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Show "Citizenship" Is Subject Of Paper at Service Star Meet The Service Star Legion held its regular monthly meeting Friday of last week at the Odd Fellows hall. A program of unusual interest was given, as follows: Current events, Mrs. Bowen. "The Mexican Problem," Mrs. Anna An-na Grimshaw. "Sayings of Prominent People." Mrs. Atkin. "Paper on Citizenship," Mrs. C. L. Ford. Singing, "America." Mrs. Ford's paper on citizenship is printed in full below: "What is citizenship? .Of what does it consist? As time goes on, liow many more ways and means have been devised for the making of good citizens! Since the passing of the woman suffrage amendment the women have it in their power to say what shall be done in this country and we have it in our power to say whetlfer little children under school age shall slave their lives away in factories. "Any woman who fails to speak or act at the polls on this or any other momentous issue is not up to the standard of good citizenship. The women have fought for rights and privileges for years and let us not fail to use every one of these to make our influence felt for good. It is the tendency of mankind, when they reach a deadlock in an argument argu-ment to want to fight it out, and it is up to the Service Star Legion, us mothers and wives and sisters of those who lived tnrougn tne gnasuy nightmare of fighting it out, to bring the younger generation to a full realization of what this means, and to keep such things where the women will be able to say, 'We will or we will not,' where the lives of the, flower of our young manhood are so deeply concerned. Let us as citizens citi-zens of this country, use our influence influ-ence to keep our ideals in our edu-.'iiiionul edu-.'iiiionul institutions so high that at ail times our youth will realize that tl: are being educated to the point where they may work more efficient-1 efficient-1 for a livelihood and not for the purpose of grafting and leeching their livings from the ones who must toil, uneducated and unskilled tnrough lack of opportunity. "The parents are not good citizens who teach their children that thoy are being educated for the purpose of avoiding hard work. Good citizens citi-zens realize at all limes that where there is 'much given there is much required.' There are always a lot of disagreeable and unsavory tilings alung with the honor and glory positions posi-tions in this life, and let us not be !ho ones to shirk this responsibility, :ir he neutral for policy's sake. Th" sins of omission are as great at least as the sins of commission, and now that we have a vote, let us use It. It matters not which side you take: get into the habit of looking into th ise things and take a side. Church women must realize that civic righteousness righ-teousness is at least as necessary as spiritual righteousness, and we, must take the same pride in keeping our community clean and fit for our youngsters to grow up in as It Ik for us to keep our homes clean and serve the proper foods. In all the magazines and periodicals there are articles on research of every description. descrip-tion. These articles are put out by p, ojile who are educated along these different lines, and these articled tend to act as short-cuts to things we would lil:e to know but we are ! not always in a position to know where to turn to find them. So if 1 w'- make it a point to keep ourselves informed by reading. We can never be entirely in the dark when an issue is at hand on which we should take sides. All things of general interest are brought so close to us now that there is practically no excuse lor ii1-: not to be well informed, unless it is a c;ise of l'-ading the horse to water and not le-ing able to uiHkn him drink." |