The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-04

Patriotism is the love of home. There is one little corner of the earth that you love above all others. Mothers that is where your home is. Sometime you may be far from it, but you will never be beyond the thought of home. Your home Mothers is your own corner of the world. All the beatings of your heart. are wrapped up in it. The things you dreamed in those golden days, the longings, the hopes, the expectations, go back home. It is the shrine of all that is happiest and noblest and best in all the chords of memory, in all the stirrings of your heart. And so my dear mothers when we call our country our Homeland it is something more than name.
 We love it as we love no other land. The very soil seems dear to us. It is a second mother to us all, and as you love your mother so you love your land.
 Love Our Homes
 We love our home because it shelters us, and SC we love our land.- We must be free to think and do the things we will we must be free to live the life we wish to, live; and it is. to our dear country that we owe our freedom. It builds about us walls of strength that we rarely see and let an enemy appear and cur land is en- circled as by ring of steel. It is no small thing mothers that our country does for us in guarding our right to civilized life. We should realize what our govern ment means. And the things we must never forget is that it is not some power outside ourselves that makes the differences be- tween the United States and other countries. But mothers it is our- selves. It is we whc make a na- tion strong or weak. And so moth- CTS we owe it to our country to keep it strong. All the liberties we have our country has given us.
 We are free because men have toiled and suffered that we should be free. All the pleasures we en- joy our country has given us, it has made one land impossible for tyrants and put the powers of happiness in our hands. Patriot ism is the desire to make your country the best in the world. It is certainly not to believe blind ly in your country whether right or wrong. There are more shallow people than you can count, who think themselves fine patriots because they can stand up in market places or shout in parks, or write in papers. Those unpa- triotic words-My country, right or wrong. They are the enemy's and not the friends, of their coun- try who say that. No friend of a nation supports it in wrong doing. For wrong-doing strikes at the heart of nation and in the end will bring it down. The surest way to help our country to be great is to help 1t to do right. And so mothers l say to you once again that he is the truest patriot who fearlessly supports @ right eous cause in these dark hours when 1t happens to be unpopular. Tn all great nations such a time will come, and those who love their country for the nobility of It's spirit, the richness Of It's ser- vice to humanity, It's staunch de- yotion to the vital welfare of the common race, must weep and not rejoice when a country for- gets and fofsakes these things as countries sometime do. Once in the history Of the United States tho same cry Of tho shabloD pat. riot came within an ace 0f lIns perlllng the freedom 0f millions 0f people and the aagtinles of the American nRtloD, On Che eve Of the Civil War ibeP0 passed through the House of Representa- lives at Washington, \ resolution which would have forbidden al amendments 70 lha Constitution dealing With slavery except lhese proposed bS the klnvephaldlng eisieA Az ihs loHndeIs q ills