Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 3, 1922, Page 2

“Here, I'll Show You Kids What It Means!” —Detroit Free Press. It has been sald that patriotism {must be an intelligent patriotis; {there §s much that passes for it that {18 not. Intelligent, and some that falls {within Dr. Johnson’s definition: “Pa- ‘mnmm 1s ‘the‘last refuge of a scoun- ‘@rel” Nothing is easier than to be ipatriotic When it is shinply a question of going with the crowd. But more than: this is required—disinterested ‘mervice, a full discharge of the duties {''of citizenship (even to the honest pay- |. ing of taxes), independence and cour- . 'age In the exercise of the right to vote, obedlence to the law, etc. There mus be service by outward act and deed. and not mere Jip service, asserts i writer in the Indianapolls News. But service implies knowledge. The apostle id : “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have be- lleved, and am persuaded that he.is able to keep that which I have com- mitted unto him against that day.” “I know whom I have helleved.” One who believes In America must know Americn, and the more one knows her the more intense will be one's faith and the more devoted one'’s service. America, after all, is nothing more: than’ the people who call them-! selves Americans, for ideas and ideals do not merely floiit In the air—they are incarnated in. mén and awomen, and by men and women they arve ap- plied to life.. Principles ‘are of no \value till they are acted on, and they must be acted on by people. Ymemories and traditions of which | Something has heen said all attach' to | people, and the history ef the- coun- ftry which Is o part of it today was made by people. It Is into the lahor of very real people that we of the present time have entered. The prab- lem, thereforé, is one of keeping Amerleans true, not solely to the flag, but to the flag ns the symbol of a great national life. Into that life it is nec- tessary to enter, in it men must share. {'he more complete their participation 1 country—and their love of it for what it veally is, and of all that it stands ifor. A patriotism thus enlightened fand inspired will, has been d, . be close of kin to religion, Preserve Faith and Hope. It Is not hoasting (o magnify one's blessings, or to dwell lovingly and iproudly on the principles and idex (which are Amerlcan, It is necessary \indeed to do this, since there ave some ‘unhappy souls who_sée nothing good iin Amerien, and who are even yet look- !ing to Russin for Inspiration and sal- vation, Nothing can be done with or for such, but it may be possible to prevent others from heing led astray through ignorance of what America truly is. The American people have iheen impervious to the incirsions of ‘Bolshevism, not because they are dull nd stupid, but rather hecause they re satisfied, apd have reason to hé. They know their America well enougli to’ know that there Is no'country i the world Inavhieh opportunity is mortt ‘freely - offered, none which''comes so i # i the greater will be their love of their | near heing the country of the average man, § Many Things'to Learn, fOn the natlon's birthday, therefore; the American’ people should :pledge themselves to greater: devotion = to i an-ideals; to. more-loyal'and un-. iselfish service, and to stricter: conform- ity to those great principles which lie iat the basis of the natlon’s life. There {1s great need for education, since much {of the failure to appreciate this coun- itry is due to a pitiable ignorance of !its history, its institutions, and of all [that America has throughout its life stood for. And this Ignoranceiis often the densest in the minds of those who think of themselves as reformers, and l\\'lxu indeed are allowed to pose as such. Men need to be very sure that they know what liberty, as won by people of the Anglican race, is, and what are its safeguards, It is partic- ularly necessary that-they should un- iderstand the right of minorities, and ishould realize that there is such a tthing as the despotism of majorities. here are some things that a vote of | the majority -cannot ‘be allowed to sanction, as -our constitution. recog- res, Perhaps this Is one of the most !important lessons to be learned, as it iseems to he the most difficult to bring ‘home to men. The very restraints of which the uninformed so often com- plain have no other purpose than to {protect the helpless against the strong. iAnd this Is a part of Americanism. So iwe approach another Fourth of July. iThe world is in a sad state, and ever in fortunate Amerlca all things are ‘not as we should*1ike to have them. “Nevertheless the foundation'of God istandeth sure,” and it is not likely te ibe -shaken. -3 E THEREFORE; the' repreigntatives of tha United States of ‘America in General w Congross Asserbled| appenling to the Suprenie Judgelof the world for the racti- i do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly ought to be, Free pul and Independent States; that they are absolved from all all ish and decla¥e, that these united colonies arc, and of right h crown, and that all political connection between them and the atate of is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent Stat have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, to do all other acts and things which Independent. States may of right do. And for ation, with a firm reliance ‘on the protection of Divine Provi- he support of this De dence, we mutually pledge to each other our s; our fortunes, and our sacred hofor. +| sweetress! With Country’s i of séreiu(y ~and sym- metry,:0f, amplitade, o, graclous, alluring ‘Buti@ing, rich in noble>mem- ories, }'t»'g"‘t?'ul:hod' also with: a living B kuch i 14 the beaufitul ol | e Tiouse. in Philadelphia; often re- ferrédl. ‘to us, Independence hall, - And it stood ‘liere, ‘ind:was even then a building of age :ind dignity, when Sir | Walter;Scott ‘said to Washington Irv- ing,”" With=:a, tolernnt condescension which hg meant to be flattering, “The vast’ aboriginal trees'that have shel- tered the Indians bhefore the intrusion of the white pnan, are the monuments and. antiquities: of your. country!” Scott was quite ygnorant .of ‘the fact that America had wrchitecture ; to him, our country had; merely .trees, al- though this building, and some other American _ haildings, were richer in Dbeauty. anid. in: noble association than quite a number of thos¢ in hiz own l1and of which he fwrote with such en- thusiasm. : Scott wns deeply impressed by the thought of;our jllimitable forests, e longed to (see one, as Dickens longed to see an{American prairie. “And had Scott conse over here, and had he seen not only 4 forest bait this State house, his imagination would have heen fired, and he’ thight have written ‘o great novel about America, rich’ in’ details of the Ztevolutionary leaders, with the pleturesque Johre Hancock, in scarlet cont and cocked hat with black coek- ade, entefing thig building to preside at the signing of |the Declaration. .. . Beautiful #n Many Ways. The State hmouse, “Independence Hall,” was planged in 1720 and com- pleted, except as to wing and tower, five yemrs later;:quite old enough, one ,sees, to satisfy leven a Walter Scott! But it must noti be thought that it Is beautiful or interesting principally on account of age. ' Age adds to a heauti- ful building the/salt snd savor of time, |ithat: a (the ‘romantic. patina, literal or meta- ‘phorical, that comes with the decades. But this State house s beautiful in Atself;” 1t “was “beautiful. when it was young and new; it will remain beauti- ful as long as it stinds, with its tradi- ‘tions growing more interesting with ‘time. - After all, Philadelphia was the largest .and richest' Colon city! of Great Britain, and: so it was natural fine administrative structure :should be built here. And it was put up In the same.period which w the construction” of .two’ other admirable state houses, that of Boston (not the stately pillared building of the pres- ent fime, but the delightful. ancient state house), and the charming State house of ‘Annapolls, Allthree are lessons in gaod . taste,- in ‘positive beauty. . And the Philadelphia struc- ‘ture is the finest of the three. . The State house is - a beautiful building, alike in its mass effects aml in its smallest details, in the views of it - from. theexterior or in rooms within. Its facide is exactly centererd, and similarly winged and arcaded at right and left. It is beautiful and if is balanced. - Viewed From the Outside. 3 Seen from Independence square, which is a ‘large open space, stone paved, with intervening - surfaces, of grass and fair-sized trees, it is a tow- ered building of ‘time-mellowed brick, with white window stones, with small- ish plllared dooprway beneath au.tower built outside the lines of the niain ‘building, and, over this doorway, a splendid. Palladian - window. Above .are copnicings, and a fetching, hulg- ing, bow:fronted window, dnd ahove ‘this ‘18 a clock-tower, square at the !bottom and rising in eight-sided dini- inutions to @ six-sided narrow pinnacle ‘which® is topped by a trident-like hveathervane of gilt. {~ Euter heneath the triple Palladian !window, with its heavy muntins, and {passing by the foot-of the finest stairs Hn ‘America, Fou enter' a broad and ‘brick-paved - centyal hall; and there ;comes the sense of a glory of white, with touches of mahogany and darkish jgreen, . The rooms are serenely beautifulf ithey are dignified, large and light; ‘there are pillars_and pilasters, there ‘are charming cornices, there are pan- ‘els; In every divection one sees beau- tiful corners or vistas or entrance- :ways. . The views through the arches of ‘the room of the Supreme court, into and across the Hall of the Sizn- ing, defined by those three pilastered arches, is asf shingly effective. At the foot of the wonderful stairs now *stands . the. Liberty 'bhell, upon which - may still ‘h¢ read the .Bible verse which-long before the Revolu- tion: was cast upon it by its makers: “Proclaim liberty. throughout all: the land, upon all the inhabitants thereof.” Many Lovely Vistas. The stair mounts, ‘ramp by ramp, within the great:tower; a broad stair with'broad treads and low risers; and on the seconi.floor, as on-the first, there:are everywhere long and lovely vistas of ‘distinction; - And -on the sec- ond floor is a great banqueting hall, entered through * a - delicately ' bell- flowered doorway topped: by’ a beautl- .ful fanlight, _occupying - the * entire length of the Dbuilding; ‘and at” each end ‘of the great.room is a broad fire- place, with the intent that the two shall flicker at each “other with fine- ness of effect. ... . S A tang of especial distinction 1s given to the admpirable Chestnut, street face of the:State house by the un- usually high keystones, of marble, which center the brick above each: of the. ample windows and rise into a band ; of dark gray marble that. ex- tends across the entire one hundred and seven feet of the bhnilding's front; and by a line, alove this band, of nine panels ‘of marble, beneath™ the. win- dows’of the second floor. "The quoins on the corhers, and the fine wooden cornice’ and balustrade, add still further distinetion’; and’in all it is-a noble ‘and_distinguished huilding, rich in_noble and’ distingushed! memories. —Tobert Shackleton in “The’ Book' of Philadelphia.” Constitution Into Effect in 1789, The federyl Constitution was framed by the constitution convention which met in Philadelphia May 23, 1787, and adjourned September 17, 1787, and it went into effect March 4, 1789, having been ratified by eleven of the thirteen states, the others, North Carolina and Rhode Tsland, ratifying it November 21, 1789, and May 29, 1790, respec- tively. Crowd Listening to the Late Senator Kn ox Deliver independence Day Address, at Independence Hall, Last Year. They are GOOD! WAS READY FOR ' HIS BIG CHANCE Soldier, student, accountant, au- ditor, all in less than five yeurs this is the experience of Wm. Lockhart. After the battles of France, he made ready for the bat~ tles of. commerce by attending Dakota Business College, Fargo, N. D. He obtaingd a place with Bishop-Brissman, Accountants. Now he hasbeen appointed auditor for the State Board of Administration, " Dakota Business College pre- pares you to meet Opportunity. “Follow the Succes$ul.”> Write | today to'F. T Watkins, Pres.; auo‘ Front &t., Fargo, No D. Meet Me At THE West Hotel MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Everybody seems to be there Good: Service—Low Rates Splendid Cafe In Connection A song is sung; a speech is ¢ made; and the face of a loved one fades from the mind; BUT A PICTURE! —that lives forever! HAKKERUP The Pnotographer in Yofir « Town. Perenials in Flower . Now You are invited to see the.. Flower Gardens of the Beftrami Nursery Baby’s Breath, Coreopsis, Canter-" bury Belle, False Indigo, Gaillar- dia, Lark Spur, Peonies, Pinks 10¢, Sweet Williams 10¢, Shasta Daisy.| We are :located ‘opposite the £ School Farm. 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