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Show OUR OWN AMERICA. Our own America, with all its faults, economic, political and otherwise, other-wise, is a better place in which to live than many other lands China, Egypt, India and all Asia seethe with dread and trouble. Europe is an armed arm-ed camp. For those who are, or who may be, intrigued by the glamour of Fascism the spectacle is presented of the Italian government's petty persecution perse-cution of the wives and children of exiled anti-Fascists. They are made to suffer for the alleged crimes of their husbands. These wives and mothers mo-thers do not make an easy living, cut off from their husbands. They ar2 held prisoners of the government. They may not leave Italy. There is violence and horror in Russia, Rus-sia, where shooting of eminent men of science is charged in a strong protest pro-test just now signed by a number of distinguished Germans, which protest alleges that the facts "seem to prove that every scientific activity claiming even the most modest measure of intellectual in-tellectual freedom is becoming impossible impos-sible in the Soviet Union." There is terror in Poland. In Eastern East-ern Galicia, whose population is overwhelmingly over-whelmingly Ukranian, a reign of "pacification" "pa-cification" by Polish troops goes merrily mer-rily on, while at Warsaw the majority major-ity of the opponents of Marshal Pil-sudski Pil-sudski are either dead or are in prison. pris-on. The "punitive" expeditions into Galicia have terrorized the inhabitants floggings, killings of innocent Ukranian peasant farmers are said to be the rule of the hour, the burning burn-ing of private households a common pastime of brutal' soldiery. In all Poland the politics of the people are influenced, it is said, not so much by persuasion as by intimidation. It. is stated by an English authority thai the arrests of opposition deputies have been continued recently until about 12' per cent of the members of the last parliament are now in prison on vague or unspecified charges. Palestine is in turmoil. South America Am-erica reeks and revels in revolution. In the United States, is peace and swiftly coming prosperity, a steady crushing of "enthusiastic pessimism." The lure of foreign propaganda should fall on deafened ears in our America, even where citizens have the right to complain of inept policies and disrupted economical conditions. Cincinnati Enquirer. |