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Show " HOME, SWEET HOME n a J; The word "home" has a lot of different mean- r ings, depending upon where we happen to be when we 11 use it. b I An American traveling in a foreign country t: speaks of "home" and means America. A citizen y of our state, visiting a distant city in this country, coun-try, refers to "home" and thinks of the section ti of the country in which he lives. A resident of our II town, when in a nearby state, speaks of "home" and means this particular community. And finally, final-ly, when one of us drops in on a neighbor, we mean the particular house in which we live when we refer to "home." Home thus expands or contracts in the scope of its meaning in relation to our distance from it. But all of our homes our nation, our state, our town and our dwelling are included when we speak of the things most dear to us that we are willing to risk our lives to clef end. To most of us, the private home, which includes our family, is our first consideration. We want to pro-' pro-' tect our community, our state and our nation because the safety of our private home depends upon them. In Germany and Russia the philosophy is quite the opposite. There the nation is the first consideration the private home and private individual in-dividual are dedicated toward furthering the interests in-terests of the state. There the people are the servants ser-vants of the state here the state is the servant of the people. ! To preserve that status is why we are so willing i to defend the "land of the free and the home of the brave" against any attack. The cry of "Unity!" begins to take hold, as the lbsers adjust themselves to the outlook. A month passes in which no Indian or Republican has asked for the country back. o At a school like Ohio State, that demands a football winner, the duce would have been let out after the tenth Greek touchdown. o What do you know! That old day-dream of the politicians a navy yard for every congressional congression-al district may come true! |