Show STUDENT LIFE 160 spires a sense of responsibility to duty and impels the citizen to act justly in all of his personal affairs The ancients venerated and adored justice and the citizens of pagan Rome in the earlier days of the republic were taught by precept and example the duty and necessity of observing her behests The action of the Roman senate in refusing to recognize the pitiful pretext of the consul in with the excuse for his oath made to Hannibal and in returning the dishonored soldier to his captor illustrate the uncompromising sternness of Roman justice Cultivate then a love and respect for justice whether to be observed in the administration of public law or in the purely private relations of life Good citizenship includes both and will incline you always to stand for social order and against any instrusion of disturbing or evil influences in the administration of justice A story told in a beautiful fable imputed to Aesop who lived over two thousand years ago points a moral for today as then A swallow had builded her nest under the eaves of a court house and there left her little ones while she went away to seek their food Upon returning one day she found the nest destroyed and the young birds gone As she sat upon the eaves and mourned the loss of her fledglings another bird passing by said to her “Why do you weep? You have lost vour nest and little ones but another year and spring will come and you will have another nest and other little ones will give you the happiness now lost” But the swallow answered: “It is not that I know that another year will bring me another nest and other fledglings But I built my nest under the e eaves of the a sacred place where I thought no crime no wrong non-complian- court-hous- ce and my trust has been broken my confidence betrayed It is for that I grieve” But above all a patriotic devotion to the common country and her flag should Good citizenship dominate our lives which we have considered is necessary to a fulfillment of the purposes of existence demands this and we may not fail in the duty without running counter to natural laws This government is founded upon the principle of the equality of man and maintains a system of laws designed to have uniform and equal operation permitting all freedom of individual action consistent wtih the welfare and safety of others It has bestowed the vast public domain in the interest of education and free labor and schools and homes on every hand attest the progress and prosperity of an intelligent and enterprising Stimulating the arts and pracpeople tical sciences by wise and salutary laws it has harvested and utilized the thought and genius of the age and enriched and blessed the world with productive invention Today the avenues to all knowledge are opening to us and those who shall follow and imperial thought freed from the fetters of ignorance and superstition claims the universe for its own Our beautiful flag at home and abroad — by sea and by land — symbolizes the glory and power of the republic — first among the nations We must not forget its many triumphs upon hard fought fields but let us also remember that it represents victories of peace no less renowned than those of war I would not deprecate that martial spirit which more than all is the anchor of the nation’s hope in time of need and which the history of the flag inspires in each patriot’s heart No nation can long worthily survive without it But we may still remember that the object of national life is could enter |