| Show 1 SOUR OUR COUNTRY Am Americas America's ricas rica's Original Style Of Government Is Barrier To Stuart Conquest Chase Fourteenth of 21 articles art on Our Country written exclusively exclusively for lor NEA Service and The Tho Telegram by the nations nation's most famous authors By STUART CHASE Author of A New Deal Rich RichLand RichLand Land Poor Land The New Western estern Front etc The United States of America is something new in the world I wish that more of ot my fellow citizens could feel eel this In their bones It t T cannot be com corn compared compared pared to any other country past or pres pres- present present r rent ent it operates under a different different differ differ- ray ray- rays s ent set of rules w p por What happens or h has a s happened happened hap hap- ss to them i cannot happen s sin in the same s sway way to us If r f l we go to smash it will be in a Stuart manner all our Chase own If we move forward to greater stability and strength as asI asI asI I think we shall shaH it will not be beon beon beon on the pattern of Greece Rome Germany Russia or the British empire Because I deeply believe this I Iam Iam Iam am not greatly alarmed about a military conquest of ot this country country country coun coun- try or about its succumbing to brigades of fifth columnists preaching fascism nazism communism communism com com- in foreign accents I am afraid in a different way and with a longer time lag There is isone isone isone one possible condition as I see it which can reduce this country to impotence and that is distrust of their government by the young people of America Another decade decade dec dec- decade ade of joblessness and hopelessness hopeless hopeless- ness will bring them to this state If we cannot give tive them work and faith by 1950 1050 perhaps wed we'd better better go down the drain drain- pipe The United States unlike any other great power ver except Russia is an integrated continental empire empire empire em em- pire possessing all the raw material material material ma ma- it needs to support its people within its own boundaries or within easy access in other parts of North America Unlike Russian resources ours have been fully developed Our industrial plant is now producing roughly half the output of the whole world With 6 per cent oft off f the the-S worlds world's people we produce 50 per cent of its wealth Germany Italy France Britain Russia Japan rolled into one do not approach approach approach ap ap- ap- ap our industrial potential potential- whether it be measured in horsepower horsepower horsepower horse horse- power coal oil iron ore metals transportation equipment output per man hour We h what it takes to overwhelm th all In addition to its wealth t l country has institutions m democratic than any other cotry coi co try has ever had I am talk of something more than our Constitution and pol poi cal forms We are without i 1 traditions of cIa class ss which poison not only Euro and Asia but Latin America well Only Canada and A share this asset with We are all descendants of p pr immigrants born on the wro wr side of the tracks The o 0 aristocracy we possess posses is tha that money But when a thinks he has founded a dyne dyna s the family fortune is quite lik to explode under him The sf gJ families come and pouf poul they gone 1 1 We have little pride of ra for we are arc a crucible of all rat rac We have little pride of no nol blood for nobles didn't c co con conover over in the steerage We ha h hj little sense of class for poor t b bare tf are always working their v. v through college to elbow stuff shirts out of the professions 1 are are probably incapable of a p revolution for outs outs' of a few clerks with hor hoi rimmed spectacles in the co cot co party no American v V. V admit he is a proletarian 1 1 have no state church to fright us into subjection with gh ghr stories We Ve refuse to accept t I notion that anyone is better th we are When somebody sets sets' to be it is the practice and du di of all good Americans to pull chair out from under him j jare J Jare are not split as is unhappy E I rope into 26 sovereign nation natio each with a different langua langu g currency and tradition J You can search the pages page history and you will find noling not nol noting noting ing like the United States America recorded there I IU unique and alone Many of oL habits and practices are inefficient and deplorable Its J f system at the momen moment in a mess But its i citizens who never learned l' l touch their hats to their bette betty operating the most massive 11 j r plant of all time ov obi the broad face of an integral sufficient self continent hav rendezvous with destiny It 1 W take more than the contempt uproar as to who is to i the uneasy master of a torn a an riven Europe to upset that de detiny de ai detiny tiny 1 5 We c Inu must t or organize for libert liberty says John Dos Passos Passes out the nations nation dangers at hO homi f fin in the next article of this serle aerie on Our Country 1 |
