaven were fanciful Ideals doomed to disillusion would go mad. Heaven must bs. It la the Ann), the real, the all-satisfy ing terminal of Hope In n world con stantly convincing us all of the un reality nnd Ihe tranaltorlnesa of other human passions and desires. Heaven Is the only rest station for earth. The Infinite alone ran afford Ihe repose which the finite cries for. . Augustine sounded a note thrilled through and through with Truth down lo the level of Ihe Inst man and woman of you when he said; "We rams from Thee, oh, God, and we have no rest till we return lo Thee.” Heaven Is Ihe keen nnd unfaltering ambition of the soul for- which Ihe universe and Its God have no rebuke and whirl; may be trusted to range In unhindered llbcrtv. God is Calling'Us. • We believe In Heaven for still an other reason. There are emotions we hove felt and experiences we have hud whjch we realize at the tjme ns not earth bom. Heaven lay about us In our Infancy when we roamed ns chil dren In the mountains nnd said to ench other: “That Is your mountain;" "This Is mine," or under Ihe skies and as signed the stars 'to ench other i>r claimed the moon ns a plaything on the nursery floor In our purs heavenly mindedness, but Heaven lies about even still. We feel now nnd again gushes of femlcrnesn and glittering* of mind which we cannot oxplain, but which wo know must have como from Heaven. When D. L. Moody Paid In his dying breath, “Earth Id receding; Heaven Is opening; Ood Js railing me," he was but saying for the last time what In reality had been the experience of his heart many times before. “What are you doing, my boy?" said a gentleman to a lad who wbh sitting with hand and eyes up toward a thick cloud. “I am sailing my kite, sir/* “But where Is your kite—I don’t see any kite? How tlo you know there Is any kite on the other end of that stringT* “I know It by the way she pulls/’ was the boy** confident reply. So do we know that there Is a Heaven. We feel the drawing. "He thnt made this ear shnll He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?" What u consolation of life It Is! What an assurance to know that God te thinking of us. And we do know it. God must be thinking of us today else our hearts would not so burn. The nnclent legend tells us that when Theseus wns about to enter the labv- rlnth with drawn sword to destroy the monster, his sister, Ariadne, had tied around his ankle a silken thread and told him that when lie felt the gentle pulling of thnt thread ho would know thnt she wns thinking of him. Do you desire to pray and to be answered? Do you crave pardon nnd peace? Do you realize a longing for Heaven? It you do, and whenever you do. He that made the ear Is hearing; He that form ed the eye Is seeing. Ood would have you know that He Is thinking of you. THE FRUITS OF TOIL KS By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD, j PASTOR UNIVERSAL1ST CHURCH ! n nc nt the most baneful resulte of the earlier theological Idea regarding 'he c reation of the world nnd the nd- vent of man together with his fall frern primal purity and Innocence was that It dishonored toll and tended to degrade the toller. Man, because of dl'ohedlence, was banished from a life of case and opulence and sentenced to J* |lla,p his crime by a life term at J» r -1 labor. Thus human toll came to "e "'nsldered In the light of a great * vl *. * tremendous hardship; to be es caped if a t ai| possible, or else to be submitted to In great wearineee of , body and bitter lamentations of tbe spirit. The most persistent nnd permanent ' fa " "t any people nre thoee which c"n\p to It through fte religious beliefs, once the altogether too prevalent and erroneous conception of labor today. - " e have reason for the most pro- , nrt ,ifiUtude to the shapers of our •inical code and to those who bare re- .' *° *h* earliest spiritual longings :"h*. trlv lngs of,,the race, but we nre enn ezrusnble If we are prone to ,* that the writer or writers ,h e Genesis stigma upon l ns ' nan r °ll were Indolent and ease lov- l.slfi! *•* not condemned as a puli- - m nt to a life of unending toll. Rather l «s he rescued from the Inevit able disintegration, physical and moral, of a life of Idleness, end elevated to the highest order In Ihe gift of un grudging nature by being made a co laborer with Ood. That Genesis writer wrought better than he knew when he made the Almighty to declare, "Cursed shall Ihe ground be for thy sake Since flrst he became a conscious being breathing the spirit of aspiration with the very nlr of nature’s larger freedom, man has been lifted rather than de graded by his encounter with difficulty and hardship and exalted Instead of debased by his unending sacrifices, and. today, he le to be pitied rather than despised who Is content to eat h i bread In the sweat of another mnn s As one of his mnst profound bless ings to the world In his great work of "lifting the shadow from off the face of all people,’ the carpenter prophet of Nazareth, In his own llfcnnd living, dignified loll nnd lifted Ihe toller far above the kings and rulers of the earth by making him a partner with Ood in His works of unending Genesis. Therefore, we are Justified In repudiating any theology which per sists In declaring the Institution of hu man labor to he the retributive act of the All Father, Just as we owe It to the continued prograss of the race to. per sistently discredit any modern philos ophy which continues to suggest or to embody that Idea. Any Institution or organisation whose teachings lead to ihe conclusion In the average mind that human toll Is a curse rather than a blessing, exists as a constant menace to society. Any Individual who Inborn In any R reductive capacity whatever, whether Is toll be of brain or of body, whether he teach a school or dig a sewer, whether he paint a picture or make a brick, whether he cook a dinner or sing- a song, whether he make a law or a wheelbarrow, whether he ’ locate a planet or Invent a new fertiliser, whether he build a cathedral or grow a pumpkin, whether he frame a steam boat or a sonnet, whatever be the na ture and the result of his effort, has labored, either consciously or unsclous- |y, toward two results. First, there Is the consummation of the task demanded by aspiration nr by necessity, the attainment of the visible object of his toll and sacrifice, that which men may call the tangible fruits of his toll; and secondly, and far more Important nnd precious In the eyes of the Master Workman, there Is the per manent fruitage In the soul of the toll er. This, after all. Is the real object of all human toll. And It Is only as this becomes n conscious efTort Instead of an unconscious though Inevitable result, that we escape,the degrading ilrugery of toll and enter Into the ful ness Of the Joy Of labor. It Is only as we become fully conscious of the fact that the spirit of our physical labor upon the visible structure of wood or stone or brick Is the actual material out of which we are constantly faah- rtf£V. E. D. ELLEN WOOD. toning "the house not made with hands," that the thing upon which we labrr becomes Indeed the work of God Ins.vsd of the demanded portion of the leak master. It Is well for us, therefore, amid all of our rejoicing over the growing sense of the worth nnd the dignity of humun life, and the Increasing spirit of human brotherhood which prompts Ihe toller, to request and the employer to grant a constantly Increasing wage and a constantly decreasing service; It le well for us* I say, that we should carefully and fearlessly analyze the motives which control nnd actuate all such movements. It It be that, having more time for our tasks, we shall be able to perform them more worthily, then let us truly rejoice that we have fash ioned still another block In that struc ture which shall endure when all the proudest labor of our hands and our brains has crumbled Into dust. If this fearless analysis of our ruling motives shall discover to us that we desire more money In return for our Inbor, and more of time for our own possession In order that we shall be able lo culllvnte for ourselves that true culture of Ihe soul which lifts a mnn Into companionship with the Im mortals and lessens for him Ihe domi nation of the merely physical, then. In deed, ny»y we rejoice and glvg lo every effort to secure a higher wage and a shorter day our most hearty support. Hut If, on the other hand, we shall dis cover that we are only seeking to be relieved of toll because It Is a burden Increasingly Irksome to us; that wc are only asking for more of 1 time for our selves In order that we shall have more time to spend os the fool spend* It; that we are only demanding more re muneration for our toll In order that we, too, may hare some of the things which our neighbors boast, but do not need; that we may change from the envying lo the envied class and be able lo buy some things which we have neither the wit nor the grace to fully enjoy, then, indeed, may we well ques tion the wisdom of allowing such a motive to guide us to Its fruition, for we shall rermlnly learn lo our ever lasting shame and confusion that the gratification of such Impulses and such motives must eventually rob us of the actual fruits of our toil. "Beware of covetousness, for a man’s life conslst- eth not In the abundance of the things which he possesseth." The covetousness of the oppressed Is no less deplorable than .the Insatiable greed of the oppresser, and the Indo lence or Idleness of the toller Is no less a sin against Ood end humanity than the Inordinate demands of the task master. CATTLE RAISERS TQ REOPEN CASE By ITtvnt* l/ianl Win*. Washington* 8*pt. 1.—The Cattle Raisers’ Association of Texas and the Chicago Live Stock Exchange today applied to the Interstate commerce commission for what pro ^'rally amounts to a reopening of Its -ases against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and other ratt'e carrying rail roads. They submitted n supplemental petition praying for nn order of the commission fixing the amount of ter minal charge on live stock delivered at union stock yards* Chicago, contending that the one now In force, |2 per car. I* unreasonable and unjust. In a previous decision by the com mission this contention is sustained, and |1 was suggested ns n reasonable charge. But the commission had no power to enforce Its Judgment. A public hearing to be held on Sep tember 12 at 10 a.m. nt the office of the commission was ordered by the In terstate commerce commission today to consider the petitions from various cotton carrying roads for authority to change rates on export cotton upon less than the thirty-day notice pro vided by the new rate law. WALTER BALLARD OP TICAL CO. Less than one year ago plated „n tha Ballard lllforal, giving market th' reading Diking vision In one _ .jer have proven th p inosl successful nf all the advertised Invisible bifocals. Ground In a deep turlc curve, giving a large visual Held for reading as well as walking. Tl ey are the most perfect and beautiful glass sold, t’onsult us about bifocal- Wc hnve them all. Sales room. 61 I’earhtree, Atlanta. On.