Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-10-07
SAYINGS or LARRY no.
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Old Flag, may never eyes of mine
Gaze on your heaven-reaching folds
Forgetting what your beauty holds
OF faith and sacrifice divine;
But may see forever shine
Deep in your glory, wave on wave
The Crimson tide that howed to save
America and make it mine!
Old Flag, keep beating at my soul
With all the voices Of thy dead
Until upon my life is shed
The splendours of the final Goal
whose r, l;an, and immortal CLEAN
F1amed on shear vision and their
OF life made clear and lands made
whole.
Old Flag, bend down from thy pure air
And guard the altar Of my heart
As quietly turn apart
To give to you an hour of prayer;
Then life me to the glory there
About Gods star-encircicd throne
Where shall find yon. lovelier grown
Within his deate 81 S ! love end care
No man deserves success or happi-
ness who does not feel and believe and
live every minute Of every day, this
faith: 81 live in the best city man
can find; and in the best state, and in
the best nation, and in the best world.'
Our city, county, state and nation
IS not something apart from US. 1t is
something Of which we arc part. we
a1e in the firm. We arc stockholders.
We must give some service to the bust
ness, or we have no right to share in
the dividends.
I cannot possess thing unless love
it, and serve it in the name of love.
America is not My Country, unless l
love it and serve it faithfully.
Every day of the year ought to lie
AMERICA DAY.
In every city and village of the Unit
ed States, the bodies Of brave boys are
being buried. They died for the Unit
ed States They expect that the rest
Of US will live for the United States In
earnest service and with high honor,
and sublime patience. Let us not
mock their sacrifice by our indifference
to the interests Of our country, insists
happiness, prosperity and humanity.
Let us make patriotism in Anne RIGA
mean life and not word. = <
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We talk much of Americanization
work,~yet do we give our own children
a proper opportunity to know what it
means to he truly Americana How
many boys and girls get through school
with any definite understanding Of
American history in it's essential mean
ing, or with deep-seated conviction
Of American sentiment which makes
them enthusiastic to support American
ideals and institutions? In how many
schools and colleges is the study of
American history conducted vitality and
Interestingly, so that it arouses in the
student genuine enthusiasm
1 asked "a high school boy about it.
He said that the boys love for his
tory, if he had such love, is deadened
by the fact that before he comes to
American history, he has to wade
through dreary lengths Of ancient his
tory, and that the dullnes of the his
tory of Rome, Greece, Chaldea and
other ancient places, as such history is
written, makes the very word history
obnoxious. Why not have American
history taught, and taught interestingly
at the very beginning Of SCHOOL life
taught in way to give it relation to
the everyday life children are living9
Pick up the average text book on
American history. What is in it, A
collection Of paragraphs, mere skele-
ton of fact. No CLEAN in it; no simple
and appealing exposition of principles.
All student gets from it is dates and
a smattering Of names and places. How
seldom is there word that thrills the
student to a new realization Of the pa
geantry and drama Of history, with it's
heroism and martyrdoms and dedica-
tions. = -