The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13
NEW WORK
EVERYBODY NOW
THAT WARS lover
Assistant Secretary of Agri-
culture Says It Is UnWiSe to
Predict Economic Changes
to Come.

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. 13,-Appealing
to the school teachers of Texas to do
their part in preserving the funda-
mentals Of American society and gov
eminent, which are not perfect, but
are the best the world has yet seen,
Clarence Ousley. assistant secretary Of
agriculture, addressed the secretary Of
the State Teachers association. Mr..
Ousley was on the program to speak
at another time. but as President r. f..
Vinson, Of the University Of Texas, was
unable to be present, President W. B.
Bizzell asked Mr.. Ousley to speak. His
address follows, in part:
It is good to be at home again. and
| am looking forward eagerly to the
end of my war misunderstanding in
the spring, l hope-when I may come
back to stay. The pleasure of this visit
Is EXCHANGED by the fact that the meet
ing planned in the midst Of the great
ginning Of a peace which there is rea-
son to believe will be the longest in
all history. 1t is further enhanced by
the fact that our state has emerged
strong and smiling from the drought
that has afflicted us for two years.
Truly we have cause to praise God at
this Thanksgiving season. We are de-
livered from the cruelest war that mad
ambition ever brought upon the world,
and we Americans have had some part
In the great service of casting down
a~utocracy, never to rise again, please
God, and Of raising up an allied de-
mocracy to hold brute force in awe.
In Texas we witness the rainbow prom
ise Of a year Of bounty, and we are per-
mitted to give our major energies to
local and personal concerns.
| say major energies because the
aftermath Of war lays upon us new
obligations to the nation, and to our
fellow-men of other countries. We are
blessed with plenty here, but half the
hungry. Eight million men, the strong
est of their breed, are dead or crippled
for life, and hundreds Of thousands
have died Of starvation; many lands
are as desert wastes; industries arc
destroyed or d~isorganized, and mobS
drunk with liberty are making mockery
Of law and order. 1t Is not enough tc
make the world safe for democracy
democracy must be made safe for the
individual and the earth must be made
a peaceful neighborhood. To leave Eu.
rope in disarray would be unspeakably
selfish and dangerously foolish; II would
belle our professed altruism n would
hinder our progress, for we can moi
treat with anarchy or trade with pow
erty, and to exploit the conquered peo.
pies would be to repeat the crime whict
Germany ventured to her own undoing
Heard No Protests.
Large and complex as the problem
is in its whole aspect and relation,
have confidence in it's early solution
There is much genius in mankind, as
there is much folly in its ~pretenders
and ever in many Of it's chosen lead.
ers. Peoples that have endured fol-
centuries have the vitality of sturdy
plants; stricke' broken, swept by dis
aster; they re .er, and In due season
are whole and strong again. For the
people OF the central empires there IL
in store perhaps much travail and suf-
fering, and while I take no delight ir
the woes of others, l hold that justice
| requires punishment for wrong doing
as well as reward for right-doing, anC
I can not persuade myself that these
| people are wholly blameless. They
permitted. they c%ondoned. If they die
not approve, the monstrous crimes o.
their governments, and they were will.
ing to receive the spoils Of war. I heart
no protests from them when the un-