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 these opportunities. Everything depends ultimately upon what, at the beginning of Chapter II, was called the morale of the family. Only if the family is made of the right stuff, only if it has the spirit of self-reliance and self-help, can it hope to succeed.

There is no royal road to success any more than hare is a royal road to learning. One cannot give a household a sound, stimulating family life any more than one can give a man an education. One can only confirm a family in its ideals or show it new ones; one can only see that its desire to do things for itself, the desire of its members to do things for each other, is not weakened by an invitation to depend upon outsiders instead of upon itself. One can only give encouragement in discouragement, opportunity where there is no opportunity, hope where otherwise there might be despair.

This is what the Home Service of the Red Cross tries to do for the families of soldiers and sailors. But after all, could there be found anywhere a more helpful or a more difficult work?

1. What unusual educational opportunities have American soldiers and sailors?

2. How did Home Service help one family to prepare itself for the return of the man?

3. What should be our purpose in helping the new citizens of America, i. e., immigrants, to adapt themselves to American ways of living?

4. What is the lesson of the story of Jacques Armot?

5. Why is it that there is danger of lack of sympathy between immigrant parents and their children?