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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEW. UTAH By GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING s Here's a stirring call to arms that summons the spirit of those half-forgotten days of resolute marching men Article I 1V0URTEEN years ago an army of two million Amer ican citizens was gathering in France. They had left their homes and families and businesses; they had traveled three thousand miles across submarine-infested 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 averaga 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 do qualifications for It In 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 so brightly in times of war, so dimly dim-ly la times of peace? It is just as necessary In meeting the complex obligations of peace, but these obligations ob-ligations do not stir the lmaglna- Uon like the primitive emotions of war. The average citizen 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 Be 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 en-Joy en-Joy more freedom or find 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. Yet even with the sounder principles upon which to base the hope of permanence of ur Institutions, we too may some flay go down, as did these older republics, re-publics, unless we recognize and live op to our civic obligations. It eannot 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 otner day I was talking to a lubstanttal business man from New fork. We were discussing an ls-tue ls-tue of Increased taxation then np before the house of representatives. "By the way," I said, "who Is the representative from your district H He grinned sheepishly. I don't know," he said. My friend pays a goodly share of taxes to support the government ind yet he doesnt know who votes for him on the tax question. He relies on "a substitute" and doesn't even know who the substitute is I This Is something of a retrogres-ilon retrogres-ilon 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 Den they elected to public office. Then 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 Social Life. This change is partly due to our changing social life. Many of us do not even know our next-door neighbors. But it Is a manifestation manifesta-tion of a deeper and more sinister changethe 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. SLet 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 np 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 wh 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 Is not an essay on economics. econom-ics. I am not an economist. I did Dot 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 yon are of victory, never fall te make full prevision pre-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 for that recession, for apparently ap-parently our puny human minds W V i s V At J ! 0 - ' "5. ! V s ; ' ;r . '-L i I I " t , .JKiii'miH) . II i v me- , - i x ? ; i i .-w, -;-! r r ! S i i. f . ; " . .. r f f I Lulled Into Complacency by Prosperity, Pros-perity, Our Citlzena Passively Ao-cpted Ao-cpted 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 axiom Into its books for the years to come. We have made two other military mili-tary blunders. We began by underestimating un-derestimating the strength of the enemy, and progressed from that to overestimating it The cry, "We are Just turning the corner," of 1929-30, was the equivalent of "We will have the boys out of the trenches by Christmas" of 1914-u, And our "This country la going to a . iw! ( the equivalent of 'The Central Powers are Invinci ble" of March, 1918. nearu leading men, given over to fear, prate of national failure, bankruptcy, bankrupt-cy, and Bolshevism. This Is no time for craven cringing. Looking out of my window, I see the shaft of the monument to Washington. I think of Valley Forge, and wonder how those who now lament and wring their hands would have en-Joyed 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 we may also find that some good, along with the evil, comes out of all depressions. I am not a stranger to depressions. depres-sions. Economists tell us that the panic of 1873 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 In Missouri, was caught In that general disaster. I was just inir-teen inir-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) "I must try to make some money by traveling as a salesman. While I am away yon must take care of the family and manage the farm." During the next three years my brother and 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 remember re-member we had a field of timothy hay which was particularly fine. I baled It up, a carload of It and sent It by rail to St Louis, hoping to receive a top price, but It did not bring enough to cover the freight charges. During those years my attendance attend-ance at school was limited and I had to do the best I could to keep np with my classes by studying at 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 greatei 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 powera they never suspected. sus-pected. The life of a military man fur-Dishes fur-Dishes another example valuable in times like the present In every army career there come occasional times of dullness. The officer, stationed sta-tioned at some remote army post, has his routine duties to perform. When these are completed he finds the temptation almost overwhelming overwhelm-ing to give over his leisure to cards, light reading, social eve nings, painless time-wasting. It is the officer 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 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 Bunk back 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 is getting ready te take 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 shown as the folly of care lessly delegating our thinking to others. It has also thrown a bright cold light on the flaws in our political methods and on our crime problem. During the years of prosperity fol lowing the war an underworld of gangsters and racketeers unparalleled unpar-alleled In any other civilized nation, grew up and flourished In our cities. The criminals who manned this underworld un-derworld were of a new type. They were not the masked and shabby piug-ugiies who filled the Jails te earlier years. They were expensively expensive-ly dressed; they owned machine guns, high-powered cars, and speed ooats ; they had money In the bank. With this money they were able to establish a relation with corrupt officials and police .which seemed to make them Immune from prose cution. C 1J1 Bell Bradloait. -WNTJ Sarvlc To B Conoluded Next Wk. 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"Shower" in Philippines Holds World's Record The heaviest 24-hour rainfall ever measured occurred at Baguio, the "summer capital" of the Philippines, In July, 191L Only brief accounts of It havt been published until this year, when a detailed story of the shower and Its effects was issued by Rev. Miguel Selga, director of the Philippine iveather bureau, says Charles Fitz-augh Fitz-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 during the four days, July 14-17, Inclusive, the paxlmum fall in a 24-hour period being 48 inches from noon of the fourteenth to noon of the fifteenth. fif-teenth. 4 "Two Inches less than four feet of rain In 24 hours! This Is more than falls In the whole of an average aver-age year at most places In the north eastern United States and Canada." 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