The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-09-21
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/ Let the father and mother answer first
what is loyalty. They give themselves
to each other and to their children be-
cause they have created the family and
they are loyal to their home. They
bring happiness to themselves and to
others.
! Let the worker answer. He gives him
self to his work because he creates that
work and he is loyal to his business
and the community Of workers of which
he is a part. He brings happiness and
prosperity to himself and TO others.
The worker includes both tho employee
and the employer. Both must be loyal
to their common work which they Gre
ate. and loyal 10 each other. because
success comes only from a community
of labor. endeavor and interest.
Let the citizen answer He gives him
self to his city. 10 his state. to his
| country because he. in conjunction with
his fellow citizens. creates these free
institutions which protect his life. his
family. his home and his property-and
the citizen is loyal to his community
and his country.
Loyalty rs giving up of self to the
things We create for the happiness and
prosperity OF ourselves and others.
There Is one loyalty that includes all
I loyalty. even loyalty TO country. TO
home. to work, to ones self.
That all inclusive loyalty is loyalty
+ 10 our Maker. the one who created Us
! When man understands his origin-that
he is made in the image and likeness of
/ Cod and that he is the distributor OF
spiritual energy, no man can help but
/ be loyal in the highest meaning Of the
word
Loyalty demands a sacrifice Of self.
George washington gave himself alb
solutely to his country that his country
and his people might win their indie
pendence and become free nation and
a democratic people.
Abraham Lincoln gave himself and
his very life to his country and his
1 people that the nation might stay united
and race of black people might be
made free.
To-Day a million Americans are offer
ing their lives to their country and their
pee ple that freedom and democracy may
be saved to the world.
These men are sacrificing their lives
to the principle of loyalty-to truth. to
honor. justice. to love. to liberty.
Loyalty demands a complete surren-
der of self The individual gives him
self TO the cause Of common humanity
'r order TO preserve the freedom of his
own individuality.
Half way loyalty will not do. No one
can serve two countries and be true to
both No one can be loyal to two
countries at the same time.
But all men can be loyal to principle
to truth, to honor. to justice. to love
TO hberty-no matter in what country
| they live.
our families come before self
Our homes come before self
our work comes before self.
Our city. our state our country. comes
before self.
I'm for myself-loyalty begins al
home" is the cry Of the disloyal man
This is the opposite. the negation of
loyalty 1t is selfshness. Such men
give themselves not to their true self
but to their inverted. distorted self
They give themselves up to narrowness
to jealousy. to envy. to hatred. TO bigo-
try. to that selfshness which is the
rankest growth Of seIfshness and dis
! loyalty.
Loyalty begins at home but it must
follow the home into whatever land Of
work we live
/ Loyalty to country follows the flag OF
| our country wherever it flies.
Loyalty to the cause of truth. OF
honor. Of justice. of love. of liberty. OF
humanity, must follow the flag Of that
cause wherever 1t files in its efforts "a
establish freedom and democracy in the
world
Loyalty to the United States on the
part of every single individual. of what
ever birth. race or creed. who lives
within our shores. is loyalty to the
highest principles Of man
Loyalty is based on both understand
ing and faith.
Those who understand what the fre'
world today is lighting against anc
lighting for will be loyal because they
( know the cause is right.
Those who cannot understand must b'
loyal through faith.
Faith can never be misplaced. If W.
put our trust in the United States as
nation. in the people Of the United
II states. and in the principles which this
country and this free people live for
and if need be are ready to Gle for.
Faith in the right. and loyalty to the
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