Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-23
ONE DAY INSTITUTE
MOST SUCCESSFUL IN
HISTORY OF ASSOCIATION
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history VIII ne WFllteH, anu WlleH II is
written there will be three things that
stand out from all else.
First the historian will write that
at this time the United States OF
America was raised to the highest
possible ethical plane by the Presi-
dent of the United States.
Second, that in surprisingly short
time, out OF peaceful nation. the
United States raised a powerful and
very large army.
He told how he had gone TO the
army camps and seen the soldiers in
training, and of the efficiency and
bower of the American army. There
are no group OF men under the sun
I which are as clean. as brave. and AS
| loyal as the boys gathered today
under the stars and stripes, he said.
! Aud the third fact will be that the
American people after watching the
struggle 1000 miles from here for
! three years. entered the war united
There is no nation today so vitality
united in the war as the United States
/ is. not even France.
Our nation has faced the severest
test ever faced by any nation today
and has stood it united.
He explained it was easier to be =:
patriot when a man was land Onwel
than when he was renter, and when
a man was banker 1t was easier Tor
him to be a patriot than when he was
q laborer, for the people OF today are
anxious TO be well of, and being vel
off makes man love his country
The American people are mostly PEG
pie who have left their native coun
tries to better themselves in thi'
country, and finding these condition!
for lettering themselves here, make
them love the United States. and BE-
: come true patriots.
The American people have a qua'
| ity OF patriotism that is unmatched
! In any other country in the world
for they love America. and love to I'd
main here. No matter where yo
travel, and find an American, he vii
always say Il wish vas home i
] Gods country.
He spoke at length of the lansuag
e OF the American people and declare
J. this country to be the only nnoling
( country in the world All the nation
G Of the earth gather together in Anne
;. lea. and they all learn and speak tn
o English language, There is just q
pure English spoken in Milwaukee Q
o in Boston, and just as pure Englls
: spoken in Minneapolis rs in the cite
a in the East that were settled by tt
> revolutionary fo,efathers
The thing 70 promote q greater ?
II triotism. according TO him, was
% greater use OF the American langnae
The teachers in the school can ser
:, their countries best by speaking u
;, language and teaching the Ensll
language. The national spirit iii
itself expressed la the plane OF t
national language
DR.. Steiner spoke Of Col Roosev'
r and declared It was like going
Egypt and not seeing the pyraml
for a foreigner TO come to Amerl
~ clared there was no subject under t
~ sun the colonel could not talk abol
'. and it was taking your life in 20
hands if you disagreed with him,
;" He paid deep tributes to Washlt
ton and Lincoln. aud declared was
y ineton to be the father of the llber
~ loving people all Oven the world, a
these liberty loving people ma
erected statutes of Washington in t
capitals OF nine different nations
G the world.
Or. Mathews.
Al Dr. Smaller Mathews addressed
20 large number yesterday afterno'
no and the traditions OF the UniNcrs
*. of Chicago were amply fulfilled in
10 address which was a record maxi
an event with the educators OF this a
.of Putnam county 1t Is needless TO =
ed that every uuerance every Senten
All was Il classic gem, and the phllosor
by and deductions Of Dean Mathe
he brought convincing realization
the onOrmities Of the war ana
RESPONSIBILITIES duties and labors
behalf OF the. world and duties to 0
selves.
5 DR.. Mathews proved from DO
mentary records certified by the
ell department. filed at the time or
o. Spanish American war, that the
ty' terances of the German officers "
nd that there would be great war
me fifteen years, and that France
England would be crushed in a
months, and then the United sta
would be taken care Of, mean
&c that as we We're the only solvent
ton in the world. And these Gen
~ officers were Dragging, that t
Va" would rob Ms when der tag can
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