Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-08-19
A Successful Picnic.

AS by everyone predicted, DIR.
Dittmer's class picnic was a thorough
success To begin with, the day |,
itself was perfect and then the crowd
came in happy numbers, about $50
eating dinner with the class while a
still greater number went up to the
Fair grounds to hear the ex-
cellent program.
1t will not be possible for the
Democrat to do justice to this pro-
gram-we have not the space to give
| it in it's entirety and that only
would bea satisfactory resume Of
| it.
Rev. G. II. Taylor offered prayer
and DIR. Dittmer then welcomed the
members Of the class and their guests
In a brief way, he outlined the OBJ
| ject and work of the class, regret
ting that religion was not as sys-
tematically worked and with the
practically that other great move
ments of today are. AT the close of
his remarks he introduced the
speaker of the day President T. p
Hirsh Of the Charles City College.
DIR. Hirsh from the beginning
held the closest attention of his
hearers. His subject "The HIGHER
4 Citizenship of the Twentieth
Century" was of vast interest to
each member of this class whose
avowed object has always been
J, progressiveness. Prof Hirsh
i was at one time college
r tutor of DIR. Dittmer and his an
nouncement Of that fact, together
with his hearty congratulatory
j, recognition of the doctors great work
in the Sunday School, put him in
Il close personal touch with his
audience, each nearer feeling that
J, friend was speaking In noticing
: the types of citizenship, he COM
8 pared that first type, the citizenship
!, Of phyical force which was charac-
> teristic of the old Roman civilization
+ and its outgrowth, the type Of self
: ish citizenship that only thought Of
personal aggrandizement, and that
was founded entirely upon material
' tiles, with the higher type that had
a evolved in this later day. He spoke
y Of the need of still better citizen
9 ship, and gave as illustrative Of
: the barbarisms still clinging to our
e civilization, the presence of the
e prize fighter, the lynch law, and
: the present municipal, social and
e governmental conditions. For illus
: tration, he took the recently printed
cartoons, the one Of a woman deeply
: sunken in mire, who was reaching
up to policeman at the foot Of a
ladder to obtain money that he in
: turn was receiving from an official
: who was standing at the very top
q most round Of the ladder. The car
! toon complementary to this, showed
: the woman grasping not alone
: the mony but also the sleeve Of
$ the policeman who, too, held
}, fast to the official, and the
officers, and even the ladder, were
q being dragged into that awful cess
i pool Of sin and crime. So sure said
. the speaker, as we retain the slum
element in our cities, just that surely
will our municipal governments be
le hurled into that same slum mael
ct strom. Anarchy was called one o.
le the greatest dangers menacing the
n state. In attaining a higher citi-
N zenship, Prof Hirsh considered
O. first proper education; second, {
ee commingling Of the best traits ii
q every nation with the best in oul
re own the combining Of the wit o
r the Lishman the learning o
d the German, the solid practicable.
ar Of the Englishman, the polish 0
be the Frenchman, the quicl
be intelligence and warm responsivene
At. of the Italian, and the American pus
es and energy these would bring a
OF ideal citizenship third. the divin
MS force which must never be forgotte
by the greatest and prime elemen
~ in the development of the ides
on citizenship. Intelligence, sobriet.
he temperance, recognition an
ed appropriation of all that is be-
he in other nations, true hbert,
on proper utilization between materia
ne ism and idealism-these will mea
as the highest type Of citizenship. l
nd closing he enlogized that gres
he statesman and gentleman, Willia1
ed Mckinley, to whom he justly a
Ut tributed the virtues that go to max
Up the model for the twentieth centu1
ed citizenship.
DR.. H. o. Pratt of the NJ. I
church was asked to speak fe
words in closing the program. d
Of Pratt has the reputation for being
,st speaker, polished and graceful
Of perfection, using apt illustrations an
me beautiful English, of forceful an
in logical argument. Taking up IL
;on thread Of Prof Hirshs subject, D
In Pratt with much humor definite
er- pointed out the certainty that Anne
oils lea would be the ideal and was ia
,on attaining that very condition Of higl
is er citizenship. Before the benedi
ers ton which was given by Re
Of Taylor, the audience by silent wa,
ith of their handkerchiefs salute
an Prof. Hirsh and the first verse
md Nearer my God to Thee" was sun
lille Captain j r. Merry was to ha,
,rt- spoken on this occasion and it W,
in a matter of sincere regret and disa]
He pointment to one and all that |
on was detained in Dubuque by {
sin accumulation Of business. His a
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