Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1917 — THE NEED OF A NEW PATRIOTISM [ARTICLE]

THE NEED OF A NEW PATRIOTISM

By PROF. W. D. HENDERSON

of University of Michigan.

We must have a new patriotism. The great factors tending to patriotism are the home, the school, the chu'fch, ,the and, last, the trained woman of leisure. No nation can live without home life. The damnation of American people today is their lack of efficiency and education. We must have schools with a deeper purposeour churches must have nobler purposes, taking in the people of all classes. Newspapers will soon come into their own, as is shown by the editorials and in the interest shown in editorials! and, last but not of least importance, is the woman who has leisure to attend clubs and afternoon teas, etcc Thesefacfors are dominant in shaping public opinion. - Club women are women of leisure. Many have been educated on an equal with men and more are being educated every day on this basis. Why should the women who have this education spend their leisure hours doing nothing for the good of their community, while their husbands,-with the name education, work. It is said the work of the woman is the home, the churcK~ahd in the~Boeial world. It ia true,r-but every year- the home is becoming less, and more sdcial duties appear. I hold it the duty of my wife and women of education to get behind the community and keep it up. See to the things that the men do not have time to see to or that .they cannot do as women can. Look after sanitary conditions, food, paving, water supply apd such things that have to be gone after. *