Show uR URGES tf GREATER VOTING I Says Government Will Fail If Duties at Palls Are Not Performed I WASHINGTON WASHINGTON April 20 CAP CAP- AP Citizenship in America Is not a private private vate enterprise but a public function function function tion Pr President Coolidge said in an address last night before the thirty thirty- fifth congress of the National Society Society Society Soci Soci- ety of th the Daughters of the American American American Amer Amer- ican Revolution during which he urged the people people- to exercise a greater Interest In their government by going to the polls polls' on election day The Tho whole system of government government government govern govern- ment he asserted rests on the ballot box Unless citizens perform their duties there such a system of i government government is doomed to lo failure Making a passing reference to law observance as it it relates to the du duties duties duties du- du ties of ot citizenship the president presidents s said ld that it cannot be denied that life the moral sense is sometimes blinded LACK REVERE REVERENCE CE It cannot t E r lF rp ted he s said Id that In too many quarters there Is a lack of rev reVerence rence for authorIty author author- I Ity and of ob obedience to law Such I I Q occurrences are sporadic an and produce produce produce pro pro- pro pro- duce their own remedy When so society society society so- so finds that its life and property property prop prop- erty are In peril from evildoers It ItIs Itis Itis Is very quick to organize Its forces for its ita own protection That canI cannot cannot can can- not fail fall to be done Ui in our own countr country country coun coun- tr try for our people as a whole are thoroughly law abiding The president held however that It was not in violence and crime that the greatest danger lies for these evils were quickly apparent and could be suppressed A far more serious danger he said lurks In the shirking of those responsibilities responsibilities of citizenship where the evil may not be so noticeable but butIs butIs buts Is s more insidious and likely to be Moro moro devastating |