Evening star., 1937-07-05
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The Holiday
Spirit for
c. h i | d r e n.
Teach Them Faith in
Their Country and
in Life Itself.
RY ANGELO PATRI.

ONE Summer evening group of
men, weary with much thinking,
talking. hoping and fearing. sat in a
meeting house in the city of Phlla-
delphia. One by one they signed
paper. At last they finished the busi-
ness of creating a nation and went
out into the hot streets. The bell in
the Steeple rang. The people who
had stood on the streets for hours
cheered wildly. The United States
of America was on her way, nothing
more than an ideal, nothing more
than expression of mems faith in their
own destiny. but great, moving
force in the world
Today this ideal, clothed in all
the panoply of a great Nation, with
flags and drums an Army, a Navy,
an AIR service; a great industrial force,
a tremendous agricultural background,
host of intelligent forward looking
people, keep the anniversary of the
Nations birth.
There is much to make American
citizens thoughtful today We have
come through grave trials; we are
facing grave problems. We are beset
by difficulties unknown to our fore
fathers. We know that We are max
Ing new growth, but we do not know
what its direction is nor what its end
may be because growth takes its own
way, being the impulse of life within
the body. Not knowing, but trusting
and hoping, keeping faith with the
faith of the signers We go forward.
This Fourth of July finds us in
great need of that faith. Our chill
dren need it most of all. The con-
fusion of the times is hardest on them
for they must go forward into the un-
known future while we stay behind
in the familiar, if shaken, world we
have known. The children need faith
In their country, faith in their own in
tegrlty, faith IN life itself. as their
forefathers had.
1t is idle to talk about the lost
generation. No generation is lost
unless it wills to be lost Each genera
ton made its own way through the
world that they found waiting No
S'IiNi hNlNll CNtl iItdltu Vic Npi III IlltA
found themselves in. but all of the
generations recreated the world for
themselves. This generation may find
their work ahead of them. but they
will do it even as the generation of
the signers did theirs
The book is not closed. The es-
sence of life is its mystery. its ad-
Tho
the pages of life as they go, and there
will be as much of JOY, danger, ad-
venture, success and happiness for
them in the turning as ever there was
for others.
have no recipe for youths con-
quest of life. There is none. The
solution comes as the davs unfold
their happenings What the young
people need is faith. faith in them
selves and in their destiny. That is
what the Declaration of Independence
comes to after John Hancocks name
has been reached. 1t is an expression
Of faith in the destiny of mankind.
1t IS as right today as it was in '76,
and l am for beating the drum and
unfurling the flags in its honor and
for youths inspiration.
Mr.. Patri has prepared leaflet
entitled, Annoying Habits in which
he tells parents how to cope with some
of the common infantie faults. Send
for it, addressing your request to Mr..
Angelo Patri. Child Psychology De-
partment of this paper, and inclose a
self-addressed, stamped t3-centJ en-
velope.
tCopyright. 1879