The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-28
GLORY OF THE FLAG.

GLORY OF THE FLAG.
Young man, what capital for a life
career have you. and what is your
aim?
You have youth, health. energy and
ambition. These are fine posses
sions. They are necessaries. You
get them from God and good home
environment. They are borrowed
capital, which you can pay back only
by devoting yourself to high ideals
and giving the very best there is in
you. You lack experience. You will
get that, as you live and work along.
Sometimes, you will get it in tears,
failures, falls, disappointments and
scars, but it will be the greatest part
of your equipment, if you take right
advantage of it as it comes to you,
and you can borrow even this part of
your life capital by studying and
adopting the experience of others.
When we ask what is your aim, we
do not seek to learn whether you are
eager to become carpenter, a bank
er, a merchant, a machinist, or a
statesman, tradesman or a probes
sional of any sort Such question
would apply only to your own per-
sOnal fortunes, the little individual
restricted career, the small wheel on
which you, as unit among billions OF
other units, will go round and round
and be at once useless and forgotten
when you fall off. There is higher
better, more legitimate aim. BY
manhood, you help work out the Gre
ator's purpose, you aim at true great
ness.
When youth is all gone, when the
fires that move men to vocational
successes are banked by time and the
monotonies of life, when deep wrin-
kles and white hairs notify the world
that one is passing, the greatest Of
all happiness of age is the ability to
honestly pray,
Father | thank Thee in that, after
all the years in the harness, | have
still some little capacity and some
opportunity to serve my fellowmen.'
Young man, the greatest Of all
aims is.
SERVICE.
1t is not thyself first but thy bro
theirs. 1t is not your career, but the
worlds. Not for yourself alone
should your youth, your energy, your
am bition be made to count but for
man, everywhere.
SERVICE.
The great men of money, like
Rockefeller and Carnegie, are anxi-
GUS to make their money serve. The
greater men, like Edison and Pasteur.
labor night and day with thought
that their helpfulness may mean
| world progress. The writer's of
things that live, the scientists and
inventors from whose restless brains
spring great truths and designs that
mean human comfort and happiness.
work that humanity may move up
ward.
SERVICE!
Young man. such is the state Of
| human affairs that never before in
human history was the opportunity
so great, SO clear for the investment
Of your Capital-youth, energy, high
purpose-in human service. The
world is divided. On one side is civ
ilization; upon the other barbarism,
with reversiOn to the beast the is
sue. Shall public service be the liv-
ing and working for liberty, equality
and progress? Or, shall public serv-
| ice be the work Of slaves in cause
that would fasten upon humanity
reversion under which might is right,
liberty silly dream, and equality
doled out by the bloody sword of au-
tocrats?
SERVICE! For The Fatherhood
of God and The Brotherhood of
MAN."
The young American who Shout
ders a musket today, or takes his
place behind a ships gun has writ
before him high in the skies "Serv-
ice for Humanity" 1t is his mis-
sion. 1t is the call to him by the Al
mighty by Nature and by Mankind.
1t is his chance for living worth
while, for happiness and true nobili
ty. Never again will he find open to
him such an investment; wherein the
capital required is not money, nor
power, nor pull, but solely genuine
manhood ~a..
Great God! young men of free
America, free America born in mar
tyrs' blood and mothers sacrifice.
shrivel not up in your little personal
affairs. Rally to old Abe Lincoln!
Strike, that humanity shall, "un-
der God, have new birth of
freedom, and that government of the