Show n. n q I u if l KAT 1 T IS LS A AMERICANISM I What Is p flint at question Is on the tongues tong s today more frequently n ever er before A of I 7 ogress has been working for a aar ar r or two Investigating un Pw activities without giving gf precise revise definition c of dt f what is Amern Amer Amer- n and what Is not Tt 1 t is easier to tell what American American- AmerIcan I Is not perhaps rh ps than to put p inny in- in i yany tt rany ny short discussion what It is Americanism definitely ly Is not com- com I ism nor Fascism nor Nazi n sis ibis none of the philosophies based on n the power of or the strong to op- op i ss the weak oC ot a 0 minority to I trot rol the majority by force More Moren fin n that Americanism Is not a n ys- ys L 5 or belief in a system which conIS con- con Ties to Government an any autho authority Ity to direct or regulate tho the thoIs thota thea thoI I Is ta a thoughts beliefs or manners of or IS y citizen with ith out the consent ot j citizenry t Americanism is a n scheme heme of gov- gov O based upon the Declaration c I Independence as much as upon the Constitution and the root of Americanism is found In the Declarations Declaration's Declarations Declaration's Declarations Declaration's Decla Decla- rations ration's assertion that governments derive their Just powers from t the e eC C consent o of the governed Upon that fundamental principle of ot Americanism a nation has been built built whose people no authority superior to their own own own- the tae peoples people's peoples and and in which there Is no human with pow r to dictate to toI I the citizens what they may mayor or may mayI not do except as the citizens them- them I s elves delves have haye delegated such powers ors I temporarily to their governments forthe forthe for forI forthe I I the promotion of the general wol- wol f fare re i Americanism in sh short rt is the greatest and most successful a experiment eri- eri ment ever made in the history of the world in human self self Any time Americans want went to e exchange exchange ex ex- change their system for one in lu which the administrators of go nt will be rulers instead if servants of the people ople the they are at liberty to do so We do not thing many Americ Americans ns want to make that change |