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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
HIUSTIANITY has two great annl
kj * versaries each year ? Christmas and
Easter. Yesterday all of Christian
/) faith celebrated the birth of Jesus.
Tomorrow they celebrate the resur
rection of Jesus. "Death is swal
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? lowed up in victory" on Easter Day.
/n^-CT) "If any man would come after Me.
' let him deny himselt and take up his
cross and follow Me."
So said Jesus to I lis followers be
j ? . lit* went to I lis death on Calvary. Later they
. l i . : : i flinching beneath the weight of the cross
went f??rth from Pilate's judgment hall along
v\ y of Sorrows to Golgotha. Still late^ they
v.\. U i:i dying on that cross. And finally they
...u li.ru risni from the dead on Easter Day.
i ? disciples the cross symbolized the
: imperial Koine over those who offended
_ v iitT. Koine stood for material achievement,
: ?:. [.!?? ssion. . Jesus stood for spiritual things,
r ! f<?r human freedom and brotherhood.
T' :!;<? Christian of today Easter is a celebra
?; :. . f :li*' 1 ?fl iff that Rome was wrong and that
v.as right. And he knows that he must car
t r.'ss, as well as cling to the cross,
instinctively yearns for life beyond the
-Till death do us part," reads the marriage
There are some who would hate It so
* even death can part them. Wrote Kobert
t? > J sou! of my soul. I shall clasp thee again.
Ami >\:'h clod be the rest!
M >ny feol that if there Is to be no future life
r t ::i thru is this earthly life a hideous iniquity.
- li^ioiis failure. Wrote Tennyson:
TNi-i *.vllt not leave us In the dust;
TJ.o'.i madest man, he knows not why,
H?* tMnks he was not made to die;
A:. 1 Thou hast made him. Thou art Just.
I: seoms inconceivable that man should toil up
v.an! with sweat and travail until a Lincoln could
m.v. "With malice toward none, with charity for
T' i;n'l then should come annihilation. Wrote
I'arwin: ?
It !s an intolerable thought that man and all other
s--r.ti.nt beings are doomed to complete annihilation
af'.f-r such a long-continued and slow process.
So the Christian of today sees in Easter the an
>>v?r ro the agos-old question: "If a man die, shall
l.e li\(> ajjain?"
This is an old, old earth and man has lived long
up??n it ? so long that he celebrated Easter ages
Jesus died upon the cross and rose from
?!;?' dead. The Easter that man celebrated before
Hirist faulty came was ac instinctive expression
r,f his joy that winter was over and spring was on
the way. To him the sun, if not God himself, was
-<i.r and Warmth and springing life. So at or
r>ar the vernal equinox early man celebrated the
< In the seasons that renewed his slender
un life and comfort.
Man instinctively turns to a god, if not to the
'???I. In the beginnings of the race man saw god
:r! ' -:';t and darkness; heard god In , the thunder
i the wind; felt him in the. manifold manifesta
ris of nnture. Perhaps most of all early man
i^o'l in the sun that drew nearer In the spring
(i,l gave light and heat and food. So it is no
that modern man rejoices as of old at the
??"inirig of spring. He would sing, if he could, with
'' iss Carman:
Well I know
Th* nun will shine again and spring come back
? I ? t ancient, glorious, golden-flowered way,
And gladness visit the green earth once more.
' '? r many a city man does Berton Braley speak
lvhen h? sings of the tunes of the ftrst street
piano of the spring:
' ' build me a vision of meadows Elyslan,
' >f brooklets that babble and breezes that croon,
-\'id wistful and tender young spring In her splendor
^'trnes dancing to me on the wings of a tune.
Kusseli Mott,, a poet of long ago, spoke for all
nature lovers when he wrote:
Godde helpe alls good adventurers
Who love strange roads sae welle,
Whose prysonne ys a city street.
Whose counting-house a coll?;
Send them a safe dellveraunce.
That each may lyte his fyre,
With only the starres for gaolers
Inne the lande of hys desyre.
So It is that out-of-doors on Easter morn offers
?* lure for many that no church can equal.
Easter morn at sunrise, should y&u oe In Los
Angeles and one of those lured by the out-of-doors,
hasten to Eagle Hock park. You will find many
others going your way and you will come to a vast
crowd on Eagle Rock, surmounted by a cross and
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worshiping God in His holy temple, with naught
between the worshipers and Ills blue heaven. And
if the refulgent sun seems in some sort god to
you, fear not that it is disloyalty to the true God.
It is hut the instinct of prehistoric ages working
iu you. And He will not be offended.
And if you be in New York city and the lure
works on you, make you way to Central park very
early Easter moniinf. For there on the Mall shall
you find a great concourse of fellow-worshipers to
whom the lure was equally strong. Who will lead
the worship I do not know, except that it will he
s?une worthy leader. Last Easter morn he was the
lit. Iiev. Herbert Shipman, suffragan bishop of the
l'rotestant Episcopal diocese, former army chap
lain.
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Now, docs the lover of Mother Nature,
l"p in the mountains, high in the Rockies,
Seeing a moving blue in the aspens.
Hearing a twitter sweetly familiar.
Say to his comrade: "Lo, the .first bluebird!.
Spring is upon us? springtime, with Easter.
Winter is ended. Jesus is risen.
Let us go worship where shows the snow cross
High on the mountain, Holy Cross Mountain."
This Easter a few hardy spirits, able-bodied nnd
in love with the out-of-doors, will worship on the
slope of the Mount of the Holy Cross in the Col
orado Kockies. Around them will be stream and
lake and forest and natural scenery unsurpassed.
And above them, boldly drawn in everLastlng snow
against the naked granite of the great peak, will be
the Holy Cross in glistening white.
Next Easter morn there will be many more wor
shipers and thereafter the number will yearly In
crease. For under the Holy Cross on the slope of
the mountain has been established a devotional
center in the form of a camp. Thousands have
come under the spell of the mountain's giant cross
and thousands have asked for this devotional camp.
So it is being established and developed, for the
benefit of all. Both Protestants and Roman Cath
olics are interested. All are invited to come and
worship at a shrine with, as John Masefield says,
A beauty perfect, ripe, complete,
That art's own hand could only smutch
And Nature's self not better much.
Dr. Johnson wrote that the mountains were so
much hopeless sterility "dismissed by nature from
her care." But Dr. Johnson was wrong. All the
world loves the mountains ? pr would, If It knew
the mountains. And they are Indeed lovely in the
spring. Wherever there is water there are aspens
and their tender green is charmingly offset by the
darker green of the evergreens. Light and dis
tance paint the scene with the gorgeousness of a
painter's palette. Distance turns the greens into
lilac, mauve, blue and indigo. Gorges, deep and
dark, take on purple shades. The shadows cast by
moving clouds make fascinating changes in the
color scheme. The sunset skies are startling In
their crimsons and golds. And dawn in the moun
tains is a thing of beauty and therefore a Joy for
ever. The naked granite of the high peaks blushes
ruby red under the first rays of the sun nnd If a
peak Is snow-crowned the beauty Is enhanced. As
the shadows lengthen or shorten on the forested
slopes therfe itf an ever-changing play of color.
Yes; Dr. Johnson was wrong. A3 John C. Van
Dyke says In "The Mountain," "Mountains are the
spots where we get once more back to nature's
heart after a lifetime spent In the dreary Londons
of the world."
The Mount of the Holy Cross (13,978) Is world
famous because of its cross of snow that forms the
crowning touch of its majestic beauty. The up
right of the cross measures about 1,200 feet and
the beam about 200 feet. Its snow Is everlasting
and may be seen for many a mile. The mountain
itself can be seen on a clear day from Longs peak,
a hundred miles to the north.
Holy Cross gives Its name to the Holy Cross
National forest, which Is under charge of the for
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est service of the Department of Agriculture. The
Mount of the Holy Cross has hitherto been little
visited because of its comparative inaccessibility
Iu ]9lG, however, the forest service constructed o
new trail up the side of the mountain, so that it
is now possible to ride on horseback to within a
mile of the summit. The starting point of this
trip is Red Cliff, and the intervening distance to
the peak, 12 miles, can be covered in from five to
six hours under favorable weather conditions. Near !
the foot of the peak, where the trail leaves Cross
creek, a shelter cabin has been constructed for the
convenience of visitors essaying the climb. The i
trip from the cabin to the summit may be made j
on foot In from two to three hours. The vast pan- j
orania of snow-clad mountain peaks, evergreen for- j
ests, and rolling valleys which greets the eye after
this arduous ascent is one of impressive grandeur.
In ascending Holy Cross to the foot of the cross
the visitor passes through five different and distinct
tree zones. Timberline is at 11,500 feet. And all
the way up are flowers; In season the alpine
meadows above timberline are most gorgeous of
all with their myriad blossoms in miniature. In
Itocky Mountain National park, a hundred miles
to the north, have been collected and Identified
289 species of flowers, 21 species of trees and
flowerless shrubs and 50 species of ferns, grasses
and rushes.
At Easter time on the eastern slope of the Col
orado Continental Divide the flower of flowers is
the pasque flower. Pascha is the Greek form ol
the Hebrew pesach, from pasach ? to pass over.
As Easter is the Christian equivalent of the Jew
ish Passover the flower is well named. It is one
of the buttercup family and a cousin to the anem
ones ? wind flowers. It grows in clusters that
often number eight or ten blossoms. The flower
stands eight or ten inches from the ground. Often
the star-shaped blossoms are almost 2% inches
across. They range In color from almost' purple
to almost white, with a fascinating variety of
shades, all of which may occur in the same cluster.
In the mountains a fall of light snow corresponds
to the spring rain of the- plains. In my common
place book I And this, under date of Easter Sun
day :
"A foot or so of light snow fell last night. At
10:30 this morning I took a broom, a basket and
a long knife and started out to gather my Eastei
flowers.
"Easter flowers! Certainly. I know au open
spacc near my log cabin where were growing thou
sands of pasque flowers and many buttercups and
here and there a violet. ^.1 had wandered among
them before the snow came, enjoying their beautj
to the full. ??v-tjii -W.r
"I plodded off through the snow to the *Klt Car
son Corner'? closfe to the camp of that famouf
frontiersman on a beaver-trapping expedition ic
the Fifties. There I began sweeping off the snow
in zigzag fashion. Soon I found pasque flowen
in such numbers that I grew hard to please and
filled my basket with toe largest and most perfect
They were none the worse for the snow. But thi
buttercups and violets were forlorn. The next daj
the snow was all gone and the field was brilliant
with poeque flowers, unharmed by their advea
tura."
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HOOVER RECOMMENDS STATES
AND CITIES TO SLOW DOWN
IN WORK.
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LABOR IN FULL EMPLOTMENI
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Think That Public Construction Work
^Should Be Done When There it
Unemployment
Washington. ? Government building
and construction work now under way
should be slowed down and the init
iation of new projects delayed, Secre
tary Hoover recommended to Presi
dent Harding in a letter made public
in order that they may be pushed for
ward at some later period when there
is less private construction activity
and need for alleviating or preventing
unemployment.
The commerce secretary in a report
made at the President's request sug
gested that state and municipal gov
ernments cpnsider the adoption of a
similar policy, which accords with sug-,
gestions resulting from the national
unemployment conference of 1921 that
government projects of all sorts be uti
lized as an employment reserve, so
far as possible, by which demand for
labor and materials might bo thrown
into markets during periods of depres
sion.
Mr. Hoover said that a survey of
the situation in the construction trades
had brought out several fundamental
conclusions which he listed as fol
lows:
The year 1922 was a year of very
large employment and activity in the
construction trades and at the end
of the year storks of construction ma
terials were much reduced. Since the
beginning of the present year there
has been even more activity th^n in
the same period last year and the con-1
tracts let in the past few months are
of larger volume than any hitherto
entered into in a similar period. Ad
vance orders for construction mater
ials arc upon a very large scale.
Labor in the construction trades
and in the manufacture of material
is ,not oply at full employment, but
there is actually a shortage in n^any
directions.
Transportation facilities available
for the building materials are fully
loaded and almost constant car short
ages are complained of with subse
quent interruption in production.
"In conclusion," said Mr. Hoovet's
letter, "from all this is that,, at least
for the next sevral months, the trades
will be fully occupied in private con
struction all of which is generally
needed by the country.
"For the government to enter into
competition at the present moment
will give no additional employment
to labor and no additional production
of materials but must in the broad
sense in the end displace that much
private construction. The govern
ments, nationally and locally, are in
a much better position to hold con
struction work in abeyance than are
private concerns, and are in better
position to f^)eed up in times of less
demand as we did in the depression
as the result of the unemployment
conference. We can by this means
contribute something to a more even
flow of employment not only direct
ly in construction work but in the ma
terial troubles.
"I would recommend, therefore,
that you direct the different divisions
of the government to initiate no new
work that is not eminently necessary
to carry on the immediate functions
of the government and that there
should be a slowing down of work in
progress, so much as comports with
real economy construction, until after
there is a relaxation in private de
mands."
Cottonseed Crushed Shows Gain. .
Washington. ? Cotonseed crushed in
the seven-month period, August 1 to
February 28? amounted to 3,815,861
tons, compared with 2.631,751 tons for
the same period a year ago the cen
sus bureau announced.
Production manufactured during
the period and on hand February 28
were :
Crude oil produced 860,054,846
pounds, compared with 806,064,157
and on hand 83.866,668 pounds, com
pared with 68,995,G86.
Cake and meal 1,288,790 tons, com
pared with l,184,383r and on hand
198,739 tons, compared with 215,293.
Linters 502,226 bales, compared
with 348.793, and on hand 74,431, bales,
compared with 154,745.
Exports of oil, cake and meal, and
linters, were not available, depart
ment officials say.
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Steel Output Growing.
New York. ? Reports or increased
business and hesitating speculative
markets were features of the past
week in frade and finance. All signs
point to the continuance of the indus
trial revival, which has now reached
a point where the volume of the coun
try's production probably exceeds any
thing On record.
Steel outpnt is still growing and
steel prices, are still rising and rail
road traffic is extraordinarily large;
but the gains are not limited to Che
heavy industries.
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PARKS OF DISTINCT WORTH
Boost Property Value ? Wise City
Planning Also Factor of Health,
Authortty Says.
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Dr. George F. Kunz of New York,
president of the American Scenic and
Historical Preservation society, pro
duced a mass of evidence to show how
greatly the presence of any beautiful
natural feature such as a park in
creases the value of surrounding prop
erty in dollars and cents. After dis
cussing the case of Central park, Doc
tor Kunz continued:
"If, when the plans for the city of
New York above Tenth street were be
ing prepared, there had been a land
scape architect, or some one with judg
ment, he could have used thi* various
ponds for small lakes, he would not
have eradicated every hi!], but would
here and there have given us a small
park, and would not have lait> out the
city on the lines of a checkerboard,
with a loss of both beauty and acces
sibility.
"Instead of giving us a few avenues
and many streets, he would have re
versed the order and given us many
avenues and fewer streets, with the re
sult that traffic ,would not have been
rendered difficult for many years and
almost Impossible Ss it is today. More
over, as the sun rises in the east and
sets in the west, it would have meant
that two or three times as many homes
as now would have had sunlight all the
day, whereas at the present time in
many of the side streets the sun is
never seen and the streets are filled
with Ice, and the death rate of the en
tire city has been notably Increased by
the little knowledge shown of what
New York was to be in the future." ?
New York Times.
PLEA FOR WELL-KEPT ROADS
Neglected Streets Not Alone Unhealth
ful, but Create B?,d Impression
on the Visitor.
There are 15,450 "incorporated
places" in America. Of these 15,450
cities, towns and villages only 2,800 ex
ceed a population of 2,500 people each ;
yet these 2,S00 "urban places" contain
54.000,000 people, while 12,000 "rural
places" contain 0,000,000. Nearly all
the 9,000,000 residents of the 12,000
"rural places" live on unpaved streets,
and the same holds true of a large per
centage of the residents of "urban
places." There are no statistics to
show how many miles of streets there
[ are in the 15,400 "incorporated places,**
' so that we cannot estimate accurately
the percentage of unpaved streets.
Even without such statistics to indi
cate the extent of unpaved streets, It
would be evident enough to any one
who travels much that most of our
small towns are inadequately paved.
Mud half the year end dust the other
half are characteristics of their
streets.
When we grow unduly elated over
our progress In paving our l;ighvvays
such facts as these should bring us
to earth ? yes, literally to earth ? to
the dirt streets that are typical of most
of our small towrfc; and villages and
also of many of our larger cities.
What the City Needs.
A revival of morality^and old-fash
ioned honesty is the most urgent need
of our American life today.
The explanation offered of the hor
rible condition in Russia is that men
could not keep up with the rapid de
velopments of civilization and, drop
ping behind the procession, they are
slowly reverting to barbarism.
Our trouble in America is that In
ttle midst of the wonderful scientific
and mechanical development of 1922
Integrity of character is too lightly es
teemed and dishonesty in public life Is
too easily condoned by the voters.
Our municipal voters have quite
frequently demonstrated that their
standard of accountability has changed
but little from that of the men who
acclaimed Robin Hood as a hero about
five and a half centuries ago. It mat
tered not to them that he was a thief
and an outlaw, so long as he gave to
the poor a part of what he stole. ?
Commercial Bulletin.
Home-OwnJng Always Worth While.
Owning a home is one ofl the most
satisfactory forms of Investment which
can possibly be undertaken. As with
an investment of any kind. It should
be entered into only after due and
sufficient thought, and one must be
careful not to undertake more than can
be performed. Ordinarily, however, the
objective to be gained Is of sufficient
importance to Justify considerable ef
fort, and even making great sacrifices
to accomplish the ownership of a homo
will be worth while In the end.
Good for Old Ladies.
The other day a woman, ninety
two years old, went to the Old Ladle*'
home at Terre Haute. She was so
brisk and cheery, despite her deafness.
Later she was visited by one of her
old neighbors, who asked her how sha
liked the home.
And this was her answer:
14 Well, this is 4he nicest, friendliest
bunch of people I ever met. I think
every woman ought to live at an old
ladies' home for a time Just to I earn
that every one lped her at sight