Show THE TIE lIE THAT BINDS The unit of society is not the individual but the family A Aa As AJ AJa s a very y old writ writer r says God set the solitaire ih in the family family The family was vas the beginning of civilization In it first began the exel exercise cise of authority and the lesson of obedience It was from the family that the tribe came into being and in the patriarch at atthe atthe atthe the head instead of the father In time the tribe became a n nation imd civilization entered upon its final stages The government first absolute and then conditioned which is rapidly rapid rapid- ly IY passing a away vay in these days and giving place to democracy way was simply the system of family government applied to the state slate It will wiH therefore be seen that fundamentally essentially the family is the unit of society and the beginning of civilization One of our chief elements entering into the greatness of our American life is the strength and dignity of the Ithe American home The American people more more than any other people in the world I Iare are pre-disposed pre to keeping the home fires burning The univ universality universality uni v of the observance of Thanksgiving both evidences this thid fact and emphasizes it We Ve e know of no other people who Iwho have havea a homecoming day which is observed not only not only by the people the whole nation but by its sons and daughters daughter who have gone abroad and woo are domiciled in stran strange o lands Thanksgiving is the day of the apotheosis of the American home Today we it burn our incense e on Ion its alters and worship worship worship wor wor- ship it So long as the American home exists and Thanksgiving Day has its universal observance just so long are out American lib era ties safe and our national life secure |