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Show Zangara and Americanism A Challenge , knee, when character and morality and decent respect for human rights will be Inculcated in young hearts within the sanctuary of their homes, when schoolrooms shsll b rid of their shams, pretenses, sophistries and srti-flciallties. srti-flciallties. Today a new law and plenty of policemen are viewed as the requisites for youthful guidance. This theory Is not making men and women equipped to guide civilization and the nation through the perils thst lie shesd of those who ara to carry on after the present Incompetent generation passes out of the picture. Equipped by experience and further aided by scientific discovery and technical advancements, ad-vancements, today's generation is blundering snd stumbling through life with a stupidity unmatched in the history his-tory of the human race. Zangara ia a symptom of the national nation-al malady. The avmDtom exists By COMMENTATO THE attempt at Mbsral Wednesday to kill Mayor Cennak of Chicago, or, possibly, to assasslnata Presidentelect President-elect Roosevelt, puts dangerous foreigners for-eigners within the United States In the full glare of the spotlight once more. I Intemperate Individuals, forgetting thst America Is polyglot nation, are likely to launch the usual diatribe of "down with foreigners." On th contrary, some rather sober thinking is needed, grievously needed, need-ed, if fundamental American institutions institu-tions snd aspirations are to be safeguarded safe-guarded from present ominous dangers. dan-gers. Joe Zangara of New York, who turned to the gun to destroy forces which he believes lnlmlcsl to his kind, is symptoms tic of a sinister snd growing grow-ing dementia that menaces the social order In this country. It will avail nothing if he la regarded by authorities authori-ties merely aa a crank to be dealt with as an individual and then forgotten. everywhere, yet all the doctors trying to ssve the nation leave It untouched and free to fester and extend itself to destroy the entire tissue of whst could be a heslthy snd vigorous Americanism, American-ism, with muscle snd brain able to stand before the world ss the exemplar exem-plar of civilization's noblest purposes. becomes apparent, th power of this government should stanch th flow of their venom and wither their strength, Th right to peaceable assembly as-sembly must not be abridged, but gatherings where our Institutions are assailed and plana Incubated to aeize or thwart government should be snuffed out by the law's strongest arm. The Inaction and neglect which permits per-mits men of the type of Zangara, by his own confession the attempted as-ssssin as-ssssin of Italy's king st one time, to carry on In the United States and breed discontent and unrest among submerged classes Is a grave failure on the part of public servants to recognize their responsibility to their fellow countrymen. There Is no place in America for him or his ilk. Out with them. If they sre dissatisfied with this fslr land, let them be sent post baste back from whence they came. THE WAT TO UPUTT Elimination of anarchists, communists com-munists snd all the other Ists who lsck constructive genius, whose alien minds csn conceive only programs of hate and destruction, will mean ultimately ulti-mately the uplift of the underprivileged underprivi-leged claaaea they propose to ssve with new and imaginary liberty and privilege, but whom they would smother In revolt born of violence. Such a cleansing of American communities com-munities is the first step towsrd a new health program for the body politic. poli-tic. It ia tha first step toward an orderly consummation of the Ideals of America through widespread expression expres-sion of a demand for a new form of national thinking. It la the highway that will lead to the dethroning of special spe-cial privilege. It will halt the erection of top-heavy government It will wipe out graft and thievery in high places, cultivsts general respect for law and order, institute the rule of reason in all things. It will bring sn end of fanaticism written Into law In furtherance further-ance of tha unstable theory thst human hu-man nature may be made to yield to the whims snd caprices of those who believe a stroke of the pen giving force to a new law csn make a naughty world gleam with new-found and pristine virtue. KEBIKTH OP THE BOMB It will be a beginning of a long-awaited long-awaited need a need that we retuin to the day when the love of Cod will be taught to children at their mother's HIS TRIBE IS NUMEROUS There sre thousands oa Zsngsrss In the United States. Unwatched, soma in dirty garments, many in chairs of importance In universities, some in the Beats of tha mighty in government, govern-ment, others where they sre sble to sddreaa themaelvee and proclaim tha unholy gospel of revolt to witless audiences, forming and leading reit-laaa reit-laaa ra boles, they ara dangerous germs permitted to flow through the bloodstream of the body politic and undermine Ita health and virility. Their unhindered progress is extending extend-ing a malignant cancer in our political politi-cal and social system. If unchecked, thera Is no possibility of foretelling th hsvoe which may be wrought in this land. On every hand titer are signs that revolution la in actual existence in America. So far, for tha most part. It la mental. There la no means of determining how long it will be before be-fore it become physically violent. Then it will be too lata to prevent what shall be at least temporary disaster. dis-aster. When this comas, there will be no possibility of success In sn attempt to overthrow and seize government here, but there will be bloodshed, holocaust and destruction. The forces of orderly government are singulsrly unmindful of all this. They seem to think thst schemes of money-chenging constitute the world's one greet lack. Instead of attacking tha systemstie disorders which hsve sapped snd are sapping th vitality of American life, quacks in many fields ere anointing auperficial cuta and bruises with uncleen salves applied with dirty fingers. They merely seek to conceal the ugliness of sn Infected world with cosmetics. They concern themselves with hiding effects, leaving leav-ing csuses unattended. It is unconscionable uncon-scionable malnractice. ALIEN THINKING A PERIL Our dangerous aliens are not all In human form. Perhapa the most dangerous dan-gerous exist In th form of Irrstlonsl thought proceedings from the melancholy melan-choly and neurotic deapair into which peoples hsve been plunged since latent madness burst Into th flame that destroyed sanity and brought on th world wsr. Revolutionsry theories csll for the overthrow of all thst civilization through the centuries hss produced in government, social organization. Industrial programs, world Intercourse and even morality and spirituality. a A strong and orderly government consecrated to the furthering ol the humsn welfare and the preservation I of true liberty is the one foundation1 upon which any people can erect the structure of Ita hopes, aspirationa and power. America a till la a youth in the family of nations. Ita constructive work Is far from finished. Sound and rational thinking fostered in conscience con-science and translated into active Bar-vice Bar-vice la the greatest fort which msy csrry on th building of th Amerlc thst ia to b. Arrayed agatnst this force are many violent enterprises, seeking by attrition attri-tion to destroy that for which the American patriota laid the foundations founda-tions more than a century and half ago. HOUSECLEANINQ NEEDED Singularly, those who seek the destruction de-struction of Americanism by physical violence are the Zangaraa who come here from foreign soil and who are representative of the lowest and most depraved elements of alien peoples. They would be unwholesome in their own homelands; they are more unwholesome un-wholesome among peoples who hsve sprung from the soil of all civilized lands and aent their roots deep down into the rich earth of this continent to create a government and a social system recognizing the f stherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. These miserable and demented wretches, who would undermine the foundaUona of the inatituUons of Americanism, should not go Uu-wstchd Uu-wstchd As their destructive intent |