Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-16
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II quits progressing, and that is not
what we want to do in Americas Rut
we have a big responsibility facing
as, and we at least ought to pay our
way as we go along"
Attorney General Walkers speech
was eloquent, highly entertaining. and
full of high sentiment. After a
lengthy introduction, in which he paid
a splendid tribute to the citizenship
of Americas, he touched upon the war
tfat has just ended, some of it's les,
sons, and the problems facing us. He
said in part:
To-day | come to you to sound a cal
to citizenship. Our souls are sick at
the thoughts of war. 1t is proper to
turn our backs upon such scenes and
look toward the future Those boys
of ours who lie in Flanders fields will
have died in vain if we 90 not recog-
nize and take advantage Of the. les
SONS of this great conflict.
1--WE have just lived in an age more
important and more blessed than any
in all history. In it every citizen
has had privileges that kings and po-
tentates in ordirty times would gladly
have given their crowns to possess.
In it ideas have eliminated in two
hours over this broad land of ours
that in ordinary times would have
taken centuries. We have lived in
the greatest era of all history.
"If this be true, and no one will
gainsay it, then follows the inevitable
responsibilities l believe that God
called America to the kingdom 140
years ago to lay down form of gov
eminent as a pattern ror all the coun-
tries of the earth-for mankind. And
it is the supremest privilege of our
time to see the fall of the largest of
the monarchies existing since the
birth of our nation.
America has been called to set the
pace in a new era-a representation of
the real freedom of the individual
man. Again l say, that our boys who
fell in Flanders suffered in vail if
there be not here and abroad real
freedom for every man The time has
come when every boy and every girl
in this world shall have every opp0r-
tunity to deXelop every impulse and
every talent to the making a real
man or a real woman. The call has
sounded that every barrier of relig-
ion or class be broken down in every
land, and that every boy and every
girl be given the opportunity to make
a real man or real woman of him
self or herself if the impulse is there,
In the darkest spots of the world just
nOW-Armenia, the scene of blacklist
outrages, and in Russia where the
Russian Jews have suffered cruelty for
decades, these people have suffered
purely because they sought the priVi-
lege of developing themselves and ad-
yancing through education
Taking up the business man and his
problems, Mr.. Walker said:
In the days of ante-bellum the
business man was looked down upon.
1t was the professional man who was
at the top. But times have changed.
In the recent great war when the cry
went up for ships, and the answer
came back, There are no SHIPS,
President Wilson reached over into
Chicago and called a simple business
man, E. ~ Hurley, and he furnished
the ships. When the cry came from
Europe for food to feed the world
the President called for Mr.. Hoover, a
business man, and the world was Ieu'
along with ourselves. When the call
came to coordinate industries OF the
country, placing in the hands OF one
man more power than was ever held
by any one man before, the President
reached out and took Mr.. Baruch'
from our own Southland, and the
problem was solved.
"The public has come to look 10
the business men of the nation, of the
community, for the Guiding and the
Guiding of sentiment. You business
men must come up to the ideals ana
dignity of the present and see to II
that the sentiment of the public Is
moulded for the safety of the nation.
Get behind your secretary, and help
him to make every worthy enterprise
undertaken this year success.
peace hath her problems, no less
profound than war, as well as her VIC
tories shall now speak plainly on
a subiect that is on the minds OF
great many men all over this natioh-
All business men look for trouble pc
t,yoon capitaI and labor, growing out