To me, today, at age sixty-one,, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication forandto carry on the bestimpulses which should bind us together for a better . Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish. But in our troubled time, the right of men to think and worship as theirdictates is being sorely pressed. We can retain these privileges only by being constantly on guard and fighting off any encroachment on these precepts. To retreat from any of thehanded down by our forefathers, who shed their blood for the ideals we still embrace, would be a completefor those who would destroyandfor the .

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