| Show GREAT AMERICANS 0 i cl 1 I can say that I 1 have no other ambition so great QS As that of being truly estee esteemed ined of df my fellow men b by y rendering myself worthy of their heir este esteem thus did abra abraham ham lincoln two years after he came of ige age set forth the principles upon which his political iua was founded the occasion was his announcement jentof of candidacy for the leg legislature isla tyre of illinois how well lincoln lived up to that ideal na ads no here his lifes afe ds knowel known to every person of grado grade school a age e on oil the twelfth day of tins this month we commemorated his natal day and did linor honor the one hundred bundred in first anni anniversary bf f the birth of a great avin 0 IP 0 i on in the evening of february twelfth 1930 over the radio came the voice of an old niall man who was program boy at the theatre where lincoln was As he the events of th that dt gerrib terrible e night telling first of the actor booth stopping hirn him oil on shortly before the theatre pattina pat tind ghim hini on oil the rhe head as li hg Z proffered a boin to the egey eager youngster his of listeners listener s throughout this great nation must have mourned again at the loss of this thi a great and in a noble iun ral how well G george eorge washington whose vision and courage were lodestars lode stars to the revolutionary fathers who founded this thlu nation lived up ie e sa same ane tenets tenet rec recounting bounting ta oun ting on oil february 22 21 we hori the one hundred alid ninety eighth anniversary P of his birth n it is weil we th wo we pause fo a time each the lives of chec these e great monad others who haesel hae set attoh simcha a worthy example f forthe 0 gene generations nations to fomo after X they ht haye e 1 coin completed pieced their work there ditl he be little cause ause bof foP larm so long oil as men whose IN lives es have been f fashioned after thoan tho an of lincoln and a wai ington tin aibe are entrusted with the responsible s in our government overn ment C |
