, 1923-04-15

tween the way in which the soul o.
man is nodded under the Influence.
OF life where educational facilities are
available, and life on the great steppe
of Russia. Back IN the latter part
of the eighteenth century we fine
Henry Clay hoe.ng corn in the field,
of Kentucky. Through his imagina
ton the young orator was standing ir
the halls of congress. What grafton.
he wrote. whit arguments he fashioned
one can imagine. Each time his hos
cut down a weed. his mind with an
argument hewed down an opponent
Never was there a tool for hoeing corr
like unto the Imagination of his great
orator and statesman.
Christine nilsson tells that once sh,
toiled as a flower girl at the country
fairs in Sweden. But all the time she
delved she was dreaming, and by her
dreams making herself strong against
the day when she would charm vast
audiences with sweet music
What battles the farmer boys have
fought in dreams. what reforms have
been achieved, what tools invented
what books written what business
reared. Imagination shortens the
hours of labor and sweetens toll. KIng
Solomon wrote-"Where there is no
Vision, people PERISH
This great country of ours Uncle
Joe Cannon says-"it Is n Hell of a
good country.'D offers today as in the
past the most wonderful opportunities
for "the man with the hoe" which
we interpret to mean the laboring
classes, OF any nation in the world, II
he car but get the vision of the pos.
sibilit'es, and the advantages afforded
hat will permit him TO "~Straighten
that form" re-kindle the light in that
brain. look up and not down. Thou.
sands have done so and reaped their
reward. Thousands are working out
their problem in this day and genera
ton, but thousands have not vet
caught the Vision. and will not IN.
less shown the way.
We hear a lot these days about
Industrial Democracy. It has been
defined as 1.-THE Matter of taking the
best raw material that God Almighty
put on earth-Man-and turning him
into a finished man; The Master
Man"
This, gentlemen. is your job and
mine. and 1t is some job. but it is a
task that we al not and must not
shirk regardless OF our station in life.
be we professional men merchants.
mechanics, captains OF industry. or
plain. everyday. law abiding citizens.
America is a melting pot. People
from all nations OF the world are hero
and playing an important part in the
industrial activities OF the country.
\ half century ago the men who
came from all quarters of the globe.
came with h same respect and the
same confidence and the same love
for the God OF our fathers, that we
had. They have taken their place in
our citizenship and today we can bank
on them to stand for the big things
h u common country and constt.
tuition stand for.
Among those that so to make up
this great melting pot today we find
many whose presence are a menace to
the nation.
a recent tabulation made public by
a federal deputy commissioner of nat.
u~rolization has shown that a little
over one-tenth, in round H..
100000 of population, is composed
of un~naturalized aliens. Even this
however, tSls but part Of the story:
for vast numbers Of those who become
~naturalized have in no sense become
Americanized, and though citizens
they are stiil alien IN habits OF