Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1920 — Americanism [ARTICLE]

Americanism

By LEONARD WOOD

They that caa give up aMeaHal HhMty to Ateia tawearery wfety imrva aaithar Hborty ■m safety.-—Beajamia FraekTHBBB words at Franklin ware Stated . . .constantly during oar Bovolsttenary war to fix the deter■Aattlna of the patriots and to show to Ao wavering the folly if not the wfAedniss of attempting to secure looHsg safety for themselves at the ■panto of conscience and of the an wraacs of altteato liberty. words have In them no comfort for the coward or the trim* ■ar. They are a brave moa’s words delivered in the hope of making all men bravo. They are food American werda; no good today as when they wore written a century and three gwarteN ago.' They appear as the ■otto of Franklin’s “Historic Review of Pseasylvanlo" and they appear also la the body of that work. The test Is uneasy roading for the ana who would compromise la order

to save Mb akin. They were words wMc* well Bright have been used to MM ptoew IB this country during ths late war. Wwumtlsl liberty In ths weeM was one reason tor our entering tato the great conflict. There wore thane who pleaded the necessity of -safety," which at beat could be only a temporary safety, and as truly today ae yesterday those who so pleaded deserve “neither liberty nor safety." i saw Ue slam means that devotion to the eeaentiala of liberty which will ferhid a man from temporising or risfr— we™ the essentials of Mberty are aMapgbfed. .What. Frank made the motto of his so-called Bartow aright well be made the foreword Of the Book, “Americanism.” The words are full of. courage and they have in them also that irony which hswto to. ought to hurt the man who would Compromise when the demand, for real patriotism is made. There are ten thousand texts in the writings of the Fathers from which iaooons in Americanism may be taught Franklin wrote and used many such twrta They were for ail time, serricoable now as they were serviceable then. They Will continue to be beneBHal the world In all its parts Mamed the toeoon of real freedose and has profited by it Bewjamia Franklin has been called a hentosnaa it>hm»n The desertpttosi to fall of’ meat Franklin's life to the finer sense largely was homely. Ke had away vfrtuea and many human fault* but take him all in all he was earn at the great figures of the time la which he livai. Be was a thorough

, __ Hugh Jennings, manager of the DHxmt Tigers since 1907, announced his resignation Friday evening. His sneceaeor has not been named, but Ty Cobb will no doubt assume the leadership of the Tigers/ with Clarence Rewiana second cnorce. W the spectacular tZw Swl a great favorite around thT circuit Kte rumored that he will direct the Chicago Nationals in