Show PLEA FOR PURITY IN OUR POLITICS Thomas E Green Criticizes American Methods in inS Barratt H Hall all Lecture S P PEOPLE OPLE I TOO AVERAGE MAN PAYS LITTLE AT ATTENTION TO PUBLIC AFFAIRS The lecture of Thomas E Green at ai L Barr Bai itt tt hall ball last evening was well at and highly e The lee lec turf tur In a plea for purl ty in the body politic While admitting the greatness of the United St States tes as a t t country and the high place occupied ir In Inthe I Ithe the social s scale ale by Americans the world work I over Mr Greens remarks were were riot lot un tin unmixed mixed with criticism thought though the thu criticism was of a kindl kindly nature We Americans said Mr Green are altogether too prone to regard I ourselves as altogether bove criticism too to admit the or of failure and inclined to take a afar 1 far too view Yiew of conditions condition generally I l now of o no DO other n tion 1 in the world whose people are so c or of theIr own position Ther are ane of o i course many reasons for this anti and suet such sucha a condition has not always existed Fro T I begin t gin with the United became a I country under circumstances t tto I to those attending the of ci f fany any other country countr in the world In all al 1 the world powers of today we have the th gradual evolution and stead steady growth extending over oer a period centuries of in inthis ii Si this country we see a nation born a t bare years ago and taking its place almost immediately in the foremost t ranks of the nations Its men were weri great groat men before there was a Unit d states of America anti and the land lanel m braced within the tIo countr country t was among amor the richest and most productive in the th 9 world L Li Nations Founders Praised As proof of the moral strength and an 1 sterling of the men whose ions the nation in those trou blous times immediately following its it S birth two two great documents the th e Declaration of Independence and the 0 constitution of the United States ma IT be pointed to tOday as two of the great grent greatest est pieces of statecraft ever brought brough t into being were based upon the th e i Ideals eals of the best men in the nation and th they y stand today as true to the principals of free government as t tY did when they were drafted This country has had its bugbears For a long time Germany German occupied per haps the foremost Place although this feeling has bell been steadily declining for some years ears past Latel Lately it has been Japan Tapan Japan with a total area of less than the state of if California and a bare population with a debt of over a billion dollars and the United States the only country which Would lend her another piece today rt It look altogether reasonable when you OU come to consider it does it At various times and by various people plans have been formulated in this country attempting to show how the countr country could be starved ot or other wise beaten into submission by other powers principally Japan Yet if neo O pie pIc only stopped to think there is no country in the world which could sub for five years rears without the food foodstuffs foodstuffs stuffs which this thi country sends ends them Some of Our Weaknesses The strength of a country of f course lies large largely y if not altogether in the thu strength of its people e and this coun tr try is riot not lacking in its examples of great men At the same time the peo I pie as a are too much wrapped up UJ in their own affairs to yield to the I affairs of te iTe nation that attention which rightfully be given to so I important a nu matter ter The attitude or orthe the average man is something hike this I bother about the coun try at large Jarge we hire legislatures to do i that for us I time I am too busy This is ilOt s it should be and no opportunity should be lost to cor correct such an attitude |