The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-12

men who are thinking first of other countries stand on one side-Biblical- ly, it should be the left-and all those that are for America first, last and all the time the other side.
 Now, you can do a great deal in this direction. When I was college officer used to be very much opposed to hazing; not because hazing is not wholesome, but because sophomore are poor judges. I remember a very dear friends of mine, a professor of ethics on the other side of the water, and asked if he thought it was ever justi- fib1e to tell a. lie. He said yes, he thought it was sometimes ,justifiable to lie. But he said, it is iso difficult to judge of the justification that I usually tell the truth I think that ought to be the motto of the sopho- more.
 Suggests Mental Hazing.
 t'There are freshmen who need to be hazed, but the need is to be judged by such nice tests that a sophomore is hardly old enough to determine. But the world can determine them. We are not freshmen at college, but we are constantly hazed. I would a great deal rather be obliged to draw pepper up my nose than to observe the hostile gIances of my neighbors. I would a great deal rather be beat en than ostracized. I would great deal rather endure any sort of physi- cal hardship if I might have the af- lection of my fe1Iow-men.
 I've constantly discipline our fe1- 1ow-citizens by having an opinion about them. That is the sort of dis cipIine we ought now to administer to everybody who is not to the very core of his heart an American. Just have an opinion about him and let him experience the atmospheric effects of that opinion. And I know of no body of persons comparable to a body of ladies for creating an atmosphere opinion. I have myself in part yield ed to the influences of that atmos- phere, for it took me a long time to observe him I was going to vote in New Jersey.
 "'So it has seemed to me that my privileges this afternoon was not merely a privilege of courtesy, but the real privilege of reminding you, for am sure I am doing nothing more, of the great principles which we stand asso ciated to promote; and I for my part rejoice that we belong to a, coun- try in which the whole business of government is so difficult.
 America's Real Greatness
 we do not take orders from any body; it is a universal communities tion of conviction, the most subtle, delicate and difficult of processes. There is not single individuals opin- ion that is not of some consequence in making up the grand total, and to be in this great cooperative effort is the most stimulating thing in the world.
 "A man standing alone may we'll misdoubt his own judgment. He may naistrust his own intellectual pro cesses; he may even wonder if his own heart 1ea6S him right in mat ters of pubic conduct; bs1t if he finds his heart part of the great throb of a national life, there can be no doubt about it. If that is his happy cir cumstance, then he may know that he is part of one of the great forces of the world.
 q would mot feel any exhi1aration in belonging to America, if did not feel that she was something more than a rich and powerful Nation. should not feel proud to be in some respects and for little while her spokesman if I did not believe that there was something else than phy- sical force behind her. I believe that the glory of America, is that she is a, great spiritual conception and that in the spirit of her institutions dwe1ls not only her distinction but her pow CT, and that the only thing that the world cannot permanently resist is the moral force of great and triumph ant convictions"
 Asks Aid in Defense Plan
 In her address of welcome to the delegates of the D. A. R., Mrs. Will liam Cummings Story, the President General, solicited the active cooper alton of the 115, 1000 membeEs of the organization in the campaign for ade- quate preparedness for the Nation.
 ''Every Daughter of the American Revolution should take part indiv1 du- ally in the campaign among Ameri- can women for sufficient national de- lenses which will insure peace and prosperity for this nation and en- able us to stand up in the councils Of the nations, a. strong nation among the strong, and be the protecting friend of the weak