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Show FIFTY YARS AFTERJIiE M Rev. F. V. FlBher, In his sermon In tho Methodist church on "Fifty Years Ago," said: "The big business of America la plainly to solve tho great problems of humanity for all tho rest of the world. That alono oxpltUns our problems prob-lems of the past and of tho present," Speaking of tho sacredness of Memorial Me-morial day and Its memories, Mr. Fisher said In part: "It is now fifty vears after tho very heart of the Civil War. It hardly hard-ly seems possible, but when we view th changes of tho years we can see that It Is. But a few years ago and everything In America was dated from tho war, every hero had his war record, rec-ord, all our politics and life was founded on tho war. Now over two-thirds two-thirds of our people wero born since the sixties, not a candidate for president pres-ident today has a war record or was big enough in 'C2 to remember thoso days. Nono of our problems are war problems, and no longer wo know north and south, but rich and poor, trusts and unions, capital aud labor. "Yet Just as tho vital questions of tho revolution grew out of tho days of settlement and tho Civil war out of the revolution so tho battles In America Amer-ica wo have to settle in this generation genera-tion started In th sixties. nn |