Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-01-01
Americas
Foremost
New Year
Resolution
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onism to every man and thing op>
posed to the flag.
GENE STRATTON PORTER, au-
thor: To save America for Ameri-
cans. By which I mean that at the
- ent appalling decrease in the
birth rate of purely American fam
lies, and the equally appalling in
crease in the birth rate of foreign
ers coming to our shores to be nat
uralized, it will take only one or two
more generations to put our govern
ment and institutions into the ma
jority power of people having no
understanding of, or love for, things
Indigenous to American soil, charac-
ter and institutions.
WILL H. HAYS, president of the
Motion Picture Producers and Direc-
tors of America, ex-postmaster gen
eral: America needs but one resolu-
ton for 1928 or for 2O23-ard that
is to be steadfast,y American.
JOHN BARTON PAYNE, lawyer,
chairman of the American Red
Cross: To study and understand
American institutions, what they are
and why they were brought into be-
ing, and how completely they solve
our present problems if rightly un-
derstood and sympatAetically but
thoroughly observed.
WILLIAM F. ANDERSON, Gin
cinnati, bishop of the Methodist Epis-
copal church: would say that Amer
lea should formulate her New Year
resolution something after this fash
ion CAS- Americans we are grateful
to Almighty God for His providential
leadership and we will accept the re-
sponsibility of His leadership and
seek to meet that responsibility in
the spirit of service to all mankind;
seeking always the guidance and
help of Him who holds in His hands
the destinies of all the peoples of
the world"
JOHN L. LEWIS, president Of the
United Mine Workers of America:
A more just and humane industrial
relationship; practical application
of the theory that the worker has
an inherent right to strive for his
erial uplift.
hARENCE S. BARROW, famous
defense attorney: The restoration of
freedom Of speech and the press.
FRANK M GOODCHILD, pastor
of Central Baptist Church, New York
City: There is no resolution Amer
lea so much needs as the RESOLUTION
to be thoroughly honest; making the
wares that are to be sold as good in
quality as possible, and exacting for
these goods only the cost of produc-
ton and a reasonable margin of
profit. A revival of common hon
esty would transform our land, max
ing the life of all better and hap
pier. 1t is to be feared that such
a revival is not likely, for Shake
speare said that when the world
grows honest, doomsday is near!
NATHAN STRAUS, philanthropy
list: To stop the appalling waste of
life. Not by doubtful cures, but by
positive prevention of diseases. Fore
most among preventive measures
ranks the pasteurization of the milk
supply. 1t kills the gems of tuber-
culosis, typhoid, scarlet fever and
diphtheria, and prevents intestinal
infection of infants. Pasteurization
has the remarkable quality, while
killing all 7oxious germs, of retain
ing the nutfitive and digestive prop
critics of the milk. | make this state
ment from 80 years of experience
and of results obtained in both hem
ispheres. Wherever milk pasteuriza-
ton has been introduced, the death
rate has fallen as if by magic.
LUTHER BURBANK, naturalist,
originator of new fruits and flow
ers: To work more and talk less. To
have more faith in ourselves and
less in what the other fellow has to
say. To think ourselves and not to
let our thoughts be only readjust-
ment of old prejudices. To look for
light and knowledge wherever found
without regard to their sources. If
race has not acquired and stored
among its hereditary tendencies suf-
fcient perseverance and Adaptable
ty to meet all the changes to which
it must always be subjected bv its
sr-changimg environment, it will
yleft behind and finally destroyed,
outstripped by races better equipped
for the fray.
DAVID WARK GRIFFITH, mo-
lion picture producer: To be toler
ant, in the ahiest sense; patient and