| OCR Text |
Show Vigilance Is Price Of Liberty I Hart Claims In Speech Here that the Prince or Teace ; while on this earth met u,, ",""' -and asked him where he " 'Oh Pm walking up ad earth and going to and n-u j ' 1,8 mg whom 1 might devour" if' reminds me of him. Hitler ,i l'" ' the past two or three ye.;, ,'"5 1 .' been walking up ami ,iuwu' , earth and gooSe-stepPi,lg b,ick ' forth in it seeking wl,0, J devour, and he has already ' P-ty; he i, a menace t: ft 1 grace to his own country,,,,,, Z to the world, and wen,,,, ourselves, we must crush ,,,, ' ism before l,e gams further Shakespeare described a H,,, ter like hint thus: ..,Ie si rule this narrow world ,ik ' great collosis, and we iml), peep about between his iu1r; to find ourselves dishom,,,, graves; the fault, dear Brums not in our stars but i 0rsPh, -that we are underlings " "' TJiose who g.ve aid ana ,, 1 to Hitler m times like these , mg an emergencywhether hc b " called a "colonel or a senator ,1 ' my mind is not a loyal Anier, ' We Ciinnot poke our heads ""' sand bank and sing "Let ll,c m of the world go by." We must with an ever moving world Unclei Sam could justify 'hj,,, in using the question the M,S1T used, when the good works lle .r. formed were railed upon- ? "For which of the good I M a meeting sponsored uy the district schoo.s ana .he Cy schools o1 Franklin county, held m t e , . elltral School House. Presto... da-au. da-au. May 11. 141, a, s P- Arihur W Hart spoke a lol.ows: i am pleased to talk on this program- it appears very ume.y and comes at Ih.s stage of the history of the world when a deadly battle ,s raging lor the supremacy of the j world; and at a time when Hie U. S A. is speeding its program to high gear lor a gve.u dcaeti e p.an fur the Americas and for ne.gnbors across the ocean. Last year we adopted what was called -a good-neighbor policy" which was limited, we thought, to our own hemisphere, but this year we have stretched this good-neighbor policy to include the world, at least those (.-outlines which need financial aid to defend their homes and their firesides, and their democracies de-mocracies from the totalitarians. We are well located and trained for this very purpose, While it seems strange that we should start in this way it might be only a matter mat-ter of a few years when people nilla Bav was anniliated by the American battleships, commanded by Admiral Dewey. Spain never recovered from the blow. School children should be taught the reason rea-son for this war and the results which came from it, and of wars in general. 1 can illustrate what I mean: When 1 first went to school, m tile first reader we had an old picture book that showed that a goon u.u Dutch soldier, who had retained from an eastern war was siiuug by his parlor window and his children jvere iclanimoring around him tor a story. The writing is: "It was one slimmer evening when old Casper's Cas-per's work was done, ami he, besiue 1 the cottage door was sitting in Hie , sun." It was at this point when the children, led by the spokesman called "Little Peter Kin" said, -tell us all about the war and what they killed each other for." This was a hard question propound ed to old Casper, but little Peter ; Kin insisted that it must be ans ' wered. "Well," said old. Casper, j "everybody praised the duke who 'that great fight did win." ''But I what beoame of it at last said liltlo Peter Kin. "Well, that 1 cannot can-not tell," said he, "but it was a ! glorious victory." visiting here from across the seas v. ill say: -The time once was when we were hungry and you fed us; when we were naked and you clothed us; when we were sick and in prison, and you, visited us. Ve were without ships or any weapons of defense, and you gave them to us. America started out 154 years ago with its constitution; since then it has past through the fiery furnace with wars within anil without. with-out. It has past through a great Civil War. One hundred rifty-rour years ago there were other governments gov-ernments existant, but since then they have all faded away; ours alone stands! It has good liber in it and is built upon true principles of democracy. It is true that the other forms have reappeared as itgly "isms" which we are now about to fight if necessary for tney are running along the lines that 'might is right" and in order to obtain this power they claim the J privilege to tear down governments, kill and slaughter the people at that I have done do yQl, 5t me," j Ts it because I have given ? freedom of speech, freedom ot llir press, freedom lo worship) or , it that I have guaranteed to' yon to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap piness? or that I have raised an 1 Ensign to all nations, waving t welcome to the oppressed of every land to come to the shores of Hi Land of the Free? Is it hecau,, 3 I have made your homes sacred M our fore-bears have said: 'Every man's home is his castle, a whether it be a thatch,.,) one' -i where the. winds can blow through '-or '-or the rains enter, no stranger can reenter re-enter without permission from you tj for which of these good works, do you fifth columnists, comnn' nists, and other traitors stone me" :! n . -it Now passing this war onto the next, which is known as the World War. It was declared in 1914. A Yankee writer described it in this way, "It was Kaiser Bill who- lifted lift-ed the lid off from hell and turned loose the dogs of war." In about three years we joined the war and helped put the lid back on hell. The war was fought for the highest ideals. That is, to make the world a fit place to live in; to wage this war to end wars And w'e won this war, and if little Pete,- Kin were here he perhaps would ask, "Well, : what became of it at last?" And we would be compelled to say It ; was to a greater or less extent a disappointment. We found after this war was ended that the people of the old world were very selfish and here on this land we discovered discover-ed that a majority of the law makers- here were opposed to a League of Nations and were opposed to the establishment of a world court; but whoever heard of people striv- their own caprice. Our school children chil-dren should have these enemies pointed out so they would Kimtv where the combat lies. Our great statesmen and poets said America got off to a good start and used words like these: "Sail on Oh; Ship of State; sail on Oh Union strong and great; fear not each sudden sound and shock. It is of the wave and not the rock; it is but the flapping of the sail and not a rent made by the gale. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea; our thoughts, our hopes, our tears, our prayers are all with thee." We had three wars that I can remember counting the one we are now in or about to get in, and with all our contentions at home or abroad, we have never fought to acquire property or for the spoils of war. On the contrary, we nave fought to maintain higher principles princi-ples which govern a democracy like ours. Today, at this hour, we could say to anyone in the world .hat we still have a flag without one stain and from our heart of hearts can sing "God Bless America." Ameri-ca." The first year that I remember was the Spanish American War; I was there when the rough riders had volunteered their services and were leaving for the battle fields. I remember President McKinley urging that Spain was operating altogether al-together too, close to the American shores, and that we could not stand the oppression that was being used by them. I remember that a few years later I was in Germany and in Stuttgart. I saw the crowds rushing to the store windows one early morning. I followed the crowd I read the bulletin as follows: fol-lows: This morning at 5 o'clock a. m. the Spanish fleet in the Ma- ing to regulate world affairs without with-out setting up a world court or something similar so that the world could fuiTction along these lines. However, we are committed to the doctrine of 'majority rule' and that is a good doctrine. However, we must adhere to the old slogan "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,'' and that the last thing to die within the ruman breast. is the love of freedom. Now turning to the war which is now raging. I had another old pie-lure pie-lure book which showed an old man who was quarreling with his children. He went out and got a bundle of willows and bound them together; he then returned and said, "If you can break this bundle, bun-dle, "I'll give you your inheritance now.'' Each one tried in vain. Then they asked hint to try. He took the bundle and unbound it and then broke each of the willows separately and said to them, 'While you are together and united unit-ed you are strong. When you pull apart you are weak." I read the book called "Mein Kampf" which means my battle, my task, or my objective. Anyone of these written writ-ten by Herr Hitler, and I am sure that he was committed to thai same doctrine suggested in this picture, because his book discloses the fact that he was going to right his way Ihrough in that way, and he did and has already broken fourteen nations, na-tions, some of them very strong, and is now proceeding to smash the rest. He has become blood-Ibirsty, blood-Ibirsty, as it were; he has seen the "kingdoms of the world and the glory thereof," and he thirsts for power. In the book of books it is written |
