Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-09-25
OF TRUE
HARMONY OF
CITIZENSHIP

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with the sole. sincere purpose OF
trying to contribute something that
will bring about and firmly cstab-
lish more harmonious condition
than that which nuW exists.
1t is self evident that conditions
are not what they should be. Dis
satisfaction and unrest are upon
every hand. Uncertainty prevails
and discussion is widespread. This
should not be so; but, upon the
other hand. we should be now en-
joying complete harmony of citi-
zenship. based upon the solid rock
of confidence and faith; confidence
in our fellow man and faith in the
unchanging mercieS of Almighty
God; to know how to reach that
much desired condition means that
we must find the real cause Oh
causes OF our very undesirable plight
and then seek honesty for the best
and most speedy way out of it,
The first thing | suggest as {
cause for our present unsatisfactory
condition is the consequences flow
ing from war conditions, through
which we have recently passed. l,
will be we'll remembered that upor
our entry into the great world wal
speakers of all kinds, preachers
lawyers teachers and laymen from
every walk of life went out preach
ing and teaching, Jogging and eX'
horting our people to forget, for the
time being. the one great command
ment: Thou shalt not KILL" and dc
everything possible TO completely
annihilate the German nation an(
kill without sparing. Now. this
was, at that time, absolutely neces
sary; it was the thing We had tC
do. We were simply obcying the
first law of nature: Self preserva
ton" and |, with all my fellow
citizens. who loved our country, was
one of the ones to contribute my
every effort to the end that the
German nation and its allies should
perish from the face OF the earth
But, Sherman we'll said "War is
hell" and while it was so necessary
for us TO enter the world war and
preach and practice the doctrine OF
kill and destroy, it vet remained fol-
us to reap what we had sown. While
we accomplished our purpose in en-
tering the great war. the evil effect
OF preaching and teaching, indis-
criminately, the doctrine of kill and
destroy, it has rebounded upon us
and we are now confronted with
a condition that challenges the wis
dom of the ages to correct.
Where dissenson and discord now
exist we must bring about condi-
ton of peace and harmony and in
the place of failures and uncertain-
ties we must Supplant confidence
and faith. Instead of jealousics and
liyate the virtues of peace and I'M
Outstanding. In short, we must
undo the dcvilmcnt that rev out OF
the campaign of kill and destroy
by going out again in another cam
paign and waSing another war, not
Il campaign of war to kill and de-
stroy but TO bind up and heal the
self inflicted wounds that il was
necessary to inflict upon our nation
of which we have made mention.
Following in the wake of the
great world war, and taking adj
vantage of the disturbed condition
of our people, those who would
SOW tarcs" went forth to SOW and
as IA consequence Of the sowing OF
tarcs we now hear of the doctrine
of the Bolshevist ana iuc anarchis,
being disseminated among our PEG
pie. which can only mean discord
and degradation, for nothing could
be more poisonous and nothing
could be more hurtful, than .that
I'M American, un-Christian and hate
full teaching, if teaching it can be
called, known in Russia as Bolshe-
vism. and known here as anarchy
1t takes whole lot of honest-to
goodness thinking along the line OF
what constitutes good, first-class
American citizen, to put US in the
right condition and bring us to
the right conception of what is our
duty as American citizens, and i is