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Show PATRIOTISM Let the definition of Patriotism Patriot-ism stand for the dying for one's country, no matter what the cause for a war may have been. All honor and glory to those . who on those bloody and shame- , - f ul battlefields, through no sin of their own, gave their precious lives that some passion, either of their own or of their enemy's demanded their, sarifice. No matter what the cause, the reward re-ward of honor is theirs who fell. A"d while the battlefield on which they fell may have been the deepest Hell of dishonor to those who planned it, it was the highest Heaven of honor to those who died on it Yet after ' all we go on to define Patriotism as something more than dying for one's country. It is a very strange and sad fact that many "'riititzens who shout loudest on the Fourth of July are very " silent in face of national injustice injus-tice and national selfishness. If Patriotism means love of one's own country, what shall we say of the man, who for the love of money, profitees in a necessity like food or fuel. If patriotic cititzens are noted for self denial ; . in the interest of the common ' welfare, what shall we say of those citizens who from partisan or political purposes, exalt their own party schemes above the national good of all the people? l; There are traitors just as much r ... in times of peacts in times of , war. But the men who betray their country's good along the - route of greed and passion are ah army. It is not Fourth of July "pifle" to say that, to thou-' thou-' sands of so called good cititzens "Patriotism" is the love of one's coun try's goods, instead of one's I cuntry's good. TOWN OFFICIALS OF BINGHAM BING-HAM CANYON Dr. F. E. Straup, President. Boyd J. Barnard, Treasurer. ,F. W. Quinn, Clerk. ! Board Members, Boyd J. Bar- nard, Dan Fitzgerald, R. H. Ken-ner, Ken-ner, J. A. Wright. ' .Town Marshal, W. F. Thomp son. ( " Night Patrolmen, John Mitchell Mitch-ell and Thomas Mayne. Water Master, Wm. Robbins. Health Officer, II. N. Stand-' Stand-' ish. |