Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-18

births inyidious bar because there is
none to break, we do not say that
Jack is as good as his master because
Jack has no master; as in the mar
veilous army of Napoleon. there Is a
marshars baton In every soldiers
knapsack and the career Is open to-
the talents.
There must needs be leaders even
II the leading be such as that of the
French Revolution who, sitting in his
room with a friend heard the quick
tramp Of a crowd passing without.
Where are they going" asked his
friend. I don't know but must go
with them for am their leader re-
piled the man. Yet no movement is
wholly spontaneous, leaders there
must be. And where are they to be
found? Not in the clustered shade
haunted by the recluse and the mis-
anthrope. He who shuns his fellows,
may have high mission, a lofty out
look, and he may be worthy of all
praise; but there must be some to
mingle with the people, to know
their needs at first hand, to take an
immediate and not mediate part in
directing their thoughts and their as
pirations. AThose who do that, there
must always be, whether worthy or
unworthy. whether for good or for Ill.
"You graduates of Colby have been
educated in an institution where
thought is free as the air you breathe,
you have been trained to think, your
whole education has been to cast off
from your minds and souls the tram
mels Of ignorance. Of superstition and
Of cant. The example Of the great
a
held before your eyes and you have
been taught to fear God and eschew
the evil. This college was not found
ed simply to give information to in
tending ministers or doctors or law
yers or engineers. Those who bore
the burden and the heat of the day
when 1t was but young and strug-
Cling institution did not have In view
simply learned savants, acute theo-
logians, skillful surgeons. astute and
able lawyers. These indeed they
hoped for and expected: but their de-
sire was for men and women who
should learn indeed to know their
rights and knowing them dare to
maintain but should also their duty
know. Brilliant graduates. graduates
of compelling ability who should
make their Alma Mater famous in
their own fame. their faith gave them
to foresee. and they, have not been
disappointed: but most they wished
graduates who could recognize their
duty to God, to the world. to their
country and to their fellow country
men. And it should be the glory of a
college that from its walls go forth
the leaders Of the people. If the
blind lead the blind. both shall fall
into the ditch; it is the function. of a
college to supply those who can see.
who both can and will prevent thel-
countrymen from falling into the
bitches that are all too common,
bitches Of ignorance, bitches of preiu-
dice, bitches of class hatred, bitches
of international ill-will. If love Of
fellow means not the effect Of college
study and training. better that, the
college should cease to exist. 1t is
for public good, that public support
is given to such institutions of learn
ing, and the public should in common
honesty receive the reward which is
due.
'.The world has just been through a
bloody war, is another to come? What
is the substitute? The answer comes
from the history of your nation and
mine. A long series of years of
peace and friendship. broken from
time to time by misunderstanding
Ind quarrels. but these were family
ayarrels and no ones business but
our own, made the English speaking
people on this continent look upon
themselves as almost one. Sentiment!
Yes sentiment If you will. but of all
sentiment. read but the other day in
a financial. article that American fin
anciers when they take American
bonds are satisfied with the promise
of the government but require before
accepting foreign bonds that fund
be set apart to repay them. and 'in
this respect British and Canadian
bonds are not considered foreign by
people' What does that mean? In
ternati0nal honor, honesty fair deal
ing for generations. 1t is that feeling
on either side, of confidence in the
desire OF the other to act honorably,
honestly, fairly, that has enabled the
Pax Angle to prevail
for over century, and which will,
please God. cause 1t to prevail for
many centuries to come.
'Tn some way Pax Angle Americana
HluSt pI6tdll Oh CUdOS ~ " COlIlG dSdlil.
1t is to be the League of Nations or
q League Of Nations? A World Court
or the World Court or Is some other
means to be evolved. I know not.
But this I know, some means must be
found to end war, or war will end
civilization. The nations must be
taught or they must be forced to set
tie their disputes in the Angle
American way, the democratic way.
for another settlement by the old way,
the autocratic way, spells destruc-
ton and woe unutterable. The hope
Of our form of civilization lies in the
harmonious collaboration of the Eng
fish speaking peoples, we know each
other and understand each other for
truly We are Of the blood. France
watches her northeast boundary:
Germany we cannot for generations,
and until the virus of vicious imperial
istic teaching is bred out: Italy, Rus
STA, have their own internal problems
Relief
FOR INDIGESTION.