Show OUR HOME HOl ADVANTAGES UNPARALLELED 0 As the year 1925 draws raws to a close the United States stands as the worlds world's most nation Less than y years ars after the founding of our government we have outstripped in spiritual and ond material progress every other country on the globe The outstanding feature of our government which every American should hould appreciate is the opportunity which it offers to exercise initiative enterprise and ancl ability to develop ideas along any line of honest endeavor This is not a land of privileges for a few and oblivion for the many Any man who has energy and perseverance can rise from the lowest to the tho highest position in industry religion politics or whatever his choice may be be- beEach Each man and woman has the opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- op- op for a fair start regardless of the handicaps or disadvantages disadvantages disadvantages vantages of ancestors It is no wonder that a nation where every family can set its own goal to strive for without hindrance from either political religious re re- or social sources should have developed in a manner unparalleled un un- paralleled in the worlds world's history As the family of plain John Smith gathers around its bountifully fully filled Christmas or New Years Year's dinner table ft should it-should should bear bearin bearIn in facts The Smith home will be typical of millions of other American homes It will be warmed by a modern heating plant Dinner will be cooked on an efficient stove which in many instances will be bo heated by gas or electricity Water for the table will come through modern plumbing from sanitary sources which furnish an unending str stream am for all household purposes including the modern bathroom which has placed American Am homes head hend and shoulders above those of other PI tion j Ji M. M Music during the meal may be by a piano phonograph phonograph phonograph graph or or r the more modern radio which will bring to the dinner table the opera news music or lectures from points which may maybe maybe maybe be actually thousands of ot miles distant In the evening the home will be flooded with light through pressing a button and the telephone that indispensable article to the American family will offer communication with loved ones or friends friends' who may be in inthe the h. h A t nex next f city 1 block or miles A- A An A across n c the J. J h continent on inen I After dinner cUnner the family amity will viti probably take takeout out the automobile whether it bo be a secondhand flivver ver or a enclosed palace on wheels and go for pr a 50 or mile ride over paved highways highways high high- ways or to som some play or entertainment as the mood strikes them Chance which in tho the past wrecked the happiness and future prospects of so many families and industries has been largely eliminated in the American home through modern insurance methods which have seen their greatest development here in order to take care of the varied needs and anel requirements of American family and business life This is not an overdrawn picture It is typical of the average home in vcr very town village and city in the United States It is so commonplace to most of us that we are prone to forget the background background background back back- ground of pf sound government which has has' made it possible But Dut at this season of the year when it is the endeavor of all the world to appreciate the blessings it it- has received it is well vell for us in this nation t to be doubly grateful fer the opportunities which we have Each of us individually should determine in our own minds to see that the structure founded by the fathers of his country not weakened but made stronger with age and that the opportunity opportunity op op- and freedom guaranteed to the individual and industry under our our constitution is not curtailed or destroyed but enlarged and strengthened d |