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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN " i A ---V .J, '''I- t ,., 1 'If.' It- V i 1' I t . y- v t' t Si' sis'; .' -I t ! We Are at War! V By GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING If V -'If 'l ?' A ', -I 'as Wmp! n srirrinn mil tn Here's a stirring call to arms that summons the spirit of those half-forgotten days of resolute marching men Article I TP 1 FOURTEEN years ago an army of two million Amer-I Amer-I ican citizens was gathering in France. They had left 1" i their homes and families and businesses; they had CQy traveled three thousand miles across submarine-in--ifi fested seas; and now they were ready to lay down their lives, if need be, for their country. Millions more, in America, were prepared to follow them and do likewise. Today the nation faces another crisis, in which the enemies allied against us are more insidious but not less dangerous. Pervasive self-seeking and cor ruption, which the chosen officers of the law seem powerless to suppress; the sinister growth of the underworld, whose tentacles ten-tacles reach out to touch us all; the ever-increasing extravagance extrava-gance of government; and the mysterious paralysis of our economic eco-nomic system these are the enemies which now confront us. They have been allowed to encroach upon us largely through our own carelessness and neglect of duty as citizens. In the battle against them the average, citizen is at a disadvantage dis-advantage because he is unprepared; he is willing enough, but he is bewildered. He doesn't yet realize that he himself is primarily pri-marily to blame, hence he is taking no serious part in the conflict. con-flict. By average citizen I mean a great many men to whom we should look for leadership, as well as the larger number who possess no qualifications ror It fact, too often do citizens of all classes assume that politics, and crime, and even economics, are no business of theirs. It does not occur oc-cur to them that they are, every one, Individually, responsible. Why Is It that patriotism burns to brightly In times of war, so dimly dim-ly In times of peace? It Is Just as necessary in meeting the complex obligations of peace, but these obligations ob-ligations do not stir the imagination imagina-tion like the primitive emotions of war. The average cltlien feels that, somehow, the problems of peace will be solved for him, and falls to realize the possibility that calamity may result from his own Indifference. Still Can Bs Proud. We have as much reason now as we had fourteen years ago to feel proud of our country and to love It We believe, with some Justice, that It is the greatest republic In the history of the world. Under no flag In the world does a people enjoy en-joy more freedom or And greater happiness. We boast of public education, edu-cation, universal suffrage, liberty f speech and the press. We enjoy rights undreamed of in ancient Greece and Rome. let even with the sounder principles upon which to base the hope of permanence of ur institutions, we too may some day go down, as did these older re- j Cubllcs, unless we recognize end ve up to our civic obligations. It cannot be too strongly Impressed upon every citizen In a democracy that It Is his duty to help actively help In the task of government The other day I was talking to a lubstantlal business man from New fork. We were discussing an Is-lue Is-lue of Increased taxation then up before the house of representatives. "By the way." I said, "who Is the representative from your district?" fie grinned sheepishly. "I don't know," he said. My friend pays a goodly share if taxes to support the government, and yet be doesnt know who votes for him on the tax question. Fie relies on "a substitute" snd doesn't ven know who the substitute Is I This Is something of a retrogression retrogres-sion from an earlier period When our government was founded, our forefathers did not let unknowns represent them. They made It their business to know all about the character and achievements of the men they, elected to public office, fhen the Outstanding men In the country took part In politics, and most of the high positions were held by them. Political leaders, then, were chosen by the voters. Now, through the apathy of the voters, they are often chosen by other politicians. Changing 8oclal Life. This change Is partly due to our changing social lire. Many of us do not even know our next-door neighbors. But It Is a manifestation manifesta-tion of a deeper and more sinister change the tendency of the average aver-age citizen to let somebody else do his thinking for him. That tendency ten-dency threatens the very foundations founda-tions of democracy. Met some one else do the thinking." think-ing." That easy doctrine Is Injuring us not only In politics but In other fields. Under it crime flourishes and business languishes. Some international bankers, since the war, have been careless in lending lend-ing other people's money on foreign for-eign securities. Others have been charged with something worse than carelessness. But the citizens who, against sound business principles, put up the money were not without blame. In their eagerness for gain, they too often refused to think for themselves. They preferred to delegate that task to some one else. It was well known to all who read the newspapers that certain governments had already defaulted default-ed on debts to their own people. Greedy Investors did not balk because be-cause of that but cheerfully put up billions to loan to states, municipalities, mu-nicipalities, and Industries of those same governments. This la not an essay on economics. econom-ics. I am not an economist I did not foresee the depression, nor do I know when It Is going to end, though past experience teaches me the upturn is bound to come, perhaps per-haps slowly, perhaps suddenly when we least expect It "No matter how sure you are of victory, never fall to make full provision pro-vision for a reverse." This rule Is axiomatic with every capable military leader, but It was Ignored by most of our business busi-ness leaders during the boom years. Few made plans for anything any-thing except triumphant advance from one objective to another. Many burned their bridges behind them. Then the advance was halted halt-ed and the recession began. It cannot can-not be said that they were to blame (or that recession, for ap parently our pony human minds AT'?-Al 31 a '.;.- WW to "ST t5t t '.m A 1 Lulled Into Complacency by Prosperity, Pros-perity, Our Citizens Passively Ac cepted This Poisonous Growth With Small Concern. have not yet solved the riddle of the business cycle. They were to blame for having made no plans to keep the retreat from turning into a rout Business might profitably write that military ailoni Into Its books for the years to come. We have made two other mill tary blunders. We bean by im derestlmntlng the strength of t)H enemy, and progressed from tlmt to overestimating It. The cry. e are Just turning the corner." nf was the equivalent of " will have the boys out of Hie trenches by Chrlstmns" of inn is. And our "This country Is going to Ociejgq SEfi) Gffiiflflmi the dofs,-of 1932. the of -The Central Fovtn re .u..-.. bltr of March. 101 hf rpd leading men, gle 0Ter J9, . prato of national failure, bankrupt cy, am) Bolshevism. This is no Ume for craven cringing. Loln out of my window. I see the shaf of the monament to Washington. I think of Valley Torge, and wonder how those who now lament and wring their hands would have en Joyed that winter. This Is Washington's Wash-ington's bicentennial. It Is time for a new reckoning, a new responsibility, respon-sibility, a new courage. During the winter past many a good man, willing and able to work, has gone through a hell of unemployment unem-ployment and uncertainty. Remembering Re-membering that, ye may also find that some good, along with the evlL comes out of all depressions. I am not a stranger to depressions. depres-sions. Economists tell us that the panic Of 1878 was the closest analogy anal-ogy which history furnishes to our present troubles. My father, a well-to-do business man and farmer farm-er la Missouri, was caught In thst general disaster. I was Just thirteen thir-teen years old. One day my father fa-ther told me the whole story. "John," he said, "everything I own has been swept away except the farm, which Is covered by a heavy mortgage." (We finally lost It) 1 must try to make some a. a 1 1 m aalaamsn money y traveuu. " - , eErect8 WM iMued by Rev. Miguel While I am awav you must taae . ... . .. t ... . . For dean, sparkling dishes with lewwotk try U IW Oxydol with lu 50 morv rich, lasting tads that cut grease eleanh; and yet are kind to hands. Oxydol never balls up, leares no scum, softens water. "Shower" in Philippines I Holds World's Record! The heaviest 24-hour rainfall ever measured occurred at Bagnio, the "summer capital" of the Philippines, In July, 1911. Only brief accounts of It havt been published until this year, when a detailed story of the shower and care of the family snd manage the farm." During the next three years my brother, aDd I ran the farm. We plowed, sowed, and reaped. We took our produce to market Those days were not so different from these for the farmer. I re- Selga. director of the Philippine weather bureau, says Charles Fltz-augh Fltz-augh Talman In his Science Service feature, "Why the 'Weather?" "This torrential downpour attended attend-ed the passage of a typhoon. More than 83 Inches of rain fell daring V M J T..1 11 IT Innl italirA member we had a field of timothy ur " hay which was particularly fine. I , the maximum fall In a 24-hour baled it np, a carload of It and Period being 40 Inches from noon of sent It by rail to St Louis, hoping the fourteenth to noon of the flf-to flf-to receive a top price, but It did teenth. not bring enough to cover the "Two Inches less than four feet freight charges. f raIn ln 24 ho,,r81 11119 ,B mor . than falls In the whole of an aver- Durlng those years my attend- . . . ,, ., A . . , 1 age year at most places In the north- ance at school was limited and I . t. . had to do the best I could to keep np with my classes by studying at eastern United States and Canada.' -Literary Digest night Those were certainly hard times. Yet, "sweet are the uses of adversity," and It was the best thing that ever happened to me. It taught me more, gave me greater confidence and a keener sense of responsibility than anything else could have done. Unsuspected Powers. I cite my own experience merely to show how men and women actually ac-tually gain a new strength and courage when thrown upon their own resources and responsibility In times of crisis. They find In themselves them-selves powers they never suspected. sus-pected. The fife oa military man furnishes fur-nishes another example valuable In times like the present In every army career there come occasional times of dullness. The officer, stationed sta-tioned at sttne remote army post has his routine duties to perform. When these are completed he finds the temptntlon almost overwhelming overwhelm-ing to give over his leisure to cards, lltrht reading, social evenings, eve-nings, painless time-wasting. It Is the ofllrer who resists that temptation, tempta-tion, who spends hard hours each day studying the latest advances In artillery technic, In transport, In tactics It Is this officer who receives re-ceives recognition when the opportunity oppor-tunity for active service comes. So It is In business. In this time of extreme dullness, many have sunk hack Into a kind of lethargy. But the wise business man, like the conscientious officer, Is using his present leisure to prepare for the battles to come. He Is devising new economies of production and distribution. He Is studying the problem of how his product may be varied or made more attractive. He la getting ready to take advantage advan-tage of the upturn when it comes. He Is not accepting gloomy defeat-Ism. defeat-Ism. He Is thinking for himself. I have touched at some length on the depression because It has so glaringly hown us the folly of carelessly care-lessly delegating our thinking to others. It has also thrown a bright cold llgl.on the flaws ln our political methods and on our crime problem. During the years of prosperity following fol-lowing the war an underworld of gangsters and racketeers unpar-alleled unpar-alleled In any other civilized nation, grew up and flourished ln our cities. The criminals who manned this un derworid were of a new type. They were not the masked and shabby Plug-uglies who filled the Jails In earlier years. They were expensively expensive-ly dressed; they owned machine guns, high-powered cars, and speed boats; they had money ln the bank. With tills money they were able to oFt.-iMish a relation with corrupt officials Hnd police which seemed to make them Immune from prosecution. prose-cution. t H'? nll SJndlrmU WXU Service To u Concluded Nxl Wk. Tribute Whar Due The In, nor of having suggested the trilmie of the 'two minutes' si lenre" has been given to several peo pi. Actually It belongs to a South Afrh-an atatesman the late Sir ' '" y Kitzpatrlck. The king ac-knonh ac-knonh :ed Sir Percy's suggestion In a l'-i t ,-r sent to the statesman on "tie "elusion, which rend: "The king . ever gratefully remembers that i,. idea of the two minutes' I ..-I Armistice day was due to )'"ir Initiation a suggestion which was r..,,iij adopted and tarried out with iunrtfelt sympathy thiough-out thiough-out the empire." London Times. Ho precepts will profit a fooL Trait-Speeds The fastest time ever made by a railroad train depends upon how performance Is reckoned. The fastest fast-est train run on record was made orer the Plant system between Fleming and Jacksonville, Fla., In 1001. when a train covered five miles at an average of 120 miles per hour. The London-Cheltenham flyer fly-er ol the Great Western railway In England recently covered the 774 miles between Swindon and Pad dlngton in 56 minutes and 47 seconds, sec-onds, from start to stop, averaging 81.6 miles per hour. The highest speed reached was 92 miles per hour. 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