Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-06
CONSTITUTION
OF U.S.REMEDY
FOR MOST ILLS
Kiwanis Club Devotes Meet to
Study of Document and
Christmas Plans.

1.-THE constitution of the United
States as the remedy for political and
more social ills Of the nation was the
theme of the talk by +. A. LaBossiere
in a talk Monday at the constitution
program of the Kiwanis club.
His talk followed the reading of the
constitution by Roswell Lcavitt, a stu
dent in the Great Falls high school.
The address follows:
1--WE must make the constitution the
backbone of national life and not mere
ly an historical document.
I'VE must make it a vital force. 2
creed and guide Of action, with every
clause of which every person in this
land will be familiar through frequent
reading. We must make it revered and
held safe from insidious schemes to
weaken it. that is the high purpose to
which many leaders of public thought
and legislation are now pledging them
selves. They see in the general famil-
i~arization with the simple but funda-
mental mandates of the constitution
the best solution Of many serious ills.
Copy for Schools.
II - DtotpDTFh W put Il WY VI 'iN
constitution into every schoolhouse and
every home in the country and to have
q day set aside on which at great pub
lie gatherings all over the country the
constitution shall be read, 50 that every
man, woman and child in this land shall
have heard on himself read the great
gospel of the fathers.
The whole world recognizes the in
trinsic value of the constitution. VIII
liam +. Gladstone declared the Amer
lean constitution to be the most Won
derfuE instrument ever stricken Off
by the brain or purpose OF man at any
one time This was the matured judg-
ment of q master mind, in the quiet OF
his study.
The progress of the American re
public is distinctly the one outstanding
event in all modern history: as an ex-
pertinent in government. il is the most
~stuperdous fact in history. In these
troubled days of un-American doctrines
propagated. sometimes blatantly and
more often surreptitiously, it is be
lieyed that in the universal reading Of
the constitution. that there is an Ark
of the Covenant guiding to more peace
full times.
so we realize that the Amerjcaniza-
ton work which must be carried on
calls for a united effort DO the part
of III entire people, this work cannot
be done by legislation. 1t must De done
by education. Neither is it the work
of the scbooIroom alone. While the
function of education is with the child
primarily ard will Show results later
on-the work of AUGMENTATION must
deal with the adult also. 1t must be
done by cooperation of all agencies in
the making of pubic opinion. Operat-
ing under general direction in any re
spectiye communities by which effec-
tive team work can be secured--the
church. the press, business ~organiaa-
tons and civic societies.
Importance Stressed.
Il sincerely believe that the kiwanis
club of Great Falls could render ne
better or greater service TO the com
munity and to the nation than by fos-
tering the distribution of copies of the
United States constitution and urge its
frequent reading by every resident Of
the county of Cascade. Leaders OF
public thought and legislation, headed
BY the president of United States, firm
~ believe that the reading Of the con
stitutlon as a political bible will build
up the requisite morale.
Plans of the committee of the club
in charge of the Christmas activities
were outlined BY Jack Abrams. head of
of the committee. The club will have
a Christmas tree for the children. 4
list Of the needy families will be OBJ
tanned from the county. and the Sal
walton Army. Each Kiwnnis member
will prepare a basket of food for one
family. Each will also give two gifts
for the tree, one suitable for q boy
and the other for a girl.
Russell Caples, captain of the XII
wants club kick-ball team, that defeat
ed the Rotarian team Of ohallengers,
told of the game.
Fred Perra directed the part of the
program devoted 10 the constitution of
the United States.