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...from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois found it by accompanying his heroes on their every exploit. The argument is put clearly by Mr. Larg: "Put all your men of action in a row. Describe them to yourself and to the godless public. Learn lessons from them on how to hold the soul in leash like a well-trained hound. What then? A hound goes hunting. Of what use is hunting except to exercise the hound?" There lies Mr. Maurois's purpose. That is why he likes Kipling. Carnehan and Dravot have...
...smack him with a fly swatter while the little white bird squawks in terror. The little old man is labeled "God," the little white bird "Holy Ghost" and both are kept constantly in Red cartoons by the zealous efforts of Comrade Emilian Yaroslavsky, Leader of the Society of the Godless. In Moscow last week Godless Yaroslavsky lectured Soviet youths on morals, with particular reference to the question: "Is suicide permissible...
Then a suicide has nothing to fear? He cannot be kept out of Heaven or even sent to Hell for taking his own life? These questions, which trouble few U. S. youths, trouble not a few Russians. Last week Godless Yaroslavsky gave what can fairly be considered the official Soviet answer: "Suicide is not permissible! As a solution of life's problems it is an act of bourgeois cowardice. Being an act of hopelessness, suicide should have no place in the Soviet Union...
...Stegg of Manila, P. I., reached Chicago last week to attend the Chicago Methodist Camp Meeting. Quickly he inspected the community, made a conclusion: ''Chicago is the most godless city in the world. . . . The fault lies not with flaming youth, but with men and women in their foolish, fat forties. Forty per cent of Chicago high school girls disapprove of petting. That is better than they did in my day, all of 30% better...
Throughout the world last Sunday the holy men of Christendom and of Jewry stood before their believing flocks, raised high their prayers for brooding, savage, militantly godless Russia. In Manhattan a host of 3,500 Protestants gathered in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to hear Bishop William Thomas Manning, guarded by three detectives, conduct a solemn service of supplication. The proceedings were similar to those which took place throughout the western world and in far-away missionary lands-a multitudinous echoing of the cry of Christ: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." Also typical...