The day book. [volume], April 11, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 23

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of 1,700 patients there were very few
cured. Why is it impossible that Dr.
Sachs as chief of the municipal sani
tarium was responsible for such poor
results?
Take the Workmen's Circle sani
tarium at Liberty, N. Y. Out of every
100 patients 80 get well, part of the
remaining get better, and there, are
only a few die. Why can't it be so in
the municipal' sanitarium?
They say Sachs was an expert in
tuberculosis. I knew Sachs person
ally, being' one of his patients. He
treated me for a long time and I got
worse every day. I went to another
doctor and was cured. You don't call
this being an expert, do you?
He was not friendly to his patients.
Looking for honor, Sachs did not care
a bit about the health of his patients.
He was not a good man. The medical
profession lost nothing in the death
'of Dr. Sachs. Max Mallen, 570 W.
13th"st
AGNOSTICISM DOES NOT FAIL
That there is a place "where ag
nosticism fails" is the point attempt
ed by a Forum correspondent of the
Chicago Day Book, who says:
"Now, while I am convinced in my
own mind that Christianity is false, I
also know it has a great deal of moral
and ethical value. Rational and ag
nostic societies are for adults. Chil
dren cannot follow the lines of rea
soning which they map out. Yet
children must be taught moral and
ethical values.
"What do rationalists alid agnos
tics have to offer for the 'training of
children? If these societies have
nothing to offer along these lines the
Christian church, with all its errors,
still has a place in our religious life."
To say that agnosticism fails to
provide moral and ethical value, and
that religion supplies them, is one
thing; to show this to be true is quite
another. Morals are more likely to
be the result of experience than of
teaching.
Children get their morals by dtk
serving how their conduct is re
ceived by their mates and by their pa
rents and teachers, who are with
them the whole seven days of the
week, while the religious teacherjias
them but a few hours when they are
on their good behavior. Morality
must be taught in immediate connec
tion with violations of it, so that the
example and the precept may come
together. Whether the child is of
Christian or agnostic parents, he can
not learn behavior or conduct away
from the scene where he is to prac
tice it. He must be observed in order
to be corrected and instructed, and
this does not take place in the church
or Sunday school.
What is the agnostic who writes to
The Day Book doing that he does not
impress "moral and ethical values"
on his offspx-ing? The idea that only
from religious teachers may these
values be acquired is exploded daily
in the families of thousands whose
children never enter a church or
Sunday school, and are still, to speak
with'mederation, the moral equals at
least of those who do. That idea is
a remnant of the Chicago agnostic s
-religious teaching which he should
have discarded with his former belief
in the whale, story. He should not
subject his children to any teaching
he does not himself believe. Truth is
as valuable as ethics.. From The
Truth Seeker Magazine, April 8.
THE POWER OF ASSOCIATION.
Since the beginning of the world
man has been active in forming asso
ciations. This trait in human char
acter may be traced to many causes,
such as mutual protection, aggres
sive and defensive necessity, but
chiefly to that highest endowment of
his nature, viz., the power of thought.
In all ages, climes and nationalities
we find that the more highly en
dowed men are with rationality the
more they seek each other's society
On the other hand, the more men
partake of the brute nature the- less
from one gradation to another and