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Show Modern Application Of Lincoln's Words Urged By Banquet Speaker The words of Abraham Lincoln's immortal Gettysburg address are as applicable to American life today as they were when he spoke them approximately four score and seven years ago. That was the gist of a Republican Repub-lican party Lincoln Day banquet address delivered Wednesday evening at Mt. Pleasant. The banquet was held at the South ward. With 150 of the party faithful from communities in North Sanpete as his audience, Wallace Wal-lace F. Bennett, Salt Lake industrialist in-dustrialist and imemdiate past-president past-president of the National Association Asso-ciation of Manufacturers, said that the United States is in the midst of a civil war today just as it was when Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg. 'This is not a war of arms," he said, "but one of ideas. It is a war for men's minds." Arrayed in battle are the old philosophy of socialistic statism and the comparatively new philosophy phi-losophy of individual liberty Mr. Bennttt declared. The socialistic so-cialistic dogma propounded by Karl Marx has been adopted in part by the New and the Fair deals, the speaker said, under th? guise of providing the peo pie with the "freedoms from." The valuable freedoms are the "freedoms to" and the "freedoms "free-doms of", Mr. Bennett said. The 'frredoms from" are enervating and non-productive and are apt to bring us to a state of freedom from freedom. ' . "To have freadom we must work at it. We must earn it. We must deserve it" the speaker speak-er said. "That is the way we shall determine whether a nation, na-tion, in the words of Lincoln, 'so conceived and so dedicated can long survive.' " The invocation was offered by J. Rodley Bagnall, recently appointed ap-pointed president of the North Sanpete stake. A welcome was given by R. C. Anderson of Manti, Man-ti, county chairman of the Republican Re-publican party. - Tom Judd was toastmaster. Numbers on the program wer; furnished by various of the participating par-ticipating communities with Aden Johnson, Moroni, presenting present-ing two whistling songs; William Burton, Mt. Pleasant, accordion numbers; Carma Black, Spring City, interprative dance, and J. L. Nielsen, Fountain Green story-telling. Committee chairmen for the affair were J Leo- Seely, tickets; tick-ets; William Hansen, finance; Henry Tuttle,' program; Olive Pritchett, banquet, and Florence Bagnall, decorations. The meal was prepared and served by members of the North ward Relief Societv under the direction of Mrs. Virginia Jensen. Jen-sen. Proceeds earned by the Relief Society will go towards furnishing class rooms at the North Ward, Mrs. Jensen said. |