208 State Papers and Addresses

you over, even some college professors may seize the opportunity in the class-
room to place questionable doctrines before you. Some of these doctrines you
will find so subtle, so sugar-coated in their promise of and easy, carefree life
and contented old age for everyone, that you may be won over and persuaded
to accept them.

You will find panaceas offered you for every ill that besets the world, and
each and every group backing such plans, either through mistaken zeal or
selfish interest, will leave no stone unturned to convince you that they are right
and that your early principles are wrong.

Remember this, that even though many, many things have changed in this
unsettled world in which we live, truth hasn't changed and doesn't change. The
basic pattern of life to which our fathers and mothers, and their fathers and
mothers, conformed their actions is just as all-important today as it ever has
been, and the penalties for transgressing the laws of truth and conduct are as
severe as they ever have been.

Economic laws have not been outmoded, even though these panacea groups
will try to convince you otherwise. We can play with these economic laws as
we will, but the fact still remains and will remain, that nothing worthwhile in
life ever has been, or ever will be, achieved without hard work, and a thorough
knowledge built up only through deep study. If you want to be sure of secur-
ing a competence in life, of being able to provide suitably for those you love
and for your own declining years, it is up to each one personally to work to-
wards this end, and to earn such a competence by displaying energy, and inita-
tive, and ability that will set you apart from the great mass that are satisfied to
take life the easiest way.

Don't yield to the siren song so prevalent today, that government will take
care of you. Sad experience, fortunately to a small degree as yet in this
Country, but to a tragic degree in other lands, as we well know, has shown that
for every privilege government grants, it exacts a heavy toll in individual
liberties.

Your future experiences will prove, firstly, that moral conduct is not only
beneficial, personally, but to the nation, and that transgressions of the moral
law bring their own penalties today as they always have; secondly, that the
young man or woman, who want to succeed today, who isn't satisfied with just
"getting by", as the expression is, must work and study as hard, possibly even
harder, than did the young man and woman of former generations; thirdly,
that the man or woman who is willing to yield even a portion of his or her
God-given personal liberties for an easier, regimented life, where government
enters into every phase of daily existence, isn't worthy to have the priceless
privileges he or she now enjoys.

We are living in troubled times, and no one knows what lies ahead for
America. It may well be that you young men and women and the thousands
of other young men and women who are stepping forth from high school and
college at this time, may be called upon to face conditions, right here in
America, that will try your souls and test to the fullest your devotion to this
Country, and its ideals.

You have been studying history, but now you may be called upon to help
make history for future high school boys and girls to study. God grant that
the havoc and devastation that have been inflicted upon so many lands may not
be visited upon America. Regardless of any emergency, however, I am confi-