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Show SORROW ELSEWHERE. Those representatives of the United States who have been doing relief work in Europe agree tnat, if America forsakes the afflicted, unheard of horrors will follow. Big, powerful, resourceful, prosperous America would play a j z most contemptible part by becoming wholly self-centered at this time. What would one think of the person who, being conscious of 1 women and children in dire distress, failed to lift a hand to comfort i I the sufferers? A nation, in rel.-ilion to other nations, has an obliga- l j tion quite as pressing, as the individual has to society. No nation is justified in living for itself, without thought of all humanity. There must come decay to the individual or the nation that allows selfish-,x- " neSs to eat at the vitals of moral worth. ; If all outside the United Sla-s is misery, the people of this coun- I try must be prepared to sacrifice to relieve that misery. The meanest characteristic of a mean man is total absence of charity. The worst charge that could be placed against America I - would be to say that this country had no charity for others. |