Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-06-02
MEMORIAL SERVICES
OBSERVED SATURDAY
Rainy Weather and Muddy Roads
Prevented the Usual Memorial
Day Parade Being Carried
Out.
ATTY. T.. w. CUTTING
GAVE FINE ADDRESS
Memorial Sunday Observed On MAY
o3, With an Address by Rev.
G.. $. Lakeland at the Grand
opera House.
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home, makes his business more far
reaching, is adding to the material
improvement of his town.
Each honorable occupation has in
it all of success that any man can
wish.
IF a man but write a better book,
preach a better sermon, or build a
better mousetrap than his neighbor,
even though he make his habitation
in the wilderness, the world will
find him out, ana make a beaten path
to his door" No man needs to go
into any other business, or to
change his place of residence, to
have all of this worlds goods, or to
receive all of the honors that can be
lreasonably expected or should be
sought after.
The thought is Just this. Simply
do your own work better. There is
no bag of gold at the end of the
rainbow, the old nursery saying to
the contrary Notwithstanding. We
are living in the garden spot of the
world Success lies at your very
door. Stoop and pick it up.
Many are they who change their
occupations, and travel to distant
lands to better their conditions. But
few OF those gain the coveted prize.
Distance lends enchantment to the
view," but all too often does the
traveller find after journeying over
difficult roads, that all is not gold
that glitters." What he saw was
only a mirage.
A certain doctor was anxious to
learn all that science could teach
shin about certain disease and
what to do for it. He made trip
to Europe and visited a renowned
expert and solicited him to teach
him that which he wished to know.
The expert answered:-Where do
you live? On being told the expert
said, Go back home, and go to the
Drs. Mayo at Rochester, Minnesota,
for the information which you de-
sire. Those men know more of that
disease and how to cure it than any
other men in the world.
What the Drs. Mayo have done for
medical science, you, to an extent at
least, can do for your own occupa-
ton. The Drs. Mayo, in the begin
ming of their career, had no more
of opportunity than you have. If
they have beat you to it that is sim
ply up to you. Whether you are the
best or poorest in your community
in your occupation is up to you. If
you are the best you have all the
dollars in your pocket that you need
to supply the wants of yourself and
your family and some to spare.
If you are the best you are doing
something for the uplift of your
home, for the betterment of your
community, for the progress of your
state and the nation. You are work
ing with the same general purpose
in view that those veterans had
when they gave the country their
lives or at least their best years.
They saved the country. You are
making it the best country in the
world. You are working upon the
foundation which they built. You
each day are building a memorial to
the work which they commenced.
Make it the best possible.
Today world war is in progress.
What the outcome will be no one
can tell. i trust that at least it will
hasten the adopting of plan calcu-
lated to do away with such condi-
tions as now exist.
War is kings last resort. When
a dispute arises between nations,
war is the only recourse. This is
not as it should be. 1t is not civ
ilized idea. 1t is relic of barber
ism. In private life we have courts
and rules governing them by which
all differences may be settled. Every
man has the privilege of bringing
each grievance into court and have
it examined in all it's detail by the
judge and jury and have a deter
mination of what constitutes exact
right between the parties. After the
determination has been made there
is power in the court to enforce it's
mandates.
In our country If one state has
grievance against another state
there is a provision that such may
be brought into court and tried out
the same as though the litigants
were individuals. The procedure is
the same.
Why is. not an international court
established wherein national griev-
ances can be settled? 1t is the hu-
name way. 1t is the cheap way. 1t
is the civilized way.
At one time in the worlds history
when differences arose between
neighbors or individuals, the only
recourse was by the sword. Indivi-
duals have made advancement be-
yond the barbaric historic age. 1t
is the curse of the world today that
nations have not advanced along
this line with the individual.
1t should take but a little time
for representatives from the various
nations of the world, clothed with
authority, to formulate a plan for
an international court for the set
Element of all national differences Of
opinion without the necessity of go
ing to war. Such plan is now be-
ing worked upon by EX-President
Taft, Judge Alton b. Parker and
other men OF like prominence. Dur
ing this month they held a meeting
in it's interests. 1t has been learned
by recent correspondence with rep
Tesentatives of the European coun-
he L. So