DETERMINISM LIMITS THE MIND
Ry REV. FATHER J. ELLIOTT ROSS, New York.
WF ONE gets any value oi't of life it must be ori tbe basis of per¬
il sonality. One must grasp tbe fundamental belief in the power of
Jl freedom. If one tries to escape from human freedom, as did William
James, the philosopher, he will land in a bog of pessimism. I have
never knovyr consistent determination. I have never read deterministic
literature which ha? been consistent with intelligence. You can’t have
determinism and freedom both and yet many of the determinists use
the word freedom frequently.
If determinism were really true it would produce a world of people
who were determined. Actually it, produces a world of people who are
indetermined. This indeterminism makes life richer for us, adds value
to it, gives us things which determinism could not possibly give us. We
ought to recognize and protect these things, for life would be poor
indeed with an outlook of complete determinism.
I do not mean that we are absolutely free. We are controlled by
physical and hereditary laws. We are governed, too, by social inher¬
itance. Our conduct is governed by habits which we form. Some smoke
cigarettes and others'drink to excess. Our habits all limit our freedom.
There are, in addition to all these restrictions, pathological and normal
limits. But all these do riot hinder there being a doctrine of human
freedom which is expressed in personality. Ever}’ one can have freedom
of mind, even the poorest people, if they avoid determinism.
COLLEGIAN’S DEBT TO SOCIETY
By REV. JAMES GORDON G1LKEY, Amticrst College.
What does a college man qwe his community? The first consideration
is that the college man owes his community a life of unusual generosity.
He should make gifts to charity not for public commendation, hut because
they are the fair and reasonable return he makes to the community for
the sigaal benefits it has given him.
A second responsibility devolving on college graduates today is that
they must give their unfaltering loyalty to the institutions and organiza¬
tions that stabilize and ennoble community life. Such institutions are
the school, the child-welfare agency, the church and the government.
Particular emphasis must be laid on the need of good citizenship.
Another responsibility is that in the years ahead we must give our chi!
dren wise and effective guidance on the great questions of right and
wrong. To let the next generation reach maturity without understanding
the correct principles of conduct, these known roads to happiness, is the
worst, kind of stupidity. The cares in college should have disclosed to us
a way of life which leads to achievement, to self-respect, and to a position
of public esteem and confidence.
HOSPITAL MONUMENT TO SERVICE
By WILLIAM M. RE.WY, Indianapoli*.
The unselfish purpose exemplified in the building and the main¬
tenance of a hospital is one of the finest reflections of the tendency of our
age. All over the country statutes are being passed to protect the rights
of our neighbors, and those with whom we do business as well as our¬
selves. Governments are looking forward to protection of all peoples
and not of a particular group. We have left behind the feudal and mon¬
archal age, The age of legislation for selfish purposes has gone.
The hospital is a comparatively new institution; just a short time
back people whose minds became defective were stoned to death in Eng¬
land and those unable to work were cruelly maltreated. Erection of a
hospital as a monument to service has come with the new vision and the
new ideals of our civilization.
The Indiana Christian hospital stands as one more monument to
the constructive thinking progress of the day in which we are living. Its
contribution in helping to build and maintain life, in offering civic serv¬
ice has been a very praiseworthy one, and it is to be hoped that the good
work may be continued.
BANK PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED
By R. S. IIECHT, President Hibernia Bank. New Orleans.
Reviewing the history of bank mergers and the present trend toward
asaociational activities, it behooves us as bankers to put our house in
order and take the initiative in correcting the evils from which the unit
banks have suffered. In the end there will be a question of the survival of
the fittest. If unit banks got together and formulate effective plans of
co-operation, and if the public interest and public welfare are always their
prime consideration, there can he no doubt of the ultimate outcome.
The choice lies between improved banking practices among the unit
banks or ultimate absorption bv a centralized system. The answer is
largely in our own hands, and notwithstanding the inroads being made
by branch and chain banking systems, I believe our unit system will live
at least for many years to come.
Mergers last'Year numbered 1S5 and 259 the year before. Less than
1 per cent of the total number of banks now hold more than one-third of
all the deposits of the nation.
WOMEN FOR HIGHER POSITIONS
By DR. MARIA CASTEI.LAND. Dalian Publicist.
American business women should assist in establishing an inter¬
national federation and encourage women to go after some of the impor¬
tant positions in the international field held by men. Women are crippled
now for want of an international intermediary.
Nowadays many businesses and professions are directly connected with
the international relations field, but thns far the men have all the advan¬
tage in such professions. Very few women are in the international rela¬
tions field, and they hold only the smaller positions in international bodies.
If business and professional women need international help, they have
to go to associates other than their own, because even if the federation is
reW powerful in their own country it has no international standing.
This could and should be remedied. As women get,a wider acquaint¬
ance internationally, as they learn more about international affairs, they
are going to make themselves felt in all these International organizations.
CLEVELAND
GEORGIA
NEWS
Happenings Over
the State.
More than 100 fleet-footed citizens
of Columbus turned out en mass and
gave chase to a negro accused ol rob¬
bing a store.
W. »A. Jenkins has been appointed
game warden for Lowndes county at
Valdosta, and has entered upon the
discharge of his duties.
Tom Hagan is being held in the Pike
county jail at Zebulon charged with
the murder of his brother, Jim Hagan,
at the Hagan farm near the Upson ;
county line.
With the completion of a link of
highway now building near Dalton,
travelers will be able to go from Chat- i
tanooga, Tenn., to Miami, Fla., on hard
surfaced roads.
Joe Gregg Allen, 9, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hunter Allen, died in a hospital J
at Horn" of injuries suffered when he
was struck by an automobile while j
en route to school.
Affairs of Clinch county are in the
hands of J. F. Barnhill and J. J. Lang
dale, newly designated county commis¬
sioners, under an order signed by !
Judge W. R. Smith.
Investigation of the death a few days
ago of Mrs. J. J. Matthews of Monroe
was begun when the-viscera from Mrs.
Matthews’ stomach was sent to the
state geological chemist for analysis.
Judge E. L. Rainey, chairman of the
Georgia prison commission, announces
that the plant at the state prison, Mil
ledgeville, built for the purpose of
manufacturing motor vehicle license
tags, is complete and ready for oper
tion.
Hoke Smith, former United States
aenator and governor of Georgia, was
the recipient of felicitations from his
wide circle of friends on the occasion j
of his 74th birthday this week. He
observed the day quietly at his Atlanta
home.
Hooper Alexander, representative In
the legislature from DeKalb county,
made formal announcement that he
will run for congress as an independ¬
ent in the election called for October 6
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Leslie J. Steele.
J. Hunter Clary, son of a former
McDuffie county sheriff, was under j
sentence of life imprisonment at the
state farm at MilledgevlHe after being
found guilty of the murder last May !
17 of his father-in-law, George S. j
Story, by a Jury at Thomson.
With Peter S. Twitty confirmed as
commissioner and the re-election of
Charles S. Avnow as chairman ap¬
proved, the prolonged factional fight
in the stqte game and fish commis¬
sion was believed at an end. The body
met in its offices and the adopted re-election a reso- of j
lution confirming
Twitty and Arnow.
The presentation of the state's evl- ;
dence against J. Ben Stephens, 49- |
year old farmer of Newnan, has alleged be- j |
gun in Stephens’ trial for the
murder of Paul 1! rad berry, 31. Brad- |
berry was fatuity wounded on July 29 j
when three other members of His fam¬
ily received slight gunshot wounds. |
Stephens lias been indicted for all of
the shootings.
A formal charge of murder, in con
nectiou with the killing of Jeff Davis,
58-year- old Miller county planter, was
lodged against, two young white men,
joe Albritton, 20, and Clarence Bush,
21, both of whom were placed in jail
at Colquitt. Davis’ body was found in
a creek near Colquitt with three bul¬
let wounds in the back and another at
the base of the skull.
judge D. A. R. Crum, serving his
second term as judge of the Cordele
judicial circuit, was stricken with
apoplexy at his home and died within
a few minutes. He had completed the
term in Wilcox court and returned
home with court officials. Slightly in
disposed, he remained at home most
of the day and was stricken in the
bathroom, dying before medical aid
could reach the residence.
A discrepancy of I92.1S4.43 in the
accounts of Henry B. Crowell, vice
president of the Columbus Bank and
Trust Company, who ended his life was
announced. Crowell left a memoran¬
dum detailing the various funds which
he used without authority, and went on
to say that a $100,000 had been ordered
paid into the bank's funds by the board
pending a final settlement with surety
companies.
Olen E. “Easy” Pickens, 22-year-old
favorite of Atlanta mortoeyeie racing
fans, was almost instantly killed
when his 'cycle crashed through a
heavy wooden fence at the Lakewood
speedway Monday. The tragedy was
witnessed by a Labor Day crowd of
more than 5,000 persons. Moved by
the tragedy that had passed before
I their eyes the fans started an im¬
promptu appeal for financial aid for
his widow and three-month-old baby,
and within a few minutes $275 had
been collected for them.
1 , Hoover congratulating l>r. Hugo Lckeuei u.t me vorul-circtiug tiight of the G,. ..
Col. Charles Lindbergh being made an honorary member of the “High Hat” squadron of navy flyers at ttie Cleve¬
land air meet. 3—The Junior rifle school at Carnp Perry, Ohio, where boys and girls were instructed in marksman¬
ship.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Anglo-American Agreement
on Naval Limitation
Getting Nearer.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
p AMSAY MAC DONALD, prime min
Lw igter of Great Britain, told the
assembly of* the League of Nations in
Geneva that he and Ambassador
Dawes in their many conversations
concerning naval armament limitation
had reached an accord on seventeen
of the twenty points under considera¬
tion, and that he hoped to be able
very soon to announce a full settle¬
ment. But dispatches from Washing¬
ton and Geneva indicated that the
three points unsettled were vitally
important and that on these Great
Britain and the United States were
still far apart. They involve cruiser
tonnage and the comparative fighting
values of vessels armed with 6-inch
and 8-inch guns. General Dawes sent
a long communication to the State
department and it was considered at
a White House breakfast attended by
Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary
of the Navy Adams and the mem¬
bers of the navy general board. Cruis¬
er tonnage flgul-ps were not made pub¬
lic, but it was learned that the Brit¬
ish cruiser requirements, though less
than in 1927, were still far above the
tonnage figures favored by President
Hoover and would not give parity for
the United States even if all our fif¬
teen cruisers are built. The British
insist they must have a large num¬
ber of small cruisers, outside of the
parity figures, to protect the world’s
sea lanes and protect British ship¬
ping.
Both Mr. MacDonald in Geneva and
American officials in Washington
were hopeful that the points of dif¬
ference could he adjusted, and the
prime minister said that as soon as
this was accomplished he would for
rmply announce his intention of visit¬
ing the United States to confer with
President Hoover and Secretary Stim¬
son.
Aristide Briand, premier of France,
invited the chief delegates of the Eu¬
ropean nations in the league to a
meeting for the purpose of heading
his plans for a political, economic and
social federation of European pow¬
ers. He wished the delegates to sub¬
mit the seheiqe to their governments
and ask for their suggestions. Briand
made it clear that the proposed fed¬
eration is not aimed against the in¬
terests of the United States of Amer¬
ica. Both Ramsay MacDonald and
Dr. Gustav Stresemann seemed to like
Briand’s plan.
DP HAT the League of Nations would
A adopt the Kellogg pact outlawing
war as its policy was a probability,
made strong by the fact that snch a
course was said to be favored by
Great Britain, France. Belgium, Ger¬
many and Japan. In his opening
speech before the assembly Premier
Briand declared the pact was really
framed in the ideals of the league;
»nd. Hyman!? following him, Foreign Minister
of Belgium advocated a
closer linking of the pact with the
covenant of the league. He held the
former was Infinitely stronger than
the covenant because it interdicted
all wars of aggression while the cove¬
nant of the league left the door open
for war when the council was un¬
able to reach unanimity as to the
identity of the aggressor. “The cove¬
nant is already old,” he said. “The
Kellogg-Briand pact embodies prog¬
ress.”
A DHERENCE of the United States
f* to the World .Court for Interna¬
tional Justice came a big step nearer
when delegates of forty countries be¬
longing to that tribunal unanimously
accepted the Root protocol, which
was later approved by the assembly
of the League of Nations. Tbe United
States government was officially noti¬
fied of this action.
C'OREIGN MINISTER STRESE
L MANN of Germany and his fellow
delegates to the reparations confer¬
ence at The Hague reported the re¬
sults to the German cabinet and re¬
ceived, the unanimous approval of the
other ministers. The cabinet agreed
to take ail necessary measures to
make the German people realize that
The Hague agreement really repre¬
sents a step forward, and not a de¬
feat as the German nationalists nre
trying to label it.
Jn his address before the league as¬
sembly Premier-Briand of France de¬
clared that at the reparations confer¬
ence he would have been untrue to
peace and concord if he had allowed
“several millions of money” to prevent
France from helping to liquidate the
problems of the great war. Had he
held back on concessions he would not
have been entitled to be welcomed
back to France. The nations must
be ready to make concessions.
Orders for evacuation of the Rhine¬
land by the British and Belgian forces
have been issued, and the French are
preparing to get out as soon as they
can conveniently.
■fTIGOROUS action by the British
V brought about a partial cessation
of the hostilities in most parts of
Palestine and the Arabs were begin¬
ning to realize that England meant to
make good on her pledge to protect
the Jews there. But all around the
Holy Land there was seething revolt
among the Moslems. Floods of propa¬
ganda proclamations were scattered
among the Arabs of bordering states
calling on them to engage in a holy
war to help their fellow Moslems in
Palestine.
The British colonial office appointed
a commission to Investigate the race
war, but announced that “no inquiry
is contemplated which might alter the
position of this country In regard to
the mandate or the policy laid down
by the earl of Balfour in the declara¬
tion of 1917 and embodied in tbe man¬
date, of establishing Palestine as a na¬
tional home for the Jews.”
rpOR a few days it seemed likely
r that negotiations, conducted in Ber¬
lin, would bring about an agreement
between Russia and China concerning
the Chinese Eastern railroad and per¬
haps end the threat of war. But the
plan failed, at least temporarily, and
both nations continued to concentrate
their forces on tbe Manchurian
frontier. A late dispatch reached
London from Tientsin saying that
3,000 Soviet soldiers had invaded
Sinkiang. Manchuria, and were march¬
ing on Ili. In tbe region about Man
chouli the Chinese were establishing
their first line of defense, but it was
believed that in case of serious Rus¬
sian invasion they will fall back on
the passes in the Great Khingan moun¬
tains, which have been strongly forti¬
fied. Several thousand Russian troops
were moved two miles across the bor¬
der in the vicinity of Manehouli, and
there were repeated clashes in that
sector.
Both the United States and Great
Britain have rejected the Chinese de¬
mand that they surrender their extra¬
territorial rights in China, but in both
cases the prospect is held out that
such action may be taken later when
the Nationalist government has prog¬
ressed so far that there will no longer
be need for the foreign courts.
/"'AUGHT in a terrific storm over the
waste lands of the Southwest, the
big Transcontinental passenger plane,
City of San Francisco, bound from Al¬
buquerque to Los Angeles, was de¬
stroyed probably by a lightning bolt
and its five passengers and crew of
three were killed. The dead were Mrs.
J. B. Raymond of Glendale, Calif.; A.
B. McGaffey of Albuquerque, M. N.;
Campbell of Cincinnati, Harris Liver¬
more of Boston and William H. Beers
of New Yo-’- passengers; J. B. Stowe
and A. E. ^ cl, pilots, and C. F. Can
field, cou.
Another av iator killed by lightning
was Maj. John H. Wood, noted speed
pilot and president of the Northern
Airways company. His plane exploded
over the desert south of Needles, Calif.,
and he went down to his death with
its wreckage. His mechanic escaped
with a parachute.
Pilot T. G. Reid, at the Cleveland
air races, set a new record for solo
endurance flying and then presumably
fell asleep, for his plane crashed and
he was instantly killed. Lady Mary
Heath, who also crashed at Cleveland
and was terribly injured, was reported
as having, a chance for recovery.
Jimmy Doolittle, crack flyer of the
army corps, was practicing for stunts
at the Cleveland show when, in a tre¬
mendous dive, both wings of his plane
crumpled; he went over the side with
his parachute and landed unhurt.
Piloted this time by Capt. Ernst
Lehmann, the Graf Zeppelin made the
return trip to Friedrichshafen with
speed welcomed and safety. by premiers The huge and airship^ other
was
officials of all the German states and
an immense throng of private citizens;
President von Hindenburg was pre¬
vented from being present by the death
of his sister. The Zeppelin’s round-the
world flight from its home port was
made in 20 days, 4 hours and 13 min¬
utes, establishing a new record.
After conferences at Akron, Ohio,
Dr. Hugo Eckener said the Goodyear
Zeppelin and German Zeppelin cor¬
porations would join In establishing
transoceanic dirigible lines. It will
require from two to four years to
place the ships in operation.
D EPUBLICANS of the senate
finance committee formally re¬
ported to the senate their tariff bill,
and the opponents of the measure
spent several days jockeying for the
best position from which to attack it.
The radical Republicans, led by Borah,
determined to try to have tariff re¬
vision limited to agricultural products,
and in this they counted on the sup¬
port of many Democrats. The radi¬
cals also sponsored a joint resolution
introduced by Senator Blaine of Wis¬
consin authorizing alt members of con¬
gress to have unlimited access to se¬
cret corporation income tax returns
while the tariff bill is pending. The
Democrats through Senator Simmons
made it known they would try to ob¬
tain the same results by a resolution
directing the finance committee to get
the income tax information from the
treasury.
C'OUR hundred officers and men,
" of the army’s
picked as the best
engineering forces, were ordered by
Secretary of War Good to duty in the
jungles of Central America to survey
the route of the proposed Nicaraguan
canal. Their findings and report will
go far toward determining whether or
not the government will undertake to
build that waterway, the estimated
cost of which is about a billion dol¬
lars. The survey, which will require
two years, will be supervised by tfie
interocean canal board appointed by
President Hoover.
/CHICAGO mourns the death of two
of her best citizens, Judge Frank
Comerford of the Superior court, and
William E. Dever, former judge and
mayor. Judge Comerford, who was in
the prime of life, was justly regarded
as one of the city’s most valuable jur¬
ists—courageous, wise, honest and a
determined upholder of the dignity of
the courts. Elected to the Illinois leg¬
islature when but : twenty-six years
old, Comerford was expelled from that
body because of his attacks on cor¬
rupt members, but he was sent back
by his constituency. Physical disabil¬
ities kept him out of the army when
war was declared, but he was active
in other ways in his country’s service.
He was elected to the bench in 1926,
and presided in several notable cases.
Mr. Dever, who lived most of his life
in Chicago, was classed as a truly
greats citizen. He was a leader of
Democrats for many years and his
record both as judge and as mayor
was excellent.
Frederick F. Proctor, builder of
New York’s first vaudeville theater
and originator of the vaudeville chain,
passed away in Larchmont, N. Y. He
rose from errand boy and circus per¬
former to the high position in the the.
atrical world which he relinquished
last May when he sold his chain of
more than twenty theaters to another
corporation.
A T US. CALVIN COOLIDGE was giv
en the Honor of christening the
new light cruiser Northampton Thurs¬
day, when it was launched at Quincy,
Mass. The name of the 10,000-ton
vessel was selected to honor the for¬
mer President, whose home Is in
Northampton, Mass. He was unable
to be present, however. Secretary
Adams represented the Navy depart¬
ment and Mrs. Uoolidge was accom¬
panied by a large delegation of
Northampton citizens.
((c). 1929, Western Newspaper Union.)
