Show PATRIOTISM P. AND J MILITARISM Spokane Review The Tho protest ma made mado e the tho other day h bj hI some somo good people n against placing toy soldiers al and guns gum and amid swords S In Iii the time hands of children emm did not nut find an echo at a recent meeting of the time Ravenswood Woman's Womans club In Chicago Mrs La Verne erno Noyes one of the princIpal principal principal pal speakers said The Time schools must teach our om foreign fol element to be patriotic as us tit th y may some day be called caled caledon on to represent out our 0 country In imi war Other addresses mado madu by y the women were wei-e on omi such subjects as Time The Story of the time Flag and Deeds of or Heroism and amid Bravery It I will wl be he said that the time Inculcation of oC patriotism 1 Is always commendable but that the time creating eating of ur a military mitry spirit Is not hot a necessary part of or D patriotic teaching It I would be le difficult however to tell the stor story of or th time the flag fag I without t reference to the great struggle 10 which gave ha e birth to th the flag Hag and to that later struggle which whelm kept it i flying over the time whole nation It I would be he difficult to tell tel of deeds of ot heroism and bravery and omit omi all al reference m to the time thear war ar heroes The Time shoo school children of or Spokane are arc being led ee to study the lives of or the great men of or the tho nation naton an and amid in contrast with wih thc thc-m. the deeds and fate of such uch men as Benedict Arnold traitors to the time country The Time les lessons ons therein taught can cami not be separated from the time wars In which records of or honor or 01 treachery were rc made It I is in iii fact Impossible to Imbue tho the children with wih patriotism without arousing something of oC military ardor In iii their breasts This Tills ardor should not be bc encouraged or promoted to an nn excessive extent The blessings s of or peace should ever over be he kept prominently promInent in view but they will have to learn that in tho the wi great eat wars in which this country countr has been engaged ed thero has been a n patriotic de devotion tic tic- voton to the time flag fag to national honor and amid to the cause of ci cl civilization vi I a. a |