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Show DEMOCRACY, THEME BF INSPIRING ORATION Principles of True Freedom and Liberty Outlined by Speaker. "America has within It the possibilities pos-sibilities for a true democracy," was the theme of the oration given by Milton E. Moody, county superintendent of schools in the morning program on July fourth. He said: "Nature pays no tribute to aristocracy, subscribes to no creed or cast, renders fealty to no monarch or matser of any kind. In Lincoln we have an example of such democracy where every door is open in every hamlet and countryside, in city and wilderness alike, fOT the ruler to emerge when he will and claim his leadership among men. There is a permeating virtue of the freedom which challenges chal-lenges us in America to make the most of every gift and power we possess. Every page of history seems to emphasize and illustrate it. "The memories of the American Revolution are thrilling, but the revolution was a beginning, not a consummation and the duty laid down upon us by that reginning is the duty of bringing the things then begun to a noble triumph of completion. Patriotism is Ameiica is not a mere sentiment, but an active principle of conduct; not something born into the world to please, but to regenerate it. "It was with a vision cf great days to come that a little handful of three million people upon the borders of a single sea should have become a great multitude of free men and women spreading across a great continent, dominating dominat-ing the shores of two oceans and sending out the influence of individual in-dividual freedom. . "The isngular fascination of American history is that it has (Continued on page 5) DEMOCRACY, ORATION TIIE'IE (Cent rued from pare 1) j been a procer.s of cv.-.tir.erit r-creatlcn. r-creatlcn. of mak:-.g over s?,::-. in "ach f;:ner;t'.cn tin 'hinei -hirh '-re conceived at f rvh Y;u kr.-w h-.x r.c re; !-- that ..is t3u-? At ri-a hr- r.-t -t,t b" m-' -? multlpli.r-t.rn rf cr -in-; I: es '' to pr----r-" trai:t.cn w.-.h ' -f bi 1. but it is not "" -.1..'--; ti" - ri' l- nrrr.- :-Vr- tun- r from cth-r -::-e- frm .-"o-t-s 'hai did n. 1 ' .t "i',e the -iuie pr ?lp-.'.. Tl.ie ;:-" ri::,.r- hive ---ui--;v r-.ru i u- r.' wh't t ha-! pr-r:.-;-d ;..-;.-. a---u-v-lv'-, tiv; p-'.itr. v-i rr.viv.ud '" re- V.'.i; n - i: J t;-.- IV---l-.r-ir.i 1-.-e n; ' v:tl r e--e if p-i-',-ii h .v..-., .-. re i.-; .;, 1- cf th d'-thiri- - of-...-..-.- r '-ruin. T-.- othir; In .; fir us f r. trav:..it- :t ;r.'o " v - --"tj..-1'ly V-' V-' --t : - .1 - .- 1 .s tr- tv ' ' ' "r a n't wrihv r,' - -.r.l '.-'I th-l i M t'-r- r'a'.r..-' ; cm.!'; of , t t- .i c.-.iv ! to leve Art.-r.-a. but to love the 1 duty that lies nearct our hand 7.e are s-rvir.g our country." I Other numbers on tiie program i were: I Ir -r -:;.-i'e'-,i r p '. Fl. : J. Eljik end roman-. i T-. - )' Aru.u- p:. I-j'cn. D-Jet. "The Star f-par'-l'-J r-m-r--." :.r.-.--, M-7-.-e Pri-ki ind' Ur.a rk i Fva.-hr- tli rv-lir-t.-.n of I.i-d-U":.d r.- e, M--.. Isiu A. Oi!;:i 'The f-.-M-d of B-jr.k-r 11:11." a-.d "Tr." Fl- V:t.i.-;ut a S.:n," :r : -.h K.-.k-r;. 'A.-.---a" b- -h-'u,. srd a r it--.:-, r bv the bni. 2-T - i -.'-roil n-..T L'f ti c 't' rr'.-:; i rT--'---,Tt '. : s, -..- -"li ' - r-1'urV- J. L.cijd--t ri . f r i-h if-'-i f.-o-n ;ur t - ' 1'- - fr' .'ir.--- 7r. ? --n f r ':t.J-i ':t.J-i " i was r - "r. iu p o-ti a r p--in - -.-r..r.i- r.d a in.n-r - r t,'..'7 ' . r. c'..r.-d t.r- d.i"- c -i' brat.un. Tl.e duiv- p--.j-a ru r.f"v! .-.!: u -j. n o: t:,- C-.-. ri r- .-'if.an. |