PAGE TWO Fair Ice Ballerina NEW YORK (Special)—Erna An- deorsen, Norwegian skating champion and star of the ice show at Sun Val- ley in the Amusement Area of the New York World's Fair, illustrates her prowess as a figure skater. THE SOWER A Weekly Department of Religious and Secular Thought Contributed by REV. JAMES A. TURNER, Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa. HUMANITY’S INFLAMED APPENDIX. I lay in a hospital coming out from under an anesthetic. I had been brou- ght in fifty miles from Sitapur to Lucknow on an army truck, with a high fever, from an inflamed appen- dix. At daybreak they operated on me. The British surgeon sat by my bed- side as I came to consciousness. His first words were: “We were able to drain it only; there were too many ad- hesions and the fever was too high. You will have to rest up from this and have it taken out the next time.” En- courgaging first words, but very ne- cessary. 1 believe God is sitting alongside of a very fevered humanity. The appendix in the body of humanity has suppura- ted. It is at the breaking point, spreaa- ing its poison through the whole body. It it does, the patient dies. That sup- porting appendix in the body of hu- 1s ine of ruthless competition. We have tr selfish economic system to drain it, mo sing it here and there rst of 1s | nore bee to get out tne make the system have adnes 0» take 1t ou The system tion widi IU V to get i We are afr \dition of humanity—is not where. too of the many things. fevered ¢ the too sick, too upset a thor ing operation? These fears bese t there is only one thing to do; that appendix must come out! The health of humanity, the very life of humanity depends on it. There can be no peace in the body of humanity as long as there is a lack ef righteous- ness. Moreover, we must be reminded that selfish, ruthless competition is an ap- pendix in the body of humanity. It is a vestige, a left-over from a jungle ex- istence. It performs no useful purpose now. It only gathers poison. Humanity will be much healthier without it. Co-operation is the spirit in which the body grows and develops. Under the other it dies for the appendix is a nonco-operating element of the body. It must come out. Jesus says, “If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off.” The competitive selfishness at the basis of life is offending us, is causing us to stumble, is upsetting humanity from top to bottom, is at the basis of our world trouble. We must cut it off. Co-operation must come to the heart of life and then there will be place in the whole life. While this is true if the collective order it is also true of the individual. He too has to get out of his own life any suppurating moral appendix. Only then will life turn into health and ra- diancy. The Kingdom dominating the whole of life will then cleanse the whole of life, the individual and the social and that cleansing will go hand in hand, for life is one. In South Africa, where the race problem is the most acute in the world, I gave an address on “Christianity and Race,” and one Christian, unused to anything but a perosnal emphasis in religion commen- ted: “That was a political address.” It was not, of course, but the ans- wer was simple: politics cannot keep out of moral issues, for almost every single thing debated in a legislative council in any part of the world turns . into a moral issue when it comes down to human lives. If the politicians cannot stay off the realm of the moral, then religion can- not stay off the realm of the political. Life is one and must be dealt with as | bridge table such, In the Kingdom of God, the social and the personal are brought together and life is unified at that point,—Dr. E. Stanley Jones. NEW LAW ALLOWS LADY TO DROP NAME OF HER HUSBAND IF DIVORCED The question of whether or not a divorcee may take her maiden name moot subject at many an afternoon was settled at the last session of the legislature. Act No. 100, copies of which have been forwarded to Ebensburg by Sec- | retary of the Commonwealth S. M. R. O'Hara, provides that “it shall be un- | lawful for any woman who has here- | tofore been or shall hereafter be divar- | ced from the bonds of matrimony to retake and thereofter use her maiden | name.” The new act was under discussion | last week while Superior Court Jus- | tice William E. Hirt was visiting in | Judge Ivan J. McKenrick's Chambers. | Justice Hirt pointed out that the new { law stipulates that every woman who elects to resume her maiden name shall file a written notice avowing such in- tention in the office of the prothono- tary of the: court in which the divorce decree was entered, showing the cap- tion and number and term of the pro- ceeding in divorce. It was explained that a copy of the “notice of intention to resume maiden name” duly certified by the prothono- tary, shall be competent evidence for | all purposes of the right and duty of | such woman to use her maiden name thereafter. The new law became affec- tive May 25, 1939, date of signature by Governor James. Prior to enactment of the bill clar- ifying the maiden name issue, the practice had ben to grant the right | the right to use maiden name when such request was included in the peti- tion. From time to time this practice was challenged, but Act 100 now pro vides a legal method for “the woman in the case” to rid herself, not only of her husband, but of his name. { P. S. Justice Hirt and Judge Mec- | Kenrick said there's no law which can be invoked by a husband to compel his former mate to drop his name. IS URGED BY BISHOP OF THE ERIE DIOCESE | OLD FASHIONED HOME | | | Detroit.—The influx of women into | industry has so changed the home that | the reputation of Akerican democracy | has been cheapened, Bishop John M. | Gannon of the Erie, Pa., diocese, de- clared the other night. Bishop Gannon, attending sessions | with the ¥ of the 18th national convention of the Catholic Daughters of America said that a startling transition is occuring in the American home. “Today ,ten millions of American women are employed in gainful occu- pations,” the bishop said. “As a result the number of children born is shock- ingly reduced, the delinquency of both boys and girls is increasing with al- arm, and the common morals and man- ners of American youth reveal the di- vided attention of the mothers. “We have become the greatest indus- trial nation in the world. Years ago we were known as the greatest moral nation of the world.” The prominent leader in national Catholic activities said the old fashion- ed home, in which fifteen children were not uncommon had substantially changed. Long hours spent by women in factories or offices has cdused ab- andonment of training of children and r~ + them under secular teachers, he added. . we have so completely depended upon women and the home to keep flowing the springs of morality and virtue that we have built up a national system of education which excludes the leaching of religion and its kind- red subjects,” he said. Bishop Gannon sald the evidence of the low level to which American man- rers and morals can sink was shown in the theatre, “news-stand magazines,” the drama and “the music of the day.” The successful combination for pre- serving the strength of the old fash- ioned home and the benefits of indus- try is in the hands of the American mother, the Bishop asserted. 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