The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-06-04
To Make Dreams
Come True
ny ". ADDINGroN BRUCE
Author Of The Riddle OF Psrson-
Atty" HsycholoGy and
Parsnthood. etc.

Every bod, has had the expert.
enco IN sleep or waking reyeries.
o. plcturing 70 himself beautiful
dreams Of future happiness and sue
cess Every body has wished that
such dreams might come true And
10 many thcy have come true Bur
only when they have stirred the
dreamer % action calculated TO
hrine about heir realization
Those who foolishly imagine that
dreams like these are prophetic and
viii come true OF their own accord
are always doomed 70 disappolnt-
ment Fortune never smiles on the
rassiyely eNpectsnt There must he
eror, vigorous. earnest effort or
me brightly hopeful dreams will be
followed hy wears OF tragic sorrow
and vain regrets,
II Is with nations as with ind
vidusls
National erort Is necessary 10
make national dreams come true
Merely 10 tslk about The dreams. to
dVen enthusiastically on their
beauty. and feryently 20 wish that
they come true is az foolish in the
case " nation as in the case 81
an individual
Tho nation must strive teaiously
'ovard the goal pointed by the
dreams or the dreams will remain
e0'' 40 morhtnE memories And
re7'oue striving hy nation means
Emitted effort hx. All the individuals
who make up the nation
Now our nation az the present
moment IL dreaming a beautiful
dream % the future
Reset by cares OF many kinds
hagdened by economic stresses liz
ing 10 a warworn. war-torn age. Il
is dreaming ~ time 70 come when
fhe curse ~ militsrism will be blot
fed from 'he earth n Is dreaming
~ time when INC nations will be
handed holy league against war
u IS dreaming OF a tyne when in
all nations there 1il be peace. jus
tice prosperity and true freedom
This our nations beautiful dream,
may indeed come true
But 10 vii never come true N we
wait FOR 10 70 realize Itself We
must work must all OF us work
FOR lfs realization The likelihood
~ its comins true is in direct pro
portion to the amount OF energy sp
piled 10 gaining The ends II pictures
Universal Effort then. r. needed
Az must keep the national dream
10 mind All must labor 10 win the
fulalment ~ its promise
Md laboring 20 win this. the i'm.
mediate duty of the moment f. uni
versa service 70 defeat the sons OF
Cain who with blood dripping
hands would impose on our nation
would impose on all the world their
mlluaristic blight
n they succeed. our national
dream Is forever shattered lfthey
succeed. our Individual dreams o.
q happy prosperous future will like
wise be doomed 70 non fulhlment
Working 70 make our nations
dream cor'e 'rpo. ~ work - ihe
aue time 70 make our individual
DEANS come trne rndsrstsnd thf,
~learlv And undeTstardinr q. act
Fight diz plant rot into 'acto
rios. give % v0pr money. plan vifh
III your mind foy fhc common good
Not long ago the crown prince OF
Germany boasfed hat his soldiers
are % a sun tha, could fetch the
devil himself from he'll They
have trply fetched the devil from
lell and brought him with them 10
inspire them 70 wicked deeds in
every spot where they have set foot
You do not want them 70 fetch
Inc devil nto your country. You
want 20 SEQ the devil forced back
20 The hell whence the Germans
have fetched him. Then do your
part