Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 29, DeMotte, Jasper County, 18 June 1948 — BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT [ARTICLE]

BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Mr. and Mrs. Otto DeYoung and family and Mr. and Mrs. John Felthouse visited with relatives in Chicago Sunday.

Lt. Norman Holladay was the escort with the body of Corp. Gulbransen of Wheatfield, who was buried in Valparaiso last Thursday. Malcolm Boezeman was able to come home from the hospital at Indianapolis where he has been for several weeks. Mr. William, Stassen and Mr. and Mrs. Glasscock and son of Moline, 111., visited with Mrs. Dena Henrichs on Sunday. Rev. W. D. Archibald will attend the Rural Pastors School at DePauw University beginning next Monday through Friday. This school 1j for pastors throughout the state of Indiana. Mrs. Archibald plans to visit with her sister at Decatur, 111., during the week of June 21-25. She and Rev. Archibald will visit relatives and friends during tne next week at Nokomis, Illinois.

“These, then, are the qualities that I should claim for the Hollander as an American: In the first place, that he has- cast hjmself without reservation into the current of American life; that he is an American, pure and simple, and nothing else. In the next place, that he works hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder with, his fellow Americans, without any regard to differences of creed or to differences of race and religion, if only they are good Americans. In the third place, that he is willihg, when the need shall arise, to fight for his country; and in the fourth place, and finally, that he recognizes that this is a country of laws and not men, that it is his duty as an honest citizen to uphold the laws, to strive for honesty, to strive for a decent

administration, and to do all that j in him lies, by incessant, patient j . work in our government,, ipal, Jo bring about the day when j it shall be taken as a matter of

course that every public official is to execute a law honestly* and that no capacity in a public officer shall atone if he is personally dishonest.”