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Illinois Valley News, Thursday, December 12, 1940
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O A NATION that can point to approximately
40% of its 130,000,000 people who own their
own homes, “Home, Sweet Home” is no mere
figure of speech. Here, home has a deeper,
richer significance than it has in any other
land throughout the world.
Since its glorious founding, America has adopted millions
of the hunted, the persecuted and the oppressed. It has
taught them the love of tolerance, the love of liberty, and
the love of being able to own and to fervently say . . .
“Our Home, Sweet Home.”
To those few who would lend any moral or physical aid
to the forces of dehumanization seeking to violate the
sanctity of our home-loving people, a united, aroused
America thunders “Beware.”
America and its home-lovers do not dread the future.
Our love of free speech, free religious worship, free
assembly and a free press is today more deeply imbedded
in the heart of each American than ever before. We
place our unbounded trust in a Providence who has
blessed us for over 150 years. We place our destiny
and guidance in the souls, hearts and bodies of our
people who will fight to the death for the freedom of
their hands, the freedom of their intelligence and the
freedom of their conscience.
We are proud to be part of the first line of defense of
American liberties ... to always stand militantly at the
side of every true American against the inroads of
doctrines seeking to destroy America’s priceless heritage.
The first of a series of patriotic messages sponsored by these stalwart Americans of
The Illinois Valley
O
KEITH OWEN
GEO. W. MARTIN
HARRY FLOYD
GEO. A. HICKS
0. W. GREEN
GEORGE THRASHER
DR. A. N. COLLMAN
L. E. ATHEY
PHIL SAWYER
C. E. LAWSON
VICTORIA JASPERSON AND
FRED KOLB
HOWARD BEARSS
BLAKE L. MILLER
M. C. ATHEY
SAMUEL SMITH
J. J. VILLAIR
LARRY MUSIL
C. Y. ARNOLD
K. C. HAMILTON
W. F. DARGER
L. H. GRIZZELL
LEW HAMMER