forcement agencies at legal prosecution is
attacked by him as unwarranted persecu-
tion. He makes political capital of ad-
versity and a dupe of the innocent liberal
who pleads his defense. No ruse is too vile
to serve his heinous plets to undermine
public confidence in law-enforcement agen-
cies.
What manner of men are these creatures
who stalk in our midst? Each has his own
vainglorious master, but all serve a com-
mon objective. They seek to destroy
democracy—the great citadel of those who
believe in freedom of opportunity. They
are the real saboteurs—the saboteurs of
morale.
The antidote to their venom 1s an in-
formed and alert public. Their slurs against
our institutions and advocacy of foreign
isms must not be accepted without chal-
lenge. These treacheries should be un-
masked as the spawn of countries who re-
gard their own people as vassals of the
state.
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We must awaken! We must again be
young in mind, in heart, and in our love
and fealty to America. We must be in-
terested in preserving the soul of America.
We must make our nation again worthy
to have the eagle as its emblem, not only
of power, but of swiftness of action and of
protective preparedness. We must again
become virile and strong. We must re-
train ourselves to once more be the athletic
nation, both in mind and body, which we
believed ourselves to be. It can be done
and 1t will be done.
Throughout America, youth is awaken-
ing—the young in mind and in heart—the
young in hope, which should encompass
all of us. Young America is laying aside
temporarily the cherished plans and hopes
of careers to assume its place and re-
sponsibilities in the vibrant march of the
great army of democracy. Your fore-
fathers made such sacrifices to establish a
nation where the God-given privileges of
freedom could be enjoyed by all.
Now that freedom of not only our gen-
eration, but of future generations, is
threatened, you will have no greater
satisfaction than to dedicate your efforts
to the continuation of the principles of
Christianity and democracy. Youth must
take America tight to its heart—and love
America for its Americanism. There 1s no
way to face but forward. There should
be no ‘‘ism”’ but that of patriotism. There
1s no course but that which defends the
Stars and Stripes, and those things this
emblem stands for—not what the hyphen-
ates of the world have attempted to smear
it with in the last generation.
These foreign isms, views, and theories
are entirely alien to the spirit of America
and to everything which America has held
dear. They would have been utterly ab-
horrent to the founders of our Republic.
They should be just as abhorrent to us.
They would have been unanimously re-
jected by those who founded this country
1942
FEBRUARY,
SOCIAL QUESTIONS ANSWERED
By Arthur W. Spalding
The Child’s Social Life
Please suggest proper social life for an
only boy of five who 1s never quite so happy
as when he has a child with whom he can
play. We live in the city and there 1s one
Little girl living next door. She 1s younger
than our boy, and seems like a good child,
though I can’t be sure as she has been sick
all the time since we came. My lad 1s very
sociable and will call in any child he sees to
play with ham, if I allow it.
You are describing my grandsons, dear
mother. I greatly admire them because
they are so different from me. They get
their social qualities from countless an-
cestors who are not I. It is, of course, a
great. comfort to the indolent mother to
have her child never want to leave her
side, quite content to cloister himself with
his playthings and stay in his own yard.
But by and by when he goes out into the
world he will have to learn his difficult
lesson of how to meet and associate with
people. So be thankful for the social quali-
ties of your little son.
But don’t let him run to his extreme of
sociability while avoiding the extreme of
shyness or aloofness. Keep the middle
road. He must learn to content himself
with his own or his family’s company for
a part of the time. Get him educational
toys (not many) and books, and teach him
how to use them. Use the sand pile,
modeling clay, crayons and outline pic-
tures, nature observations—birds, chick-
ens, a pet or two, such as a tough and gentle
little dog. Employ him with these alone for
a part of the day, then have a definite hour
or two with playmates, either under your
care or that of another competent parent.
Children’s play together should always be
supervised, and in some degree it may be
directed to their benefit. It's just as good
for little boys and girls to play together as
for them to have companions of their own
sex. Never allow any foolish notion from
adult observers about childish sweet-
hearts. Make their association natural
and without constraint. If any adult idiot
simpers an innuendo about little sweet-
hearts, commit him (or more likely her) to
the psychopathic hospital. You ought to
live in the country. The city has too great
limitations and too great temptations to
allow the right up-bringing of any child,
but the country offers a limitless field of
activity amidst the works of God.
and who formed its institutions. They
should be just as unanimously rejected by
us. They are an ancient, alien, diabolical,
cancerous growth, and they flourish in the
dark, noisome swamps of medieval des-
potism. They cannot possibly live on this
side of the water if the sun of American
thought and feeling continues to shine,
unclouded by the abhorrent fallacies of
foreign viewpoints, forms of government,
policies, and hatreds.
Seeing that the godless forces of totali-
tarianism shall gain no further strength 1s
the task of a generation of young men and
women soon to establish the homes of
future America. They, above all, must be
kept unsullied from the inoculation of the
deadly virus that kills spiritual develop-
ment. In the homes which you will es-
tablish, teach respect for God and His
laws, and then respect for man and his law
will enevitably follow. Take that which
is divine out of the home and the school,
and you wreck the foundations upon which
all order and all law, moral and human,
rest.
And let us give to our honored nation
what she so badly needs—that transfusion
of which I have spoken before. Let us in-
ject into her veins love of decency, power
of right, courage, the vitality of patriot-
ism, and the energy of unity upon which
this, our beloved democracy, may feed and
strengthen, that she may stand supreme,
her pulse that of patriotism, and her every
heart beat that of inspired Americanism!
That is our duty and we must not fail in
its fulfillment if our free and unfettered
way of life is to continue its uninterrupted
course under a Constitution created by
free men. Let that eternal triad of our
United States, forever be before us—love
of God, love of liberty, and love of country.
Is Education a National
Ilefense?
(Continued from page 7)
Christian education for spiritual warfare.
The one of necessity must omit spiritual
values; the other begins with God and ends
with God and has regard for the things
of God.
An education that rests upon the Holy
Scriptures has for its genesis the most sub-
lime and deepest words ever written, ‘In
the beginning God,” and for its conclusion
the hopeful and significant promise,
“Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even
so, come, Lord Jesus.”
Today we have but to look at the great
nations of earth to find a forcible illustra-
tion of the results of the violation of the
law of God and a rejection of the golden
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