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Show THE WAY TO HELP An advance copy of "You Can Defend America" came into our hands this week. The booklet has an impressive message mes-sage for every American who has wondered, "What Can I Do To Help?" The foreword is by General John .1. Pershing who commends "You Can Defend America" to every patriotic citizen. Excerpts from the book are printed with the hope that a hint of the inspiration and the ultimate objective the preservation of our nation will interest you in seeing the message is spread and furthered. Printed in Washington, D. C, by Judd and Detweiler, the booklet will be on sale at ten cents a copy. Write to Moral Rearmament, care of the publisher, for information regarding your copy. You will study and remember the lesson in "You Can Defend America." "Once China built a wall. She lived behind it. She laughed laugh-ed at her enemies. She felt secure. Soon an invader came from the north. Three times China found the enemy inside her gates. They did not storm the wall. They did not go around it. They simply bribed the gatekeepers. gate-keepers. Yesterday France built a wall. The Maginot line. Steel and stone. She felt secure behind it.. She put her faith in it. Yet France fell. Why? Something was missing. There was a gap through which an invader came. That gap was not only, in the wall. It was in the spirit of the people. Today America builds a wall. A ring of steel. Ships and planes and guns. But is this enough? Does America have what China lacked? What France lacked? Does she have total defense? She builds her wall. Does she build character? Spirit? The will to sacrifice? Does she build men? Men who pull together? Before our eyes the world changes. Nations collapse. We in America ask? "What can I do?" What can 130 million Americans do?- Plenty! Behind ships, planes and guns stand three lines of defense: de-fense: Sound Homes, Teamwork in Industry, a United Nation. Na-tion. They fill the gap. They must be manned. What You Can Do America needs guts as well as guns. National character is the core of national defense. Congress can't vote it. Dollars won't buy it. It's your job to build it. How? Change! Unite J Fight! America. This land of towering cities and golden prairies, prair-ies, of great rivers and mighty mountains. This nation of Washington and Jefferson, of Lincoln and Lee and Bldison, and countless thousands of ordinary men and women, who crossed oceans and plains, who toiled long for little reward, who sacrificed and built our heritage. If this heritage was worth their lives to build, it is worth ours to preserve. "And in support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." |