The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-21
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promoter of that good will to men
which we all should cultivate is close
social intercourse.
of course, no man can be always
in communication with all his fellow
men even in towns the size of Muncie
and Richmond, but the more we can
get together, the more likely we will
be to be fond of each other. The
Rotary clubs of this country, if they
had no other aim than mere social in
tercourse, would have been doing no
little service to America, and Inter
national Rotary, if it had no higher
purpose than to bring together its
members throughout the world would
not be without service to humanity.
Fortunately we have other fields,
the relief of suffering, the promotion of
prosperity, indeed Rotary is hospitable
to all good enterprises, but still not
the least of these is that it promotes
our knowledge of each other. Rich
mond and Muncie know each other
better because of reunions such as
these We will mutually look upon our
good points with greater enthusiasm
and admiration and upon our short
comings with greater liberation than
if we were strangers.
Recognize Others Merits
"If the Christian ideal that we are
brothers is to prevail land a man need
not be a Christian to. acknowledge
that, it must be from recognizing the
merits of others as we would have
them recognize ours. Any community
or any nation which wraps itself in its
own self-sufficiency, is as untrue to it.
self as it is unmindful to others.
We hear a great deal about 100
per cent Americanism. This word has
been used as a cover for the abuse
of the thing itself. The two pre-em-
inent things for which America stands
are liberty and union; the liberty to
say and do all things which do not
interfere with the equal liberty and
welfare of another and that union
which stands for the cooperation of
Americans in the things that add to
the common welfare of the whole
the welfare of the whole; not of our
own particular city or state. nor OF
any class nor creed nor race.
What are the essentials of liberty?
Foremost among them, freedom OF
speech and of the press; these are
embodied in the very first sections OF
our bill of rights adopted by ouI
whole people as part of the federal
constitution when Washington was
president No man can be 100 pei
cent American who does not believe
in them; that means that however
strong our convictions on any subject
all our fellow citizens have an equa
right to the expression of theirs, how
ever divergent from our own and yet
some men say that unless men believe
in our form of government just as il
is they ought to be restrained from
propagating their opinions. We mus
not let them advocate any changes ir
our government
Had to Make Changes
THE American form of government
as established in our constitution wa
better | believe, than any other ther
known in the world. yet we had tt
amend our constitution in many i'm
portant matters. The constitution
recognized human slavery; we abolish
ed slavery and struck that part out.
The constitution allowed the states
TO limit suffrage in any way they
chose; in many states a whole race
and a whole sex were disfranchised
We have changed that. AMI now stuff
rage is universal. The constitution
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elected by state legislatures; We
changed that and they must now b.
elected by the people of the respec
tive states. There are othr clauses
which are obsolete, like the clause
creating the electoral college which
was to deliberate and select presi
dent
THAT body is now mere formalit!
and the constitution may well b.
changed in that regard. So there art
other changes which may have to b.
made in our government sometime
and the man who advocates changes
however radical, by lawful and con
stitutional methods is not necessaril.
more unpatriotic than the one VIII
opposes it.
Entitled to Beliefs.
Il am opposed TO Socialism and still
more to Communism. yet the man VIII,
advocates. the adoption even of thes'