Heimskringla - 14.02.1940, Blaðsíða 5

Heimskringla - 14.02.1940, Blaðsíða 5
WINNIPEG, 14. FEBR. 1940 HEIMSKRINGLA 5. SÍÐA dead, you are buried, and that’s all there is—therefore the im- portant thing is to prevent evil and suffering in this life as there is no compensation to come,” then he must also agree that the great prophets and philosophers and most of ordinary mankind throughout written history are wrong. And even those on each side of this fence, who might help by keeping the dividing line of opinions clear, make matters more confusing by internal dis- agreement. Theologians will ar- gue that the Bible contains more symbolism than fact, and scien* tists—as Alexis Carrell in Man the UnlknoWn—will gi,ve pre- dence to Biblical miracles occur- ing in our own day. It seems that not only the scientists can't agree with the philosophers, but the scientists can’t agree with the scientists, nor the philosoph- er,s with the philosophers. In other words, Youth today gets into a fine kettle of fish when it goes to these trained, educated, and exercised minds for infor- mation as to which is right, science or religion, or which is wnong, either, neither, or both. To become orientated in other fields than these is no more sim- ple. By comparison with these times, it was an easy thing to be a Roman citizen. The rest of the world was Barbarian, and therefore bound to be wrong. There could be no doubt that you, the Roman, were superior, and therefore more likely to be right. Nor did an American pioneer have much difficulty establishing in himself a con- viction of superiority and the rightness of his claims in life over those of the wild Indian. Nowadays it is different. Now- adays everyone is civilized. We don’t dare feel superior to the Japanese—not only are their guns as good as ours, but they are ours. We can’t very well feel superior to the Germans—they are so much our equals, such stiff competitors, that we are forced at regular intervals to try and kill them off out of self-de- fence.We have lately managed to attain some conviction of su- periority over Russians. We know the Russians are wrong. But even then, some of us be- come confused again because the Russians maintain such whole- hearted wrongness, insist on ac- complishnig such hundred-per- cent failure with such hundred- percent viciousness and hundred percent stupidity. We wonder if such thoroughness isn’t a sign of genius'. Life about us doesn’t appear to be so extreme. The people we know, the most whole- hearted of them, don’t seem so extreme. We read where the great criminal lawyer tells us: “A criminal is someone some- body else knows—if you know him, you know he’s not a crim- inal.” This doesn’t make us much clearer on the siubject, ex- cept to suggest to us that our knowledge of Russians and Ger- mans and Japanese is not what we know, but what somebody else knows. In other words, it is a skepti- cal old world, or at least it has been so in recent years. We grew up into a world become so broad-minded that no one would helieve evil of anyone, including themselves. Then we watched it grow even more broad-minded, to the point where no one would believe good of anyone, includ- ing themselves. Cynicism and skepticism were the order of the day which confronted the cur- rent batch of young people. — Theologians were debunking scientists, and scientists were debunking theologians — and then they all turned round and debunked one another. While We, who were expected to taxe their places some day, listened to the undeniable logic of one side battling the undeniable logic of the other side, and resigned ourselves to the cynicism about us. Everyone could hardly be right. Black is black, and white is white ,and if a mathematician proves the opposite to us, we’ve got to assume some liar is figur- ing, even if we can’t find the flaw. Not knowing who is wrong, we sometimes prefer to believe the worst, and imagine everyone wrong. Of course, if we want to bel- ieve the best, then everyone is right. Such a thought - strikes us as fantastic in the extreme, until we wonder, surely ít is more unlikely that everyone is wrong than that everyone is right. If we can’t prove who is wrong, at least there are a large number of people who seem able to prove they are right. Be- cause we can’t find the flaw,s in their arguments might suggest that they really are right, rath- er than the reverse. If these people appear to disagree in spite of the fact that they are all in the right, then the disagree- ment may be in ourselves, in the eye of the beholder, rather than in the arguments of the be- held. So, from one moment bel- ieving everyone wrong, we sud- denly swing about and suspect that everyone might somehow be right. This provides us with an op- portunity for evolving a much more cheerful and enheartening philosophy. It seems that every- body who has any success in life believes in something. It re- quires faith to move mountains. That all these people had faith in opposite things, now ceases to confuse us so badly, when we wonder if they are really in dis- agreement or not. We think of the Tower of Babel, and sudden- ly it seems to us that the woríd is full of people explaining to one another that white is white and black is black, but doing it in different languages, and vio- lently tearing one another’s hair out by the roots because White is White in theological termin- ology sounds like White is Black in scientific Terminology. Yes, ignoring all the argu- ments, it does look as though everyone is believing in the same things: Physical Security, in or- der to establish Spiritual Secur- ity. Time to establish justice and generosity in the world. — Everyone uses a different meth- od, but everyone wants the same things, and believes in the same things. The quarreling all arises over the methods. It seems to me that this is all we young folk today need to realize, in order to discover that clear path in the confused world. This is all we need to give us the courage to go ahead and believe in something, unhampered by the fear of making egotistical fools of ourselves by apparently set- ting ourselves up as superior to those great minds that appear to believe something else. A writer tells us: “Attitudes of faith are among the greatest of all known forces. Let a per- son’s inner being be fortified with a faith in God and all his creative powers are quickened, his marching strength is height- ened, and his grip on everyday things is immensely increased,” —when he tells us this, we can go ahead and try to work out our problems on that basis, without feeling ridiculous because Mr. Darrow’s brilliant mind warns us, “Believe in nothing that cannot be proven in scientific terms.” We know we are not disagreeing with the great ag- nostic, because, though he wrotc a book called “Resist Not Evil”, he spent his life resisting it and trying to make this material hfe finer and safer for the victims of evil/ We know that his reason for this—that his life is the only bit of existence we will ever have and therefore it is unthink- able to inflict suffering—does not really disagree with our own beliefs. We also believe in re- sisting evil, and in making life finer and safer for its victims If we want justice in this world so that we can obtain it in some other world, we are in no dis- agreement with the agnostic who wants it because he believes there is no other world of oom- pensation. We both want ju- stice, and that is the important thing. By believing this, youth can go ahead and believe in anything it wants. If we believe in oth- ers, then we can believe in our- selves. If we disbelieve, we lose all confidence. People have for so long been trying to make others understand them, that they have had no time to learn to understand others. If they would only take the time to learn this, they might discover that they are merely telling each other the same truths in differ- ent languages, and all the strife and bloodshed has been over a point of syntax. If we look deep into the soul of our neighbor, we find only ourselves there. If the soul is evil, the fault is our own. The following passage by Tuk* aram, a famous east-Indian poet and philosopher of the seven- teenth century, will sum up tliis thought in a manner very famil- air to Christians1. It is entitled: AS A.MAN THINKS No saint is he Who harboureth within con- tempt of any man However low or sin-besmeared: No hope is left of spiritual peace For him who harboureth con- tempt of any man, Not if he give his very life to save his soul: Filthy and contemptible himself Is he who harboureth contempt of any man:. For, as a man shall think, deep in his secret soul, So shall that man become. FRóNSMóTIÐ Á öðrum stað í þessu blaði er augl. hin virðulega árshátíð “Fróns”. Hefir til þessaraf há- tíðar verið vandað sem best má vera. Auk þess sem augl. var í síðustu blöðum er nú og augl, að hin velþekti fiðluleikari Pearl Pálmason muni leika nokkur lög á fiðlu. Hún mun leika íslenzk lög meðal annars og koma fram í íslenzka þjóðbúningnum. Auk þess mun Karlakór fslendinga í Winnipeg syngja lög sem aldrei hafa áður verið sungin á ísl. samkomum, þar á meðal lag frumsamið fyrir þessa hátíð auk annara vel þektra laga. Veitingar verða hinar vönd- uðustu. Borðin í veitingasalnum verða prýdd ísl. fánum og blóm* um. Þar verður sem undanfarin ár hangikjöt og rúllupylsa, auk þess kæfa og mysuostur, vínar- tertur, pönnukökur, kleinur og allskonar kökur og góðgæti og með þessu verður veitt kaffi. Prúðbúnar konur og ungar stúlk- ur ganga um beina. Hefir Mrs. Loftur Mathews umsjón með veitingunum. Henni til aðstoð- ar verða þessar konur: Mrs. K. W. Jóhannsson, Mrs. H. Jónas- son, Mrs. R. Gíslason, Mrs. Ása Jónasson, Mrs. Bína Johnson og Miss S. Blöndal. Verða þær all- ar klæddar í ísl. búninga ef þess verður kostur og taka þær á móti gestum í veizlusalnum. Klædd- ar hvítum kjólum bera þessar ungu stúlkur gestúnum mat og drykk: Miss Lillian Blöndal, Miss Thelma Hallsson, Miss Rúna Hallsson, Miss Lily Berg- son, Miss M. Magnússon, Miss Rose Halldórsson, Miss Kay Mc- Fee, Miss Iris Nordman, Mrs. H. Melsted og Mrs. H. Bjarnason. Fyrir dansinum leikur sama hljómsveitin er hreif fólkið svo mjög á Karlakórsdansinum s. 1. haust. Stjórnarnefnd “Fróns” hefir vandað svo mj ög til þessarar há- tíðar því það er einlæg ósk fé- lagsins að sem flestir íslending- ar sæki hátíðina og hefir því ekkert verið sparað er mætti stuðla að því að þessi kvöldstund verði hin ánægjulegasta. R. FJÆR OG NÆR The Young Icelanders News As in previous years the Young Icelanders, by arrange- ment with the Icelandic National League, are having a concert on the first night of their confer- ence, Monday Feb. 19th, 1940. A very intersting program, ad- vertised elsewhere in this paper, has been arranged. All Iceland- ic members of the Canadian Ac- tive Service Force are cordially invited to attend as guests of the Young Icelanders. The play-offs for the Icelandic Millennial Hockey Trophy were held in the Alexandra Rink, Sel- kirk, last Friday night, before a large and enthusiastic crowd. Three teams competed, the Win- nipeg Pirates, the First Luther- an of Winnipeg, and the Sel- kirks. The first game between the Lutherans and the Pirates resulted in a win for the former. The Lutherans won against the Selkirks which gave them cust- ody of the Trophy for this sea- son. Gordon Skinner of Selkirk refereed the games. The Trophy will be formally presented to the First Lutherans at the Young Icelanders Concert next Monday night in th I. O. G. T. Hall, by the president of the Trophy Committee, Bjorn Pet- ursson. * * * Embættismenn fulltrúanefnd- ir Icel. Good Templars of Win- íipeg fyrir árið 1940: I'orseti: J. T. Beck, 975 Inger- soll St. Ph. 80 528. titari, S. Eydal, 745 Alverstone St., Ph. 29 794. jjaldk.: G. M. Bjarnason, 448 Greenwood Pl., Ph. 71 342 ítlánsmaður: Ásbj. Eggertsson, 533 Maryland St. Ph. 71275. Séra K. K. Ólafsson flytur ís- lenzka guðsþjónustu sunnudag- inn 25. febr. kl. 2 e. h. í dönsku kirkjunni á Burns stræti og 19. götu í Vancouver. Allir fslend- ingar á þeim slóðum eru beðnir að greiða fyrir þessum messu- Iboðum. Allir velkomnir. j K. K. ó. * * * Mrs. J. B. Skaptason biðui Heimskringlu að geta þess, að hún taki á móti áskriftagjöldum fyrir ritið “Hlín” er fröken Hall- dóra Bjarnadóttir gefur út. Verð ritsins er 35c. Heimilisfang Mrs. J. B. Skaptason er 378 Maryland St., Winnipeg. * * * Barnasamkoma Laugardagsskólans Áformað er að Barnasamkoma Laugardagsskólans verði í ár haldin í Fyrstu lútersku kirkj- unni, Victor St., laugardagskv. 6. apríl n. k. Nánar auglýst síð- ar. * * * Það er sagt um mann einn, að hann hafi kvænst þrisvar, — tvisvar í Ameríku og einu sinni í alvöru. * * * íslendingar! Þér sem eruð bókamenn og bókavinir! Munið eftir því, að þér aukið þægindi yðar, og prýðið alt í kring um yður, með því, að láta binda og gylla bækur yðar. Þá þurfið þér ekki annað, en að renna augunum yfir kjöl- inn á bókunum, til þess að finna bókina, sem þér þurfið á að halda. Sendið því bækur yðar, sem fyrst, í band eða viðgerð, Þér sem notiB— TIMBUR KAUPIÐ AF THE Empire Sash & Door CO., LTD. Blrjfðlr: Henry Ave. Eut Sími 95 551—95 562 Skrtfstofa: Henry og Argyle VERÐ - GÆÐI - ÁNÆGJA til Davíðs Björnssonar að “Heimskringlu”. — Stafirnir þryktir í gull eða silfur á kjöl- inn, eftir því sem óskað er. — Miklu efni úr að velja í mörgum litum. Verkið vel af hendi leyst. FROSINN FISKUR Nýkominn frá vötnunum Hvítfiskur, glænýr, pundið ....8c Pækur, slægður, pundið .....5c Birtingur, pundið .......3Vfcc Sugfiskur, pundið ........2V£c Pikerel, pundið ............7c Pickerel fillets, tilbúnar á pönnuna, pundið ..........15c Síld frá Superior-vanti, pd.4c Sjávar silungur frá Churchill veiddur í Hudson’s flóa, lúffengur matur, segja land- arnir. 5 til 9 pd. hver. — Hvert pund ...............15c Harðfiskur frá Noregi, pd..30c Nýreyktur birtingur, pd.....8c Pantanir utan af landi, af- greiddar tafarlaust. Fluttur um borgina ef pantað er dollars virði eða meira. Pantið strax. JÓN ÁRNASON 323 Harcourt St., St. James Phone 63 153 f minnisvarðasjóð K. N. Július Júlíus Davíðson $1.00 M. J. Thorarinson 1.00 Magnús Markússon 1.00 Guðmundur Jónasson — 2.00 Th. E. Thorsteinsson ... 1.00 Árni Eggertsson, K.C. .... 1.00 Oddbjörn Magnústson ... 1.00, J. G. Jóhannsson 1.00 1 Magnús Peterson 2.00 Jón Gillis 1.00 Dr. A. Blondal 3.00 Aðalsteinn Thorsteinsson—. 1.00 Arnljótur Sigurðsson — 1.00 Gunnlaugur Josephson .... 1.00 S. Sigfússon, Oakview, Man 1.00 J. J. Swanson 1.00 J. Magnúis' Bjarnason, Elfros, Sask. 2.00 Mrs. W. J. Burns 1.00 Mrs. Dísa Samson, Wynyard, Sask 50 Páll Hallson 1.00 Warrendale Skyrtur Þessar vinsælu skyrtur eru af mjög smekklegri gerð og úr endingargóðu efni. Ennfrem- ur, fyrir þá er þess æskja, af algengri Warrendale-gerð, í bláum, brúnum eða hvítum lit, með kraga áföstum. Stærðir 14 til 17 og ýmissri erma- lengd. Með Eatons vörumerki $1.15 —Men’s Fumishings Section, The Hargrave Shops for Men, Main Floor. ^T. EATON C<2m ITED $ 24.50 Áður augl. frá Winnipeg 102.50 $127.00 —Meðtekið með þakklæti frá nefndinni. * * * Messur í Gimli lúterska prestakalli Sunnudaginn 18. febrúar: Betel, morgunmessa. Gimli, ensk messa kl. 7 e. h. Sunnudagsskóli Gimli safnað- ar kl. 1.30 e. h. Fermingarbörn á Gimli mæta föstud. 16. febr. kl. 3 e. h. á prestsheimilinu. B. A. B. Tuttugasta og fyrsta Ársþing Þjóðræknisfélagsins verður haldið í Goodtemplarahúsinu við Sargent Ave., Winnipeg 19, 20, og 21 febrúar 1940 Samkvæmt 21, gr. félagslaganna er deildum þess heimilt að senda einn fulltrúa til þings fyrir hverja tutt- ugu eða færri gilda félaga deildarinnar, gefi þær fulltrú- um skrifleg umboð til þess að fara með atkvæði sín á þinginu og sé þau staðfest af forseta og ritara deildar- innar. 8. Útbreiðslumál. 9. Fjármál. 10. Fræðslumál. 11. Samvinnumál. 12. útgáfumál. 13. Bókasafnið. 14. Kosning embættis- manna. 15. Ný mál. 16. ólokin störf og þing- slit. ÁÆTLUÐ DAGSKRÁ:— 1. Þingsetning. 2. Ávarp forseta. 3. Kosning kjörbréfa- nefndar. 4. Kosning dagsskrár- nefndar. 5. Skýrslur embættis- manna. 6. Skýrslur deilda. 7. Skýrslur milliþinga- nefndar. Þingseta hefst kl. 9.30 á mánudagsmorguninn 19. febrúar, og verða fundir til kvölds. Að kvöldinu hafa “The Young Icelanders” skemtisamkomu í efri sal húss- ins. Þriðjudag allan verða og þingfundir. En að kvöld- inu hefir deildin “Frón” sitt árlega íslendingamót. Á miðvikudaginn verða og þingfundir, sem áður, og fara þá fram kosningar. Að kvöldinu kl. 8 verður ókeypis skemtifundur áður þingslit fara fram, en fyrir óviðráð- anlegar ástæður verður sú samkoma ekki á sama stað heldur í Sambandskirkjunni á horninu á Sargent Ave og Banning St. Winnipeg, 5 febrúar 1940. í umboði stjórnarnefndar Þjóðræknisfélagsins. Richard Beck (vara-forseti) Gísli Jónsson (ritari)

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