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Show AMERICANIZATION AND WHY. Why has the fire insurance business inaugurated an Ameri-- Ameri-- canization movement? Because its members are average repre-1 sentative American citizens and because they have a special tradition tradi-tion of public service to live up to. Fire insurance agents are found in all communities except the smallest villages. They are not visitors, but permanent residents, partaking of all of the: natural interests of their communities. There is no class in the United States which is more completely representative of the solid, progressive American public. Consequently, the remark-, able response in pledging loyalty and in seeking means for doing real constructive Americanization work does not mean merely' that fire insurance men are loyal; it means that the average American is loyal. The great significance of this enrollment must not be overlooked. over-looked. It is probably the first real testing of national Americanism Ameri-canism that has been made since that of the war itself. |