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Caption: Convocation - 1942 Winter-Spring
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II at h oj- I mai ilai pa in oi 11 I m I to ;n< i! u-\\ • ( ot I lesl !d kcniii il ti I n acti me, ill I d( md th tl n bl( I he true I at will I the iv< mperl tnd inju in i i and ] | oik will n I humiliat I and ul I t he will i 1 his < h that j nt >n \ ,]<«• j n S i { from 1 renewed r< Ive, In the \ of Kiplii ill TliiiK indent :rifi An mbl< ind >ntri h irt . . . . with of loos 1 1 or Wild tOI tli h;p not Th< 1* Ho be with us t v. or :—lost we ! in aw have n heart that puts her trust In reekil tube and iron shard, All valiant dust that build- on dust, And guarding-, calls not thee to guard, 1 -r frantic b( and foolish word Th) rcy on Thy People, Lord! Sine* 1 have thus confessed the failure oi Democracy to attain as ultimate obj< ts, 1 may perhaj be allowed to record some of il su< In material affairs these, as everybody admits, have been astoundir. Under our democratic system of free enterprise, we have become the wealthiest people in the world. Being- only seven pernt of the world population, and occupying only six per-cent of the lobe, we own forty-live per-cent of its riches. Fourteen million of our families houses owned by themselves; 38.500,000 of us rr life insurance: and 44,500,000 have savings accounts. Seventy per- n o;' all the utomobiles in the world are ours. Amor us wealth is more evenly distributed than elsewhere. The v. . the American worker have increased fourfold during th< p nturw and hi hours of work have been reduced from an hour i week to fori). More than two-thirds oi our I ii ome is disbursed in wages and salaries. In America one , bu\ seven times as much food as in Soviet R ur v , 1( | t half tim much as in Great Britain. jn many Ameri tn children are now going to high \v ,\ . , one hundi 1 years ago. More American boys and girls ,]], ()il t( t h : m i n all of the rest of the world. The health pie never better; the death-rate from formerly dangerh itlx fallen. Even if Democracy were to be judged di srial, e >nomi and c(\u itional results. 1 believe -
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