Weekly Messenger - 1919 December 5

              Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XIX BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1919 No. 11
Monday morning, November 24, the
assembly period was given over to the.
subject of Americanism as opposed to
bolshevism. Dr. Kirkpatrick was first
introduced by Dr. Nash, and after he
had made a few fitting remarks, ex­plaining
how the American Legion were
planning to fight against the new trouble
that is threatening this country, he in
turn introduced Judge Howard, who
was the speaker of the morning.
Dr. Kirkpatrick, explained that there
seemed to be a concerted movement on
foot to disrupt this government, and to
bring about anarchy in this country
such as Russia was experiencing, instead
of the law and order that has prevailed
heretofore, and that because of this the
men of the country who think and ex­press
their thoughts well, are coming
before audiences all over the country to
help the American Legion to do the
work that confronts them. In intro­ducing
Judge Howard, Dr. Kirkpatrick
said:
" This morning I am going to intro­duce
to you a gentleman who is known
all over this Northwest. In the legal
profession he is honored and loved; an
able judge and a whole hearted citizen.
I am privileged to introduce Judge
Howard."
Judge Howard said in part:
" While I have been called upon to
address a great many audiences, some
of them very large, yet this morning I
feel that I have the opportunity of ad­dressing
the largest audience that it
has ever been my privilege, because I
realize that you are here for the purpose
of multiplying your individual efforts
in a large way, in that you are to be­come
instructors, and examples to the
coming manhood and womanhood of
America. I would therefore feel that
] had been remiss in the opportunity if
I did not confine myself to subjects that
would appeal to your intelligence and
the best there is in you rather than to
your passions, and if I did not furnish
you information and recall to your minds
things that you may. have forgotten.
• " There is a tremendous organization
in this country that has its ramification
in furnishing leaders that have set about
boring from within to overthrow the
government of the United States. I
have been coming in contact with many
of the public men of this nation, and
they have no more serious concern than
to go out and meet this-various propa­ganda
that is undermining this country
iv an alarming degree. Our mills and
factories are absolutely flooded with lit­erature
of the soviet government of Rus­sia.
It not only is confined to mill, but
had permeated many of our institutions,
and so many men have laid aside their
patriotism and are putting jjoison jnto
the hearts of the American people that
as Dr. Butler has said, ' they have chal­lenged
Americanism in this country to-
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I believe in the United States of America as a govern- ||
ment of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just |j
powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a |j
democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sov- |j
ereign stales, a perfect union, one and inseparable, estab- |!
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humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives [\
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to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its \\
flag, and to defend it against all enemies. — WILLIAM TYLER |[
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Flag of the heroes who left us their glory,
Borne through their battlefield's thunder and flame,
Blazoned in song and illumined in story,
Wave o'er us all who inherit their fame!
Up with our banner bright,
Sprinkled with starry light,
Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore,
While through the sounding sky
Loud rings the Nation's cry, —
UNION AND LIBERTY! ONE EVERMORE!
Light of our firmament, guide of our Nation,
Pride of her children and honored afar,
Let the wide beams of thy full constellation
Scatter each cloud that would darken a star!
Empire unsceptered! what foe shall assail thee,
Bearing the standard of Liberty's van?
Think not the God of thy fathers shall fail thee,
Striving with men for the birthright of man!
Yet if, by madness and treachery blighted,
Dawns the dark hour when the sword thou must
draw,
Then with the arms of thy millions united,
Smite the bold traitors to Freedom and Law.
Lord of the Universe! shield us and guide us,
Trusting Thee always, through shadow and sun!
Thou hast united us, who shall divide us?
Keep us, oh keep us, the MANY IN ONE!
Up with our banner bright,
Sprinkled with starry light,
Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore,
While through the sounding sky
Loud rings the Nation's cry,,—
UNION AND LIBERTY! ONE EVERMORE!
— OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
THE INDIVIDUAL
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At the graduating exercises Wednes­day
morning Dr. McPhail of the First
Baptist Church of Bellingham, spoke
to a large audience on the " Individual
American." Dr. McPhail's address in
part follows:
" The greatest Americans are not
those who give the loudest praises, but
those who live the hardest the ideals
that stand for Americanism. As in
early ages men of history of our coun­try
said " Thank God, I am an Ameri­can,"
so many of our men are saying
the same thing today. Americanism
means freedom, liberty. That is the
thing for which our fathers fought and
lived and died. There is, however, two
kinds of freedom. They might be liken­ed
to the freedom of the eagle who soars
in the sky, or to the freedom of the
rodent pilfering from some well-filled
larder. There is the freedom of the
buzzard and the freedom of the bee. The
bee gathers honey from the rose and
leaves it just as symmetrical, and just as
beautiful, but there is also the freedom
of the spider that spoils the rose and
leaves it black and blighted. As it is
with the buzzard and the bee, the eagle
and the rodent, so it is with various men
in the history of the world interpreting
this great idea of liberty which is the
central thought in Americanism. Some
people come to a country of rich land
and they think that freedom for them is
to enjoy the riches of that country and
spend it in riotous living, and that the
world owes them a living.
Our forefathers were men who were
not driven like dumb beasts to battle as
in the old countries, but went willingly.
They were men who had vision, wide as
high, and who saw the broad founda­tion
necessary as well as the things that
were to come. There are two individuals
in the history of the. world who stand
out above all others: George Washing-tor,
is the first man we think of in con­nection
with Americanism, and Abraham
Lincoln, the great liberty leader. Lin­coln
was always working, never idle,
never indolent, busy brain and busy
fingers, and preparing himself for some
great future that would open up before
him. There is the ambitious man who
strives because he desires the hand grips
of his fellows and the shouts of the mul­titude,
but if there is a country on the
face of the earth that has not existed
ulone for itself, that country is America.
If there is a country in the world that
has extended its hands to the countries
across the seas, that country is America.
So, the man and woman today who does
the most for his country is not the one
who makes the loudest noises about his
work or yells the loudest. There is ab­solutely
no such thing as the develop­ment
of happiness without toil. The
two are a pair that must march side by
side. Happiness and toil go together.
So today, fellow people, remember the
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