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June 5, 1920 
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Patriotism on a Sure Foundation 
An Old Friend. —It seems to me not 
so very long ago, as I look back, but we 
were in the early sixties when The R. 
N.-Y. began to come to our home in 
Western New York. At that time it was 
published in Rochester, and it was quite 
different in size and shape then from what 
it is now; but its coming was looked 
forward to then by the hoys and girls of 
our farm home just as eagerly as it is 
new. In fact, for some reasons we 
watched for the paper more wistfully in 
those days than young folks would be 
likely to watch now, Jor it brought us the 
latest news from the great Civil War then 
in progress. 
Watching for the Flag. —At the top 
of the first column of one of the pages 
of the paper we loved so well, in those 
days appeared a pretty picture of the 
Old Flag. How it used to stir our hearts 
just to look at that beautiful Hag, with 
its folds rippling in the breeze! Up in 
the attic of our home now we have the 
files of The R. N.-Y., and when I get 
them out and look at the pages which told 
the story of the war, and especially when 
I cast my eyes upon that flag up in the 
corner, the old enthusiasm comes back to 
me. I wonder if the boys and girls of 
our day know just what was the spirit 
of the young folks of 1SC0 to 1865? 
The Flagstaff by the Road. —Would 
the boys of today do as my younger 
brother and I did. go a mile from home, 
cut a pine pole and drag it all the way 
they can lead the nation out of the 
shadows through which it is just now 
passing. I do not mean that we are to 
shut our eyes blindly and go where every 
leader says “Come!” As long as we are 
free men we have the right to watch our 
public officials and bring them to account 
if they do not measure up to the right 
standard. But it is quite another thing 
to be all the time finding fault with ex¬ 
isting conditions. By all means are we 
to stand true for the principles upon 
which our government was founded. And 
in every word we speak we are to be 
sane and sound and reasonable. 
The Hidden Sailor Suit. —May I tell 
this little story to illustrate what I mean? 
While the war was going on. after a few 
days’ absence from the farmhouse we had 
been occupying during the Summer 
months. I missed a suit of work clothes 
I had left upstairs. We hunted every¬ 
where and could not find “hide nor hair” 
of that suit. From some other things 
that had happened about' the house, we 
were quite sure that it had been entered 
while we were away; but why should 
anybody take that poor old suit in prefer¬ 
ence to some other things of greater 
value? After the frost came that Fall, 
one day mother came in from the back¬ 
yard holding in her hands a bundle of 
something blue she had found under some 
wilted bushes. When that package was 
unrolled we found that it was a complete 
suit of sailor clothes. The cap was there; 
A Group of Farm Babios. Fig. .19 J 
hack and set it up by the side of the road? 
Would they feel that it was just the 
thing to swing at the top of the pole a 
piece of muslin with stripes painted by 
hand in red, and stars of white cut out 
and sewed upon the field of blue by 
mother’s own fingers? It was a very 
humble sort of a flag, hut it looked beau¬ 
tiful to us six hoys and girls, and I know 
the young folks of the neighborhood loved 
and respected it just as much as we did. 
It preached its sermon of loyalty faith¬ 
fully to every passerby. And after the 
message came that father had giveu his 
best for the country and laid down for 
the last time in the Southland, our flag 
seemed even dearer to us than before. 
Now it spoke of a nation whose unity 
had been bought with a price—the price 
of a father’s life. 
A Teacher of Patriotism.—The R. 
N.-Y. of those days was what it always 
has been since, a teacher of pure and un¬ 
alloyed patriotism. I well remember the 
fine bits of literature its column con¬ 
tained. Snatches of some of them come 
to me now, after the lapse of more than 
50 years. We learned many of them to 
speak at the little white seboolhouse that 
my father built before he went into the 
army. Uot one word that. I ever read 
from the pages of our best-loved paper hut 
rang true as gold. 
A Need of Our Day. —And that brings 
me to what I want to say. Sometimes 
my heart is hurt a little hit by the expres¬ 
sions that are dropped by some who do 
not, I really think, know just what the 
effect of their word will be upon the 
young people, and, no doubt, upon some 
of older years, by way of criticism of our 
country and the men who are trying, as 
I believe most of them are, to do the best 
so was the neckerchief, and in one of the 
pockets was a card bearing the name of 
a man and a battleship. Little by little 
we put things together, and con elm I <11 
that the mystery of the stolen suit could 
he solved. Some boy had deserted from 
his post of duty ou the man-of-war. He 
had found his way 1100 miles out into the 
country, had come to this old house and 
thought out the plan of hiding his iden¬ 
tity by exchanging his fine suit of navy 
blue for that old suit, of mine. Then he 
went on. God only knows where. 
Who Should Wear the Suit/—T hat 
suit was made of good cloth. It could 
be made over iuto a suit for the little 
ap of the farm, and somebody sug- 
Sted that; hut something in me re¬ 
lied aganist the idea. “No,” I said; 
hat never shall be! We will not do 
i.vthing that will make our little man 
ink every time he puts that suit on. ‘I 
1 wearing a deserter’s clothes.’ ” w no 
mid wish to plant a stigma like that on 
e heart-of a boy? We never would 
it! 
Influences That Last. — For the 
lallest things have a lasting influence, 
ords are remembered. Actions mold 
aracter. What you and I say in the 
esence of our boys and girls somehow 
other works out in character. That 
tie flag up in the corner of the paper 
it something into the web and woof or 
e life of the hoys and girls who saw 
The fine, true articles published and 
mm it ted to memory did much toward 
lildiug up a body of men and women 
(lose hearts were like pure gold. So 
is is the thought 1 : Be watchful over the 
ings you say. Let even the meditations 
your heart be “true and righteous alto- 
