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Show uu PEOPLE MUST DO THEIR PART. I Former Vice President Marshall states a great truth when he says so- i ciety has a way, outside of all legal programs, outside of all laws and ordinances or-dinances of endeavoring to rectify the grievances of life on Its own initiative." initia-tive." And he makes this further de- j "This 18 a democracy In the larger sense. A democracy must rest upon democratic hearts and democratic conduct. con-duct. You cannot have a democracy 1 if half tho people are democrats or think they are and the other half are bnobblsh aristocrats. You must have the form and semblance of democracy, but if the partners prate about democracy democ-racy and strut the earth like lords, J It's a good thing that society can rec tify its grievances by organizing Kl-wanls Kl-wanls and kindred clubs." ' This is another way of saying that the people get the kind of government I they deserve. The great mass of tho people cannot ; assume they are nothing more than spectators to the working out of the enforcement of law and decent con duct and then complain because things are nut as they should be. The people make public sentiment.' they create the atmosphere In which officials move and have their being, they constitute juries, they arc the eyes of law and ordei and if there are grievous shortcomings they, in the last analysis, are at fault. 1 That is why law i3 never effective I In a democracy unless sustained bx ; public opinion. |