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Show KNOW YE THE TRUTH! i !i j "The glory of manhood and womanhood is not to have ! something, but to be something; is not to get something, but to give something; is not to rule, but to serve. We are too prone to reckon cost in cash. All the raking in of i j' dividends, and building up of mansions; all the swindling and racketeering, all the heartless vanity, luxury and vice, we should think of what they cost in men and women and children; in brain and brawn, and honor and love what they cost in human souls." we plead with men to lay aside their little prejudices and join in a militant unity to destroy once and for all the hideous monster that has so sorely afflicted mankind from the beginning. We plead for salvation from destruction de-struction of all good men, for the protection and welfare of the world's fine womanhood, and for shielding from death the countless children who should be sweeter to life than all else. We plead for security and decent life for the generations unborn. In the name of all that is just, all that is true, all that is sacred and noble we plead with the people to stand unitedly behind the movement now in preparation for peace. If they do not, if they once more close the door to opportunity then a catastrophe such as was never known upon this planet will overwhelm them and the coming generation. Has not the earth been sufficiently tear-stained and blood-stained? Has not life been sufficiently suffi-ciently robbed of its beauty and goodness and nobleness by the monstrous curse of war? ; 7 j "It is bad for men to be rich and idle ; it is bad for men to be ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, ill-taught, unhonored and unloved. While we have the idle rich, and a hungry and ignorant poor, we cannot get rid of vice and crime. No man should be idle. No man should be rich. No man should be ignorant, no man destitute. Every man should have a criance to earn the essentials to a wholesome, happy, temperate tem-perate and useful life. Every child should be nourished and taught and trained. Crime, vice, disease, poverty, idleness: all these are preventable." "I LOOK FORWARD TO A time when man shall progress pro-gress upon something worthier and higher than his stomach, when there will be a finer incentive to impel man to action than the incentive of today, which is the incentive of the stomach. I retain my belief in the nobility and excellence of the human. I believe that spiritual sweetness and unselfishness unselfish-ness will conquer the gross gluttony of today. And, last of all, my faith is in the working class. As some Frenchman i has said, "The stairway of time is ever echoing with the ' wooden shoe going up, the polished, boot descending." I Jack London, in "What Life Means To Me." |