Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-07-14

Your flag and my flag
And how it flies today,
In your land and my land
! And half world away;
| Rose-red, and blood-red,
Its stripes forever CLEAN,
Soul-white and snow.white,
The good forefathers' dream.
Sky-blue and true-blue,
With starr that CLEAN Alright
A glorious guidon Of the day,
A shelter through the night.
your flag and my flag
And, Oh, how sweet it holds
Your land and my land \
Secure within it, folds.
Your heart and my heart
Beats quicker at is sight,
Sun.kissed and wind kissed,
The red, the blue, the white,
One flag, q great nag,
The flag for me, the flag for you,
Glorifed all else beside-
The red. the white, the blue"
As citizenship is the foundation of
free government. the only way to
improve such q government is by
improving its citizens. Good citizen
ship involves two indispensable qualities,
j. e., Intelligence and Moral Excellence
intelligence to KNOW the right, and
moral excellence to DO the right. The
truly good citizen recognizes that the
only just and logical way for him to
secure his own rights is by respecting
the rights of others.
The theory of citizenship is larger
today than yesterday. Beginning with
a declaration of rights, it has devel-
oped into declaration of obligations.
From the principle of independence it
has advanced to the principle of coop
Grafton The unaliensble right Of the
individual to life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness has been merged into
the no less unalienable duty of the
individual to share his life, liberty and
happiness.
Today our nation leads the world in
iron and steel, the basis of all indus
try; in cotton, the foundation of all
fabrics; in coal, the motivepower of all
activity; in timber, and in lumber, ma
terials for construction; in railways,
the modern mode of transportation;
and in wheat, corn, and farm products
our country is far supreme.
Her activities in mine and mill, on
farm and in field, forest and factory,
exceed and excel any other country on
the face of the globe. Our nation to-
day, though young, is the richest in
the world. What mighty progress and
achievement, and in so brief time.
The general progress and advance
ment of the whole world is chiefly due
to American institutions. The great
discoveries and inventions of the past
century are the products of American
brain and inventive genius. With his
freedom and genius man has tanned the
elements, and harnessed them to his
work.
Man, through freedom and knowledge,
has become . master. Now, by his
word time is banished, space removed
and darkness turned to light.
BY wireless telegraphy-the most
wonderful of recent righteousness
sages may be sent through the air and
received on land or sea anywhere
throughout the world, wherever the re-
ceivino instrument is in unison with, or
attuned to, the sending instrument.
The two must be in perfect rapport
or harmony.
Who knows but that we, on the prln-
ciple of the working of wireless tele-
graphy, may some day be able to COM
mune with any one, though far away,
if only in perfect harmony or sympathy
with each other.
A grand truth is revealed by this
principle which requires perfect har-
mony between the two for the trans
mission Of messages. 1t shows that
the only way man may be able to COM
mune with his God Is by first putting
himself in tune with the Infinite. The
heart must vibrate with the divine
qualities of love, goodness, justice and
mercy, in order to commune with Him
who is perfect love, goodness, justice
and mercy.
Progress and civilization are the re-
suits of right thoughts put into action.