Saturday, February 14, 1931.
THE SALEMITE
Page Three.
Address Made By Hoover
On Birthday of Lincoln
The 1
xt of President Hoover’s
address on Lincoln’s Birthday is as
follows:
By the magic of the radio I am
able to address several hundred pub
lic gatherings called this evening
throughout our country in celebra
tion of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
It is appropriate that I should
speak from this room in the White
House where Lincoln strived and
complished his great service to
country.
His invisible presence dominates
these halls, ever recalling that
finite patience and that indomitable
w'ill which fought and won the fight
for those firmer foundi^tic
greater strength to government by
the people. From these windows he
looked out upon that great granite
shaft which was then in constructi
to mark the country’s eternal tribute
to the courage and uncompromising
strength of the founder of this Union
of States.
Here are the very chairs in which
he meditated -upon his proHems.
Above the mantelpiece hangs his por
trait with his Cabinet, and upon this
fireplace is written:
“In this room Abraham Lincoln
signed the Emancipation Proclama
tion of January 1, 1863, whereby
4,000,000 slaves were given their
freedom and slavery forever pro
hibited in these United States.”
It was here that he toiled by day
and by night that tlie Union created
by the fathers might be preserved
and tliat slavery might be ended.
Most of the business of this ro(
in Lincoln’s time was concerned w:
the conduct of war against destruc
tive forces. From here he could oft
hear the sound of approaching
non, and yet the thought that he
should desert his place, this city and
this house, never entered into his
considerations. Lincoln was a builder
in an epoch of destruction. It i
his assignment by Providence to
store the national edifice, so badly
shattered in its social and economic
structure that it had well-nigh failed.
His undying idealism and inflexible
resolve builded a new temple of the
national soul in which our succeed
ing generations have since dwelt se
cure and free and of a richer life.
And if Lincoln could today resur
vey the scene of his country he would
find a Union more solidly knit and
more resolute in its common pur
pose than ever in its history,
would find the State of the South
recovered from the wounds of
inspired by the splendid leadership
of a new generation to a brilliant
renaissance of industry and culture.
Was Great Prophet
He would indeed find the consum
mation of that great moving appeal
of his inaugural in which he said:
“The mystic chords of memory
stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living
heart and hearthstone all
broad land will yet swell the chorus
of the Union when again touched,
as surely they will be, by the better
angels of our nature.” It
deed a great prophecy.
If Lincoln were living, he would
find that this race of liberated
slaves, starting a new life without
shred but the clothes in which they
stood, without education, without
organization, has today by
endeavors progressed to an amazing
ly high level of self-reliance and
well-being. To Lincoln it would have
been incredible that within a lifetime
the millions of children of these
slaves would be graduating from the
public schools and colleges, that the
race could have builded itself homes
and accumulated itself a wealth in
lands and savings; that it should
have carried on with success every
calling and profession in our coun
try.
While the dramatic period of
Lincoln’s life was engrossed with
these tremendous problems, yet he
was a man of many interests. He
was a believer in party government.
He realized, as we also must realize,
that fundamentally our whole self-
government is conceived and born of
majority rule, and to enable the ma
jority to express itself we must have
party organization. Lincoln led in
founding the Republican party and
he gloried in his party. His tradition
Jias dominated it to this day. It i
and is a party of responsibility:
vas and is a party of the Constitu-
Due to lack of caution in business
md to the impact of forces from
outside world, one-half of which
volved in social and political re\
lution, the march of our prosperity
has been retarded. We are projected
temporary unemployment, losses
and hardships. In a Nation rich
■esources, many people were faced
with hunger and cold through
fault of their own. Our national
sources are not only material supplies
and material wealth but a spiritual
and moral wealth in kindliness,
compassion, in a sense of obligation
ighbor to neighbor and a reali
zation of responsibility by industry,
by business, and the community for
social security and its social wel
fare.
Throughout this depression I have
insisted upon organization of these
through industry, through
local government and through char
ity, that they should meet this ci'
by their own initiative, by the
sumption of their own responsibili-
The Federal Government has
sought to do its part by example
the expansion of employment, by
ffording credit to drought sufferers
for rehabilitation, and by co-opera-
with the community, and thus
oid the opiates of government
charity and the stifling of our r
tional spirit of mutual self-help.
ti take courage and pride
the effective work of thousands of
oluntary organizations for provision
,of employment, for relief of distress,
that have sprung up over the entire
Industry and business have
recognized a social obligation to their
employes as never before. The State
ajid local governments are 'being
helpful. The people are themselves,
succeeding in this task. Never be
fore in a great depression has there
been so systematic a protectie
against distress; never before has
there been so little social disorder:
never before has there been such ar
outpouring of the spirit of self-sac-
rifice and of service.
The ever-growing complexity of
modern life, with its train of ever
more perplexing and difficult prob
lems, is a challenge to our individual
characters and to our devotion to
ideals. The resourcefulness
America when challenged has n«
failed. Success is not gained by
leaning upon the ■Government to
solve all the problems before
That way leads to enervation of will
and destruction of character. Vic
tory over this depression and over-
our other difficulties will be won by
the resolution of our people to fight
their own battles in their own com
munities, by stimulating their in
genuity to solve their own problems,
by taking new courage to be masters
of their own destiny in the struggle
of life. This is not the easy way,
but it is the American way. And it
was Lincoln’s way.
The ultimate goal of the American
social ideal is equality of opportunity
and individual initiative. These are
not born of bureaucracy. This ideal
is the expression of the spirit of our
people. This ideal obtained at the
birth of the Republic. It was the
Ideal of Lincoln. It is the ideal
upon which the Nation has risen to
unparalleled greatness.
We are going through a period
when character and courage
trial, and where the very faith that
is within us is under test. Our peo
ple are meeting this test. And they
are doing more than the immediate
task of the day. They are maintain
ing the ideals of our American sys
tem. By their devotion to these
ideals we shall come out of these
times stronger in character,
age and in faith.
Sense and Nonsense
IF LONGFELLOW HAD
PLAYED GOLF
I drove a golf ball into the air
It fell to earth I know not where;
For right through the sun it flew,
Could not follow it in its flight.
I teed another with many a swear
And drove that to I know not where;
I slice and cut and twice I muff
And off it careens right into the
rough.
Long, long afterward, tired and sore
I forgave all that went before.
With a heavy heart I approached
the green
And there it rested—quite serene.
The ball I thought I’d lost in the si
Was in'the cup—a hole in one.
And the oaths I’d sworn from begin
ning to end
I heard again from the mouth of
my friend.
—C. C. N. T. Mercury.
INSTRUCTIONS
It takes two to catch a dream—
You must both be aware.
Well before, where it lies
Wary and hidden. Dreams scan
Easily . . . And you must go
With your nets fashioned of
Hope and determination.
Patience and love . . .
Then, when you see it clear.
Do not fumble nor hesitate;
Quickly make your cast; the next
Second will be too late.
Work with great gentleness,
Not to harm the gold that clings
To its feathers, or the frail
Splendor of its wings . . .
Hold it close to your hearts
While you might count three;
Examine it intently;
Then set it free.
Fools may advise caging it
Or stuffing it . . N ever!
Follow my plan, and have
A nice dream forever.
—Written especially for
Columbia Jester.
Love is an urchin,
Starved and anemic,
But happy at that.
—Wisconsin Octopus.
FROM FIREFLIES
Love’s gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
The unseen dark plays on his flui
and the rythm of light
eddies into stars and suns,
into thoughts and dreams.
The mind ever seeks its words
from its sounds and silence
as the sky from its darkness
and light.
I leave my songs behind me
to the bloom of the ever-returning
honey-suckles
and the joy of the wind from
the south.
My fancies are fireflies,—
Specks of living light
twinkling in the dark.
—Tagore
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(Continued From Page One)
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man has climbed up, always; there
is no aid or deterrent to offer to
what has gone before, but woman
looks forward to her children. The
future is the college woman’s; the
destinies of the generations to be
are in her hands. The questions of
the world depend on her. She
stands with man, equal in power,
but holding more powerfully the
world’s destiny. There is a power
ful trust in her. Is her life then
worth while.? The women of North
Carolina can make it what they
will. The challenge is to them to
do the best in their power and to
Teap the finest harvest.
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