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Sell Exclusively the GENUINE 0 Cash 1110 G Street ADVERTISEMENT Disarmament, From a Spiritual Viewpoint Victor Victrolas All Talking Machines are not alike—but the Victrola has so many features of superiority over +all others that you will be absolutely sure of getting the best in selecting a Victrala. This REAL Victrola And Six 10-Inch-Records 105" You have choice of case in any of the popular ‘woods. 2 ADVERTISEMENT Style 80, With Record Cabinet Complete for Places this Machine and Records in Your Home Worch Building ADVERTISEMEN By AUGUSTA E. STETSON. I have been requested to contribute an article on Disarmament, and I am glad to give - my views on the subject. ’ The words of the Prophet Isaiah apply to this hour: It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established ,in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. : . The beating of swords into instruments of human utility, which was the hope of prophets for better and happier days, has apparently come to this age and gen- eration. The world-wide demand of the peoples compos- ing the Family of Nations seems to have matured, in these “last days.” 3 It now remains for the leaders and official represent- atives of these peoples to take positive steps toward the practical achievement of this great and glorious realiza- tion. In doing so, it is not difficult to see that the mate- rial side of this supreme task, proposed so nobly by President Harding, may after all be only the lesser part of the problem, when compared with the work of pre- paring the international mentality, or the hearts of men, for a demonstration of peace on earth, the recognition m;d establishment of God's law, and the true brotherhood of man. It is for the statesmen of Christendom to remem- ber, that “The preparation of the heart [mind] * * * is from the Lord,” (Proverbs xv1., 1), whether that mind be of the individual, the national, or the world-wide men- tality, to which falls the duty of solving the problem of national and international disarmament. What therefore may seem impossible to uman agencies, is not beyond the power of Him who is Christ, the Lord over all, and King of kings. Ultimately “the government shall be upon His shouldet: and His name shall be called Won- derful, Counsellor, ‘Thé Mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of. Peace.” (Isaiah ix., 6.) It is the earnest prayer of Christendom, that those who are brought together at Washington for the task, may be endued with the spirit of Truth, and that right- eousness may govern them in their stupendous under- taking. Let these words of Holy Writ be remembered by them and inscribed upon their hearts: "Excert the Lord build.the house, they labour in vain that build it.” (Psalm cxxvii, 1.) _Then unitedly and meekly lifting their hearts to the God of nations, let them earnestly pray for wisdom to establish peace on earth and good (God's) will toward men. ¥ This illumination, or spiritual unfolding of those who compose the Conference on Armament, will prevent them from perpetuating the old order, or justifying an- other era of lies, greed, hate and death, as the governing power of international policy. To agree with the attitude of the carnally minded, in regard to disarmament, would be to precipitate another war, and plunge the material world into annihilation. ‘The hour has struck when evil is fast rushing on to self extinction. The imminence oi the oncoming Christ is unmistakable, and the victory of life over death, love over hate and fear, is assured. To the righteous, appeal these words of St. Paul: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (II Timothy, i, 7.) Christ has “. . . sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat. He is sifting out the hecarts of men before his judgment seat.” (Julia Ward Howe.) The ezrnest prayer of all true Christians is that those in authority may be inspired to give permanent expres- sion to that aspiration of the Christian world, of peace on earth, in the bonds of brotherly unity and love. May these spokesmen of the peoples be swayed by righteous- ness, which will enable them to embody in their decisions and mutual agreements, the divine wisdom with which God endowed man, as His Word, or the executor of His law, whenever man understandingly invokes God’s guid- ance, and places human motives and impulses in sul tion to the will of the Father. May the nations’ rep- resentatives unite in resisting and destroying theabysmal folly of brute animal force, inspired by the greed of material gain. If the Conference on the Limitation of Armament succeeds in placing the policies of the nations on a high- er, or more spiritual plane of endeavor, then it will have achieved success. But it must be watchful lest this spir- jtual progression Christward be traduced, by those who are still “blind leaders of the blind,” working wholly on a physical plane, to achieve place and power in a mate~ rial world. Not only must America defend her spiritual standard and work out an experiment in international righteous- ness, but she must consecrate her ev.;? power and strength of purpose to the | rotecting guarding of her own heritage, as the child of promise, and thus aid in establishing peace and prosperity in the whole earth. ‘The Herods of national ambition for place and power, greed, and all unrighteousness, can never slay the infant America, whose birth into spiritual supremacy, under the law of God.and His. Christ, is the advent of a new era in the life of the world. Wholly to disarm before the evil propensities, in- herent in’the carnal so-called man, have been subdued, or_destroyed by discipline and suffering, is not wise. In this world, at the present stage of spiritual unfoldment, armament will be necessary until gradually, man’s mental capacities, or spiritual sensés, are awakened and humani- ty begins to' use the sword of the.Spirit, the Word of God, with which to decapitate evil. (?od through Christ and them that are Christ's; will finally establish on earth the reign of righteousness and the brotherhood of man. Then, and only then, will it be safe wholly to disarm. All who call themselves Christians, or members of a Christian nation, must ask themselves the question, “Am I following Christ? Am I obeying his teaching? Am I demonstrating the power which he possessed and de- clared his followers could prove?” . “Eternal Truth is changing the universe,” are the words of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, or Christ’s Christianity, found on page 255 of Science and Health With Key to the Scrip- tures. An understanding of divine ~metaphysics,. as taught by the great master Metaphysician, Jesus the Christ, is today demanded, and is being apprehended and demonstrated by those who are striving for the Mind of Christ. When the representatives of the nations and leaders in international government begin to grasp the spiritual fact of scientific being, viz., that man is a spir- itual being, an emanation of the one creative Principle, eternal Life and Love, called by Christ Jesus, “Our Fa- ther which art in heaven,”—when they apprehend this law of Life, they will awake to the importance of ac- quiring the “dominion,” which God gave to man, whom He made in His own “image” and “likeness.” (Genesis 1, " The Science of being, which Jesus taught and dem- onstrated, is as workable today by his followers, as is the science of mathematics, and when applied, will bring out a correct conclusion. The mental origin of all phe- nomena is being tnderstood by the spiritual metaphysi- cian. Cause and efiect are comprehended. The divine metaphysician of the twentieth century is wielding the dynamic power of spiritual thought, which destroys the seeming power of the carnal, .or material thought, whose phenomena are suffering, mro"v‘;.rstilence, famine, war —everything “that worketh or eth a lie,” or testifies of a power opposed to eternal Life and Love. To disarm evil of its claim to power and presence was the mission of Christ Jesus. By accepting and obey- ing one creative Principle, or cause, the eternal Mind, Life and Love, man will have the power to disarm the 1 thinker and doer, and restore the harmony of the ples. The Hebrew children, recognizing and obey- ing the law of their God, disarmed their foes and escaped from the fiery furmace into which they were thrown, without even ‘the scent of smoke upon their garments. Daniel, trusting to his God, the Principle of his being, disarmed his enemies and came forth from the den of lions unharmed, while his would-be destroyers met the result of their evil thoughts, Christ Jesus disarmed his persecutors, by his understanding of the supremacy of his spiritual individuality, as an emanation of God, eternal Life.and Love. He rolled back the stone from the door of the tomb and walked forth, triumphant over the claim of a power superior to man’s divine selfhood. A The imminente of Christ is manifest at this, his sec- ond coming, verifying ‘the words of the prophet, “I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.” (Ezekiel xxii., 27.) Also “I will shake the heavens and the earth; and I will overthrow.the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and the riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.” (Haggai ii., 21, 22.) The dynamic power of {the Creator of the universe, expressing the activities of Mind, or Truth, through spiritual man, bringing life and love to the world, fore- tells the doom of the opponents of God and His right- eous reign throughout the universe. Truth, when un- derstood and practised, will disarm evil of its claim to power, and the “new heaven and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness,” will be revealed. - Humanity will apprehend the words of Christ Jesus: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the [material] world giveth, give I unto you.” (John xiv., 27.) The eternal law of Life and Love will continue to upgr:ée,fl‘ untilhfl;e worlfi:lzkacce&sd thcsed v{ords of 'God, voice rough 1 ary er ly, and found on page 340 of Science and Health: 4 \ “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” inculcates the triunity of God, Spirit, Mind; it sig- nifies that man shall have no other spirit or mind social, clvil, criminal, litical angd religious codes; equalizes the sexes; an- nuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed. \ Board of Trade p Merchants’ and Mmulednra-n’ Ann. MEETINGS THIS WEEK, BOARD OF TRADE. Board of directors, Monday, 4:15 p.m. CHAMBER, OF COMMERCH,, Fublle beslth committss, Moadey, :1 Board of directors, Tuesday, 8 p.m. Preparation of annual reports, to be submitted to full board at the an- nual meeting to be held a. the Willard Hotel November 14, occupied commit-, tees of the Washington Board. of Trade during the past week. On Monday the law committee, un- der the chairmanship of Alexander ‘Wolf, adopted several resolutions, which will be incorporated into rec- ommendations for the annual report. Matters taken up at this meeting included: More adequate compensa- tion for judges of tre municipal courts; co-operation with other trade bodies looking to the. early passage of the blus sky law: apnroval of Senate bill 2531, to create a board of #@coountancy for the District of Co- lumbia, and changes in the present alleged -unsafe method of housing bublic documents in the office of the corder o leeds in th Ce building. S Membership Committee Meets. Tuesday the membership committes of the board held its regular meeting in the hoard rooms, with Charles Waters, chairman of the cammittee, presiding. Several names were sub- mitted for membership and approved, {final action being taken by the board lof directors on all names submitted by the membership committee. Wednesday night the ‘bublic health committee met_to discuss its annual report and reaffirm its stand taken in regard to tuberculin-tested milk. The committee voted solldly in favor of having all milk sold in this city from tuberoulin-tested herds only. This decision, which reiterates the stand taken by the full Board of Trade, is in support of Health Officer William C. Fowler, who has maintained for many years that the tuberculin test was the only sure safeguard against impure milk. Chamber of Commerce Notes. With the postponement Yor one week of the board of directors' meeting of the Washington Chamber of Com- merce. which was to have been held on Tuesday night, the membership committee of that organization was the only committee to meet during the week. Every effort Is being made by this committee to bring in at least twenty- five new members a month, and with the exception of one or two months this has been dccomplished. Sydney West, chairman of the committee, s spurring his men along so that at the annual meeting the goal set last year will be reached. - During the last few months the membership committee has been di- vided into two teams. Much rivalry existed as to which team would bring in the greater number of new mem- bers. The loser was to tender the winner a dinner. Both teams did such splendid work, however, that the chamber voted to furnish the banquet. It was held recently on top of the Washington Hotel, and was voted a great success. Two important questions were dis- cussed by the committee. The first was the publication of a classified di- rectory of members of the Chamber of Commerce, which already has been acted on by the board of directors: and the second, the placing of signs advertising the chamber within a fifty-mile radius of Washington. The directory, when issued, it is said, will prove a valuable guide to business men. It is an Incentive to Chamber of Commerce Work for Greater Washington B Summnry of Week’s Activities g of ‘the Big Civic Organizations Federation of Citizcns’ Assn.” join the chamber to get a firm name in it. According to plans, it will con- tain the name of each member, and In another section a classified 'list pf businesses will be compiled. While the publicatfon date has not been announced, it is expected that an effort will be made to rush it through at the earllest possible date. The chamber cxpects to make this book one of the most comprehensive local business directories ever pub- lished. No Action on Rosd Signs. In connection with road signs, the chamber has not taken any definite action. The plan seems to be a good one. An offer has been made by a member of the chamber who travels by automobile {n and around Wash- ington to erect the signs if furnished by the chambs These markers will be of wood, large enough to be seen by motorists en route to this city. They will con- tain the. inscription “Washington,” with an arrow pointing the way, and the bottom will be “The Washington Champer of Commerce.” In Massachusetts and otMer northern states it is a common thing, it is stated, to see road signs erected by the chamber of commerce and other organizations in these towns. They are not only a guide to the motorist in touring, but are an unostentatious way of notifying him that the cham- ber of commerce in that particular city is an active and growing body. 1t is thought possible that the board of directors will take some action on this matter at the meeting Tuesday night. M. & M. Association. The Merchnats and Manufacturers’ Assoclation has been active in Armis- tice day plans during the last week. Several bulletins and letters have been sent our. to members acquaint- | ing them with the use of flags and bunting. It ‘is pointed out by the association that the flag should never be used for covering platforms or stands, but should always be flown to the breeze on a staff. The use of bunting for decoration of this kind is urged by the organization. Members of the association have been aroused over the turning out of the &treet lights before daybreak, leaving the city dark and enabling thieves and hold-up men to operate. President King has written an urgent letter of protest to the Commission- ers regarding this matter. In his letter Mr. King recommend- ed, as a representative of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, that lights be left burning until 6:30 a.m. during November and until 7 p.m. in December and January, stat- ing that “the rule or practice that is now followed does not meet the re- quirements of the season of the year and should be changed.” Members of the association feel that some action should be taken on this matter immediately and that it false economy to save light at the expense of the safety of the citizens of the city. Actlyity on Civie Lines Promised. ‘With. the annual meeting of the Board of Trade set for November 14 and the monthly meeting of the cham- ber for November 15, the next two weeks promise much activity along civio lines. At the annual meeting of the board the reports of the president, secretary.| and treasurer will be read and ten members elected to fill vacancies on the board of directors. The list for nominees for the board of directors closes one week before the election. Four of the retiring directors are not eligible for further service on the board, having served two successive terms. They are E. H. Droop, John Joy Edson, James F. Oyster and Frank P. Reeside. The other retiring directors, who are eligible for re- election, are Byron S. Adams, Cris J. Gockeler, Ben L. Prince, H. T. Shan- non, Thomas Bradley and E. C. Bran- denberg. - GIANT SEA WALLS MAY EXTEND NEW YORK SIX MILES DOWN BAY By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 5.—New Yorkers who often pretend to be indifferent to the city's wonders have had their imagination stir- red by the daring plan, recently anmounced, to extend anhattan Island six miles,down the bay by building mammoth sea walls from both sides of the Battery and fill- ing in the intervening space with earth. A _company has been incorpo- rated topca.rry out the project, and T. Kennard Thompson, & prom= inent engineer of the city, has pre- pared the detailed plans. ‘The Broadway Association, composed of merchants along the famous thoroughfare, has indorsed the idea. If the plan is ever’carried out, its proponents say, BSIx square miles would be tacked on the most luable 'piece of land on_ earth; vl:nltl lweh?b miles of needed docks e e — HOUSEKEEPERS DISCUSS PRODUCTION OF BREAD Alliance Meets at Willard Hotel. ‘Hears Speak- ers. The production and distribution of bread in the District was discussed by the Housekeepers' Alliance at a meet- ing Friday af the Willard Hotel This discussion came up in connec- tion with whether or not & five-cent loaf of bread is possible in Washing- ton. - George M. Roberts, superintendent of weights and measures; Albert Schulties, president of the Chamber of Commerce. and L. §. Ullman, presi- dent of the Bakers' Association, dis- cussed th& bread situation informally, with~Amy C. Ransome, president of the alliance, who later told the mem- bers of the present situation. ‘Announcement was made hat the placement office will be opened tomor- row at the: Employment Service, 1410 Pennsylvania avenue, where the sec- retary will be on duty from 10 to 1 o'clock. A benefit card party is plan- ned for November 21, from 2 to b o'clock, at the Hotel Hadleigh. In connection with the placement office, it was stated a survey has been made of wage conditions, thé results of which are expected to determine a standard wage scale. E. E. BRITTON ELECTED. Chosen President of North Carolina | te * State Society. ; F.' Britton was _elected brligl‘;::g of the North Carolina State Soolety, which met Friday night at the Wilson Normal School, 11th and Har- streets. “gtdher officers elected were Mrs. G. B. King, first vice president; Col. T. A. “Lyons, second vice president; Samuel. L. Rogers, third vice presi- dent: Mrs, Charles F. Taylor, fourth Vice president; Col. ‘Alexander Wii- Nams, fifth vice president, and Eugene ‘would be added to the port's facili- ties; that transit would be greatl. improved, and that the tax on all real! estate might be reduced 1 per oent. The plan has already been out- lined to the War Department, Mr. Thompson says, and no objections have been raised, since the pro- posed built-up extension would still leave on either side of the island the same clearance for mavigation that now exists on the Hudson and East river sides. The work could be completed in a , “that of Manhattan is_rapidly moving away from City Hall, and if it i8 not prevented the lower end of the island will again become a resi- dential district, with the result, of_tremendous decrease in values. The only way to remedy this, he added, was to make City Hall the geographical center b{ extend- ing Broadway some six mliles down the bay. WILL PUBLISH SERIES OF VOLUMES ON PARLEY Carnegie FoundationtoDisseminate Information Gained From Of- ficial Sources: -, ‘With the purpose of disseminating information among the American pub- {lic on the subjects to be considered by the conference on- limitation of armament and far eastern problems, as well as assisting the delegates to the conference themselves, the Car- négie Endowment for International Peace has undertaken the publica- tion of a series of documents bearing on these matters, all derived from official sources. - Among the first of these has just come fromg the press a volume entitled “Outer Mongolia; Treatles and Agreements,” embodying official matter selected from a comprehensive two-volume book compiled by John V. A. MacMurray, at present chief of the far eastern division of the De- partment of Stad and for several years attached to the American lega- tion in Peking. In his statement of the reasons for the publication, Dr. James Brown Scott, the director of the founda- tion, ‘says: 4 “The holding of a conference upon the limitation of armament in succeasion to_the first Hague peace conference, called to consider the burden of arma- ments and the means for its decrease, with the possibility of an agreement in conference upon some of the ques- tions of international import in addi- tion to armaments, is an indication 13 malcy and turning of The Hlna."‘ RECEIVES KNIFE WOUND. D. Pizza, twenty-seven years old, who conducts a delicatessen store at 1140 8th street southeas:, received a severe knife wound in his back be- tween the shoulders in an argument with a bread wagon driver before hig store yesterda; . to the experience ; ' Farmers in Virginia Pool Their Tobacco Crops for Five Years Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va, Novem- ber B—Seventeen thousand farmers in Virginia ported to have signed the agreement to pool their to- Buoco crops for a period of five years, beginning with the 1922 crops. The agreement also ecarries - with it a pledge to arrange the agreage -?arfl.‘ to pre- BIDS FOR LEVIATHAN WORK. Sealed blds for reconditfoning the Hner Leviathan were called for yester- day by the Shipping Board. The bids will be opened at the New York office of the International Mercantile Ma- rine Company, December 29. ACOSTA FLEW NAVY PLANE *IN MAKING SPEED TEST Admiral Moffett Beveals Winner Set Record in Flight at Omaha., Rear Admiral Moffett, director of the naval bureau of aeronautics, ves- terday revealed the fact thai a Navy plane s:t the new speed record of 176.7 miles per hour at Omaha Thurs- day. . He has recelved a telegram of congratulation from Caleb Bragsg, | chairman of the contest committec. | Admiral Moffett sald that when it was determined that the Army and | Navy would not participate in the ' Pulitzer race he lent the naval rac to the Curtiss Company, who built it, | and it was suc 1y flown at the expense of the company by Bert Acosta, the test pilot. —_— India has thirty citles with a popu- | lation of more than 100,000. : | e e A e FLORINE CANDY SHOP, _ 406 E. Capitol St. N.E. 40c, 60c, 80c Per Lb. Pure Homemade Freah Daily . . Reduced Fares to Washington and Return for Armistice Day, November 11 On sale from Danville, War- renton, Harrisonburg, Va., and intermediate stations, Nov. 10th and morning of 11th. Limit Nov. 13th. Apply Ticket Agents for in- formation. Southern Railway System You Won’t Nééd to Hire a Builder to add an extra bedroom to your home—you can do it your- self with furniture. 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