BEING A CONSIDERATION OF THE GUARANTEES OF LIFE, LIB- BY MARTIN J. WADE Judge of the United States District Court WILLIAM F. RUSSELL Dean of the College of Education, State University of Iowa ANNOTATIONS BY CHARLES H. MEYERHOLZ Professor of Social Science, Iowa State Teachers Callege IOWA CITY, IOWA "THE CONSTITUTION IS OUR CHART." "These are unsettling, swirling times. The air is filled with strange cries, and stranger doctrines confront us, preached by men with unfamiliar names, preached with a passion that is startling, preached with a tenacity that is menacing. We have just emerged from a great struggle into which we threw our very life blood. It was a dislocating, profoundly disturbing time in our national life. We are reeling out of it, trying to regain our poise, trying to recover those temperate and moderate processes which spell security and happiness. It is not a time for repining, but it is a time for very sober reexamination of our processes, of our resources, moral as well as physical, and a very careful examination and consideration of what our true objectives are. It is very hard to block out a course unless you have some conception of what your destination is, and it is very difficult for us to exercise good judgment as to men and measures unless we have some normal standard of what we consider good. What is our objective? What are we trying to do in all this turmoil and all this pressure of conflicting forces? Why, we are trying to get back to the Constitution, to our institutions that have spelled security to the decades and have been the source from which we have derived our happiness and well being. The Constitution is our chart; let us love and venerate the Constitution by a renewed vision of study and examination of its blessed provisions."-BAINBRIDGE COLBY, Secretary of State. |