New Britain herald., 1916-06-16
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Elk out to the highest degree our S8 of service, so that school as @ as community will derive the Nbtest possible benefit therefrom. @ field of the leagues work is Aost unbounded, for it's work is to @e in any way in which either Dol or community may need help. Hies especially in assisting the Bol administration in the ways al- Ely mentioned and in serving the @munity whenever our service will A1eeded and whenever our service, I've are able to give it. will be of s8he ends toward which this spirit Aervice will lead are many and inn #ant. First, it is the training for @ice in school, in our Service &ue, which will make us more
 ble to serve in later life in the #munity. It will make us inter- # in the welfare, not of ourselves, 8 of our fellow citizens and it will @ us so that we will be able and 8ng to work for our nation, for "a communities, for our fellowmen.
 h, the spirit of service, of willing "a to work for others. will be the s means of destroying the class Mnctions and the social lines which s Threatening to introduce into our Npn that harmful system of aris-
 cy which is usually associated M monarchies. Moreover, it will @Ve our own personal ambitions, M Mselfish interests, and instead will S by all these social classes and all Mpersonal abilities to further the # for others. It will comb bine all @es, all interests, all personal @ into a working organization to Ss the state. It will introduce M kind of competition, a competi- Mto perform the greatest services, is the only kind of
 R Retition in which there is no Ill SAg; in which there is rivalry, but
 hich the rivalry is most friend a8e and not that intense kind |IS1 so often leads to intense hatred.
 bally, and undoubtedly this will Ss greatest result, the spirit of
 ee will solve the peace problem.
 be spirit of service teaches us to St ourselves and to work for
 s in the community, as it teaches
 work for other communities H he state, and lastly as it teaches l "a look beyond the states to the ! sAn, so eventually this spirit of l
 e will force us to recognize | & patriotism in it's present l I is a selfish interest; it will | H us to reconstruct our ideas of | &5btism and make us recognize 1
 Flights of brother countries each ]
 hich should possess as great l
 and as high a standing as we, W or whom. then. we should use
 ervices. Into one solid combin- , "a of nations, serving one another
 nindful cache of the others S, will this spirit of service weld
 Service is in reality the founda-
 ADf all union. It will not mean |
 Hive abandon our national spirit l N eedom or that we give up our #@ nal ideals, customs, and charac- a cs, but it will mean that we em- @ these qualities in the service of @ countries. They in turn will E us, thus uniting the nations into E oalition, and that a coalition of
 lship based on the principles of
 ,e to mankind. aasw you may say that no one can N ss such a spirit of service, how M good it may be, and that a A of nations, brought about by
 al service, is a long way off. To Y alter I wish to reply that it will 87be so far off, that time until then
 NDnly be so long, as we make it.
 sooner we spread this spirit of
 6e throughout our schools and M our students in it. sooner other Ems will adopt it and that desir- # union of nations will come. Con-
 Nng the former statement, that
 Esprit of service, I wish to call attention to the fact that the per # cation of service in it's ~broadest @ is found in New Britain's great Mon, Elihu Burritt. His services # ed the whole world and through "A he world he is known as the x of service. Let us consider some
 HIS services. After the war of M when all the country was filled @ hatred and bitterness, he issued
 articles in favor of peace. '"The 9sBtian Citizen and "Olive Leaves"
 h created throughout the coun- 8 very strong sentiment in favor
 eace. Continuing his efforts for s2*e, he went to England and work & ith the same purpose,-to effect Sfhg peace, and throughout Europe @ America he became known as the H stle of Peace" During the fa- M in, Ireland he assisted not only
 fontributing his own personal 4 hs but also by using the great
 Rnce, which he possessed, in
 countries to gain their help in
 relief work. But his greatest ser # his service which helped the @ @e world, was the reduction in the @ for ocean postage. These rates
 B been very unreasonable and ex- Rant, but through his efforts they 8 reduced to level which made # ble the extensive ocean mali sys- Z which we have today. For this
 ction he delivered 150 addresses Y ngland alone and presented the