The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-07-05
AMERICA HAS HER
PROBLEMS TO SOLVE
CAPTAIN LEEPER REVIEWS PAST
AND POINTS TO FUTURE IN
PATRIOTIC ADDRESS

A crowd of several thousand people
listened to the excellent patriotic ad-
dress delivered yesterday at l O'Clock
the city park by Captain Robert D
Leeper, state commander of the Am.
erican Legion. Captain held the clos.
est attention of his audience through
out his address, which combined his
tory with present day and future prob
lens, and was pronounced by all who
heard it a mastery effort.
Captain Leeper said in part:
II deem it a great honor and great
privilege to be permitted to address
you this afternoon. While in meas
ure appear before you as a personal
friend and individual, yet primarily
the reason which brings me here and
for which your committee invited me
to participate in your celebration is
that am representative of the sold
iers Of this state in the capacity of
department commander of the Amer
ican Legion. However small may be
my personal merits, it is peculiarly
fitting and proper that on this, the
natal day of the United States, the
voice Of her defenders should be heard
IN public utterance.
"You all know that men and wo-
men are prone to forget. Engaged as
we are in the treadmills of life, each
persons inevitably becomes engross-
ed in those affairs pertaining to him
self alone. Indeed, it is well that d
man be busy and that he be inter
ested in his own business and in the
affairs of his family. Yet if the ten
nets of true citizenship are to be OBJ
served, and if a man is to understand
his true relationship in the scene Of
life, it is apparent that he must con-
slider himself as citizen of his city,
state and nation; as the heir Of his
ancestors; and as the forebear of the
and a real American must sometimes
pause in the midst of his toll, must
sometimes cease from his pleasures,
to ponder upon these relationships
which he sustains.
CAS- to the past! What people or
nation can boast more glorious one
than this America whose birth we
celebrate today? Other mighty ma
tions have lived and still live. Great
civilizations have risen in the past,
have perished and upon their remains
new civilizations have risen. In the
words of Henry George Behind dim
empires the vaguer ghosts of empires
lOom." From time imm emOrial races
Of men have trOd the earth, kings and
potentates have ruled, great con-
quests have been waged, empires
won and lost. Oh, it is tremend-
ctr ri fhio fo10 nf fho
march of man down the avenues of
,ime unto today, and my heart thrills.
IS read of the mighty past, of the |
tolls and struggles, the loves and
hates, the victories and the defeats
# these ancestors of ours who have
ived in the spent centuries.
"Yet as we stand here peering into !
he deep wells of the past, we must |
)e very humble for we must recognize
hat out of the past has come the !
present. For us have these countless
Millions lived, for us their tolls and
acrifices, for us the great heritage
f today.
what past an American has to
ook to! Our country was a new,
lean virgin land lying untouched by
he hand of man before its discovery
" Columbus. 1t was settled by cOur
geous, liberty seeking people from
he old world. Our independence was
7on upon fields paved with the blood
nd tears of those splendid old on
estors of ours who made the most tre
lendous sacrifices that America
light live and that we, their children,
night be free. We have sheltered the
ppressed of all nations, have receiv-
d them and comforted them, and they
ave become part of us, and true
.mericans.
Carried the Flag and the Cross
Our pioneer forebears advanced into i
le wilderness of the frontiers, carry
lg with them the flag and the cross. {
nd planted both in savage lands.
onceived for the freedom of men, we
ave builded a nation of homes, of {
lmilies, of representative govern
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