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Show -- L Income and Leisure for Age Opportunity Conservation of Human Resources More Attention to Making Life And Happiness tnd Encouragement for Youth FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY $1.50 PER YEAR Shall We Rub Out the Americanism of Lincoln? Editorial By Abraham Lincoln was, in many respects, the noblest American of them all. He, of all our great men, was and is Americas Commoner. He was one of and one with the people. He mew up out of the soil and spirit of hiscountry. He under-- God-fearin- g, man-lovin- g, Jerusalem. Will wj e listen? Are we forgetting the Americanism for which Lincoln lived, loved, . labored and died? . Are we for us turning from the path which he like a prophet. Arc we rubbing out the Linroln brand of Americanism? God forbid! The picture below represents Lincolns spirit come back and looking over some of the present day What do YOU think he would say? of flood-lighte- d con-ditio- Copies of this issue for sale at $1.00 for 75 his countrymen. He was both Liberal and Liberator,' always a good stretch ahead of his time, literally, "The tall fe low ahead of the to become a dictator or a tyrant, or to proscribe a race or a creed. Lincoln was an American in every fiber ot his being, in every act and thought of his life. He learned his Americanism in contact with the people and from the fountain source the minds and hearts and lives of the founders of the Republic. He proved his Americanism every moment. He was liberty-lovin- g. Freedom was his passion, not for the few and the elect and the fortunate, but for all men of whatever creed, color or persuasion. Of all leaders he would have been the last Ilia life was as stainless as the shining stars. Under God, his country came first and he is the world's and Time's best example of American pa-- , triotism. He loved all mankind and is to this day, and will remain to the end of time an inspiration to j all seekers for and lovers ol liberty. Ilis spirit calls 1 to us today much like One of old called to the people . Lincoln was honest in every sense that the term implies, and if, as has been said, An honest mans the noblest work of God,' then he was indeed a masterpiece. He was honorable to the point of perfection. crowd. ng . N. LUND, stood the hosts of common people and they understood him. He was a man hot only for his time, but for our time and for all time and forall men. He was a patriot and a prophet to all aspiring souls that grope for liberty and justice. Lincoln was humane. He was generous. He was loving and kind, alvays leaning to the side of mercy and forgiveness. He was clean in body, mind and spirit. He was human. He was as humble as a child. bible-readiHe was a man, living, as nearly as is humanly possible, the Golden Rule. Next to Washington he lives in the hearts of A C 4 Brutal Might, with its bombs and guns and gases and tanks, cannot save the nations; it will destroy them every one and kill oil their men, women and children like a plague. The people, in sell and then defense, must destroy the come back to brotherly love, cooperation and collective effort. Only these can save a sinking world war-make- rs Were he to speak today he would say Cltlzen.fx.friends, brothers I You must cooperate for peace and Justice. Your country can not longer endure with half Its population submerged In dire poverty and the few reveling In oxtreme wealth and luxury. Your high civilization cannot continue with group arrayed against group, hating and maligning. Remember that charity for all and firmness In . the right Is the only way out. Unite yourselves as a band of brothers and march forward to Indus trial peace and Economic Freedom. Stand by your government; It Is all you havo. If you try tochango It by vie once you will pull down the sheltering house upon your heads. I plead with you not to make shipwreck of Americanism. Read your countrys thrilling story, turn to your Bibles. Live the Goldon Rule.Pray to your God. When confusion and commotion and despair threaten to overwhelm you turn your eyes to the meridian sun of the Republic and follow Its light to tho beginnings on the flaming horizons of 1776 and 1787. fClM SumW1 j toW Was--1 I ( i k- t Yon must lead America to dream again the high dream she dreimed long ago. She must dream Economic Freedom as she dreamed political freedom. She must make every citizen free, every man a king with his own home and his own plot of ground. America must rewarm her soul at the holy hearths of the love, affection and wisdom of the imort&l patriots who loom so large in che forefront of our history. She must be rebaptized in the cleansing and healing fire of the Cross! Copies of this issue for sale WHAT WOULD LINCOLN THINK? :ed f at $1 00 for 75 I' ! t .1 t : : |