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Show progressive opinion editorials By C. N. LUND This Is the Way We Want Our Country First "Not merely in matters material, but in t.iii gs of the spirit ' Not merely in science inventions, motors, i ndskyscrap rs but also in ideal", principles, character. Not merely in the calm assertion of rights, but in the glad assumption of duties. "Not merely in the ca'm assertion of rights, but in the glad assumption of duties. "Not flaunting her strenght as a giant, but bending in helpfulness help-fulness over a sick and wounded world like a good Pamaritan. "Not flaunting her strenght as a giant, but bending in help fulness to bring in a reign of peace and a Golden Age "Not in splendid isolation, bu in courageous cooperation, (for world peace) "Not in pride, arrogance, and disdain of other races and peoples, but in sympathy, love, and understanding. "Not. in treading again the old, worn, bloody pathway which ends inevitably in chaos and disaster, but in blazing a hew trail, along which please God, other nation will follow, into the New Jerusalem where wars shall be no more "Some day some nation must take that path unless we are to lapse once again into utter barberism and that honor I covet for my beloved America. ' And so, in that spirit arid with these hopes, I say with all my heart and soul, 'America.' " Bishop G. Ashton Oldham |