Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-14
President Generals Message
Opening Congress of d. 4. X.

| ing to the fiery old tales of exalted
patriotism. 1t has been more or less
the fashion to refer smiiiEgly and
Slightingly to the patriotic poems
acclaimed from the old lyceum plat
forms. We are learning that we
have decried an influence that was
contributing to the bone and sinew
of our citizenship. No matter how
wise and good We may be in all
other relat tons. il we do not work
with all our might to maintain our
country's welfare we must count
ourselves failures Patriotism is moi
only service for the lips; ii is Il
service for the soul.
More Sbrines Advocated.
"A very definite way Of keeping
alive the precious spark of love OF
country is through the preservation
of sacred places and a system of me-
mortal and commemorative markers,
which has been so diligently and
wholeh eartedly labor Of love on the
part of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution. SO it is that Mount
Vernon has been saved to loyal
pOsterity, because OF the courage and
patriotic impulse of the women Of
America. There are enshrined sacred
newest American.
The opportunity ioT education
must be made available 10 all our
people. The seeds of patriotism ger
thought the results may not be
quickly apparent To give substance
to our belief in educa ton our So
ciety has financed schools in the re
mote mountain regions OF the south
where the descendants of revolution
airy patriots are given the advantages
of an education which their isolation
has heretofore denied them. There
must be TO compromise with ignor
ance and illiteracy in America.
WouId Censor Teaching.
The Curriculums OF our schools
must be made to serve the needs OF
our times and we must see TO it that
the conditions of teaching are sound
and just SO that if we find among
the teaching force in any one OF our
institutions of learning progenitorS
OF half-bahed radicalism. bolSheNtSm.
or socialiSttc communism imposing
their dangerous doctrines upon our
youth. we shall as speedily scourGe
them out, as we would Virulent
plague. There is no place in this
country for divided allegiance. No
man can serve two governments, or
two patriotisms. If America is to
serve civilization, America must stand
first in the hearts OF Americans.
America is melting pot. not test
tube for experiments with theories OF
governments.
THE hope OF Americas tomorrow
the rising generation seems too free,
too Indifferent to convention. il is be-
cause its faults are magnified through
the varitieS Of opportunities for their
revelation Where is the man or
woman who has not yielded to friv-
olous impulse in youth? Where the
mature sedateness and decorum that
has not been spiced with a dram of
Youthful folly? Who OF us in the full
ness of years and good deeds would
willingly be judged wholly by one act
of our early exuberance?
who dares to mistrust youth?
who dares to appraise the whole OF
a life by a part? II such there be.
let him Danish his doubt, and temper
his judgment in the records of SUI
preme sacrifice and bright courage
of youth written in the pitiless heat
of the world war. Americas sons and
daughters have never failed their
country in great emergencies and
they never will.