Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-04-28
LITERARY CLUB OBSERVESFORTY-
FOURTH ANNUAL FOUNDERS DAY

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civic welfare, these are the subjects
common to the life of every club.
Never were clubs more needed than
now to hold women together. to keep
them alive to the needs of the hour and
ready to meet them. There is oppor-
tunity ahead of us. Let us get the
vision and enthusiasm to make club
life mean more to us, to the communi-
ty and to the nation.
Nothing great is ever done in this
world without vision. The architect
must see the completed building be-
fore the mason lays its first founda-
tion stone. In Proverbs we read.
Where there is no vision, the people
perish
1T is not without reason that Mr..
Morganthau coming back to America
from his diplomatic post in the near
east, seeing before his eyes the coll
lapse of the Ottoman power, the awful
destitution of the Syrian and Armen-
ian peoples, that utter disillusionment
of the German Empire, the peoples of
al. those wasted lands cropping in
dalknes and helplessness, 1t is not
without reason that he tells us that
he is not so particularly impressed by
evident in every feature of American
life as he is by the fact that America
today is the land of vision. We are
the one nation in the world which is
planning things on an adequate scale.
our children have future before
them. And the future rests with the
mot 1t is our responsibility,
yours and mine.
Know More Now
1--WE Americans know great deal
more about ourselves than we did be-
fore we went to war. 1t often takes
a great strain to reveal hidden weak
nesses. III the great world war
brought destruction and ruin. it
brought equally disillusion and reve-
lation." Mrs. Chandler then empha-
sized the fight that must be waged
against the death of babies, She also
spoke of the ilIiteraey existing. ITO
help meet these and other problems
the General Federation has asked us
to center the work Of all our depart
ments around Amer.canization, thrift
and community service" she contin-
ued,
"We hear much about Americaniza-
tion today, but at the same time there
seems to be great deal of confusion
regarding It.. Some people seem to
think that we can bring it about by a
sort of.a drive such as we had in our
! Liberty Loan campaigns; others that
a lot of new laws should be enacted
to obtain it; some advocate driving
out OF the country all who fail to be-
come American citizens within a short
or certain prescribed tine; others in
sist that we must make them stop
talking in any language but English.
I'm all this confusion of counsels,
one is often reminded of the Ifishman
who was asked by a stranger how to
reach a certain nearby town, which
was almost inaccessible The Irish
man scratched his head for a minute
and finally said: If / was you,
wouldn't start from here
Definitions Limit
Before we can reach Americaniza-
tion we must know just what we mean
by the term. Who shall define it?
AS well try to define truth, purity,
Justice. Any definition, however
broad, would serve only to limit it.
For want of better definition Amer
icanization means giving the best
America mas TO oifer and retaining for
America the best in the immigrant"
Community recreation, thrift, art, mu-
sic, literature were also touched by
Mrs. Chandler.
Forgetting those things that are
behind whether they be success or
failure, let us press forward with a
vision of service" Mrs. Chandler con-
cluded. "And would leave with you
the words of Hugh Black: AT the end
of life wee shall not be asked how
happy we are, but how helpful we
were;l not how full it was of success,
but how full it was of sacrifice; not
how much pleasure we had in it, but
how much of service we gave in it.;
not how ambition was gratified, but
how love was se"ved for life is love
and love is known by her fruits"