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Show Our Priceless Heritage All too often in this world the few really important things are neglected. To us in America our most priceless possession is taken for granted. It is, as everyone knows when he pauses to think, the right to freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of individual action. But it has ever been that distant pastures seem the greenest. And for the same reason there are always those among us who forget that the greatest privilege in the world today is to be an American citizen. They overlook over-look that other people would pay money for this privilege which they received at birth. And, having overlooked all this some people think that the government in other lands is better than our government. gov-ernment. To them our institutions are outmoded. They are constantly proposing some change. But perhaps the best answer ever given to one of these Ism Groups was given straight from the shoulder the other day from a speaker's platform. The speaker was defending one of the greatest organizations in America irom a scathing attack which questioned its sincerity of purpose. J In the midst of this defense the audience hissed But Forathne0Se?saS-rS t0 ringing "The only right you have to hiss me is because this is a free and untrammeled democracy. If the principles of some of these professors were to be adopted von could not talk like this." auopica, you In those two sentences the speaker had removed the foundation from all the Isionism in the world except the Americanism of freedom of individual rights. |