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Future of Our Country Is Up to Each of Us!
Arc we, in our time, doing right by our country?
No.
Why !
Because too many put the cart before the horse.
Plucking fruit from democracy's tree without helping it grow.
Failing, bluntly, to be good citizens.
Harsh words. True words.
Less than 200 years old, ours is the greatest of all nations.
Under freedom's mantle, unmatchable power i in industry, finance, science, education.
Creator of life's highest standards, putting before its citizens more of everything than anybody else anywhere on earth receives.
It all just didn't happen.
It was worked for, sacrificed for, fought for.
Blood made it.
What, in our generation, are we doing to protect our country?
By spinning around in gadget-spangled autos, but having no time to vote?
By going to baseball, wrestling, fights, movies, but not having time to attend Council, School Board, Legislature, or Congressional meetings, informing ourselves as citizens?
By having plenty of time for bridge, canasta, and teas, but not helping to plan and work for the improvement of the community in which we live?
Each has a right to live his own life.
To get his pleasures and comforts in his own way.
To spend his time and money as he pleases.
Not conscience clear, however, until after he has assumed, along with the unparalleled rights.
privileges and opportunities of the democratic
process of human freedom, his right share of responsibilities and obligations.
Hours spent in taverns, in movies, in entertainment.
No minutes left for citizenship.
Only 40 per cent voting at the last primary flection to choose a governor, a senator, legis lators, judges, etc.
Russia won't lick us.
But—
We can lick ourselves.
By failing as citizens.
By not facing up to our challenge as citizens.
By letting this great system of government through which we've become so great, so prosperous— and perhaps so soft — go by default.
Some people are saying this is the year of the "big decision."
They mean, of course, another war, or peace.
These are serious, overpowering times, in community, state and nation.
They call from each a little of the time and energy for citizenship.
A great nation didn't just happen.
Some work, some time, some energy went into these things.
Negligence, indifference, turning our backs on what really made us, can destroy everything.
It's entirely up to us.
Which means —
You. And You. And You. And Me. And everybody, rich or poor, powerful or weak, with or without.
Everybody, no matter what he does, where he lives, how much he has.
Without a single exception.
(Courtesy Cleveland Press)
This spat •«• contributed by SPONSOR PVBLICATIOISS IJVC. as a public service.
18 JUNE 1951
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