Evening star., 1936-05-19
.LANDON COUNSELS
AGAINST DESPAIR
Urges Leaders to Absorb
Some of Peoples Courage
in Talk to Graduates.
ey the Associated Press,


courageously and to beware OF
prophets preaching the doctrine OF
despair
The Republican presidential pos
sibility made an unusual appearance
In an improvised amphitheater under
food lights and before crowd of farm
folk and neighbors numbering several
thousand sLandon explained that he
came because he had been asked by
an old friend whose son was among
those receiving diplomas.
Concluding with a round of hand
shaking which required an hour, the
Kansas Governor began an overnight
trip which brought him this morning
to Emporia. Kans., for visit with
William Allen White. the editor and
author. who is a delegate to the Re-
publican national convention at Cleve-
land.
Dwells on "TruiSmS."
From a flower banked rostrum OF
rough-hewn timbers the Governor
dwelt on "truisms" he termed part
of the gospel of human freedom" and
cautioned against "a tendency to over
throw the fundamental truths OF life
that have been learned from long ex-
perience."
Iandon emphasized there is no
substitute for courage" and warned
"there is still another kind of courage
that this generation will have to show.
mean courage in facing the fact
that many difficult adjustments Will
have to be made in the future"
Now the first victory for you to
win" he said, the first victory for
all of us to win, is to get back our
belief in our future, and In the future
Of America"
ing needs of this country is for our
leaders, both public and private, to
take unto themselves some of the
courage Of the common people.
Despair "Sheer Nonsense"
"There are too many prophets to-
day preaching the doctrine OF despair,
he asserted. "One such gentleman
even went so far as to say. There are
millions of Americans now alive who
will never again be self-supporting."
Such a doctrine might have a
grain of truth in it if we were living
In an old country whose resources
have been exhausted, but in a young
and rich country such as ours your
own horse sense will tell you that
such a. doctrine is sheer nonsense.
I'VE want no lost generation in
America" the Kansas Governor de-
elared emphasizing nov the first
victory for you to win, the victory for
all of us to win, is to get back our
belief in our future, and in the future
of America"
I'VE must realize" he said, that
the old pioneer days, with their hard
ships and their opportunities for sud
den, overnight riches, have gone and
we must have courage to hunt for
and find the right way Of making
these adjustments.
Sees Finer America.
when the present economic de-
preston is over, we will never again
be quite the same America. We will
have a new and finer America.
"One of your duties as an educated
citizen" Landon said, will be to keep
your minds open to the possible needs
for change in government, to meet
our rapidly changing life.
you will meet the urgings Of some
who would solve your difficulties by
changing everything; of others whose
veneration for the past causes them
to be shocked at the thought of
changing anything. Change is only
dangerous when people do not really
understand what it is they are trying
to change"
The Governor said many persons
IN this country too long forgot the
warning that civic virtue can never
flourish in generation that thinks
OF ITSELF That warning stands as
true for your generation as 1t did for
the generation Of recent years which
failed to heed it and got us into so
much trouble. = It will be your
task to see that blessings of our civil
hzation are more widely distributed ~
MarveIs at Courage.
ITO me, one of the inspiring things
OF recent years." he said, "has been
the courage Of the common people
All of us have seen the life work OF
men swept away and we have seen
them go doggedly back to the tasks
Of building their lives over, and the
wonderment to me is not that we
have had so much complaint but that
we have had so little.
Il belive that one of the outstand-
ing needs of this country is for our
leaders, both public and private, to
take unto themselves some of the
courage OF the common people.
Emphasizing some essentials es.
sentials that some Of us are inclined
70 take too casually" Landon ex.
planned:
Il mean such things as: There
b no substitute for courage" he is
o man of principle his word Is a,
good as his bond men cannot live
by bread alone they are fund.
amentally right and apply to every
generation"
Citing the zone great instance ir
the old testament when the gutter,
won out" Landon said the Israelites
"became a lost generation" because
the cutters told them the promised
land was held by an enemy toe
strong to be overcome"
Have Will to Conquer.
"We want no wanderings in thu
wilderness" he said. I'VE have tht
courage, the will, the enterprise anc
the wisdom to overcome our difficul.
ties, giants though they may be. =
when the Israelites came agair
into the promised land, and the land
EDUCATIONAL.