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Show AUXILIARY SPONSORS PROGRAM FEATURING "AMERICANISM" "Americanism" was the subject of a program given by the American Amer-ican Legion Auxiliary at a meeting held on Monday evening, February Febru-ary 2 5th, in the banquet room of the Liberty hotel. A short talk was given by Mrs. Wanda Snow, chairman of the Americanism committee. The prize winning paper for grammer grades was read by Miss lone Blazzard, and the prize winning win-ning paper of the Junior High was read by Miss Carol Cox. A vocal solo. Miss Ella Empey, and a minuet dance by eight boys and girls under the direction of Mrs. Helen Painter, were given. The remainder of the evening was spent playing rook, high score prize being won by Mrs. Marie Atkin At-kin and consolation by Mrs. Violet Esplin. The program committee consisted of Mrs. Wanda Snow, Mrs. Elsie Hafen, Mts. Lillian Short, Mrs. Mabel Sullivan. Mrs. Rozilla Andrus, Mrs. Delia Ford-ham Ford-ham and Blanche Sullivan. Following is the paper written by lone Blazzard. Carol Cox's will appear in a later issue. Patriotism is shown by each person in his own individual way, but if truly patriotic, each is loyally loy-ally putting his country's good ahead of his own selfish interests. Patriotism is something fine and strong calling out the best in human nature, and for us Americans, Am-ericans, it means not only love of (Continued on last page) PATRIOTISM (Continued from first page) country and lovei of freedom, upon which our nation has been nourished nour-ished and has grown strong, but also to be patriotic to one's self, his friends, his school, his community, com-munity, his state, his nation, and his flag. If we read about the past days of our country, and the wonderful growth of our nation, we see that there are some men and women who stand out as leaders in each of various periods. They had high hopes for our country, and worked unselfishly to make their hopes real. Without their service, America would not be what it is today. In the earlier days of our nation, na-tion, the founders of this land often of-ten endured great hardships so that they might establish a great and powerful nation of free people. peo-ple. During the great and terrible war in which our nation has taken part, the leaders worked diligently diligent-ly and many men cheerfully laid down their lives to preserve the freedom of our country. rh our present time of depression, depres-sion, President Roosevelt and other leaders have organized and are organizing associations to give work to those who cannot make a living elsewhere, to support those who are unable to work ana nave no means of support, to lend money to enable people to build homes, to reduce the number of criminals, to put money into circulation, cir-culation, and to raise the standard of living. They have also organized organiz-ed many other important associations associa-tions for the good of the people in an attempt to save our country from this financial depression. I, therefore believe it is our duty to our country to educate ourselves so that we can see more fully the necessity of being successful suc-cessful in life and to earn a good living without being on the "relief," "re-lief," and the necessity of saving for the time when we shall no longer be able to work and support sup-port ourselves. A person who has had an education can see the good of preventing wastes, supporting the constitution of the United States, obeying the laws, and preventing pre-venting crime. If we always work for the best good of ourselves, our1 church, our school, our community, our state and our nation, we will be showing our patriotism and we will help every one to become a better citizen and leave our nation free, and also greater and more powerful than we found it. |
