Show I 0 I PATRIOTIC ADDRESS ESS OF GENERAL MILES I Cob Colo June Miles delivered th tb address t the graduating ing class of the University of i today His subject was Our Country i and the Responsibilities and Possibilities ties of Its Citizens and he elaborated ed on the sug suggestion that the destiny of the n nation tion is DO now more than ever eor in th the control of the citizens The three necessary requisites of f good citizenship are intelligence char character character acter and patriotism he said Every time a citizen fails to exer exercise cise his right of franchise he commits a 8 treasonable and unpatriotic act Every officeholder who devotes his bis time and attention to personal Interests or to secure his own selfish purpose is false to his duties as IS a representative of the people This republic must continue on its march of progress or it must lapse lapso job deca decay by the acts of its own citizens |