The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-19

heads above pettiness in CIarksburg
not go around trying to find fault.
but trying to believe the good things
about our neighbors; and then from
Clarksburg look out on this broader
thing. this wonderful thing, why,
then we are going to be thrilled with
so great as this when the very
strength of America Is being tested
and the work of over one hundred
and forty years is being proved. II
we take the broader view of the mat
ter it Is bound to react upon us
right where we live, because beIiev-
ing America we believe in the small
CT thing that Is contained in America.
CLARKSBURG! Let's look at 1t
here: We are plunging into some
thing that looks like war and no one
knows how soon we may be plunged
into something that is n strain on
our diplomacy. in relation to Europe.
see In the papers that they are go
ing to open five recruiting places In
West Virginia, and again we feel the
summons to patriotism. Why, bless
your souls, II we are going to find
only patriotism as Is displayed in
wearing a uniform and shouldering
musket, we have been sleeping on
patriotism for one hundred and forty
years. l say to my sons, Boys, II
this thing comes to the worst, you
have as much right TO go out and fight
as any other boys, and you shall go
with my blessing, II 1t Is necessary,
NYYt T,fu IN nd
fight just one of the few In order
that the men may stay ut home and
be comfortable and get rich" That
Is mistake we make when we at
tach patriotism to merely fighting.
have thought that to fight and to die
would be easy, because have red
blood in ne. believe that 1t has
been easy for men on both sides in
the last four weeks to go out and
die, because 1t lifts the little human
creature out Of the pettiness in which
lie has lived and for the moment puts
him among the Gods; but that is not
patriotism only. If we have got TO
say TO our boys today, Boys to be
patriotic you must volunteer 10 fight
tand then remember we have only
had three fights since 1850. 1875
was a series OF skirmishes; 1912 was
largely naval, and then the real strug-
gle was the Civil war. The Spanish
war needed courage to enter the de-
tention camps. Then how are we to
teach our children patriotism when
we have not been obliged in fifty
years to fight? We have each one OF
us, right in Clarksburg. to realize
that patriotism Is more than fight
ing,
To live for thirty. forty or fifty
years in the United States and to do
no evil: to keep ourselves clean from
mean intentions to our community.
is to find ourselves looking for good
in all and seeking 1t. That is patriot
ism! (Applause). And there is
where without a war and without
human hate comes the test OF citizen.
ship. 1t may be necessary, and II
necessary, God bless every boy that
dies TO make free nation remain
free. but We have got TO search oui
hearts and say to them. "You have
got to serve America by living and
not dying"
Ialk about loving America
don't know love America, yes, but
in the first place l have been all over
America, but If l started today and
visited one city now and tomorrow
another. and visited one county seat
in the United States each day 1t would
take me ten years to get around the
United States. and then when re-
member there are 10000 postoftlces
in the United States, 1t is impossible
for any one individual to know the
United States. but 1t Is possible for
each individual to know his own
place. Now then, what is the an
swer to patriotism? I love America,
yes. love the daring OF the men
that made it possible for millions to
come here to be free. l love II. How
do love II? There is only one way
for me to show that / love 1t. 1t
is to love my own flesh. This know
that don't. Iregard 1t as a dream.
glorious dream Of human liberty
and possibilities, but I have never
seen 1t. You have never seen 1t. You
love America. You know the Scrip
turas nTf vou eaV van live End md