Illinois Valley News. Thursday, February 13, 1941
Page Three
ODDESS of Liberty, may your torch never be
extinguished. For us you represent every
thing America was, is and hopes to be. Your
arms have embraced millions of the perse
cuted and enslaved . . . given them new
hope and courage*.. . and sent them forth into America,
the land w here every man is architect of his own fortune.
Goddess, what you have sown, you also shall reap. The
hope you have instilled, the courage you have fired, the
opportunity to live like a creature of God you so unself
ishly and unaskingly have given, will now be forged by
each and every one of your grateful children into a
mighty and irresistible force against which those who
now stalk the world can never prevail.
Your land, our land, will forever be a beautiful and
bountiful garden in which shall always bloom the flowers
of free speech, free assembly, free religious worship and
a free press — and where man, God's handiwork, may
continue to walk unafraid. We are proud to be part of
the 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
America's priceless heritage.
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The first of a series of patriotic messages sponsored by these stalwart Americans of
The Illinois Valley
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KEITH OWEN
GEO. W. MARTIN
HARRY FLOYD
GEO. A. HICKS
KNUTE LINDGREN
GEORGE THRASHER
DR. A. N. COLLMAN
L. E. ATHEY
PHIL SAWYER
C. E. LAWSON
VICTORIA JASPERSON AND
FRED KOLR
HOWARD HEARSS
JACK HOUT
M. C. ATHEY
SAMUEL SMITH
J. J. VILLAIR
LARRY MUSIL
C. Y. ARNOLD
K. C. HAMILTON
HARRY MESSENGER
L. H. GRIZZELL
LEW HAMMER