Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-01
KENNEDY I !! ! / ! q TALKS A /! { /,
! ! I oNDEh0CRACY
. S.tr,sS N }5s5S"I.-s.. 40 y ~ Me- ;Il,j
Dean Of School Of Education.
Addresses University
Students.

Dean Joseph Kennsdy was this
mornings speaker at state university
convocation exercises. taktngsfor his
topic. 1.-The Sirtt.l@of Democracy"
| Special music ", the Mems, Gleei club
was another feature Of the. exercises.
Dean KENNEDY elaborated on the
following main threads Of his address:
Definition and lmbiEuity OF the word
democracy" al erroneous, concep-
ton OF democracy, the kinds of gov
eminent existi8 in the world, the
direction powe1takes In the hands OF
man, military government, moralizA-
tion and democracy, intellectual de-
mOcracy,a and IL nature, demacracyfin
government, attempts at democracy,
the status Of American citizens lead
ers and followek in the United States,
and freedom odspeech and federation.
Democracy heans to some people
! simply the fork Of government this
has been especially true during the
last few years. Many imagine that q
! people can put democracy or or of,
over night or Oh the spur Of the mo-
ment as one w1uld put on or lay of
his coat. This however. is only the
most superficial conception OF de-
mocracy. Governmental democracy.
even when real is only one form. and
the form ITSELF lis only an incident IN
the deeper life Of a people," said
Dean Kennedyfn the opening part of
his address. L.
Discussing military government, a
form of government usually quite tree
Of any kind of democracy Dean Ken
, needy said: I'D was refreshing and
encouraging tolsee all the military
leaders in the great wal forego the
glory of a military victory and will
lingly bow to tie civil and democratic
power of their governments. >
IF the natio@ is not self-governing,
self -thinkiis Ind morally sef-de-
termining, a nation made up of such
persons will beIjust as democratic as
the average of Is individual citizens
no more and nd less" Dean Kennedy
illustrated his IDEA Of an undemocrattc
nation by citinsMe1ico as an example.
Free P9ss And Speech.
In closing Dian Kennedy said:
I'm a real democracy a large meas
ure of freedomlof speech and of the
press and a ge}uine and interior toll
Grafton of thos4 rights and privileges
in others that re would claim for
ourselves are a prerequisite, the very
foundation. in hct, Of any essentially
democratic split and government.
There a be np true freedom. no
popular liberty without these They
are the unfailinS symptoms Of a sound
and healthy DEMOCRATIC body polite.
Il regret to sly that during the war
period there we're many petty out
bursts of intolerance and many sup
pressions OF entirely proper and
wholesome free speech and free as
sembly. In sohe localities so-calied
patriotism evh ,degenefated into
negative ard ohnd attack upon for
eign languages and foreign art And
even recently there have been I'M
democratic waves of feeling and Of
action against men and whole classes
who have been alphabetically charac-
terized as Socialists .Bolsheviks,'
Anarchists and reds
I'm some cales tria! by jury, an
right under English and
law has been deliberately
ignored Recelt attempts have been
made in this Iuntry to move in the
direction of akin and sedition laws,
while ELgiand,and other more war
swept states az moving away from
Eca a poIs1. X do not hesitate TO
brand s1ch attempts as 'undemocradc
and ua-Amerscl. and l do so because
I love Fey county. We should exhibit
"a America @Iacially. a type of de-
ao-zey that i safe for the world,
srE a. We han tried to make the
rorA safe fe- Asnocracy."