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Show Mrs. K. M. Cannon Gives Review 'On Ideals of Lincoln' Sunday Evening By MA BIX JARVIS The rnoix- than 100 people who attended at-tended tin- Sunday evening library hour were entirely repaid by the excellent survey made by Marino (Mrs. K. M.) Cannon on "Lincoln As An Ideal American", with manifold man-ifold surest ions as to how Americans Ameri-cans may interpret his National Na-tional Message to meet the international inter-national situation of today. Extending Ex-tending his words of super-wisdom to the present crisis, she indicated the revamping of his immortal statement to "a world divided against itself cannot long remain" and by multiple and fitting comparisons com-parisons gave evidence of how thoroughly the Great Emancipator read and understood the vitality of democracies for the perpetuation perpetua-tion of justice, liberty, and human progress. He believed in the masses, in himself, and in God, and shaped his life of service in harmony with his belief. Composing her masterful paper from numerous histories, essays, magazine articles and other articles ar-ticles on the life of Lincoln, to whom she referred as "The Magnificent Mag-nificent Composite of Americanism", American-ism", Mrs. Cannon drew the major part of her review from Emil Lud-wig's, Lud-wig's, "Abraham Lincoln", and from Carl Sanburg's, "The Prairie Years", reading here and there brief excerpts from these authors, and including a reading of Lincoln's Lin-coln's favorite poem, "O Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud". "Lincoln," she stated, "marks the highest reach of American citizenship, and is the great pattern pat-tern of unselfish statesmanship, of clean politics, of self-education, humble service, patience, human understanding and unqualified honesty, hon-esty, whose broad outlook on the issues that confronted his period are a source of power for today, for the National issues of 83 years ago are International issues of the present. Lincoln's stirring challenges call as loudly to Americans Ameri-cans today as they did at the time of his immortal Gettysburg Address, Ad-dress, she said, "and it is for us today to re-dedicate ourselves to the problems confronting us, not as one nation, but as allied Nations, Na-tions, whose eyes are set upon the goal of International peace". |