Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-10 | Page 24 | Training in Loyalty is Speaker's Theme

TRAINING IN LOYALTY IS SPEAKER'S THEME The Rev. John Malick Tells Underwriters Underwrit-ers There Are Too Many Lukewarm Citizens in Country. The Eev. John Maliclc was the puest yesterday at a luncheon of the Utah Association As-sociation of Life Underwriters, in the gold room of the Commercial club. At the conclusion of the luncheon Mr. Malick Ma-lick spoke on "Training in Loyalty," giving a deduction, from his own observation, obser-vation, of people who are not actually disloyal, but who are not enthusiastic in a demonstration of their willingness to promote the interests of the country during the war crisis. He drew attention atten-tion to the great responsibility which rests on the naturalized citizen today as compared with the duty of the foreign-born citizen in times of peace, declaring de-claring that now ia the time when the foreigner wdio has come to these shores to share in the opportunities and privileges privi-leges of liberty can show his loyalty. In the old days, said Mr. Malick, training in loyalty was a part education at home and in the church and school, because occasion demanded it. In this day, he stated, there are many who are not true to any particular idea but loyal to the whole world. This, howevtr, he asserted, is not the kind of loyalty which meets present day needs. Only superior numbers can carry through a superior idea, said Mr. Malick, and the superior ideas of loyalty is a quality of modern character which must be educated into the new citizen. "We are going to check up on the new citizen," he said, "and we are going to give him something to 'do. In doing it they will love us. In the future fu-ture there will be none who are not loyal citizens, no matter what their previous allegiance, and none of unknown loyalty will be running loose except those who are here for only brief periods."