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can tradition Of which they are the ex-
emplars. ] we'll remember how forc!bly
remark of Principal Perry of Exeter
struck me as We passed through the
chapel. This be said, us the heart
| Of The school"
You recall. too. that poem OF Henry
Newbolt on Clifton Chapel:
This is the chapel here. my son.
Your father thought the thoughts OF
And heard the words that one by one
The touch 81 LIE has turned TO truth,
| You too may speak with noble ghosts
! OF manhood and the OF war
I You made before the Lord OF Hosts
To set the cause above renown.
TO love the game beyond the prize
| To honor while you strike him down.
- The Zoe that comes with fearless eyes:
| To count the life Of battle good
| And dear the land that gave YOU BIRTH
| aud dearer yet the. brotherhood
That binds the brave OF all to earth
Ny son. the oath is yours; the end
VS. - His Who built the world ~ strife.
kn mo goa 6setb ms t6 gN'6rrg Fan on 70, friend
| TO-DAY and here tho fights begun.
~, %, ne great fclnwship you're free:
| And what you are the race shall be.
| The assembly and courses in Aneri-
| can history with their admirable results
in the leadership of this war will not
| prove adequate. | believe. for the i'm
parting OF that far broader patriot m
which the conditions ac,or the war will
demand. To secure for the public well
| fare in times OF peace a devotion by
| leaders and by rank and file alike no
less eager than IN times OF war. IS the
great task before us. How better can
| we set about this than by recognizing
| the power Of current events? To return
| TO one OF my earlier statements. was il
not the events OF the day which taught
our people the issues of this war? Did
not these events. interpreted by thou
sands OF fearless. true blue Americans
| throughout the country, rouse the pa
triotism which made such early victory
possible? Shall We not then use the
| changed conditions brought about toy the
war to develop the vastly greater pa
trioism We shall need? To put 1t in an
| other way, shall We let pass the rnarve ell
| lous lessons in patriotism which the
| events OF every day present? Take, for
example the meaning to US in these days
OF greatest need OF the loss OF Theo-
dore Roosevelt Take the effect In F,u-
rope OF the presence of Woodrow Wilson
advocating the league Of nations and
the principles OF lasting friendship Take
the Significance of the Boshevikst
uprisings both abroad and. gentlemen.
! right here In our city, Take the whole
progress of the peace conference and OF
| the armist!ce. Take the decisions Of our
own Supreme Court. the actions of Con-
greSs, the Velopment of the cOnst-
, tutional amendments for prohibition and
! for suffrage. Affairs at home and af-
\ fairs abroad. now that he have become
a world power. hold not only a signih
! canoe but an interest greater than ever.
and | believe that school which falls to
! seize the natural keeuness Of youth Tor
! light upon the events of the day will
! lose one OF the greatest possible oppor-
/ tun!tles for developing the spirit OF
eager service TO our country upon which
our national safety depends,
Truth wears a different face to
| everybody" I realize. Furthermore, I
I hold no brief for those who are for every
phase of the established order. We
I have economic and social evils a-plenty.
, but the way to cure them is surely not
to destroy faith in one another and in
/ those principles of government upon
which our nation has so marvellously
! developed
"A house divided against Itself can
not Standard our house is seriously
divided against Itself while these Boil
shevist doctrines rage through our
teaching force. You perhaps remember
| that Lincoln added:
] II do not expect the house will fall,
but do expect it will cease to be di-
vded"
1t will cease to be divided when. in
| the language OF Nicholas Murray But
, Ter. we. a. the inheritors of great ira
di,!on. Subordinate every personal am
htion, class interest and policy every
( race attachment, to the one idea OF
America free. Just. powerful. forward
fec!nE that shall stand out in the his
tory Of nations as the name of a people
who conceive their mission. their true
greatness, to lie in service to mankind"
! Since this Bolshevist movement hinges
upon the coniscatlbn or absorption of
= capital by labor may I urge just one
more quotation from the Great Com
moner:"
! 1T is assumed that labor is available
/ only IN connection with capital: that
nobody labors unless somebody else,
owning capital. somehow by the use Of
II induces him 20 labor. This assumed
II Is next considered whether Il il best
that capital shall hire laborers. and thus
induce them to work by their own con-
sent. or buy them and drive them to
! It without their consent. Having pro-
ceeded thus far Il is naturally con-
cluded that all laborers are eithe,
hired laborers or what We call slaves
And further, II IL assumed that who
ever IS once hired laborer Is Axed In
that condition for life.
; Nov there Is no such relation he
! tween capital and labor as assumed. nor
IL there any such thing as Il free man
being fixed for life in the condition OF a
hired laborer Both these ASSUMPTIONS
are false. and all differences from them
are groundless.
Labor is prior to and independent
Of capital Capital Is only the fruit OF
| labor and could never have existed IL
/ labor had not first existed Labor is
I the superior of capital and deserves
much the higher consideration. Can't
tai has it's rights. which are as worthy
! OF protection as any other rights. Nor
Is II denied that there Is and probably
/ always will be relation between labor
and capital producing mutual benefits
| The error is in assuming that the whole
labor OF the community exists within
! that relation
THE prudent penniless beginner In