HE CHOSE FREEDOM
A humble workman in America has given his friends and the whole world something to think about. An Italian who left his homeland as a little boy of nine and emigrated to America, Frank Itusoti, fought with his adopted country during the Great War and then became a inillworker in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The other day his father died leaving the son a fortune on one conditionthat he should go back and live in Italy. But Frank Rusoti is quite satisfied and happy with his freedom in America. "1 would rather be a millworker in Kalamazoo," he says, "than lose my freedom," and he has renounced the fortune. Another man had the same kind of thought 400 years ago. He was Edward Dyer, who loft us these lines: Somo have too much, yet still do cravo; I little have, and Heck no moro: They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give: They lack, I have; they pine, I live.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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176HE CHOSE FREEDOM New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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