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~~ ~! 7 . ° FOR RELEASE UPON DELIVERY ee CI SIO irir cri rerirririiiiritiriritrerrttririririrtrirrerr) ADDRESS OF HIS EMINENCE, FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN, AT THE SIXTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE IOWA BANKERS ASSOCIATION, DES MOINES, IOWA, NOVEMBER 10, 1954 AHHH EHEHE REECE EEREEEEEEHEREEESETEAEEEREPEEEEEEGET EEPEERESRHEFESREE LEED AMERICA AWAKE! In the days when our nation was in its infancy, one Joshua Humphreys designed and our forefathers built a warship, The Constitution. She was not the product of one state but of several states of the new-born republic, Men of many races and creeds furled her sails and manned her guns. Into her keel went the white-~oak of New Jersey; live-oak of the South gave her ironsides; and the pines of Maine and Virginia, her gallant sky-searching masts. She was the product and pride of all the colonies and she carried the hope and the honor of a young nation to protect her independence around the world, Twice re-built but still the same 01d Constitution she rides at anchor today in Boston Harbor, a reality that is a symbol, a symbol that is a reality. when her venerable timbers ylelded to the deterioration of time, wind and wave, we, a grateful nation, inspired by a famous New England poet, replaced them with new beams, yards and masts. We did not destroy, we renewed and restored her. Fellow-Americans, we have lived, grown and prospered as a group and as individuals under the Constitution of the United States, Our glorious flag te a flag of a country worth living in,