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Show . i TIZIS BUSINESS & cr " iPf SUSAN THAYER HA It has given my children an education. edu-cation. "In what other land," demanded Antonio, "could my boys, Antonio's Anton-io's boys, become teachers, doctors, doc-tors, big business men? "Even president, my boys could be in America!" he declared. "That's right, Antonio," I replied. re-plied. "And that's why we're fighting, isn't it so that your children and mine can have the same freedom to make a good life, the same opportunities, that we have." Antonio nodded vigorously, as he swooped up the remaining papers. "I think," lie pronounced solemnly, sol-emnly, "best thing in this world, after faith in the good God, is to be American citizen!" The Beat Thing in the World 4 My little Italian junk man, Antonio, An-tonio, came in yesterday for a load of salvage paper. As usual, he was breezy, voluble and philosophic. phil-osophic. Antonio and I get a lot of things settled between us. This time there were tears in his eyes as he told me about his three boys one fighting in the invasion, one in the Pacific, and Johnny, the baby, about through with his training in Colorado. "If I could go to fight for America," Amer-ica," he told me, "with all my heart I would go!" "I'm sure you would, Antonio," I said. "But I amold man. So my boys must fight. "To me," he went on, "America "Amer-ica has given, much. I work hard, yes," He shrugged. "To work is good. But America has given me my home, my garden, my chickens, chick-ens, my horse and wagon, my money safe in these war ' bonds. |