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Nile Kinnick correspondence, January-May 1942
1942-05-28: Page 03
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2 profoundly impresses me. It is not with my sense of triumph that I enter upon the duties of the office into which I am this day inducted, but with a deep sense of its duties, the wide possibilities of its influence, & my inability to approach the ideal of fitness & performance. If I can but be the servant of all, if I can with the help of others contribute something to the common good, if I can assist in making Iowa more distinguished still among the states for the desirableness & wisdom of her laws & the cleanliness of her political life, that will be something." He went on to say that the common good should be the primary aim of the action of that legislature, that human rights should be put above property rights, & that "man should be put above the dollar." He urged the passage of a workmen's compensation act, a public utilities bill, improved roads, county mgn., short ballot, better rural schools, woman suffrage, reform of court procedure, & enlarging & beautifying the capitol grounds. In his peroration he proclaimed that the subjects up for consideration of that general assembly suggested "the loosening of the grasp of human selfishness of the extension
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2 profoundly impresses me. It is not with my sense of triumph that I enter upon the duties of the office into which I am this day inducted, but with a deep sense of its duties, the wide possibilities of its influence, & my inability to approach the ideal of fitness & performance. If I can but be the servant of all, if I can with the help of others contribute something to the common good, if I can assist in making Iowa more distinguished still among the states for the desirableness & wisdom of her laws & the cleanliness of her political life, that will be something." He went on to say that the common good should be the primary aim of the action of that legislature, that human rights should be put above property rights, & that "man should be put above the dollar." He urged the passage of a workmen's compensation act, a public utilities bill, improved roads, county mgn., short ballot, better rural schools, woman suffrage, reform of court procedure, & enlarging & beautifying the capitol grounds. In his peroration he proclaimed that the subjects up for consideration of that general assembly suggested "the loosening of the grasp of human selfishness of the extension
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