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Show j' 1 1 1 111 i 1 1 i 1 i 1 i V 1 J ifl n 1 u? i I I ji; ' f .1,(1 , V i' , ,f , , v t A i ; V i V 1 1 m? i Mr 1 7 'h- , Hi,y 'i ' VH i j HI 1, I I' 1 1 i j A " 'fill l lMiM fM 1llf Vr li I J ?( f ij 'i A " i I l ml i J MiiMii mmmmdmm: mm 1 A v ; PATRIOTIC ADDRESS. Senator Wallace Wal-lace F. Bennett is shown here on podium po-dium as he delivered address to residents resi-dents of area as a feature of the In dependence Day celebration inCedar, City. The Senator appealed to citizens citi-zens to assume their responsibilities under the Constitution. Senator lesinef f stresses dbdliofra to country "The real challenge facing Americans today is to step up, in spirit at least, and, like our Founding Fathers, dedicate dedi-cate our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to the rights of all men to life, liberty li-berty and the pursuit of happiness." hap-piness." Those are the remarks of Utah Senator Wallace F. Bennett in his address highlighting high-lighting the Independence Day celebration in Cedar City Saturday forenoon. Utah's senior Senator said, "There are those among us who repudiate this commitment, commit-ment, and just now they are 1 very noisy. They want free- ' dom for themselves even freedom from responsibility for acts of anarchy and violence. vio-lence. But they are unwilling to grant this precious commodity com-modity to others." "If their influence is to be j balanced, and more than matched, it can only be done by people with deeply spirit- uai resources, such as I have always felt existed bountifully here in the West." The annual Independence Day celebration is sponsored by the Cedar City Lions Club and Senator Bennett's remarks highlighted the day's activi ties which were centered a-round a-round a "Patriotic Fourth of July." The Senator was introduced by Mayor Whetten and the brief program also included 1 a vocal solo by popular Ralph Hafen of Cedar City. "The Fourth of July is a day to remember," he said. ". . . That we cannot live in isolation and be free . . . Where much is given, much is expected." Sen- Bennett continued, "July 4, 1776, involved an idea, a document, and a commitment. commit-ment. The idea was liberty the right of men to be free to govern themselves. The document, docu-ment, of course, was the Declaration Dec-laration of Independence. The commitment was made by 5U men, whose names most of us can hardly begin to recall. "It was through commitment commit-ment to the idea and the document doc-ument that a nation was formally born 12 years later, when on June 21, 1788, our 9th state, New Hampshire, ratified the Constitution of the new nation called the United States of America." Sen. Bennett noted, "The wisdom of their action has been born out by time. Although Al-though very recent in the reckoning of recorded history, the system of ours formed nearly two centuries ago is the oldest continuous govern- ment in the world, based on what the Declaration of Independence In-dependence called the "consent "con-sent of the governed." He continued, "But its ef- iects diet not stop witn us. i ne same winds of freedom began to sweep through the world, and by now, they have actually actual-ly swept out the divine power of kings, absolute monarchies empires, dictatorships, and colonialism in much of the world. Today, citizens in most nations have some degree of self-government. "We must continue to remember re-member that neither the idea of freedom, or the words that so eloquently expressed it, have brought this change throughout the world. The change has been effected by the third force the power of personal commitment to the ideal of freedom. We must work and strive through our own commitment today in 1970 to see that the lamp of this ideal burns just as brightly bright-ly in 1976 as it did in 177G," he taid. I |