Show LINCOLN LINCOLN-A A LEADER NOT A RULER Today while honoring the memory of Abraham Lincoln great greatest cst American let us reflect upon the lessons of Lincoln's life as applied t to our problems of today We Ve see ourselves drawing nearer the maelstrom of war war war-a a war which is waged in the main between people who are led by leaders and people who arc are ruled by rulers Leaders not rulers are arc the need of the world today as in Lincoln's time S a e j i 1 v wc V c think of Lincoln as the man of the people th the commoner j ji 1 i i the democrat whose were those of the great intelligent masses V whose feelings those of the men who toil t But we should not think of him as the ordinary p man Understand this difference a Lincoln born low lowly I son of a shiftless father springing from that peculiar people the the poor pOOl white trash ash of the Southern states spent his days in honest toil and pored far into the night by flickering c candle over the few fc books he ho could borrow from more fortunate neighbors With a determination rare in the human race he lie set about to become a master of knowledge and by his own untiring zeal he raised J himself from an unlettered mountain yokel to the most exalted position that man can bestow That is why Lincoln the commoner was not an an au ordinary man maD l must spring from the common people for lor only the ek common people can have the true truo brotherly outlook upon the problems and trials that beset mankind 4 God hasten the time when the common people will produce more v l 4 S 0 1 I With a Lincoln in every verp land today there Would would be no warring millions minions waste wast the land c. c laying and widowing and orphaning humanity t Had Tolstoi been a Lincoln had Lincoln had that great Russian been a aT T peasant born with a full understanding oj the pea peasants peasant's ants ant's needs the needs tho I course of or history might have been changed k c. c Had Liebknecht been a greater man leaders instead of or rulers i might have prevailed in Germany and th the course of history might be bo bevery bevery v very ry different The common people must and will fill prevail in n every land r But ut this happy day will not arrive arrIve until the common people realize that the world is full of if if they will only seek them 1 out out and and prepare to be led by them |