Illinois Valley News, Thursday, October 17, 1940
Page Three
WNU Service.
ND HE HAS blessed our country . . . but His
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benediction imposes upon each and every
one of us the sacred duty of defending every
priceless heritage that we have been granted.
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With so great a portion of humanity inured
to calamity and injustice, let each American
silently consecrate himself and his conscience to the
preservation of every American ideal . . . ideals that are
more precious today than ever before.
Yes, we still can have faith in man’s higher destiny even
though nations, once the homes of great cultures, crash
back into abject slavery. There can still be hope though
elsewhere fearful death-dealing machines are thrust into
the hands of children, though churches are barricaded,
books destroyed, though millions of families are scattered
to the four winds.
These things have not happened here and with His con­
tinued aid and guidance, we will see that they shall not
happen here.
Among His many graces showered on us is the charter
of American liberty. We are proud to be part of that first
line of defense of American liberties ... to always stand
militantly at the side of every true American against the
inroads of doctrines seeking to destroy freedom of speech,
freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of religious wor­
ship and freedom of the press.
The first of a series of patriotic messages sponsored by these stalwart Americans of
The Illinois Valley
KEITH OWEN
GEO. W. MARTIN
HARRY FLOYD
GEO. A. HICKS
0. W. GREEN
GEORGE THRASHER
DR. À. N. COLLMAN
L. E. ATHEY
PHIL SAWYER
C. E. LAWSON
VICTORIA JASPERSON AND
FRED KOLB
HOWARD BEARSS
BLAKE L. MILLER
M. C. ATHEY
SAMUEL SMITH
J. J. VILLAIR
LARRY MUSIL
C. Y. ARNOLD
K. C. HAMILTON
W. F. DARGER
L. H. GRIZZELL
LEW HAMMER