Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1917 — We Must Know Meaning of Americanism Before We Can Teach It to Others [ARTICLE]

We Must Know Meaning of Americanism Before We Can Teach It to Others

, Editor and Authoress

By HONORE WILLSIE,

Brforewbuwn van .ea,l. . Inklren llw nwanmg V 4 mu“t first understand it themselves. . I I Eope more «.™> understand it than na-n-that is, Hum men 1 Ued 1 have asked men it. almost every walk of life, and what do y u ‘snpliose'l got „an average answer? That an A»»r.«u was a num knew how to get rich quick. ; . . , ' H’s up to the American woman to think out for hermit means to be an American before she attempts to teach ber else schildren what itTmeanrt wish thatwt-niight have an American a national erped mind of the men who wrote and signed our Declaration of Independence. , , • ~ I believe women are coming forward splendidly through their organisations and offering their services, but 1 believe that service can and will be even more completely mobilized. • ■ , There is one thing women must not forget—that the. most important thing they can mobilize is their sex. Now more than in times of peace women owe it to their country to bear children, and to bear them intelligently And whpn they have borne them, it js their sacred duty’to bring tliem up in a full understanding of the ideals om which our fathers built