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Show ti:v(ii riiACTicvi. pathiotism Coanuunlty Development when bull, ed do n will bo found to mean unselfish un-selfish good cltlzonslilp. It Will be found to mean Just the things that tho great Kansas lidltor meant when lie wroto the following parapraphs: "If wo who llvo in these small Iouih In Acmricu cannot bco that our duty4. to our country lies llrst of nil In our duty lo our neighbors, then we aio blind Indeed to the hasls of real patriotism, for nrter all patriot-Ism patriot-Ism Is only, neighborly kindness. Pnt-roltlsm Pnt-roltlsm la.not In cheorlng for the Mag, It Is Hot In fooling our eyes filled rtlth emotional tears nt hearing "The tttnr Spangled Hnnuer," patroltlsm Is Just old 'fashioned human duty. " i'o sacrlllce our uolghbor -the man who helps tho town with Its tuxos, nllli Its -public business, with Us myriad activities for neighborly right-oousiioas right-oousiioas to Bncrillco that man uud Ids business for tho mere sake of nalng u dollar on the purcchnse or 11 hundred dollnis' worth of goods la Just as, unpatriotic as It Is to spit on the ling, "For tho flag It It moans anything means tho golden rule; tho ling meant friendly burden bearing, It means inn lunl hulp In trouble; It means standing stand-ing tBut)ier iiguliiBt common foes The motto hr the mall order horn H ivrn man for himself mid the deill laki tho liiudoriiiost and you bit tin del II wjll. "IWtl, Hiilrli never rulls to work ami li? weak man, the unprotected man tho mail nlono tho man 011 the farm at Iho end of tho fact, when his Lijin market Is gone, when Hk 1 spirit 'of HolfiBUnnss and greed has' IcH ilUfi .chuutry told nnd linrd nil' J nu .111 iJ)il nelgliborlosH the farm' v?ll bo tho hlndurmost." Win Allen White. |