Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-27
MY COUNTRY
"A Patriotic Creed for Public School
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BY DIR. Frank Crane


BY DIR. Frank Crane
am an American.
belong to the United States OF
America, and am proud Of it, be,
cause my country is great and
strong, and it's ideals are Just and
humane.
stands for liberty and against all
forms of slavery, tyranny, and I'M
just privilege.
L love my country because it Is a
democracy, where the people gov.
ern themselves, and there is no
hereditary class to rule them.
l love my country because the
feeling of the people is against all
classes, and what classes we have
are constantly mingling and break
ing up.
| love my country because It
never wishes to conquer any other
country. nor to annex any territory
that does not belong to it without
the consent of the people who live
in such territory.
/ love my country because the
only use it has for an army and
navy is to defend itself from unjust
attack and to protect its citizens.
l love my country because it is
founded on the principle of fedora
ton and not of empire.
| love my country because it is
ready to join with the other nations
of the world in a world federation,
and thus do away forever with war,
whenever the other nations are will
ing.
| love my country because it has
always been foremost in settling in
ternational disputes by arbitration.
| love my country because it asks
nothing for itself it would not ask
for all humanity,
[ love my country because it is the
land of opportunity; the way to sue
cess is open to every person, no mat
ter what his birth or circumstances.
/ love my country because the OPP
pressed of other countries are well
come here, and have all rights and
privileges of native citizens if they
obey our laws.
Hello, Aunt Julia: VIII you please admit
jolly Georgia girl into your band? l
think Aunt Julia is the best woman there
could be, don't you. ! believe will take as
subject. Birds Birds are the most beau
tiful fowls that live. They help the farm
ers in a thousand ways of which he has never
stopped to think, and they have so many
different pretty cOlors and sing such sweet
songs that we sometimes forget our sorrow.
What would we do without our cheerful
birds and still people kill them. Why cause
them sorrow and death when they do us no
harm at all. The hooking bird is my IA
vorite, they are the first you hear singing
in the spring and build their nests early.
Like most of the cousins l live on a farm
and like it fine. We live in two miles of
a Baptist church and little over one OF a
Methodist | am Baptist and don't think
| could be any other. | want to ask favor
of some one. | think ! heard some one ask,
what sort Of looking thing is she. am
just plain country cracker with dark brown
bobbed hair, have dark blue eyes and fair
complexion l am fifteen years old. my
the orphan. will stop now. Al OF the
boys and girls who care to write to n jolly
Georgia girl, and exchange photos, write TO
tMISSl RESSIE RHODES.
Eiberton, Ca, II. F. d. s, Box 81.
Dear Auntis, Cousins and all.
Here come for spring time call.
My, Listen at the wind.
Oh please. hurry aud let me in.
Oh the wind is blowing so hard,
And remember, I'm awful tired.
For many miles I've had to walk.
And many hours I'd like 10 talk:
But l guess you'd like To know how look,
II SO. put away your book:
I'm 4 little country girl.
Dark red hair without a curl;
My complexion is fair
So il matches my hair;
Ny eyes are light hlue,
So they match It, too.
My age is fourteen. and my birth.
Is October the twenty-first
But above il all,
I'm ) feet and inches tall.
Oh. my weight, just guess mine.
I am just one hundred and nine.
So II 1 have q little twin
Please open the door and,let her or he In
SO dear cousins, listen here.
| must go for time is near.
| want You all 10 write to me,
I'll try and answer if its 9S.
So good-by, and don't forget,
Your little friends in Georgia yet.
(MISSl EAIAIID JEWELL HARRISON.
Whigham, Ga, Route >. Box %
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: VIII you
please move over a little and admit two
soldiers into your happy hand of BOYS and
girls? We are both members Of the same
company snd slSo SIRE "huddieS.' What
80 Won cousins do for pastime? We play
haSehsl, football, 20 swimming snd 20 to
dances. How many Of you like musicl We