Show Americanism Is at Stake T A APPROPRIATELY A this years year's Americanism program by the Salt Lake junior chamber of commerce was the best in the year three-year history of this excellent project aimed at the encouragement of and recognition of good American citizenship on the part of foreign- foreign born or the children of foreign-born foreign parents in this country At this years year's program held Friday Friday- noon as a feature of the regular junior chamber luncheon representatives of 12 nationality groups received Americanism awards The following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing nationalities were represented among them Danish English Scotch German Italian Italian Italian Ital Ital- ian Greek Mexican Japanese Dutch Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- Chi Chi- nese Swiss and Norwegian About half of those given citizenship awards were born in foreign countries and the th rest were sons or daughters of foreign-born foreign parents In a talk preliminary to the introduction of those who received the awards Ames K Bagley executive secretary of the junior chamber emphasized that it is more important than than- ever now that every American citizen be loyal to his country and uphold the highest ideals of Americanism Everything that Americanism means is at stake in the present world struggle Everything Everything Everything Every Every- thing that America has meant through the years to the hopeful immigrants from foreign foreign foreign for for- eign lands who were the ancestors of every everyone everyone everyone one of us save for a handful of American Indians is threatened by those same evil forces of tyranny and oppression which the immigrants sought to escape Our immigrant forefathers sacrificed and braved the perils of the unknown to come to America they suffered and fought to make their dream of freedom and opportunity come true Today we must sacrifice and suffer and fight to defend that America Whatever our ancestry or our national origins immediate or remote that is our duty to our forbears our privilege privilege privilege ege to ourselves |