Show 1 y- y The Soul of America t r ri I 1 J 1 N distant the United States i IN THE 1116 not far past t t. t J v regarded as s the soul of commercialism bya by Ile ti world world at large The to term rm was a applieS pp lied in an hing but a a complimentary tone It was in ined in- in t ed f d to convey a a. picture of cold cy cynicism cynicism- 1 r less bartering of ideals for dollars And I our four pur peep people le no doubt appreciated the g guard guard- rde rd- rd e i tributes tes to Yankee shrewdness they als also 0 t c t d under under the implication that they lacked lacke d 1 y tamina amina- amina of their ideals i r ry who pauses pauses to reflect on what th the e rican people have done to relieve the suf suf- caused by the world war as portrayed by fill f r er ert t Hoover the directing head of bf our relief relie f r 1 Q cis s cannot yield to these sinister l is i r At the cradle of life we find the noblest nobles t 1 eats als of humanity The mother watching oveX over ove r X 1 e r t babe is the symbol for all an that is good and Pf true fue lie and and noble y t lit iQ the self elf sacrifice o of m motherhood we eve find fine 1 of the virtues ri most o t difficult to attain i tf the opposite of everything conveyed in the rn t Commercialism There Ther is no more whole m me file or or bea beautiful picture than than th that t of mother- mother O od t. t giving its its' st strength to the progress of an an- her r. r g generation generation life and servi service e in behalf o of f 1 hildren And that i is how the the thinking 1 t ll must regard America as he reflects o oi on n i mission of mercy among the suffering an arid and d re sed in foreign lands t Mr r. Hoover estimates that the American peo- peo lh little ough h their relief agencies saved children from from death during and f foli fol- fol l- l 7 i g the World the World war There is no need to dwell t. t ik TB a effort required to do t this s work there work there is isn n B eel for self praise The work speaks ks forr for r f for for r it is is' expressive of the love Jove and the Sm 1 which are to be found at the cradle As a awe awe awe F S we are proud of the work we did in the thed s ds d war and grateful to those thoe brave lads who down their lives to check chec the spread of Auction n. n We Ve are proud of t the e strength which et ed its s to feed and finance our allies in th the g gle Against oppression Coupled with with these these more lasting is the source of of pride to be bed bein d in our errand of mercy The saving of eH e. s- s million SO souls many of them them descended our our late enemies but all of them child child- of of responsibility for thc thc- e great reat strife 1 in which every American can ex ex- ex x ce pride of his people n I i |