New Britain herald., 1923-12-27
DIAGNOSES ILLNESS
 OF UNITED STATES
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CT peoples right"
 DisIespect For Laws

i Disrespect For Laws
 Still another disease is the failure to show the proper respect to the laws of the nation. Tt is possible" he said, that the fiippant attitude of some of our social leaders and re- spectable citizens of influence to-
 wards the Sth amendment have opened the floodgates of lawlcssness Like Samson of old they have broken the pillars that supported respect for government and like Samson they will bring down the house on their own heads
 Another disease he indicated was the living for the pleasure of the mo- ment. People who mortgage their homes to buy automobiles, people plan when they are unable to pay the bills of today. Silly styles and senti- mental movies: Jean Stratton Por- ter's gushy novels, and silly sentimen- tality. which neither justifies wrong nor remedies evils in high places. Another disease he mentioned was that of restlessness. Glass con- sciousness between capital and labor. We have built machines that have eliminated time and space. we have conquered earth, sea and air, but we have broken down in the realm of human relations. We have failed in the most important thing the will to work together. Prejudice, distrust and hardening one group tries 10 rule by the power of numbers and the other by the power of capital" He spoke of the inconvenience to which the country was put last sum- mer when the coal miners went on strike, "because there was not the will to win through cooperation in- stead of strife"
 Still another disease was cited as that Of bloc legislation. We will kiss you if you kiss us" He described this as government within the ma tion"
 Tho Bed sheet Brigade
 Still another disease was mention ed as the invisible government. The zeal of some misguided people who think they arc good Americans and set up an invisible government by robbing women and children of bed sheets and pillow cases with which they cover themselves and then go out and whip some decent citizen who has the courage to stick up for his principles. What are mans rights as citizen if bunch of hoodlums can drag him out of bed and whip him because he has the courage to stand by his ideais?"
 The speaker said no one nation can longer stand aloof from others. World conditions have brought us closer together. When Napoleon shook all Europe with his battles, Japan never knew it, but when the world war was declared, Japan was taking official action within 14 min utes."
 The law Of economics has made i another world war impossible. The 1 victorious as well as the defeated are | bankrupt.
 New explosives have been diseov- cred which can eliminate whole na- tions If Germany had had the new ! explosive powers we now have, Eng ! land would have thrown up her hands anu VI IIF luAlpil Nbblb have been entirely eliminated.
 The world has moved to a place where the balance Of power must be in the hands of a nation of ideals of | righteousness.
 Speaking Of the remedies needed to | cure some Of the ills Of Uncle Sam, l Mir. wyland said, "A new conception | Of citizenship and individual right | ousness on the part of the citizen is needed. A conception on the part of the | citizen that his citizenship is not q privilege but an obligation.
 The tragedy of power has been the servants it had and not the service it could give. He who serves best is the one who profits most.
 Scouting has come to the world through the church and the school as an international power for righteous ness. It is not the outdoor hikes, the summer camps in the woods. which offer 10 the Boy Scout what he needs most, it is the association with and the compsnionship of the men worth while in the community. It is the privilege Of knowing the men who stand for things worth while in the community.
 Today iu Rotary clubs, Lions clubs. kinwanis clubs. Ellis clubs, Knights Of Columbus and other organizations the cry is save the world through the boys
 "Hclp the make the neNt generation 
 Mr. Wyland will speak this evening at o'clock at the Chamber oT Com ] merce at a public meeting Co be held | by the Boy Scout Council of New Britain.