Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-29


country from within than can. all
our enemies, if we have any, from
without. | hope that not one single
thing will be covered or hushed up
there, and even though we have to
go through many more investiga-
lions | want everything to be brought
out to the surface and exposed to
public view. | think. the whole stu
alton is hopeful. 1t shows that the
public is awakening to its RESPONSE
bilities. These undetermined trans
actions and corrupt methods have
been going on in many state in the
Union in the years past. They will
not happen again, however, for we
have man at the head of this ma
ton who will see to it that while
he is in office things will be carried
on in an honest openhanded manner.
l speak of this to impress upon you
the lesson that we have less to fear
from the evil about us, than we have
from the evil within ourselves. If
YOU lead Straightforward upright
lives you need have nothing to fear
from the outside, and l want you to
remember this message and take it
to heart.
You little realize the power for
good that one single man can have
in this wide world. After all it is
the individual that counts and you
can do your part toward what is
right, and / want you to do it no
matter whether the boy does it or
not Don't worry about him, but
take care of yourself and see to it
that your course is clear. / do not
know of any higher standard that a
boy can have than to say to himself
he will never do anything that he
would be ashamed to tell his mother
and sisters about. If every boy in
this audience would live up to that
principle, and if it could be spread
to the other boys in the state of
Maine in few years q great change
would come upon us. We wouldn't
nave anybody in state prison or in
the reformatory. and we would set
an example to the other states that
they would have reason to envy
Don't be afraid to stand out alone
and to say that you will not do
something, if you think it is wrong.
The boy who can swim against the
current is stronger than the one who
always has to swim down stream.
L was especially pleased at what
the boys who responded here said to
you. No doubt it is not a very easy
thing for them to stand up and
speak, but they did it splendidly and
L wish every boy here could do as
well. You can show your apprecia :
ton for your entertainment by let
tlnS the citizens of Augusta know
that YOU appreciate all that is being
done for you, and l do not want a
single boy here, after he gets home.
10 neglect to write letter of appre-
cation to his host or hostess.
l was reading q book the other day
in which was given the boyhood
prayer of Abraham Lincoln and IL
was so simple and meant so much
that | want you to know it. 1t was
as follows: God help father, help
mother, help sister, help everybody.
Teach me to read and write, watch
over Honey and make MIN a good
dog, and keep us all from getting
lost in the wilderness"
IL you stop and think of the little
boy who offered that simple PRAYER.
living out on the edge of the wilder,
ness in a lonely place and ina small
snack of a house, and then realize
what he accomplished and what he
stood for. it will show you what one
little life can develop into. 1t will
stimulate you to make good boys of
yourselves and to do your best from
gettlng lost in the wilderness today
Ilght here In Maine, just as in 1lli-
nols over a hundred years ago. There
Is wilderness of temptations and IN
exists In the cities equally as it does
In the smaller places. l do not want
any boy here to get lost in that wild :
erness and you can offer no better
prayer than the simple one of
Abraham Lincoln.
cranes Message ForcefuI
Rev. Henry III. Crane, the second
speaker on last evenings program
is no stranger to Maine Bows con.
ferences. Leaders and boys who had
attended last years conference
recognized a sterling friend when he
appeared, and he as were the Other
speakers was greeted with nine Ibie
cheers from the thousand Iusty
young voices. The Maiden pastor
has powerful and forceful man.
ner of delivery and he got his mes
sage over last night with a real
whallop. that reused the boys TO
great outbursts Of spontaneous APP
plause.
The speaker interpreted anecdote
and references to personal exper.
fences which highly colored his elo-
quent talk. The Rev. Crane lis. of
the real virile lighting .fparson''
type. and his occasional lapse into
slang is something. that the lads can
understand and they are with him
from the start.
Rev. Mr.. Cranes speech treated
with many phases of the necessity
for clean living by the future citf-
zens and preservers of the State and
nation. and was built up largeI,
around what a silver half dollar said
to him. The speaker chose this
grafi1c method of presenting his mes
sage because as he said money!
was the most interesting subject in
the world.
He drew the transition Of his sew
eral points from the silver half DOL
lar which he held In his hand. The
first point hinged on popularity, and