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Show 'iiAuziiifi r tie jhbwu i Th& 'following are a few excerpts ' from the lecture delivered by Dr. Ed : ward Steiner, of Grinnell College, Iowa, at the . Y, U. Tuesday evening under the auspices of the college lecture lec-ture course. This is not a detailed re-; port, but instead brief sketches taken i in long hand. ; j Not very long ago I was asked ! . these three questions: First, ""Who! Started the 'War?' Second, "When Will It End?" and third, '"What Willi Happen After the War?" J am not a j prophet, but I will say that if this war lasts" JMiother year there will be a j revolution in every country in Europe." Eu-rope." This great nation has fused on one great idea, this is unanimity. You have entered into this war bo unanimously. unani-mously. The United States of America Ameri-ca is the most unified nation In the world. 5ermany cannot say this, there is the North and the South Germany. ! There are eighty representatives in her parliament that belong to the social so-cial democrats. Also a large Roman Catholic party. 'England lacks unity, the Welshman is still Welsh at heart. The Bcot is still Scotch at heart, and the Irishman is still Irish. National-istg? National-istg? are all blended here. (During the reSlnt campaign if you had placed the two natonal platforms in a drawer and lost the labels off of them you could not have told which was which. The President Is the head of this whole nation, not a part or party. ' When you go into the settlements of New York City and see tho women lined up to get at the ash barrel to dig out enough coal to keep them warm it is a poor place to talk patriotism. patriot-ism. , Fill their stomachs frsL I know of nothing more beautiful than Provo nestling beneath these silent sentinels and yet when we go to our high school commencements we hear the glee club sing of Sunny Italy and they haven't a spot one half so beautiful as our own America. Of the 60,000,000 people in Germany only about 9,000,000 are of pure Teutonic Teu-tonic blood. They are far from being a unified people. Germany attempted at one time to make iPoland purely Germanic, but that failed because the parents took their children into their cellars and barns and taught them the Polish language in spite of the order of the German government. Germany attempted the same thing with a part ot?!e (French people which came under un-der their rule, but it failed also with the French. The question then comes, "What Mke Americans?" Not where you I were born, but rather 'Were You Re-1 Re-1 born?" There is no country where the dialects are so few and where the t; language is so un-lingual. Milwaukee is one-half German, yet onejjmlf people speak pure English andrVhe other half do not speak a j pure German, but instead an Ameri-(. Ameri-(. canized German. The Swedish peo-i peo-i pie cram a lot of English slang into : -their dialect. We are not influenced j by immigrant people. (What shall we do with foreign people? peo-ple? We cannot make these foreign-born foreign-born peoples Americans by law. This has always failed with every nation that has tried it. and it will fail In Amerca. Germany tried this as mentioned above, with the Poles. Citi-zenlMp Citi-zenlMp must be earned, it cannot be forced on people by five years of residence. resi-dence. Some people will never be fit subjects for citizenship. What we need in America is not more law, but more love. 'Dr. Steiner told of finding pictures of George Washington in the farther est corners of Siberia and many other European countries, and many foreigners foreign-ers when they come here bring pretty wreaths of flowers and spread them on Washington's tomb. Why? Because Be-cause he represents to them the nearest near-est ideal of free government. Other countries look at America as the land of freedom and Justice, and we must not soil that blessed heritage. |