PRESIDENT HOOVER

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1930, Page 5

PRESIDENT HOOVER

A HOMILY. [United Rress .Association. —By Electric Tel*graph-i-jGopyright]. , , .((Received’this day at 10 a.m.) -v- ---. ;J: ;• Washington, . October 7.-, v At Kings Mountain (North Carolina) President. Hopyej: delivering . an address on, , the : occasion'.of the 15,0 th -anniversaryof, the; battle of Kings Mountain said.—“L have lived among many people and observed many Governments, and from the experience of many lands -T soriletirtiies compared different governs mental systems to ours. In the American system through (free, universaleducation we. train our runners and:striyo to give them an equal start. Our Government is an umpire of fairness; The winner'is. he', who shows the most conscientious training. Not the umpire- of-despotism, nor class Government picks those • who run and also those who win. It is significant that /some 1 of these systems deny religion and seek to expel it. I cannot conceive of a wholesome social, order or sound economic system that does-not have its root in-religious faith. It would be foolish for me to stand :here and .say our political, social system, works perfectly. It does not, the. human is not -perfect yet.” Continuing, Mr Hoover said.—“ While we cannot permit any foreign person, of agency to undermine our institutions yet we must look to our own conduct that we do not weaken our own institutes by. our own failure to uphold and safeguard America. The world about us is. tormented ivith spiritual, economic struggles that attend changing ideals. Systems and old faiths ar jbeing shaken but we must follow our own 1 destiny. Our institutions are a growth and we can follow them with confidence. Our problems are of growth not-of decay.