The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-28

nail at the mead or the stairs IN the
Northern National bank building,
Beltrami avenue entrance.
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vantageous ues of his scholarly at
tainments. He was never found
wanting on that score. He could
not have been; "all things to all
men" otherwise. But his learning
his God. He didn't know less of God
on aceannt~ of his secular education.
but rather more, for the reason that
the knowledge he had slowed away
abled him to understand God better
wherever he went. Nor did the
high standard of learning of the
people of Corinth in any way hinder
them in learning to know God. If
1t did, the fault was on the side of
the ones so equipped for life, and
not with the learning itself.
This truth applies to all ages and
to all nations. We may accept it,
for 1t is true of us. Our people have
been eminently blessed in a multi
tude of ways. America has come to
be synonomous with opportunity
Ever since our birth as nation we
have had the privilege of paying
much attention to things that are
"just." 'pure," "lovely" and of
"good report" Judged by the
standards and the programs carried
out by other nations of the world,
it must be admitted that in our
country righteousness has ruled the
day. Our deeds have generally
squared with our claims. Personal
liberty has been one of the rights
highly priced and well guarded. FIRE.
quently it has been said by our ma
tional adversaries that our national
conscience is sleeping the sleep Of
death. But how can anyone say, in
spite of the many evidences to the
contrary, "Thou witness. whose Of
flee it is to condemn that which
is wrong and to approve that which
is right, hath been sleeping and art
sleeping today. Yes, death hath thee
in its never yielding grip" How
mistaken these usurpers of an office
which they are not in the least qua
lifted to fill! How completely they
have failed in the task which they
have undertaken, especially in their
inability to distinguish between life
and death when it comes to passing
judgment on this witness relative to
that part of his office Of disapprov-
ing any infringement of either ma
tional or individual rights. The
world knows we are alive on that
subject-yes, the entire world is
speedily awakening in that respect.
We have made good use of our in
dividual rights in so far as they
have advanced our material inter-
ests. We rank as the worlds rich
est nation today. The sum total Of
all our profits have thus been phen-
omenal. But with great gain comes
added responsibility and we are prone
to say, at least in our case, that with
increased responsibility comes great
er discretion and kind heartedness
The principle of human rights has
also been carried into our public
school work. In the school room all
receive similar treatment.
Parents in all the different walks
of life send their children to the
same teacher whose care is assigned
to their educational interests. She
bestows as much care on one child
as the other, and is just as exacting
with the child of the rich as that Of
the poor when it comes to the mat
ter of painstaking and di1igent
work And this spirit so strongly
felt in our schools has been highly
beneficial to the cause of education.
In our schools we have a true and
beautiful embodiment Of American
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