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Show This Peasant Woman Knows Benefits of Republicanism THERE'S not much news, t a peasant woman has just tonia. Plenty of women are o an American, in the fact that been elected police chief of Es-elected Es-elected to office here. And Estonia is "just one of those countries, over in Europe," anyway. But the election is very ' wonderful to the Estonians, ". who haven't lived in a republic very long. It is. something that never could have hap- ' pened when the country, ten years ago, was under the heel of Russia. . i We live in a republic; many . of us have never lived anywhere any-where else. And so we fail; ' sometimes, to realize the benefits. bene-fits. If a few million of us could be sent to live, for a year, in less-favored nations, we would come back more appreciative ap-preciative of republican gov-crnment. gov-crnment. Here is a picture of Es- tonia's new police chief. A few years ago she was just a " peasant, doing the hard chores on her husband's farm. Today To-day she wears an impressive :' regalia and has real power. Estonia is a very small . country, about one-fourth the size of the state of Washing--ton, with only a few more than a million people. But it owns its own railroads and,! has divided up its land among T the peasants. Many of the-farmers the-farmers are homesteading lands once owned by worth- ' less Russian "nobles," now' . Ma-' 9" 44 , 4 I w m happily dispossessed. The new woman police chief is a symbol of republican government. She typifies the fact that there is a chance for everyone in a republic ours as well as hers. A few years ago she was harnessed to a plow; today she is one of the most powerful persons in her country. That is republicanism. You should be thankful for it, : and for the chances it gives you, and everyone, for success! |