Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — Now That the War Is Over We Are Going to Have a Better World Than Before [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Now That the War Is Over We Are Going to Have a Better World Than Before

By FRANK O. LOWDEN.

Governor of Illinois

Things were not going very well with us when the war arose. We of America were lacking in many things. We were becoming a little materialistic ourselves. We were becoming very fond of the fleshpots. We were thinking too much about the material things of the world. The old, finer things of life of which our mothers and fathers spoke were disappearing from our lives. Discipline was breaking down —in the home, in the church, in the school and in the state. Classes were forming. The old notion of brotherhood for which our

fathers died at Lexington and Concord was being forgotten. But now, out of the horrors of this, the greatest war the world has , ever seen, is emerging, I believe, a new sense of brotherhood —a new sense of the worth and dignity of man. Now that the war is over we are going to have a better world than we ever had before. We are going to have a revival of that old notion—which we saw our fathers not only teach but practice —of the infinite worth of man as the supreme thing in our civilization. We are going to see a new notion of fraternity; and in business we shall see as great ajriyajry as we have seen in the past, but the rivalry between one business and the other will be to determine which can best serve humanity and the world.