Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-05

saying, put cOnIeSS pelIS huiloai l to wish to talk of the intimate l things relating to Marion, without nlis- or misapplication
 There is very much of the latter. maybe it will not be unseemly to relate an instance, Several weeks ago, when the returning tide of industrial activity made the time seem opportune, I invited some forty or fifty captains of the great iron and steel industry to dine with me, to confer about the abolition of the tw elve-hour work day. I did not 31oosa to proclaim the purpose in advance, be- cause l dislike the tendency to promise excessively and accomplish inadequately Imagine my surprise, yea, my amuse- ment, to read in an important Metrcpoli- tan number that I was dining the steel barons to shake them down" for thel deficit in campaign funds of 1920.
 Tt would be good to talk about Mar ion, just among ourselves. | know .noth- ing more interesting to any man than his own community. If he isn't interest ed, he isn't a good citizen.
 "A century sounds like long while at first impression, but after all, it isl only a little while. There are commit mites in the world ten or twenty cen turies old not half so important in world
 
 tributed to human progress infinitely less in all their time than Marion has in one century. Nay in Ishofter time than that for the Marion we boast has been, really only a half century in the nlakA ing.
 q mean no disparsgement of the older and earlier citizenship of sturdy qualities which pioneered the way. Theirs was a great and highly essential wock in blazing the way for the present day civilization. It required strong men and noble women to turn wilderness into worthwhile habi- tations Malaria and ague sorely tried human bodies even though souls cheer fully resisted. :
 T said century seemed long time in which to achieve, and is yet only little while. Tha nation lacks four years of boasting a century and a half but discovery came four centuries ago, and. a century and a half of colonial aeyefop- nent preceded the national beginning.
 But there is a rather more personal reason for the little while views. I be- came citizen of Marion forty years ago, almost to day and have been a. resi- dent of the county just about fifty years And it all has the seeming of being but a little while. Yet could almost qualify as a pioneer.
 The Marion I first saw in 1882 had less than 1000 people. but my first inn pression was that of very much a city in which I feared I should be hopelessly lost.
 Probably Marion was as countriefed as I felt, but I did not know. It was my viewpoint. my limited vision, which kept me from knowing. You see. came from the farm and village, and the county seat ,f 4 ht I had seen nothing greater. Surely 1t looked ten times as large as 1t does today, though the Marion of today is ten times larger than then. and twice ten times as important in it's relationship to the world of human activities.
 "The early Marion had only the view point of the county civic and trading centec. until industrial genius flashed on the screen the picture of factory produc- ton, balance of trade in larger circles, and the attending advancements incident to greater activities. It Is not for me to detail the expansion and transformation. We are an outstanding industrial and commercial community today, and I join you in the very great pride in the Marion of 1922, and wish for 1t accentuated growth, magnifled importance and larger social, educational, moral and patriotic attainments in the century-to come.
 Let me turn my thoughts to the natal day of the nation. One hundred and forty-six years have 'paSsed since the prophetic beginning and It will be a patriotic thing to stop for retrospection and introspection and circumspection to take stock about our keeping of the legacy beQueathed by the founding fa- thers.
 Tn our international relations all Is xya1f assuring prospects of peace than ever be. fore in the history of the republic New guarantees have recently been added by the very process of exchanging viewpoint | and bringing the spokesmen of great na. tions to the conference table and for tho 1 exchange of views, and to resolve to dc | the greater those fine and nobler things ] which no one nation could do alone
 Frankly, we have broader viewpoint ! than the founding fathers; we must have because human progress has altered oul world relationship. but we have helc firmly to all the fundamentals to whicl they committed ifs. We cannot be aloo from the world. but we can impress tn. world with American ideals. mean tt say 1t, because 1t Is seemly to say 1t, tn, world believes today in American na tional unselfishness as never before an,
 
 be no less resolute than our determination to preserve our liberties. Even Russia toward whom we remain aloof. except il sympathy and very practical proo thereof, looks upon America as frien, and example.
 But let us turn specifically to intro spection, take stock among ourselves. Ma terially, we have surpassed the wides dreams of the inspired founders. I say the ffteen-starred flag the other day, tn flag of 112, unfurled over Fort McHen ", during the attack In which Franci Scott Key wrote The Star Spangle Banner Ohio made the fifteenth star You can little guess the contrast betweel the blue field with fifteen stars and tn } same field with the forty-eight glitterini stars of today. all fastened by popula faith and frightened by popular hope.
 Laws Must Be Obeyed We are great, and rich, and powerful as to states and sections we are Ii the full concord of union. This gres organic law has been preserver and it ambiguities removed. Where there ha been enlarged federal authority, the state hay wished 1t so. The constitution ha been amended to mee the popular will Our representative form of constitutions J government Is responsive to the will .