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Show An IdenI American. What this country wants now is men not a few of them, but a multitude a vast majority of her citizens who shall be Just such men as Theodore Uoosevelt, of strong and rugged physique, shirking no labor, however h-ird, able to stand the strain nf sturdy Integrity, guided by high civic hb-ils, fttnudlug indexible and Inexorably for the truth and the right. His own words from his nddrcss, "Tho Strenuous Life," may bo taken as the very basis nnd foundation for a new source of philosophy mid tiatiounl policy which will guard ugiint all social dingers din-gers If tho peoplo of this country will but heed them: In the last nnslysls, a healthy state ran exist only when the men and women who make It up lend clean, vigorous, brnltby Mies; vi hen the children am so trained tint they shall endeavor not to shirk dlUleultles but to overcome them, not to seek fuse but to know how to Ytri't tiluiuph from toil and risk. The mnn must be glad to do a man's stork, to dare sud endure snd to labor, to keep himself and to keep those dependent upon htm. The woman must be the home wife, the helpmeet of tho home-maker, home-maker, the w!v and sealous mother of many healthy children. Here Is a remedy that goes to the foundation. The words are those of a lender and carry with them a warning and an admiMillioii. Theodore Uoosevelt has coined a word that we should take ns a nnllonal watchword nnd set it up as a beacon light on every hilltop throughout the nation: "Homemaker." |