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UF00083756_00017_pdf.txt

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IOTION FIRE com
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8 NOVEMBER, 1951 7

It is 15.312th pleasure for me to hpve a small part in this
ceremony or equation. we meet here sedge to launch; spiritually,
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n a battle for theacegmon defence-against a cannon enemy. we meet









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more to pay our raspedts unseltigm~ group of citizens who
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have voluntarily} for the Host part, dedicated their time, energies,
and talents to cm. mines of this agency for: service.

The um; history or dictum PecucIm to the. fireman's
axe is a variation on the. which playing a pm today.
It is a story of endle'as t mteriia environment.
Sometime it has been an inoividgglefortIIgye that o; Ariatotle
or Edison, but more often it hai hih a group effort like this--men
Joining hands to do new whiohindividuslly thesv canngt

complish, or can accomplish very poorly; But alway} as here, it
. is an effort made by {the have the great good crtune. to stand
on the shouiaars of the past; with their faces to the future. We
' start our life, aha all our enheavors if we have the good sense,

eased. We do ourselves a grave injustice when we attempt to meet
the problems of today with the tools of the past. we pay architects
substantial sums to design for us buildings which are sound, efficient

..-and comfortable. We pay contractors to see- that the execution is as
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R and as the plan. We provide vocational schools and apprentice
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rograms to insure a supply of competent workmen. It would seem to






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me to be the better'daart or mean to go the last mile-to provide

adequate tra ing for those whose Job it is to prevent and minimize

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some have questioned the advisabilitf or State entering into
} this, for-us, new field. :1 sergejhat historically fire-fighting has

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.! been a magicin hmctidy {heartily- welcome those who wish tp view

H carefully every extension or 'goveraneital functions in our already
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lover-organised society. 731% it to'he that taco-but follow the
.dictatea- or cannon smse 'in Joinim to do here what
we cannot afford to do individually,:'or.evah calamities. This
advance imposes no new matinee on any one, must; no new
. feudal estates. we, do but. provide better for the common
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I Iuishthatinallthingamyereonaasoundjroundsssweare
: in this progect. Re are not trying to we the "War" wisdom
' or the bureaucrat t'or tin initiative and enterprise of
' the I sometimes M1 the conceit of those persons
I who snowball a bare majority in a political election, which may be no
- more than a choice between evils, into a mandate to substitute their
. mm ideas or social Justice for those of our foundihg fathers. It is

:Q difficult to read into the verbose pronouncements or some who strut



momentarily across the political stage an answer to the persuasive
philosophy and logic of the immortal authors of the Mutation of
Independence and The Federalist Papers.
Nor are we trying here to contribute to a political machine.
There has grown up a regrettable and almost universal tendency to regard
,, public funds and opportunities as the sacred preserve or the successful
candidate, when actually they are or course assets held in trust for

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ran the/pea}; or an .919de How and I an: the: idea has been
disregarded here, .en true manner: tumed over the firemen or the
i State to use ao1e1y. 1n training themselves for the laminate benefit
or allthe people or ,an 8tete.- Myouuefl em have been
} counts in the all. or Jgolpon r In 13 in no-wiee

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responsible. and Weueerfzwemu to 'be Mandated that no

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bee 50.1me the prosauqmgq e1 you and 8011,
not w' gnemoutim. It hurbeen a, freqeent Wtion that in
the process or. at 1:113:05 18 so papular with many
who are the trustee-"or govem? n am 3 e- substantial brokerage
see-e to be one page or "social to benefit weithor or
those who have coined new at tho;e'wl;o,'m 1n '

It is meteblehat we murai'eo aside: the place which any
new mm endeavor has in our nation's plane and needa for
defense -- we are e peace-1061313 people, and love. to (force the thought
elf war from our nude; But lino: .. met eo amneiat, how

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