Show Iv The Tie That Binds go goThe The unit of society is not the individual In in- Individual but the family As AP a very Ivery old writer says God set the solitaire in the family The family was waa the thebe be beginning n ing of civilization rn n.-rn t began the exercise of authority and the lesson of obedience It was from the family that the tribe came into being and in the patriarch at the head instead of the father In time the tribe became a nation and civilization civilization civil civil- entered upon its final stages The government first absolute absolute absolute ab ab- ab- ab solute and then conditioned which is rapidly passing away in these days and giving place to democracy was simply the system of f family mily government government govern govern- ment applied to the state It will therefore be seen that fundamentally fundamental fundamental- ly Iy y and essentially the family is the unit of society an and the beginning of civilization One of the chief elements entering into nto the greatness of our American life Ufe is the strength an dignity of the American home The American people people peo peo- pIe more than any ny other people Inthe in inthe inthe the world are predisposed to keeping the home fires burning This universality universality uni uni- of the observance of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- giving both evidences this fact and emphasizes it We know of no other people who have a homecoming day which is observed not only by the people people people peo peo- throughout the whole whale nation but t by its sons and daughters who have 3 gone abroad and who are domiciled fn j strange lands Thanksgiving is the 3 day of the apotheosis of the AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican home Today we it burn urn our incense on its alters and 1 worship it So long as the American i home exists and Thanksgiving Day f has its universal observance just so 0 long are out American liberties safe and our national life Ufe secure i j |