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Show JUST FOLKS By Bdgax A. Osss THt MAKIVt. l V VNAKCHI! Il was a poor bewildered uth who trsv eled o'er the sea To f.rld the Joys he'd dreamed about In the land ' of llbett! Ills cheeks wer.- pale Ins fare w , drawn a hopeleiis youth he'd had, Now he had found America, the land of promise glad. But as he stepped on Freedom soil a man in legal blu" Have him a shove and ald to him Hey - Get a move on you"' Men laughed at hlni and Jeered at him Th newsboy? called him "Wop." ' He tried to ask his wy about, but no one cared to stop; Oar bossteii land of fieedom aeepiajd to him a fearful place. Where being friendless anl alone must be a dfej d:sgr.ice, "I've lunge. I tn lov e c m ri a and leurn its customs, too. ' But now that I m here " thought he, i wonder if i do" A siiangei from ins native land, whose eyes with hnie werS reil, DisceVgred hirn by chance one day and let him share his bed '1'ln lail poured "Ul hi so"1 10 him - I've dreahjiad of beinsr free. Knc no one In America has any time for hie; 1 ih.nk- the Hag is beautiful, and I COUld love il so Hut wops like n- can't .m a chance I., barn what we should know." ' Keren it. kid'" hlfl fr-n i exclaimed', 'The fjag ain't worth v.iur while! iv.akf pn Joy a I heart whm missed-. v i:or a pretfjfC Ha,- than that an it ain't made fer style. This land of "freedom's ju.st a Joke the poor a-e- rich meti s slaw. Bui we s':ll all' h;te liberty w'hen our i d ba :in r mu v.-s " Klglu there, sit then . chance to one lo Ml hfait wa. missed The I oy who tame to love the Flag Was mado an a n arch bit If w don t r i I lb. se foreign sons the things they ought to Kipjw . If cod.1 Aioerl-ans neglect the truths they tre.isuic so. If a!;-ii bir eda shall aliep s:av. un- tulorcd In .our qpeei h, Denied the chalu'e to lesrn the thing We I hoiild be proud to teach. Then men of hate will spread their creeds and fill our land wfth ahanje), FJed nnaich vlll flourish heie. and ivfe must hear the blame rp -oo |