Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-22

party platform or by demagogues on the
stump. With some politicians party plat
upon and carry out after the election, Is
like the platform Of a street car, only
the means by which candidate gets into
office And stealing is stealing, not only
when you break into bank, or forge
another's name, appropriate funds be-
longing to others, but quite as much as
when. by bribery and corruption, you rob a
people of their right to govern themselves
mo public man con properly claim to be
personally honest unless he Is politically
honest If man is to remain personally
man of integrity his integrity must, like
the grain of the wood. run right through
his entire life The so-called good citizen
is really accomplice of the bad. The
crying evil of today is the bad citizenship
of good men. We expect bad men to be bad
citizens. but when good men are bad citi-
Zens, then public interests go to the bad"
Spirit of self-sacriice.
In the name of George Washington, then.
I would urge you to cultivate the spirit Of
social service and civic self-sacrifice, and
particularly to practice intense mu
nicpal patriotism, whose key note is not
so much the familiar motto "a sweet and
seemly thing it is to die for ones coun-
try''-as it is a motto which would run
on some such wise as this: "A great and
needed thing it Is to live for ones own
city Localize your patriotism: become
possessed not so much with a new love for
the nation. as with new feeling of re-
sponsibility for the town or city in which
Providence may cast your lot.
To my mind municipal patriotism is the
highest, the hardest and the most neces-
sary kind of patriotism. 1t is easy, and to
some minds pleasant to make the eagle
scream; but better than all the spread
eagle patriotism-the kind which is eager
enough to break out in flags on every ma
tional occasion, and is willing to go to sleep
the daV q doing ANYTHING
to make "Old Glory more glorious by rea-
son of the country 1t waves over-would be
a type of patriotism which, as the mini
mum, would call for one hard days work a
year for the good of his community on the
part of every citizen in the land. He is the
best American here, who, in the largest sense
of the phrase, intends wherever he may live,
to become the best city man in his town;
who as much as in him lies he intends to
help to supply the principles of clean gov
eminent to the one part of this great coun-
try where he is to have any real influence.
The great danger constantly besetting the
American is an exaggerated national pride.
We are tempted to feel. if may be par
doned the slang, that we can lick all crea-
ton. Would that in every large city and
town in the country. alongside the strong
feeing-I would almost say instead OF the
strong feeling-of intense national patriot
ism, there were uppermost in the minds of
men a feeling of shame for the present
condition of American city government.
President Needham's Announcement.
The address Of President Needham con-
sisted in making announcements Of material
interest and importance concerning the
university, the most important of which
was regarding the new site for the uni
versity.
Relative to the site he said:
For good and sufficient reasons and con-
sideration the university has sold it's new
site and turned Its face to the hill tops. While
we are not permitted to announce the loca-
ton this morning, one will very soon be
selected that will be especially adapted to
che new life and enlarged work of the uni
versity. 1t is our purpose o keep the
university as unit. all the departments
and colleges to be upon one site. This we
regard as essential because Of the influ-
ence that one department and college has
upon another, and the -unifying and