Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . - and navy it protectsthe state from foreign aggression, and it as-sures the safety of our citizens when abroad;but it enters into the daily life of the in-dividual, except as he feels indirectly theeffect of federal taxes and through the post-office department, not at all. It is the statethat guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuitof happiness to its inhabitants and that deter-mines the relationship of man to man withinits boundaries: it is the state that determinesthe domestic relations; that educates our. EUGENE FRANKLIN THOMPSONSecretary, Pr
Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . - and navy it protectsthe state from foreign aggression, and it as-sures the safety of our citizens when abroad;but it enters into the daily life of the in-dividual, except as he feels indirectly theeffect of federal taxes and through the post-office department, not at all. It is the statethat guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuitof happiness to its inhabitants and that deter-mines the relationship of man to man withinits boundaries: it is the state that determinesthe domestic relations; that educates our. EUGENE FRANKLIN THOMPSONSecretary, Presidents Office children; that protects the weak and defense-less; that punishes the criminal; that cares forand nurtures the dependent and helpless. It isthe state that enacts the laws governing com-merce and business and provides themachinery of local and municipal governmentwhich, in the cities at least, affects us andcontrols our conduct most of all. So nicelyhas this power of the state in local govern-ments been distributed through various sep-arate agencies that we sometimes lose sightof the fact that these agencies are state agen-cies, and that our city and county govern-ments and our school boards are but agenciesof the state, performing the states , then, can a wider field for activity befound than in the affairs of the state or cangreater reward follow faithful and efficient service, or where can we accomplish more forour fellow-men than in the service of thestate? It seems to me that we have lost muchthrough the decadence of th
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