Show GOOD CITIZEN Principles of Good Citizenship Must Be Practiced in Own Home This I. I f ih tb the un 1111 sit t 1 s a ul at 1 10 from fem th lbs lb b boe kl l O GhI n f CU- CU l lien n b br by T Tb ne lot Ui r and an nd dUn dille f 1 as a. The ninth promise of ot a good citizen citizen citi citi- zen rent I will practice and teach the principles of good citizenship right in my own home Our country when you come como right down to It Is Just a lot of families In the family ate are cradled the cardinal virtues that enable good food families to add up to a 9 great nation nation- standards oi of conduct r eT e e. e T for tor t the h e rf rights g h t sand and property oi of q others loyalty loyal ty health tolerance tolerance tol tol- tol- tol erance cooperation cooperation coop coop- self- self reliance good breeding and a sense of 01 the fitness fitness' of things SUGE R O OBy By INEZ GERHARD GERHARDA A ADBY 7 BUY BEY LEWIS appears regularly o on four tour NBC shows shows Road Road of Life Lite Eternal Light The Big Story 8 a and n d Storytellers Playhouse Play Play- house portrays cooks crooks young oung girls and old women with equal ease She sometimes does two very different characters on onI I k a S i t t'S t'S S 4 JL ABBY AnBY LEWIS the same air show Abby gives the credit for tor this ability to her father tather who was a preacher and missionary in New Mexico when she was a child She often tagged along on his missionary trips and afterward impersonated impersonated impersonated im im- im- im personated the people shed she'd met that day The Goldbergs which has already already already al al- al- al ready been on radio television and the stage and is now being made into a picture by Paramount will crop up up- next as a novel Gertrude Berg its author and star will write the book Information Please granddaddy granddad- granddad dy of ot the quiz shows might better have remained in retirement if It the programs heard since its return to the air are an n indication of what we ma may expect That painful futile effort eUort to be funn funny gets pretty tire tire- some In comparison with shows like NBC's Who Wh Wh S Said Jd That and American Broadcastings Broadcasting's Cliche CUche Club it comes out badly In principle the family must be bethe bethe bethe the keystone the microcosm the that cant of our re- re public Democracy must be based on homes bomes where the Interests of ot man woman and child chUd receive equal con con- n. n Whether In a crowded rooming house or on the farm the answer must come from men and women of Intelligence and good will who look on the successful maintenance of a family as one of 01 the greatest acts of good citizenship Just as democracy starts In the home as an obligation it ends there thereas as a reward leward To the degree that all the other duties of ot citizenship have been fulfilled your home will be your castle secure from the threat of confiscation and those in it safe from detention camps and firing tiring squads S OTIS WIESE editor of ot McCalls McCall's Magazine said In an article The home borne we all agree Is the foundation foundation foundation tion of the tho social structure And women are the bed rock under that foundation Any woman w who i o 0 achieves success as a mother has hasa a more pervasive Influence over the next generation than any cell ceU of Communists And her mothers mother's mite certainly certainty outweighs In social significance the manufacture of millions mil mU- lions of can openers The home in effect is the transmission transmission transmission trans trans- mission belt of our culture for tor ItIs it itIs itis Is there that the child learns Its Us first lessons It is the place where our social health is either insured or undermined insidiously SIN S o 0 IN CONCLUDING this series of articles one way to measure the results of our system is to add up our physical and cultural gains in everything from bathtubs to symphony symphony sym sym- sym symphony phony orchestras Although It has only 6 0 per cent of the worlds world's population population lation and less than 6 per cent of the worlds world's land area the United States has two Seventy per cent of 01 the worlds world's motor vehicles one for every four tour people miles of paved roads places of worship representing representing representing 55 religions or More than 61 per cent of ot the worlds world's telephones one for every people 2023 public schools 1720 colleges colleges colleges col col- col- col leges and universities schools for tor nearly everybody Forty-eight Forty per cent of t the h e worlds world's radios one for tor every 2 people two Ninety per cent of the worlds world's bathtubs one for every six people public hospitals five Eighty cent of the per worlds world's commercial air traffic miles of railroad more than all Europe including Russia in Asia Sixty Sixty four tour four major museums of art science and history Twentythree Twentythree Twentythree Twenty- Twenty three symphony orchestras music societies homes wired for tor elec elec- newspapers and magazines Nearly Neady 2000 radio stations Fifty million savings accounts million life lite Insurance policies This Thu article li Ii Chapter Chapler 9 and th tb Ia 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