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EARLY HISTOR\IS RECALLED4*********iC'-\irued from Page 1 1oar communitv ancestor? and oathof us hero present ha« had ’ 'c orhor par*: in making’ our municipal-jitv what it is today. ‘Honor andfame from no condition rise, A ct*wr]! thy part, ‘here all the honorlies.’ (*4wrenoe is to be greathgratulaled in her community an-cestors. The fmmrVr of th' t ,vnand her early settlers were menand women of strong character amsterki g \ r‘i * n. r * - : mi w * m» :i\vh wrro po.« ■ od of princinb »and v.ho worked out their destinies here ir*o a living pattern which! will eternally stand a*- their ever-[ lasting memorial. Not nly arel they to be remembered bv bricka: ; ’one however w mdemu] sucha monument may be, but whenmortal memories must nerish. faithand devotion live on forever.“We mee* today to mark withfitting ceremonies, another epoch in the life of Lawrence. Our cityshould ho tru] proud to numbtr!among our citizens, men of suchpurpose, such devotion, such unselfish ideals, that they have givenof their time and money to makepossible the present occasion.“The building itself, however,apart from its ultimate beauty anda ■ end ant measure * f usefulrv -to the town, is to he more regarded as an evidence of the evcr-ex-istent spirit of community prideand progression—a spirit of £♦ ifsacrifice.“Only when a people getwrapped up in their own selfish interests, when they are swayed onjy by that which appeals to their personal possessions, is a communi yin serious plight. When men canopen their pocket books for rh»I %general good, and from a largeroutlook of comm n interops g:of their substance, then indeed arev p to realize the ' tab the
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Lawrence Daily Journal World
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Sat, Aug 22, 1925
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